Busan Cinema Center

This guide to the Busan Cinema Center follows a drawing office manager for shipbuilder Hanjin Heavy Industries around two thousand ten, wrestling with the math of a roof that had to be predicted decades into the future before a single beam went up. It traces the engineering problem of camber, the three mismatched steel rings modeled in three dimensions, and the decision to assemble the roof's sections on the ground before lifting them by crane onto a single cone-shaped column. Look up at the underside of that roof, the surface every one of those calculations was ultimately shaping.