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MSD Design studio “How virtual becomes real” on the Karamba3D website
- 28 June 2013
- By Alberto Pugnale
- In Engineering, Evolutionary techniques, Parametric Design, Scripting/Tooling, Teaching and learning
- 1 Comment
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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Engineering Architecture. Advances of a technological practice
- 10 March 2010
- By Alberto Pugnale
- In Alberto Pugnale, Engineering, Evolutionary techniques, Form-finding, Parametric Design, Research, Scripting/Tooling
- 3 Comments
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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Small mutations
- 13 April 2007
- By Alberto Pugnale
- In Architects, Engineers, Artists, Books, Engineering, Evolutionary techniques
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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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Survival or Evolution, what’s the goal?
- 5 April 2007
- By Alberto Pugnale
- In Engineering, Evolutionary techniques, Scripting/Tooling
- 0 Comments
“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’…