Shaping hybrids – Form finding of new material systems

Christoph Gengnagel, Riccardo La Magna, Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, Martin Tamke

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Abstract

Form-finding processes are an integral part of structural design. Because of their limitations, the classic approaches to finding a form – such as hanging models and the soap-film analogy – play only a minor role. The various possibilities of digital experimentation in the context of structural optimisation create new options for the designer generating forms, while enabling control over a wide variety of parameters. A complete mapping of the mechanical properties of a structure in a continuum mechanics model is possible but so are simplified modelling strategies which take into account only the most important properties of the structure, such as iteratively approximating to a solution via representations of kinematic states. Form finding is thus an extremely complex process, determined both by the freely selected parameters and by design decisions.
OriginalsprogDansk
TidsskriftInternational Journal of Architectural Computing
Vol/bind16
Udgave nummer2
ISSN1478-0771
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2018

Emneord

  • Architecture, digital design, fabrication, simulation, membrane architecture

Kunstnerisk udviklingsvirksomhed (KUV)

  • Nej

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