Design and Fabrication of a Pseudo-Geodesic Gridshell

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Structurally Aware Fabrication for Large-Scale, Curved Architectural Skins 1
5. A Generative Approach towards the Design of a Spherical Structural Envelope 15
6. The Finite Element Method (FEM) of the Unlog Tower 29
7. HYGROSHELL – In Situ Self-shaping of Curved Timber Shells 43
8. Corresponding Principal and Asymptotic Patches for Negatively-Curved Gridshell Designs 55
9. Bent-on-Site Flat-Pack Delivery of a Timber Shell 69
10. Design and Fabrication of a Pseudo-Geodesic Gridshell 83
11. Asymptotic Geodesic Hybrid Timber Gridshell 97
12. Daisy: A Data-Driven Multi-Objective Design Tool 111
13. Point Cloud to True-to-Deformation Free-Form NURBS 125
14. Beyond the Hypar: Predicting Buckled Shapes in Bent Glass with Machine Learning 137
15. Roll-Locks: A Fabrication to Self-Assembly Design-Framework for Reusable Discrete Concrete Elements 151
16. Design Model for Block-Based Structures from Triply Orthogonal Systems of Surfaces 165
17. Integrative Agent-Based Architectural Design Modelling for Segmented Timber Shells 177
18. A Design Modeling Framework for Multi-Material Biopolymer 3D Printing 193
19. BamX: Rethinking Deployability in Architecture through Weaving 207
20. Transformable Surface Mechanisms by Assembly of Geodesic Grid Mechanisms 221
21. Co-Design of Fibrous Walls for Multi-Story Buildings 235
22. Artificial Intelligence Automated Task Planning for Fabrication 249
23. Multi-Robotic Assembly of Discrete Shell Structures 261
24. Designing for Robotic (Dis-)Assembly 275
25. RUM: Reconfigurable Umbrella Mesh 289
26. Developable Membrane Tensegrity Structures Based on Origami Tessellations 303
27. Parametric Design of Tensegrity-Origami Structures 313
28. From Quad Filling to Wrinkled Surfaces 327
29. Bending Cylinders: A Geometric Syntax for Zero-Waste Architecture 339
30. Curved-Crease Flat-Foldable Bending-Active Plate Structures 355
31. Form Finding of a Sheet Metal Shell by Generative Design and Pareto Optimization 369
32. Searchfield: Navigating n-Dimensional Design Spaces 383
33. Neural Implicit Fields for Performance-Informed Geometries in Building Design 397
34. Quantifying the Influence of Continuous and Discrete Design Decisions Using Sensitivities 411
35. An Approach to Designing Architectural Structures Using 3D Graphic Statics 427
36. Rationalizing Principal Stress Line Networks Using an Agent-Based Modelling Approach 441
37. Design and Optimization of Beam and Truss Structures Using Alternative Performance Indicators Based on the Redundancy Matrix 455
38. List of Contributors 467