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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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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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I am going to defend my PhD thesis on 9 April 2010 at Politecnico di Torino. The core of my research regards the development of Genetic Algorithms for the solution of structural, acoustic and geometric issues of shell and gridshell structures. You can read it here. In the appendix, you will…
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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 read about Genetic Algorithms. Below you can find some initial thoughts, in Italian, which I wrote when I started my PhD. The point of this text is: architects using genetic algorithms need to define good genotypes to get good phenotypes of their…
