
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.
The emergence and dissemination of additive manufacturing technologies, namely three-dimensional printing, contributes to a paradigm shift in the process of project design and construction by allowing these two traditionally autonomous phases to approach. The use of digital manufacturing technologies has considerably expanded the formal, performative, and functional limits that ceramic elements can bring to the context of construction and architecture.
This paper by João CARVALHO, Paulo J. S. CRUZ and Bruno FIGUEIREDO presents the main challenges and outcomes achieved during the process of design and production of a vault cover system. Based on the discretization of a vault in hexagonal blocks, this system intends to control solar incidence by its adaptive inner structure. It focuses on objective questions like material composition, ceramic material retraction and the influence that geometry variations have on those themes.
These questions try to evaluate the real applicability of digital additive manufacturing techniques, specifically ceramic 3D printing on architecture and design production processes.
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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