Mallas elásticas de madera - Estructuras con un diseño integrado

J G Fernandes,P H Kirkegaard,J M Branco,J P Barroso

doi:10.3989/ic.67614

Abstract

Una malla estructural de madera es un tipo especial de estructura que establece un nuevo marco para la construcción ligera. Es posible crear una amplia variedad de formas y geometrías, garantizando así una enorme libertad arquitectónica. Sin embargo, dada la variedad de formas y la complejidad que pueden presentar es necesario utilizar diferentes herramientas e información para avalar este complejo proceso.  El presente trabajo explora la interacción entre la información y las diferentes herramientas utilizadas por arquitectos e ingenieros durante el proceso de diseño y construcción de una malla elástica de madera, presentando un caso de estudio real con 42m2 (6,5mx6,5m), después de la elevación, construida con la intención de explorar el diseño y el proceso constructivo junto con métodos de integración de “form finding”. En el trabajo, los objetivos de optimización tanto del arquitecto como del ingeniero se realizan sobre el mismo caso de estudio. Se presentará el proceso de diseño y se describirá la construcción de la malla elástica.

Highlights

For the last fifty decades, computers have increasingly become a larger part of the design and constructions phases of all type of structures but in architectural designing
This new approach has inaugurated a new spirit of collaboration between architecture and engineering. Though these two areas which have often been perceived as quite separate areas of concern, new dialogues are beginning to emerge. This may lead to new hybrid information and tectonic design (2), with interdisciplinary practices that will co-exist between the two professions
This paper aims to understand the construction process of a timber gridshell and what engineering has to offer to architecture as a methodology and support design of this kind of structure (10)

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Introduction

For the last fifty decades, computers have increasingly become a larger part of the design and constructions phases of all type of structures but in architectural designing. Computer technologies have infiltrated almost every aspect of architectural process (1) It allows to model, with great sophistication, the material capacities and proprieties of the architectural components. With great sophistication, the material capacities and proprieties of the architectural components This new approach has inaugurated a new spirit of collaboration between architecture and engineering. One of the fields in which this hybrid information is sought, is in the relation between the form and structural properties of structural systems, leading towards an increasing interest in lightweight structures Within these type of structural systems, shells and gridshells are a variant often chosen for their free-form and architectural expressive design (3)

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