
The Airshell Prototype
This paper by Alessandro Liuti, Sofia Colabella, and Alberto Pugnale, presents the construction of Airshell, a small timber gridshell prototype erected by employing a pneumatic formwork.
This thesis by Paul Poinet is an attempt to enhance collaborative practices in architecture, engineering and construction through Multi‑Scalar Modelling Methodologies. The thesis examines the interdisciplinary concept of Multi‑Scalar Modelling through the scope of the AEC domain’s requirements to improve the existing design workflows in industry.
Where present modelling paradigms consolidate the ambition to interface different design environments through a uniϐied model, such as Building Information Modelling (BIM), the ambition of the thesis is to articulate how Multi‑Scalar Modelling can support the creation of a network of models tuned to interface and communicate information across the design chain.
The present thesis takes as a starting point the Multi‑Scalar Modelling framework formulated and established by CITA through the conception, production and realization of precedent design probes, prototypes and demonstrators (e.g. The Rise, Dermoid, Lace Wall and Stressed Skins). Those demonstrators introduced Multi‑Scalar Modelling strategies enabling a direct communication between multiple scales, from material specifications at high resolution to the global design environment.
The thesis attempts to extend this theoretical framework by adapting it to the building scale through further inclusion of industry concerns and problematics, provided here by both BuroHappold and Design‑to‑Production: trying to keep a consistent, continuous design workϐlow throughout the whole design process, from early design to late stages.
This paper by Alessandro Liuti, Sofia Colabella, and Alberto Pugnale, presents the construction of Airshell, a small timber gridshell prototype erected by employing a pneumatic formwork.
In this paper by Gregory Charles Quinn, Chris J K Williams, and Christoph Gengnagel, a detailed comparison is carried out between established as well as novel erection methods for strained grid shells by means of FE simulations and a 3D-scanned scaled physical model in order to evaluate key performance criteria such as bending stresses during erection and the distance between shell nodes and their spatial target geometry.
In this paper by Frederic Tayeb, Olivier Baverel, Jean-François Caron, Lionel du Peloux, ductility aspects of a light-weight composite gridshell are developed.
In this paper by Julian Lienhard, Holger Alpermann, Christoph Gengnagel and Jan Knippers structures that actively use bending as a self forming process are reviewed.
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