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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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The International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) is currently celebrating Frei Otto – recipient of the 2015 Pritzker Architecture Prize – with a Special Issue of the IASS Journal (Vol.59, No.1, March 2018). This publication was edited by Juan Gerardo Oliva (Vice President of the IASS and Professor…
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I participated to a 1-day seminar, which was held at Politecnico di Bari on 11 January 2016. It was kindly organised by a friend and colleague, Giuseppe Fallacara, who is currently working in that university as Associate Professor. During the seminar, Sofia Colabella, Sergio Pone and I delivered three separate presentations about structures,…
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I have presented a paper on Binishells at the latest SAHANZ conference in Sydney. The conference proceedings are fully available online here, and our paper (authored by Alberto Bologna and myself) can also be downloaded from ResearchGate. In our previous paper about Dante Bini (Dante Bini’s air structures (1964-1979): From early Italian…
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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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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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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 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…
