Shell Structures for Architecture: Form Finding and Optimization

Shell Structures for Architecture

Shell Structures for Architecture

Edited by: Sigrid Adriaenssens, Philippe Block, Diederik Veenendaal and Chris Williams, with a foreword by Pritzker Prize Winner Shigeru Ban
Publisher: Routledge: Taylor and Francis, 2014

This book presents contemporary design methods for shell and gridshell structures, covering formfinding and structural optimization techniques. Edited by experts including Princeton Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Sigrid Adriaenssens, the book introduces architecture and engineering practitioners and students to structural shells and provides computational techniques to develop complex curved structural surfaces, in the form of mathematics, computer algorithms and design case studies.