Design and Fabrication of Grid-shells Mockups

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2016
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The Eurographics Association
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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
} }
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