Computation design method for Statics-Responsive Grid Shells

Quadrangular Grid shells have generated interest in recent years for their application in rationalizing free form geometry in the built environment. Shell structure are efficient because their form is governed by flow of internal forces. But while discretizing shells into grid shells, instead of using flow of forces, current method follows...

Investigating Principal Stress Lines: Optimization of Gridshell Structures

Architecture within the last twenty years has developed in many ways. One such direction was reintroducing the physical world and physical phenomenon back to architectural language and design space. This is especially true as buildings have had to become more and more environmentally sustainable and developable with programs such as LEED, BREEAM...