Design and Fabrication of Grid-shells Mockups
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2016
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
Statics Aware Voronoi Grid-shells have been recently introduced in the Architectural Geometry field. These are innovative gridshells endowed with a polygonal topology, whose geometry is structurally optimized by means of a novel algorithm [PTP+15]. Although being structurally effective as proved in [TPP+16] and arguably aesthetically charming, so far these grid-shells have struggled to attract architects' interest. We propose a method to fabricate a mockup of the grid shell by using modern additive 3D printing and laser cutting technologies. We also show how the realised mockup can be used to perform a preliminary validation of the simulated static performances of the grid-shell structure.
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@inproceedings{10.2312:stag.20161360,
booktitle = {Smart Tools and Apps for Graphics - Eurographics Italian Chapter Conference},
editor = {Giovanni Pintore and Filippo Stanco},
title = {{Design and Fabrication of Grid-shells Mockups}},
author = {Tonelli, Davide and Pietroni, Nico and Cignoni, Paolo and Scopigno, Roberto},
year = {2016},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {-},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-026-0},
DOI = {10.2312/stag.20161360}
}