Completed as the new home for Hudson Valley Shakespeare, the Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center brings performance and landscape into a single architectural experience. The open-air theater is sheltered beneath a sweeping mass-timber gridshell inspired by the surrounding hills and the motion of bird wings, while the stage opens directly toward the Hudson Highlands. The project also includes rehearsal spaces, education facilities, and restored natural habitats integrated into the site. Built with low-carbon mass timber and designed with rainwater harvesting, solar energy systems, and ecological restoration strategies, the theater reimagines how cultural architecture can exist in dialogue with nature. 📸 Jason O’Rear, Studio Gang

A lightweight steel-and-timber gridshell turns this bus shelter into a modular piece of climate-responsive urban infrastructure. 📍 Singapore Project by: SPARK Architects Details: hubs.la/Q04hBt4_0

Studio Gang has completed the new Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center for Hudson Valley Shakespeare, a 451-seat open-air timber gridshell theater designed to frame sweeping views of the Hudson Highlands beyond the stage. 📸 Jason O'Rear archinect.com/news/article/1…

The erection of the bamboo gridshell roof is now complete.

We have started a workshop to build a mock-up of a round bamboo gridshell with glass panels, in collaboration with ASAHI BUILDING-WALL CO., LTD. (AGB).

Winner of INBAR’s International Photo Competition 📷 Best Photo from Europe and North America: “Europe’s First Bamboo-Timber Composite Gridshell at Edinburgh Napier University” by Professor Hexin (Johnson) Zhang from China Read more: ow.ly/gl5S50YcCUf #Bamboo #Photography

Gridshell roof 📸

イタリアの研究コミュニティからgridshellの研究者として認識されているようで地味に嬉しい。ただ、次のIASSで出す予定のネタはちょっと違うトピックなのですまんなって感じ。

3D printed kitchens and bamboo gridshell form lyth design's food street in india designboom.com/architecture/…

3D printed kitchens and bamboo gridshell form lyth design's food street in india designboom.com/architecture/…

Architects just got a huge upgrade. A new NURBS-based algorithm from the University of Tokyo cuts gridshell design from 90 hours of GPU time to 90 minutes on a standard CPU. Faster. Smoother. More expressive structures. Form-finding for the future. #Architecture #Algorithm #CAD #StructuralEngineering #DesignTech #TechNews

🚨Architects gain a new superpower for complex curved designs🚨 A major speed boost in NURBS-based modeling is opening the door to more creative, practical gridshell architecture. Summary: A researcher from the University of Tokyo and a U.S.-based structural engineer developed a new computational form-finding method that could change how architects and engineers design lightweight and free-form structures covering large spaces. The technique specifically helps create gridshells, thin, curved surfaces whose members form a networked grid. The method makes use of NURBS surfaces, a widely used surface representation format in computer-aided design (CAD). It also drastically reduces computation cost — a task that previously took 90 hours on a high-end GPU completes in about 90 minutes on a standard CPU. 👇Source: University of Tokyo👇

Building better, building beautiful - Novel method allows more architects to design attractive gridshell structures. #UTokyoResearch u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press…

AECOM’s Intuit Dome wraps a new arena in a flowing gridshell of ETFE and PTFE panels—shaping terraces, gardens, and the first carbon-neutral venue of its kind. 📍Inglewood, CA, US #ArchitizerAwards Project by: AECOM Details: hubs.ly/Q03KcDD20

🔩本日の崩壊形（シンガポール編） 三角がびっしりの網目屋根。強そうだけど—— 今日のクイズ：急所はどこ？ ミニ解説｜崩壊形とは？ 構造設計は「ただ頑丈にする」だけの仕事ではありません。 万が一壊れるなら“どこから・どう壊れるか”をあらかじめ決める仕事でもあります。 この想定された壊れ方の筋書きを**「崩壊形」**と呼びます。 ぱっと見の候補は… •足元のボルトが切れる？ •三角パネルがぐにゃり（座屈）？ あなたの直感はどこ？🧐 #本日の崩壊形 #構造って面白い #三角格子 #シェル屋根 #シンガポール ⸻ 🔩Today’s Failure Mode (Singapore) A roof made of lots of triangles—looks tough. Question of the day: where’s the weak link? Quick note | What’s a “failure mode”? Structural design isn’t only about making things strong. We also **decide how and where a structure should fail—if it must—**so it’s predictable and safer. That planned storyline is the failure mode. Possible suspects: •Anchor bolts at the base snapping? •Local buckling of a triangle panel? What does your gut say? 🧐 #FailureModeOfTheDay #EngineeringIsFun #GridShell #TriangulatedRoof #SingaporeArchitecture

本日の接合部　シンガポール編 クラウドフォレストに恐竜を見にきたはずが… 私の視線は恐竜ではなく接合部へ👀 外側は鉄骨のグリッドシェル構造らしい。 よく見ると、接合部は全部溶接。しかも部材の角度が場所によってバラバラだから、接合部の形もそれぞれ違う。 もしかして…これ全部現場で溶接したの⁉️ （恐竜より職人さんの溶接技術に感動） 最後は「現場に工場作る勢いだな」ってレベル💪 #接合部観察 #構造デザイン #グリッドシェル #溶接美 #StructuralDesign #WeldingArt #GridShell #JointObservation ⸻ Today’s Joint — Singapore Edition I came to Cloud Forest to see dinosaurs… But my eyes were drawn not to the dinosaurs, but to the joints 👀 The outer frame seems to be a steel grid shell structure. Looking closely, every joint is welded. And since the angles of the members vary depending on the location, each joint has a different shape. Could it be… all of this was welded on site⁉️ (More impressed by the welders’ skills than the dinosaurs) Feels like they could build a factory on site 💪 #StructuralDesign #WeldingArt #GridShell #JointObservation

Wisdome Stockholm by Elding Oscarson pioneers the first known timber gridshell made from flat LVL panels, bent on-site into a sweeping free-form roof. buff.ly/5W5Jnsx #TimberInnovation #SustainableArchitecture #GridshellDesign

Wonderful tour with the director and head of collections @WealddownMuseum Loved the dragon post in the Bayleaf farmhouse 1405, the West Wittering tiny schoolroom 1820 & here too the Gridshell of 2000-1 - among 53 buildings & activities set in lovely @sdnpa near @Goodwood_Races

Características del NAIM. - *Diseño*: El edificio terminal iba a tener una estructura gridshell ligera, resistente debido a su doble curvatura, diseñada por Foster and Partners, FR-EE y Netherlands Airport Consultants. - *Capacidad*: El aeropuerto iba a tener una capacidad para atender a 50 millones de pasajeros al año en su primera fase, y hasta 120 millones en la segunda fase.

🔥 Read our Paper 📚 #AdditiveManufacturing Oriented Parametric Design #Automation of Adaptive Joint System for an Irregular Form #Gridshell Structure 🔗 mdpi.com/2076-3417/14/23/110… 👨‍🔬 by Mr. Jin-Ho Ahn et al. 🏫 Hanyang University / Hanyang Cyber University