itke
Category
TORSION AS A DESIGN DRIVER IN PLATE-BENDING-ACTIVE TENSILE STRUCTURES
This paper investigates and demonstrates the structural and architectural potentials of torsion in plate elements for bending-active tensile structures and evaluates the limits to which torsion can be employed in plate-hybrid structures. Bending?active tensile structures are a novel typology of lightweight structures utilizing integrated bending-active elements as support for a membrane structure.
German Design Award 2018
The Elytra Filament Pavilion has received the German Design Award 2018 in the Architecture Category. Innochain researcher James Solly (ESR08) was a member of the multidiscplinary team of engineers and architects from the ITKE and ICD at the University of Stuttgart who designed and realised this...
FlectoFold Demonstrator / BauBionik Exhibition / Stuttgart
Design Development, prototyping, evaluation, fabrication & installation of an Elastic-Kinetic Material-Gradient Facade Shading System : FlectoFold
This Large scale demonstrator is being exhibited as part of BauBionik Exhibition opening today at Schloss Rosenstein in Stuttgart, Germany.
Elytra Filament Pavilion – Robotic Filament Winding for Structural Composite Building Systems
Fabricate 2017 Paper on the Elytra Pavilion
Innochain ESR James Solly (ESR08), working on the research topic Virtual Prototyping FRP, presented at the Fabricate 2017 conference in Stuttgart, Germany in April 2017 alongside co-authors Marshall Prado and Moritz Doerstelmann of the ICD.
Their...
Hierarchical multi-resolution simulation for bending-active tensile hybrid structures based on isogeometric analysis
Integration between design and analysis is becoming more significant, and requires an easy back and forward transfer between design and analysis geometry. Isogeometric analysis (IGA) is filling the gap between structural analysis (FEA) and design software (CAD).
If material gradient is the answer, then what was the question !
If FRP is the material solution for climate adaptive building envelopes, then the question is, how will it impact architecture.