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2016

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Design and fabrication of grid-shells mockups

Tonelli D., Pietroni N., Cignoni P., Scopigno R.

3D printing Fabrication

Statics Aware Voronoi Grid-shells have been recently introduced in the Architectural Geometry field. These are innovative grid- shells 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.

Source: Smart Tools and Apps for Graphics - Eurographics Italian Chapter Conference, pp. 3–7, Genova, Italy, 3-4 October 2016

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@inproceedings{oai:it.cnr:prodotti:366261,
	title = {Design and fabrication of grid-shells mockups},
	author = {Tonelli D. and Pietroni N. and Cignoni P. and Scopigno R.},
	doi = {10.2312/stag.20161360},
	booktitle = {Smart Tools and Apps for Graphics - Eurographics Italian Chapter Conference, pp. 3–7, Genova, Italy, 3-4 October 2016},
	year = {2016}
}