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Master of Architecture students of the University of Melbourne have completed a 12-week studio that involves Rhino, GH and Karamba to design gridshell structures. The design studio combines theoretical lectures on form-resistant structures with workshop sessions on parametric design and optimisation. The images below are provided by the students Kevin George, Kim Chan, Thomas…
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The church of Longuelo is the last main building designed by Pino Pizzigoni and could be considered his most innovative work, representing the sum of experimentation about shells made during the last twenty years of his activity. His final project was presented in May 1961. The construction started in 1962 and…
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Let us consider three glasses, arranged on a table at the vertices of a hypothetical equilateral triangle, and then imagine covering that area using just three kitchen knives. Considering that the glasses are the only supports, the knife handles should first be placed over the glass openings, and the blades…
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Octopus is a plug-in for Grasshopper that extends the functionality of Galapagos by introducing multiple fitness values (multi-objective) to the optimization process. It is based on the SPEA-2 multi-objective evolutionary algorithm, of which more information can be found here. In order to test Octopus, let us consider a simple benchmark…
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A simple NURBS surfaces has been divided in a 10×10 grid, and then used as the reference geometry for a form-finding test. The four points at the corners have been constrained, and the simulation of an hanging model has been set up in both Karamba and Kangaroo. (Karamba, for instance, uses…
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In 2007, I started my PhD working on the development of a GA for the structural optimisation of free-form structures. I first tested the GA on the crematorium of Kakamigahara, designed by Toyo Ito and Mutsuro Sasaki consultants. The geometrical data, as well as the optimisation procedure were directly developed…
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This is the title of a paper that we have recently submitted to ICSA 2013. The authors are: O.Baverel, A.Pugnale. You can read the full article on ResearchGate. Abstract This paper deals with the design of reciprocal spatial configurations based on the use of planar elements, which are investigated and classified…
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We have recently submitted a paper to the conference: ICSA 2013. The authors are A.Liuti, A.Pugnale, A.Erioli. Abstract This paper deals with a multi-objective design/optimization grid-shell problem. Structural behavior and light absorption/shading have been selected as fitness functions. Such performance criteria can separately lead to different and divergent optimal solutions…
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This article was recently published (in Italian) in BLOOM n°14. Wilfing Architecture has kindly republished the text online, correcting a few errors and inserting images for a better comprehension of the precedents and references. I am proposing below an English translation of the original article in Italian. ENGINEERING ARCHITECTURE (English translation by…
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The following text represents a brief theoretical framework in which our research/teaching activities are developed. The full text has been published in the proceedings of the First Congress of ReteVitruvio (in Italian), Vol.3, Teaching. You can find it on ResearchGate. Authors: Alberto Pugnale, Carlo Deregibus, Mario Sassone, Poul Henning Kirkegaard Abstract…
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A few images of the Atelier Design: “Ombrière modulaire”, led by Olivier Baverel and Alberto Pugnale (12-16 March 2012 – Paris). The students were called to explore new configurations of reciprocal structures made with planar elements.
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A few images of a design workshop on structural reciprocity, which took place in Aalborg, during the fall semester 2011. The subject was coordinated by Alberto Pugnale and Dario Parigi. See more details here. Related publications: PUGNALE A., PARIGI D., Approaching technical issues in architectural education, Proceedings of the “IASS Symposium…
