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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
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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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On the interaction between architecture and engineering: the acoustic optimization of a reinforced concrete shell
- 9 September 2008
- By Alberto Pugnale
- In Engineering, Evolutionary techniques, Parametric Design, Publications/Conferences, Research, Scripting/Tooling
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This paper was recently presented at the IASS-IACM 2008 (Ithaca NY, USA). The authors are Mario Sassone, Tomàs Mendez and Alberto Pugnale. You can read the full text on ResearchGate. Abstract In this paper a computational morphogenesis process is applied to the design and the optimization of the shell roof of…
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Mutsuro Sasaki gave a speech at Politecnico di Torino on Tuesday, 6 November 2007. He presented his recent projects and book “Flux Structures”. After the presentation, Mario Sassone and I had the opportunity to interview Mutsuro Sasaki for “Il Giornale dell’architettura”. Click here to read the interview (in Italian). Below, the flyer…
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Evolutionary Structural Optimization in Shell Design
- 22 October 2007
- By Alberto Pugnale
- In Engineering, Evolutionary techniques, Parametric Design, Publications/Conferences, Research, Scripting/Tooling
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This is my first paper. It was presented at the Special Workshop on the “Advanced Numerical Analysis of Shell-like Structures”, which was held in Zagreb (26-28 September 2007). This was actually my first attempt to apply a Genetic Algorithm to optimise a simple hypar shell. The code was entirely written from…