The Hypar Up pavilion received the first prize in the “Design Competition and Exhibition of Innovative Lightweight Structures 2023”, at the IASS Symposium 2023 in Melbourne, Australia.
At the IASS Symposium 2023, Gabriele Mirra and I were presented with the Tsuboi Award for "the most meritorious paper published in the Journal of the IASS in 2022".
Our new book 'Architecture Beyond the Cupola: Inventions and Designs of Dante Bini' is now available for purchase through the Springer website as a hardcopy or eBook. This book reviews Dante Bini’s inventions and designs, focusing on his form-resistant Binishell and other pneumatic construction systems.
Sofia Colabella, Gabriele Mirra, Michael Mack and I are thrilled to lead a masterclass on Aeolus at the upcoming IASS Symposium 2023 in Melbourne. Aeolus is an acoustic modelling plugin for Grasshopper (Rhinoceros 3D) developed and released by Gabriele Mirra via Food4Rhino. The masterclass will focus on architectural acoustics with Aeolus.
This article investigates the ability of AI to generate plausible design options by recombining features extracted from just 40 dataset samples of shell and tensile structures, and how the trained model can communicate with the designer through existing CAD software.
On 21 August 2021, I was interviewed by Federico Solchi on SBS Italian Radio. Click on this link to visit the SBS Italian Website or play the video below to listen to the interview.
This DigitalFUTURES talk brings together a group of world-leading architecture and engineering scholars who are experts on computational structural design methods.
In this 9th edition of "How Virtual Becomes Real", students explored the spatial and tectonic qualities of form-resistant structures by designing a winery in regional Victoria, therefore answering the question: “What is the shape of wine?”
The 8th edition of “How virtual becomes real” continued the research into the applications of form-resistant structures. The virtual and the real were synthesised by means of both physical form-finding and numerical/digital models.