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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...
Talking models
Progress update and some thoughts about data, a new modelling workflow, and revisiting the last demonstrator.
FlectoFold / Materialisation & Evaluation Process
ESR12- MATERIAL GRADIENT FRP
AUTHOR: Saman Saffarian
FlectoFold is an Elastic-Kinetic Material-Gradient facade component.
This video showcases the Materialisation and Evaluation Process.
ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2016/2017
ESR08 – Virtual Prototyping FRP
ESR12 – Material Gradient FRP
AUTHORS: James Solly and Saman Saffarian
Lightweight, Long-Span Fibrous Construction
Since October 2015 Sam and James have been working on the ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2016/2017 that was developed within the ITECH Master Studio....
Innochain Colloquium Presentation – Integrating Building Physics for Performance Control
This is the video from the project’s presentation at the Design Probes Exhibition in Vienna, earlier this month.
In its current stage, the research has investigated the state of the art in CFD integration through a number of key experiments – design probes – with similar objectives that aim to...