Structural Engineering · Architecture

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🏗️ Structural Intuition

Feel how loads travel, where things break, and why engineers size members the way they do.

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Design towers, hospitals and shelters against real earthquake, blast and hurricane loads. Budget is finite; every choice costs somewhere else in the structural system.

Advanced Resource Strategy

Shelter Architect

Layer soil, steel and composite against real penetration and shock physics. One weak layer and the whole defence falls — you decide where depth ends.

Advanced Layered Defence

Shelter requirements are thresholds, not gradients. One extra dwelling — or one extra square metre — can turn zero into dozens of square metres.

Beginner Shelter Code

When Concrete Counts for Nothing

Two conditions must hold together. Cross the axial threshold by 2 kN and the concrete contribution vanishes — stirrup demand jumps like a step.

Advanced Capacity Design

60 seconds. How many rapid engineering size estimates can you get within range? Real rule-of-thumb formulas, real-time scoring.

All levels Timed Challenge

60 seconds. True or false — as many verified engineering facts and formulas as you can judge correctly before the clock runs out.

All levels Timed Challenge

SpacePlan Ergonomics

Position sink, stove, and fridge until all three work-triangle legs land inside the published NKBA limits.

Beginner NKBA Guidelines

The Punching Perimeter

Doubling slab depth cuts the punching ratio by more than half — and a corner column is far worse than you expect. Both for the same reason.

Intermediate Punching Shear

A beam-column joint fails its shear check. Your instinct says add rebar. Try it — and watch the demand-capacity ratio get worse, not better.

Intermediate Joint Shear

Fit the Exit — Escape Simulation

Change a floor's area and use class, then watch the occupant load, the required escape width and the number of exits change live. Driven by the Turkish fire code engine.

Beginner Egress Capacity

Rigid or Flexible?

A rigid raft forgives a wrong subgrade modulus. A flexible one does not. Find out how thick a raft must be to count as rigid — the answer is sobering.

Advanced Foundations

Where the Web Runs Out

Boundary elements take 40% of a long wall. Shorten the wall and they take more — until the whole section is boundary and no web is left.

Intermediate Shear Walls

Short Column Killer

Slide a partial-height infill wall up a column and find the height where brittle shear kills it — the classic captive-column failure.

Advanced Capacity Design Shear

Detail Master: Cold Bridge

Same U-value, same materials — reorder the roof layers and watch the deck swing from 18.7°C to below freezing.

Intermediate ISO 6946

Plastic Collapse Challenge

Find the true collapse load from plastic hinge mechanisms — and see why the propped cantilever's hinge sits at 0.414L, not midspan.

Advanced Plastic Limit Analysis

Compartment Value

The same suppression system doubles the compartment in one occupancy and removes the limit entirely in another. Find out which is which.

Intermediate Fire Compartments

Site Logistics & Sequence Master

Crash the schedule to hit a 40-day deadline — but only the critical path actually moves the finish date.

Intermediate CPM Scheduling

Break the Frame

Design the lightest column that survives the load. Pick too small and it breaks — real stress physics, no faking it.

Beginner Statics

Amphibious City Architect

Design a floating platform that stays upright — stability scales with the square of the beam, and negative GM means capsize.

Advanced Buoyancy & Stability

Maximize the Floor Area

Fixed plot, fixed setbacks, fixed zoning limits. Push the floor count as high as you can — go one floor too far and you're over the legal limit.

Beginner Zoning / KAKS

A 1 cm change in level can add metres of ramp. See how much floor area an accessible ramp really takes once landings are counted.

Beginner Accessibility

Seismic Diagrid Tower

Find the diagonal angle that minimizes drift — shear wants 35°, bending wants 90°, and the winner depends on how slender your tower is.

Advanced Diagrid Stiffness

Blueprint Detective

Seven drawings, seven verdicts. Find the coordination error that would fail on site — or correctly clear the one that's fine.

Intermediate Drawing Review

Deep Underground Atrium

Design a diaphragm wall for a sunken atrium — drop the water table and watch the lateral load swing by 66%.

Advanced At-Rest Pressure + Water

Gaudí Funicular Arch Builder

Find the shortest arch rise your abutments can hold — Gaudí's hanging-chain method, inverted, in real thrust numbers.

Intermediate Funicular Geometry

Cantilever Villa Architect

Find the shortest back-span that still keeps a dramatic cantilevered floor from tipping forward.

Intermediate Moment Equilibrium

Solar Envelope Architect

Find the tallest building that keeps a neighbor's solar collector lit all day, worst case included — the binding hour usually isn't noon.

Advanced Solar Access Rights

Masonry Dome Restoration

Find where a historic dome starts cracking and place the tension ring — the crossover angle is the same for every spherical dome ever built.

Advanced Shell Membrane Theory

Tune the Damper

Find the minimum damping that keeps a building's earthquake response under the safety limit — too little fails, too much wastes money.

Intermediate Seismic Dynamics

ArchStyle Master

Identify architectural styles from the structural logic that makes them possible, not just how they look.

Beginner History & Structure

Match the Frequency

Tune a building's stiffness until its natural period hits the target — real modal eigenvalue physics.

Intermediate Modal Analysis

Suspended Cable Museum

Find the sag that keeps tension within anchor capacity — and watch where the parabolic shortcut stops being safe to use.

Advanced Catenary vs Parabola

Hold Back the Soil

Find the minimum retaining wall width that resists overturning from real earth pressure. Too narrow and it tips.

Intermediate Earth Pressure

Tune the K-Factor

Adjust a column's effective-length factor until its buckling capacity hits the target. Small changes matter more than you'd think.

Intermediate Buckling

Wedding Cake Zoning Architect

Choose one setback distance to maximize buildable floor area under a sky-exposure-plane envelope — the rule that shaped old New York's skyline.

Advanced Sky Exposure Plane

Set the Perimeter

A fixed accidental-explosion scenario. Set the safety perimeter radius to exactly match the required civil-protection standoff distance.

Intermediate Civil Protection

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