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I am going to defend my PhD thesis on 9th April 2010 at the Politecnico di Torino. This is the result of about three years of research on Genetic Algorithms for the solution of structural, acoustic and geometric problems relating to the design of shell and spatial structures. Click here…
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This is a post I originally wrote in 2009, in Italian. I knew I was right when I first made the connection between Grasshopper for Rhino and Grace Murray Hopper. To me, her work on Automatic programming was an obvious inspiration for the development of Grasshopper! David Rutten has then…
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We have completed a paper on the history of construction of the Church of Longuelo. The authors are: Carlo Deregibus and Alberto Pugnale. The paper will be published on the “Proceedings of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) Symposium 2009: Evolution and Trends in Design, Analysis and Construction…
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With reference to an article on the IAACBlog (now removed), I replied to the author request: “I was forced to use the workbench environment because i was unable to achieve the same contact results with Ansys classical version, ultimately ending the potential to have a fully automated program. I am still working…
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This paper was recently presented at the IASS-IACM 2008 (Ithaca NY, USA). The authors are Mario Sassone and Alberto Pugnale. You can read the full text on ResearchGate. UPDATE. In 2010, the article was revised, extended and published on the International Journal of Space Structures. Read it on ResearchGate. Abstract In…
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This paper was recently presented at the IASS-IACM 2008 (Ithaca NY, USA). The authors are Mario Sassone, Tomàs Mendez and Alberto Pugnale. You can read the full text on ResearchGate. Abstract In this paper a computational morphogenesis process is applied to the design and the optimization of the shell roof of…
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Graham promoted the creation of a computerized program called Building Optimization Program (BOP), aimed to cut down the construction costs. This program was designed as a diagnostic tool by which architects and engineers could identify the points where constructive costs could be cut down, but, of course, it was accused…
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[…] the computer is a device with the power and speed to meet the requirements of the limits of our imaginations. We need this power to compress evolutionary time and space so that results can be achieved more realistically in our life-times. The emphasis, however, rests in the techniques, in…
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Mutsuro Sasaki gave a speech at Politecnico di Torino on Tuesday, 6 November 2007. He presented his recent projects and book “Flux Structures”. After the presentation, Mario Sassone and I had the opportunity to interview Mutsuro Sasaki for “Il Giornale dell’architettura”. Click here to read the interview (in Italian). Below, the flyer…
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This is my first paper. It was presented at the Special Workshop on the “Advanced Numerical Analysis of Shell-like Structures”, which was held in Zagreb (26-28 September 2007). This was actually my first attempt to apply a Genetic Algorithm to optimise a simple hypar shell. The code was entirely written from…
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Una piccola quantità d’ordine ha avuto origine dal disordine, senza essere pianificata da nessuna mente. Richard Dawkins, 1986 Lo studio delle tecniche evolutive artificiali è volto in gran parte al miglioramento dell’efficienza dello strumento di per sé. Cito oggi un libro di Richard Dawkins che riflette principalmente su questo tema,…
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“Manuale sulle reti neurali” is the first book I ever read on Genetic Algorithms. You can find below some initial thoughts, in Italian, which I wrote when I started my PhD in January 2007. For the English reader, my point was simple: designing with GAs implies the definition of ‘good’…
