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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. The studio began dedicating five weeks to experimental and numerical form-finding techniques (on elastic gridshells, concrete shells…
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The 7th 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 technologies. The studio began dedicating 4 weeks to experimental and numerical form-finding techniques. The students were also exposed to…
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The 6th 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 technologies. The studio began dedicating 4 weeks to numerical and experimental form-finding, as well as to fabrication exercises of outstanding case…
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“How to make things lighter” is a 10-day design studio on parametric design, form-finding, optimisation, technology and fabrication of timber gridshells, which took place at Nanjing University in June 2015. During the studio, Karamba for Grasshopper was implemented as a tool to develop the form and optimise the geometry of timber…
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This 5th edition of “How virtual becomes real” continues the research into the applications of form-resistant structures, through working methods that seek to synthesise the virtual and the real by means of both physical form-finding and numerical/digital technologies (Karamba3d.com has just published a selection of this semester projects). The studio begins…
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Aalborg University, Fall semester 2010: I was coordinating the Master’s subject “Formfindings” when I introduced programming using the “parametric wall”. Through a single consistent system of elements and interrelations, designers could rapidly explore a multitude of spatial configurations in what Lars Spuybroek defined ‘the architecture of variation’.
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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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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…
