ESR01- MULTIPLE STATES OF EQUILIBRIUM FOR BENDING-ACTIVE (TENSILE) STRUCTURES
ESR: Evy L. M. Slabbinck
ESR NUMBER: ESR1
INDUSTRIAL PARTNERS: Foster + Partners + Mc Neel
INSTITUTE: itke
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.
Evy Laura Maurice Slabbinck
itke / ESR01- Multiple states of equilibrium for bending-active (tensile) structures
Evy Laura Maurice Slabbinck is a Research Associate and tutor at the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design at the University of Stuttgart. She obtained the degree “Master of Science in Architectural Engineering” at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Université Libre de Bruxelles in 2014, and also holds a Master of Science… read more
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COMPUTATIONAL BAMBOO INSTALLATION AT THE MUSEUM OF INTERACTIVE SCIENCE IN QUITO
Author: Innochain
COMPUTATIONAL BAMBOO INSTALLATION AT THE MUSEUM OF INTERACTIVE SCIENCE IN QUITO from Innochain Research on Vimeo. Credits: Scientific Development: Evy Slabbinck and Seiichi Suzuki Technical support: Yaner Luis Cangá Chavez, Anders Obregon, and Juan Edison Columba Paucar IAAC GSS Students (Design and Fabrication): Juan Francisco Mayorga Jaramillo, Valeria Latorre, Gordon Leibowitz, Valeria León, Veronica Sofia... read more
Keywords: · bamboo · bending-active · computational design · form-finding
Computational bamboo installation
Author: Evy Slabbinck
The computational bamboo installation was built in July 2018 as part of the IAAC Global Summer School in Quito, Ecuador. The structure is constructed from bending-active bamboo laths and rods and will be showcased for 3 months at the Museum of Interactive Science in Quito. The workshop, which resulted in this demonstrator, combined natural local traditional building materials with new computational methods for design combined with traditional fabrication. The workshop was led by two ITKE researchers, Evy Slabbinck and Seiichi Suzuki. read more
Keywords: · bamboo · bending-active · computational design · formfinding · itke
BAT_02 Wood textile
Author: Evy Slabbinck
The BAT_02 is in the last steps of the design phase and starts to have its final equilibrium-shape. We are happy to announce that next to the collaboration with Foster + Partners, we have the sponsorship and knowledge of Tesler + Mendelovitch, who are masters in combining wood veneer with textiles. Have a closer look at the 'Capitonnage' (double curvature) effect of the wood veneer. read more
Keywords: · bending-acitve · formfinding · FosterPartners · hybrid structures · itke
BAT_02
Author: Evy Slabbinck
BAT_02 - Adaptive hybrid bending-active tensile meeting room - in collaboration with Seiichi Suzuki and Foster + Partners read more
Keywords: · bending-active · Communicating · formfinding · hybrid structures · itke
IRREGULAR CABLE-NETS: EXPLORING IRREGULARITY AS A DRIVER FOR FORM AND STRUCTURE
Author: Evy Slabbinck
Unlike conventional cable-nets that typically use evenly spaced cables laid out in an orthogonal-grid, introducing irregular patterns into the form-finding process of cable structures enables designs with non-directional grids and varying cable concentration. read more
Keywords: · cable-net · form-finding · topology · voronoi
MASTERCLASS – EXPLORING SOFTWARE APPROACHES IN SIMULATING BENDING-ACTIVE SYSTEMS
Author: Evy Slabbinck
Masterclass: EXPLORING SOFTWARE APPROACHES IN SIMULATING BENDING-ACTIVE SYSTEMS. At IASS Annual Symposium 2017, 22-24 Sept. 2017, Hamburg, Germany, co-organised as Training School by COST Action TU1303 ‚Novel Structural Skins‘ Trainers: Riccardo La Magna, Philipp Längst, Gregory Quinn with special support of Julian Lienhard, Daniel Piker and Anna Bauer read more
Keywords: · bending-active · form-finding · hybrid structures · IASS · masterclass · tensile
A COMPARATIVE OVERVIEW OF GENERATIVE APPROACHES FOR COMPUTATIONAL FORM-FINDING OF BENDING-ACTIVE TENSILE STRUCTURES
Author: Evy Slabbinck
Bending-active tensile hybrid structures refers to the coupling of bending- and tension-form-active components within a unique and stiffer construct. The variety of possible shapes applicable to the design of these structures demands new ideas around real-time physics-based simulations for the development of more flexible and interactive design spaces. read more
Keywords: · bending-active · form-finding · generative design · hybrid structures
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYZING AND DESIGNING BENDING-ACTIVE TENSILE HYBRID STRUCTURES
Author: Evy Slabbinck
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. read more
Keywords: · BAT · BATH · bending-active · global BATH · hybrid structure · local BATH
TORSION AS A DESIGN DRIVER IN PLATE-BENDING-ACTIVE TENSILE STRUCTURES
Author: Evy Slabbinck
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. read more
Keywords: · BAT · bending-active · hybrid structure · membrane · torsion
Hierarchical multi-resolution simulation for bending-active tensile hybrid structures based on isogeometric analysis
Author: Evy Slabbinck
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). read more
Keywords: · BAT_01 · bending-active · hybrid structures · IGA · isogeometric · simulation
Concept of Isogeometric Analysis – ESR1
Author: Evy Slabbinck
Isogeometric Analysis (IGA) is an emerging technology driven by the present gap between the simulation of structural analysis (FEA) and design software (CAD). IGA is a promising new topic in computational mechanics and was first introduced in 2005 by Thomas J. R. Hughes. read more
Keywords: · analysis · CAD · design · FEA · hughes · isogeometric
Evy Laura Maurice Slabbinck
Author: Innochain
Evy Laura Maurice Slabbinck is a Research Associate and tutor at the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design at the University of Stuttgart. read more
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