Adaptive Pneumatic Shell Structures - Feedback-driven robotic stiffening of inflated extensible membranes and further rigidification for architectural applications

Poinet, Paul; Baharlou, Ehsan; Schwinn, Tobias; Menges, Achim

doi:10.52842/conf.ecaade.2016.1.549

“…One of the streams of robotic fabrication in architecture has been the novel combination of computational techniques into integrated design, test, adapt and fabricate systems. Some studies have ventured into adaptive stacking of architectural elements, in an exploratory open framework (Narahara 2013), or attempted to create an integrated framework of computationally driven, robotic actuation and fiberstiffening process of shell-like inflatable structures (Poinet et al 2016), after a critique of post-rationalized geometry input into fabrication methods, where the focus is on saving material, being economical due to constraints. Again shell geometries seem to be a good target selected by the CAAD community for robotic fabrication, for example integrating behavioral design and adaptive robotic fabrication of a compression shell, with the aid of a pneumatic formwork (Doerstelmann et al, 2015).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Proceedings of the 22nd Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA)

2017

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“…One of the streams of robotic fabrication in architecture has been the novel combination of computational techniques into integrated design, test, adapt and fabricate systems. Some studies have ventured into adaptive stacking of architectural elements, in an exploratory open framework (Narahara 2013), or attempted to create an integrated framework of computationally driven, robotic actuation and fiberstiffening process of shell-like inflatable structures (Poinet et al 2016), after a critique of post-rationalized geometry input into fabrication methods, where the focus is on saving material, being economical due to constraints. Again shell geometries seem to be a good target selected by the CAAD community for robotic fabrication, for example integrating behavioral design and adaptive robotic fabrication of a compression shell, with the aid of a pneumatic formwork (Doerstelmann et al, 2015).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Robotic Simulation of Textile as Concrete Reinforcement and Formwork

Lu¹,

Dounas²,

Spaeth³

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 22nd Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA)

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New possibilities of concrete constructions in architecture, the traditional formwork can be gradually replaced by the use of flexible textile. At the same time textile reinforcement combined with fabric formwork, introduces an innovative integrated solution in the fabrication of concrete. Based on a simple understanding of the textile weaving and knitting techniques, this project concentrates on the architectural production and the structural optimization of the textile as both concrete reinforcement and formwork. Furthermore, we present a robotic simulation of the process that develops using a series of computational experiments to research the sequence of weaving and/or knitting. Through the computational process and the design simulations, the research is firmly rooted in analog and digital exploration of material and its implementation in architecture, with particular emphasis on the convergence of robotics and computation. Note that the paper deals mainly with the software and weaving simulation as part of a larger research project, without dealing with the production of physical artefacts.

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