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Fast‐charging station Leipzig – the floating roof on a computer‐generated endless support For a fast‐charging station at the production site of a sports car manufacturer, a roof was to be developed that would transport the image of the brand in addition to I function as weather protection. The existing technical infrastructure, i. e., power lines that could not be built over and movement and maintenance spaces for the charging columns, only allowed for a few and, above all, irregular support points and support positions. The design process results in a seemingly floating roof whose cladding is modelled on an aerofoil supported on a single endless column. The infinite support Spline, iconographically analogous to an initially simple appearing bent‐up paper clip, ensures both the clamping of the cantilevered roof and the global reinforcement through the spatial support positions and inclinations. The geometry was developed using an evolutionary optimisation algorithm with the most outstanding efficiency while complying with the given geometric restrictions. Within the parametric structural model, in addition to the control and analysis of the static performance, the geometric implementation of the milled circular arcs at the head and foot points was also carried out. The entire process, from the development and variant study to the analysis and documentation to the production, thus took place in a closed digital process chain. Therefore, it was possible to achieve the design goal of contrasting a flat roof and a filigree support structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]