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Sofia Colabella, Alessandro Liuti and I completed a 3-day workshop on “Mixed Reality”, directed by Fologram and NExT Lab at the Melbourne School of Design (MSD). Workshop Overview Mixed reality overlays physical environments with digital content (holograms), fixed in place and at full scale. Holograms can be used as direct…
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A good master’s thesis, dated 2013, on a very important issue of gridshell design: buckling. The author is Sabrina Pugnale, supervised by Dr Mario Sassone, at Politecnico di Torino. Some material can be found here, but I recommend to contact the author and get the full text. Thesis abstract Stability failure is…
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How virtual becomes real is a design studio offered by the Master of Architecture, MSD, Melbourne University, where the students deal with form-resistant structures, such as RC shells, steel gridshells and post-formed timber gridshells. The first edition was run by Alberto Pugnale and Louis Gadd in Semester 1, 2013.
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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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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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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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I am going to defend my PhD thesis on 9 April 2010 at Politecnico di Torino. The core of my research regards the development of Genetic Algorithms for the solution of structural, acoustic and geometric issues of shell and gridshell structures. You can read it here. In the appendix, you will…
