作为中国台湾市工业地点的绿色重建的核心，台湾植物园的飙升圆顶不仅在视觉上是独特的，而且是中国大规模建筑的首个建筑。

The three non-paraboloid domes are comprised of clear-span timber gridshells, assembled from double-curved, glu-lam members, with glass panels inset. With a clamshell-like pattern that has uneven spacing between the segments, the domes required some elaborate engineering. “No two pieces are the same,” explains Lucas Epp, vice president and head of engineering with structural engineer StructureCraft.

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直径从43 m到88 m的尺寸不等，圆顶容纳了植物园收藏的稀有植物。由一支国际团队设计和设计，试图将最先进的大型尺寸构造方法带到一个不建造许多工程木结构的国家 /地区，需要优化的设计和仔细的安装。

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Since the site is located in a seismic zone, structural engineering for the mass timber domes was complex. The domes are comprised of non-triangulated timber gridshells, which Epp says is an unusual design that required some clever engineering for structural connections. “We came up with a completely hidden connection between two timber layers,” he says. The result is “a total timber shell with no steel visible.” On the largest dome, seismic concerns led the team to employ a series of post-tensioned cables strung internally among the dome’s nodes. The unusual shape of the domes led the team to string and tension the cables at threaded rods at each node instead of using strand jacks. “We were able to tension the whole cable net by tightening nuts at each of these nodes,” Epp says. “It was a bit of a structural innovation.”

尽管要求制造和建筑业, intense coordination efforts helped the project go from design to completion in just 18 months.