The Arc is the first building of its kind ever made from a series of intersecting 14 meter tall bamboo arches spanning 19 meters, interconnected by anticlastic gridshells which derive their strength from curving in two opposite directions. The school has a 12 year history of breaking boundaries and expanding horizons and the Arc is the newest benchmark in that history, raising the bar for sustainable education around the world. 📸 Tommaso Riva

🌿 Emerging from the industrial landscape of Taiyuan, the Taiyuan Botanical Garden by Delugan Meissl Associated Architects redefines the greenhouse as a spatial and structural experiment. Three organically shaped glass domes—housing tropical, desert, and aquatic ecosystems—operate as climate-controlled biospheres, each calibrated through advanced environmental engineering. Rather than mimicking nature, the project constructs it—through parametric geometries, lightweight steel gridshells, and high-performance glazing systems. The result is a hybrid between architecture and atmosphere, where structure becomes both enclosure and environmental mediator. 🎓 Learn AI & computational design: paacademy.com/courses/ 📸: CreatAR Images #DeluganMeissl #TimberStructure #ParametricDesign #ChinaArchitecture

The Hungry Caterpillar by lyth Design uses 3D-printed concrete kitchens, recycled plastic furniture, and bamboo gridshells to shape a low-waste, climate-responsive environment where digital fabrication and natural materials work in tandem. archello.com/project/the-hun…

🚨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👇

Architects gain a new superpower for complex curved designs 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. sciencedaily.com/releases/20…

Each element, from folding bamboo gridshells to 3D-printed concrete kitchens, is designed for efficiency, adaptability, and minimal waste, merging craftsmanship with innovation. 🎓 Join the free Snaptrude AI workshop to transform AI prompts into BIM-ready models: paacademy.com/course/archite… This project bridges nature, sustainability, and education, proving that architecture can be both a classroom and a cocoon. 📸 Photos by IG @ avesh.gaur @ iamsohaibilyas

I love gridshells. They are clearly building types using 100% renewable materials that must be embraced, in part to lower the concrete foot-stamp, but also for the pleasure and well being imparted by healthy structures.Enjoy the vid: ice.org.uk/what-is-civil-eng…

#ProjectOfTheDay:Arc at Green School by Ibuku This project proves bamboo can handle complex forces, combining arch compression with tensile gridshells. 📍Bali, Indonesia #ArchitizerAwards Details: arc.ht/44n6OxX

Vladimir Shukhov ("Russian Edison”), an engineering genius, who pioneered hyperboloid structures, gridshells, and the first thermal cracking method for oil. Note the cage masts on old American battleships. That structure originated with Shukhov (Shukhov Tower is another example)

Fortes García, Javier (2024). Las gridshells de Frei Otto: revisión de los métodos de diseño. oa.upm.es/79805/ #TFG @ETSAMadrid @bibliotecaETSAM

During today's lecture of the EPFL Geometric Computing course, the students assembled some nice asymptotic gridshells of classical minimal surfaces.

Our paper Rectifying Strip Patterns to be presented in #SIGGRAPHAsia2023. We discussed 1-family, 2-families and 3-families of rectifying strips (developable) along the Pseudo-geodesics on surfaces. They can work as shading facades, gridshells, and shells. huiwang.me/projects/11_proje…

New paper to be presented by @quent_becker @SIGGRAPHAsia: C-shells: Deployable Gridshells with Curved Beams More info here: go.epfl.ch/c-shells #deployable #gridshell #research #design #architecture

Gridshells with #timber! This one used 11,000 glulam pieces. Learn more: structurecraft.com/projects/… #engineering #parametric #structural

箱にミッチリのメロンパン おいしそう 最近、研究室の学生と読んだ論文に出てくるチェビシェフネット（球面上に平行四辺形を敷き詰めたメッシュ）の構造？ Discrete Voss surfaces: Designing geodesic gridshells with planar cladding panels - ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

Dr Leila Meneghetti (@usponline) presented her work on “The potential of Engineered #bamboo for Voronoi #gridshells: preliminary results” during our 1st @UGPNetwork #workshop. Watch the recording & learn more about #tension and #bending tests on EB👉youtube.com/watch?v=EF4QESyJ…

A Lancaster mathematician is working with industrial partners to gain deeper insights into the design of special roof structures called ‘gridshells’ @LancsUniMaths lancaster.ac.uk/news/lancast…

At @burohappold, our #expertise in #timber #engineering ranges from complex gridshells to innovative cross laminated #structures. Our specialist team has delivered #sustainable timber #buildings around the world, including module construction projects. buro.im/3jVyxyG

A fascinating look at the history and design development of timber gridshells…

博士論文「柔軟な変形機構を有する格子状曲面の解析と形状設計法」が公開されました。 repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.… 以下の3つのテーマをまとめています。ご興味ある方は是非！ Auxetic bending-active gridshells (ABAGs) Chiral metamaterials 3D beam model for large-deformation analysis