
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.
Generative Design (GD) is an algorithmic-based approach to design that allows the generation of forms and shapes through algorithms. It has been vastly explored with the Computer-Aided Design (CAD) paradigm, but not to the same extent with the Building Information Modeling (BIM) paradigm.
Therefore, this thesis by Guilherme Henrique Aciaioli de Sousa Barreto proposes a solution that allows the exploration of GD using the BIM paradigm, taking full advantage of its capabilities. The solution is an extension of Rosetta, a GD environment that supports a wide range of back-ends, namely, OpenGL and CAD applications.
Author expands Rosetta’s abstraction layer with modeling operations capable of producing models on a BIM application, ArchiCAD, having into consideration portability between the already supported back-ends.
Furthermore, alongside the development of the solution, another BIM application was also being added to Rosetta, Revit, allowing to test portability between the two back-ends.
Finally, author evaluates the solution in terms of its adequacy, portability, performance, and support of ArchiCAD-specific operations.
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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