SHELL STRUCTURES FOR ARCHITECTURE Form Finding and Optimization

Description

Bringing together experts from research and practice, Shell Structures for Architecture: Form Finding and Optimization presents contemporary design methods for shell and gridshell structures, covering form-finding and structural optimization techniques. It introduces architecture and engineering practitioners and students to structural shells and provides computational techniques to develop complex curved structural surfaces, in the form of mathematics, computer algorithms, and design case studies.

• Part I introduces the topic of shells, tracing the ancient relationship between structural form and forces, the basics of shell behaviour, and the evolution of form-finding and structural optimization techniques.

• Part II familiarizes the reader with form-finding techniques to explore expressive structural geometries, covering the force density method, thrust network analysis, dynamic relaxation and particle-spring systems.

• Part III focuses on shell shape and topology optimization, and provides a deeper understanding of gradient-based methods and meta-heuristic techniques.

• Part IV contains precedent studies of realised shells and gridshells describing their innovative design and construction methods.

CONTENTS

Part 1: Shells for Architecture

• 1. Exploring shell forms, John Ochsendorf, Philippe Block
• 2. Shaping forces, Laurent Ney, Sigrid Adriaenssens
• 3. What is a shell? Chris Williams
• 4. Physical modelling and form finding, Bill Addis
• 5. Computational form finding and optimization, Kai-Uwe Bletzinger, Ekkehard Ramm

Part 2: Form Finding

• 6. Force density method, Klaus Linkwitz
• 7. Thrust network analysis, Philippe Block, Lorenz Lachauer, Matthias Rippmann
• 8. Dynamic relaxation, Sigrid Adriaenssens, Mike Barnes, Richard Harris, Chris Williams
• 9. Particle-spring systems, Shajay Bhooshan, Diederik Veenendaal, Philippe Block
• 10. Comparison of form-finding methods, Diederick Veenendaal, Philippe Block
• 11. Steering of form, Axel Kilian

Part 3: Structural Optimization

• 12. Nonlinear force density method, Klaus Linkwitz, Diederick Veenendaal
• 13. Best-fit thrust network analysis, Tom Van Mele, Daniele Panozzo, Olga Sorkine-Hornung, Philippe Block
• 14. Discrete topology optimization, James N. Richardson, Sigrid Adriaenssens, Rajan Filomeno Coelho, Philippe Bouillard
• 15. Multi-criteria gridshell optimization, Peter Winslow
• 16. Eigenshells, Panagiotis Michalatos, Sawako Kaijima
• 17. Homogenization method, Irmgard Lochner-Aldinger, Axel Schumacher
• 18. Computational morphogenesis, Alberto Pugnale, Tomás Méndez Echenagucia, Mario Sassone

Part 4: Precedents

• 19. The Multihalle and the British Museum, Chris Williams
• 20. Félix Candela and Heinz Isler, Maria E. Moreyra Garlock, David P. Billington
• 21. Structural design of free-curved RC shells, Mutsuro Sasaki The congeniality of architecture and engineering, Patrik Schumacher

Appendices:

• 22. The finite element method in a nutshell, Chris Williams
• 23. Differential geometry and shell theory, Chris Williams
• 24. Genetic algorithms for structural design, Rajan Filomeno Coelho, Tomás Méndez Echenagucia, Alberto Pugnale, James N. Richardson
• 25. Subdivision surfaces, Paul Shepherd Index Bibliography List of Credits List of Projects List of Contributors

Edited by Sigrid Adriaenssens, Philippe Block, Diederik Veenendaal, Chris Williams

325 pages, 176 colour illustrations, 6 colour tables, 184 colour line drawings / 22 x 27,5 cm / English