The design , fabrication and assembly of an asymptotic timber gridshell
Paper in proceedings, 2019
built of plywood laths. The overall question concerns how geometry, structural action, and
ecient production can interplay and inform spatial design. The environment is a two-day
workshop where architects, engineers and researchers with specialization in structural and digital
design cooperate with undergraduate students in a compulsory parametric design and digital
fabrication course. The gridshell shape is based on an Enneper surface of threefold rotational
symmetry with a boundary baseplate inscribed within a circle of 4.5 m in radius. Utilizing the
concept of asymptotic curves, which are surface curves whose osculating plane coincides with
the tangent plane of the surface, the structure was built using planar straight laths of plywood
made using manually operated drills and saws.
timber
Gridshell
education
active bending
parametric design
structures
Differential geometry
Author
Emil Adiels
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Architectural theory and methods, Research - Architectural Theory and Method
Cecilie Brandt-Olsen
BIG Engn
Johanna Isaksson
BuroHappold Engineering
Isak Näslund
BIG Engn
Karl-Gunnar Olsson
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Architectural theory and methods, Research - Architectural Theory and Method
Emil Poulsen
CORE Studio Thornton Tomasetti
Christopher John Kenneth Williams
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Architectural theory and methods, Research - Architectural Theory and Method
Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposium 2019 - Structural Membranes 2019, Form and Force
736-743
Barcelona, Spain,
Subject Categories
Architectural Engineering
Architecture
Geometry
Learning and teaching
Pedagogical work