Open AccessGridshells: integrating design with structural performance in early design stages, using formal and informal knowledge
Author(s) -
Gonçalo Castro Henriques,
Juarez Moara Santos Franco
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
gestão and tecnologia de projetos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1981-1543
DOI - 10.11606/gtp.v17i1.183507
Subject(s) - construct (python library) , computer science , empirical research , management science , knowledge management , engineering , epistemology , philosophy , programming language
Gridshell has long interested the enthusiast of lightweight construction. The most popular examples date back to the 1960s; gridshell development requires mathematical, technical and material resources. These requirements limit gridshell development to special buildings, and their design to specialists requiring considerable time and budget to construct them. Digital processes of design, fabrication and assembly offer renewed possibilities to tackle these difficulties and to deepen the interaction among form, material and structural performance. This article documents a didactic experience regarding architectural and engineering gridshell design aimed at relative beginners, considering structural behaviour from early design stages. The research is included in a broader research about gridshells that seeks to gradually integrate formal and informal knowledge about form-finding, including empirical and theoretical research. The didactic experience is framed in a series of empirical constructions we are developing, and contributing to the collective debate about how to expand gridshell construction further.