Christopher John Kenneth Williams
Chris Williams’ research hinges on the relationship between geometry and structural action as applied to towers, bridges and fabric and shell structures, as well as the response of these flexible structures to wind. His work in the generation of structural form through biological and other analogies has led to collaboration on projects including the Frei Otto’s Multihalle gridshells in Mannheim, the British Museum Great Court Roof, the Savill Building, the Gardens by the Bay glasshouses and the Netherlands Maritime Museum.
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Design of tension structures and shells using the Airy stress function
The construction of new masonry bridges inspired by Paul Séjourné
Tensioned principle curvature cable nets on minimal surfaces
Form-Finding of Shells Containing Both Tension and Compression Using the Airy Stress Function
Unloaded prestressed shell formed from a closed surface unattached to any supports
Architecture from textiles in motion
The design , fabrication and assembly of an asymptotic timber gridshell
A building of unlimited height
Architecture and Engineering - education of Form and Force
Advances in Architectural Geometry 2018
Design, fabrication and assembly of a geodesic gridshell in a student workshop
Form Finding Nodal Connections in Grid Structures
The use of virtual work for the formfinding of fabric, shell and gridshell structures
Conference Workshop 9: Textile architecture (in)formed by wind - Design processes and tools
The Equilibrium of Corrugated Plates and Shells
Brick patterns on shells using geodesic coordinates
From a weightless bent wire coat hanger to shell structures via the beltrami stress tensor
Prestressed gridshell structures
Sculptural form finding with bending action
Graphic statics using discontinuous Airy stress functions
Shell Structures for Architecture: Form Finding and Optimization
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3D printed nodes for structural steelwork connections in civil engineering and architecture