SMiA Workshop 2013
Structural Morphology in Architecture.
Fall Course In collaboration with the Lightweight Construction class. Polytecnical University of Catalunya UPC. Barcelona, Spain 2013.
SMiA Structural Morphology in Architecture.
i-Team: Faculty Direction Prof. Ramon SASTRE, PhD, Architect Research Group PhD Student. Natalia Torres PhD Student. Omar Avellaneda PhD Diana Pe単a
i-We Are SMiA. Structural Morphology in Architecture was created to share ideas and projects in common research areas. It has further developed as a way for us to further develop design strategies through educational workshops and exploration. It is an open group for architects, designers, artists, students, teachers, and friends—for anyone who wants to know about unconventional architecture based on structural morphology.
i-Our Domain Form, geometry, transformable, folding, modular, structures, lightweight construction, space, and our common word, "architecture"
i-Why To think, investigate, re-invent, imagine, build, play with, and explore spatial-morphology concepts in design as well as creating new architectural concepts.
i-How
About SMiA
Through workshops, lectures, special guests, travel, and events of all kinds that provide opportunities to meet and strengthen multidisciplinary knowledge, which contributes to the group. Physical and digital tools are utilized, including WinTess3, a parametric-geometry-development-and-testing software.
OBJECTIVES The workshop is an Introduction to the conceptual and practical world of lightweight structures with the end goal of having the students develop their own lightweight-structural model that solves a real-world problem. They will gain an understanding of the behaviors of these complex structures using both physical models and software. Comprehensive training in the areas of tensile, deployable, tensegrity, tree-form, and reciprocal buildings and structures.
TOPICS Introduction Cables Membranes Simple Forms + Introduction Workshop SMiA-Solids Air Supported + Pneumatic Structures Domes + Tensegrity Deployable Structures Reciprocating and tree-form structures Structural anรกlisis using software. WinTess3 Patterning + Final Conference Research SMiA Building: Details + Details SMiA + Final Conference Research SMiA Building: Erection + Pathology + Final Conference Research SMiA
Objectives - Topics
Enable students to develop the sills to design an architectural proposal for a small, tensile structure such as a tent, shade, and/or a pavilion structure.
SMiA Structural Morphology in Architecture.
SOLIDS
Objective Understanding the geometry of solids as the basis for use in the design of compression, tensegrity, deployable, and reciprocal structures.
1. W-Shop Solids
Creating physical models to further understanding of faces, edges, and vertices.
STUDENT EXERCISES
SMiA Structural Morphology in Architecture.
TENSEGRITY
• Objective Explore the concept, classification, and typology of a tensegrity unit through exposure to previous researches
2. W-Shop Tensegrity
Develop and test tensegrity structural applications through formfinding, modeling, and computer software.
STUDENT EXERCISES
SMiA Structural Morphology in Architecture.
DEPLOYABLE STRUCTURES
Objective Explore the scissor-element concept, classification, and deployment typology
3. W-Shop Deployable
Develop and test the application of folding principles on tensile-textile constructions through formfinding and computer software.
STUDENT EXERCISES
SMiA Structural Morphology in Architecture.
RECIPROCAL AND TREE-LIKE STRUCTURES
Explore reciprocal-and-tree-like-structure configuration elements, their classification and assembly methods. Develop and test the application of reciprocal and tree-like textile constructions, through formfinding and computer software .
4. Reciprocal and Tree-Like Structures
Objective
STUDENT EXERCISES
SMiA Structural Morphology in Architecture.
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WORKSHOP STUDENTS
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WORKSHOP 2013 SMiA
SMiA Structural Morphology in Architecture.
Ramon Sastre - Dr. Arch. Professor in the Architectural Department of Technology I ETSAV - School of Architecture "El Vallès" UPC. - PhD Thesis: Design and analysis of completely-articulated bar structures with large deformations. - Research: Tensile structure membranes, cables, etc. Analysis and programming of architectural technology. Expandable Structures, Parametric Architecture. - Teaching abroad: Turkey, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brasil, Belgium, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Romania. - Stays at Foreign Universities: Liverpool UK, Bath UK, Swansea UK, Yokohama - Japan.
Natalia Torres - PhD Student Researcher with SMiA at UPC Barcelona, Spain. - PhD Thesis: UPC Barcelona, Deployable Stage. Proposal of a mobile-structure application, in process - under the direction Prof. Ramon Sastre Conference presentations: Chile, Colombia, Portugal, Turkey, Spain.
- PhD Student Researcher with SMiA at UPC Barcelona, Spain. - PhD Thesis: UPC Barcelona, Deployable Membrane Structures. Proposal of a Habitable Structure, in process - under the direction of Ramon Sastre Conference presentations: Mexico, Colombia, Portugal, Spain.
Diana PeĂąa - Postdoctoral Researcher with SMiA at UPC Barcelona, Spain. - Lightweight-Structures Fellowship: ILEK Institute, Stuttgart, Germany. - PhD Thesis: UPC Barcelona, Lightweight Structures - Tensegrity. under the direction of Josep I. Llorens and Ramon Sastre. - Conference presentations: China, Germany, Italy, Spain, Chile, Colombia, Venezuela. - Published: IASS, IJSS, Cimne, Tensinet, and SEWC.
Team - SMiA
Omar Avellaneda
Fall Course In collaboration with the Lightweight Construction class. Polytecnical University of Catalunya UPC. Barcelona, Spain 2013.