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Parametric Experiments in Architecture : a Connection Joint Design for Sustainable Structures in Bamboo
2023
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the use of bamboo in the building industry. It systematically demonstrates bamboo’s utility in terms of its properties, describing the material properties of typical industrial bamboo products, and discussing their performance evaluation and optimization as building components and in the creation of building envelopes. The book presents the recent developments regarding the innovative ways to design and represent architecture through parametric survey tools, and describes the experimental geometrical-generative design process of a connection joint for free-form lightweight structures employing beams made of bamboo culms. It examines algorithmic-g…
Analisi parametrica della torsione non uniforme dei ponti in curva con sezione a parete sottile.
2013
Algorithmic modeling and prototyping of a structural joint for freeform surfaces
2016
This paper describes a parametric approach in architectural design through the elaboration of a process for generating non-standard structural joints particularly suitable for the arrangement of freeform surfaces in which maximum adaptability of the system is required to join a different number of members converging in a node from generic directions. The algorithmic definitions, developed using the graphical editor Grasshopper integrated with Rhinoceros, allow the management of an integrated workflow from the conceptual design of freeform surface to the prototyping of a structural joint with 3D printing techniques.
The Cuneiform Brick
2022
The study presents some results of an experimental research on brick wall cladding, proposing methodological approaches for the creation of new geometric-compositional configurations. Citing innovative case studies of historical and contemporary architecture, the research has allowed to determine a different geometric shape of the brick, which takes its cue from the traditional wedge-shaped brick in majolica brick, widespread in Sicily since the sixteenth century for the realization of cusps and domes. Through the definition of procedural parametric algorithms for the analysis and geometric-spatial control, it is described the path that led to the digital prototype of a modular component of…
Il mattone cuneiforme maiolicato. Procedure algoritmico-parametriche digitali come strumento di indagine e progettazione: dall'architettura storica a…
2020
The study focuses on the cuneiform in majolica brick that has been widespread in Sicily since the 16th century for the construction of spires and domes. A unifying element that has constituted a particular identity contribution to the island’s brick tradition; an original solution able to combine aesthetics with structural and durability. On the basis of more than a hundred examined cases, the different geometrical-formal peculiarities detected in relation to the characteristics of the shell are described. Some analyses and checks of the traditional geometrical composition patterns of the wall facade are reported. Through the definition of digital tools of algorithmic-parametric design, new…
Architects as tool consumers: discovering trends in software and programming languages for Architecture with Google Trends
2019
Architect professional figure and skills have undergone innumerable evolutions throughout human history, and although the architect's task is always substantially to design buildings and spaces, the use of digital tools has undoubtedly marked the greatest change in architectural design since the Renaissance, if not since the time of Vitruvius (Sacchi 2018). However, when we talk about the relationship between architecture and digital tools, we immediately think about projects of some contemporary architects and researches of some important academics come to mind. Digital tools are now everywhere within the fragmented world of architecture: from multinationals firm with offices in the major …
The evolution of the digital curve: from shipbuilding spline to the diffusion of NURBS, subdivision surface and t-splines as tools for architectural …
2020
In this article, we will follow the history of splines, digital methods that have characterized the architectural design process since the last decade of the twentieth century. We will describe their evolutions since the beginning as analogical tools for boat construction in the eighteenth century, to its passage to digital within the automotive industry. Then the relationship with the aerospace industry, and the evolution which from digital animation, have led nurbs, subdivision surfaces and t-splines to become everyday computational tools within architecture workflow. Recent developments on t-splines, following their acquisition by Autodesk, will lead us to a reflection on the relationshi…
Digital & Documentation - The new boundaries of digital &documentation - Vol. 4
2022
Methodological aspects for the use of surfaces parametric modelers in architectural design. A study case
2017
Il presente studio affronta le implicazioni metodologiche determinate nello svolgimento di un iter progettuale tramite utilizzo di un modellatore parametrico algoritmico. L’obiettivo è quello di dimostrare come la parametrizzazione degli elementi morfologici debba generare un rapporto biunivoco con le logiche progettuali, ma senza dettarne le direttive o stravolgerle. Oggetto dell’intervento progettuale è un centro polifunzionale a vocazione turistica di servizio all’area del Parco Archeologico di Agrigento, che instauri con la Valle dei Templi un rapporto contestuale di dialogo morfologico e visivo. The present study addresses the methodological implications determined in the carrying out …