Funding
European Union; Horizon 2020, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network
Funding period
01.09.2015 – 30.09.2018
Description
Bending-active tensile (BAT) structures introduce a recently new integrative solution into the field of lightweight architecture. This combination of bending-active elements with a tensile element generates challenges for designers due to the complexity in the necessary integrated form-finding and analysis simulations combined with the reciprocal equilibrium, as well as the high level of detail required in fabrication and erection of these form-active structures. These BAT structures remain a challenge, but current developments in CAD and CAE allow designers to engage in that complexity and generate new architectural and structural possibilities in simulating and generating geometry. The research aims to develop an integrated process interface from design to analysis for BAT structures and to explore its potential for architectural design culture.
Partners
- European Commission
- Innochain
- Foster + Partners
- McNeel Europe
Project on the innochain website
http://innochain.net/esr01-multiple-states-of-equilibrium-for-bending-active-tensile-structures/