
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 research by Dong Kyu Lee demonstrates a practical design method and workflow for low environmental impact and high energy efficient building façade system under interconnected workflow between architecture design and multidisciplinary environmental performance modeling.
Although the building façade is one of the most important building elements contributing to energy consumption and occupants’ comfort, a practical design methodology to achieve desirable building performance, especially in the early design stage, is not well developed and the applicable design advice tools for performance evaluation and analysis are limited.
The latter is caused by the lack of information during the stage as well as the iterative design process which cannot align well with the early design phase which asks to develop and compare various design alternatives in a compressed time schedule.
As the complexity of façade design increases and the number of design variables that enter in multidisciplinary performance requirements increases, the informed design decision based on proper integration of performance modeling in the design workflow becomes more critical for architects to assure the performance of project.
The integrated workflow presented in this paper utilizes parametric design environments with existing building performance modeling tools. The parametric modeling platform can easily generate various alternatives with different parameters, and it can also simultaneously provide information regarding
building performance as result of design parameter updates.
This can compress the design cycle time dramatically and help to make proper design decision in considering performance optimization. This paper shows the workflow with a case study which
applies this methodology for a small scale office building located in Seoul, Korea where it was required to achieve a multi-criteria performance goal.
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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