Efficient and Expressive Thin-tile Vaulting using Cardboard Formwork
| Author(s): |
Lara Davis
Matthias Rippmann Tom Pawlofsky Philippe Block |
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| Medium: | conference paper |
| Language(s): | English |
| Conference: | 35th Annual Symposium of IABSE / 52nd Annual Symposium of IASS / 6th International Conference on Space Structures: Taller, Longer, Lighter - Meeting growing demand with limited resources, London, United Kingdom, September 2011 |
| Published in: | IABSE-IASS 2011 London Symposium Report |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Abstract: |
This paper presents research in the construction of freeform, thin-tile vaulting, demonstrated through a full scale prototype with the application of an expandable cardboard formwork system. This form of complex structural design is enabled through Thrust Network Analysis (TNA) a novel three-dimensional design tool for exploring funicular form. These freeform shells present new challenges for tiling patterns, sequence of building and especially the structural stability and guidework during construction. A continuous formwork system was developed using 2-D CAD- CAM cutting and gluing processes. The combined implementation of traditional thin-tile vaulting, TNA and the efficient cardboard formwork allows the construction of increasingly complex forms with the same (or even improved) benchmarks of sustainability and economy – radical form with efficient construction. |
| Keywords: |
form finding Construction sequence Catalan vaulting freeform vault construction compression-only forms cardboard guidework CAD-CAM fabrication tiling geometry thin-tile vaulting
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