
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.
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With continued digital technology development, computer has not only been seen as only the assistant as the tool, but also could be a medium of design development. This project by Po-Hung Chiu is a study of a methodology for the parametric design and fabrication of the bionic structure.
For centuries, architects have been inspired by natural forms and geometries. Their designs have been influenced by natural structures, proportions, colors, patterns and textures. In 1968, the biologist Aristid Lindenmayer proposed a string- rewriting algorithm which can model plants and their growth processes.
Since then, Lindenmayer Systems or L-systems have evolved and found many practical applications in the computer visualization area, such as generation of fractal diagram, realistic modeling and high quality visualization of organic forms.
More recently, remarkable advances have been made in architecture in the field of modeling and visualization. Specifically, the integration of scripting languages into CAD applications enables direct visualization of objects generated using algorithmic processes.
Therefore, L-system is ready to be a new tool for architects, and in the meantime architecture gain more opportunities to be designed with complex, organic or bionic ways by using parametric tools such as Rhino with Grasshopper.
However, how can the L-system apply to architectural design process through parametric tools? How to make L-system adapt to an architectural site?
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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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