Overview
Apple’s glass staircases — treads, stringers, balustrades and bridges fabricated from millimetre-precise low-iron glass — have defined the company’s retail architecture since the SoHo store opened in 2002. Designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson with Eckersley O’Callaghan, the system received a US design patent naming Steve Jobs first among inventors, and has since been documented for worldwide rollout to dozens of flagship stores from Fifth Avenue to Shanghai.
Scope
In collaboration with Engelsmann Peters Engineers, OnceMore built a parametric model of the all-glass spiral stairs — defining the geometry parametrically and exporting it directly to static analysis with a single click.
Outcome
What previously required weeks of finite-element modelling collapsed into seconds: slider-driven adjustments instantly produced a complete structural model with more than 30,000 elements ready for analysis.
Capabilities Applied
