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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 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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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Questo dilemma nasce dalla sperimentazione di algoritmi genetici per l’ottimizzazione strutturale di forme libere e gusci. Essendo configurazioni spaziali resistenti per forma non è possibile, per questioni tipologiche, scindere la forma dal comportamento strutturale durante la concezione e lo sviluppo di un progetto. L’algoritmo genetico è uno strumento versatile e robusto che è in grado di esplorare…
