The FloaTree pavilion received the first prize in the “Design Competition and Exhibition of Innovative Lightweight Structures 2024”, at the IASS 2024 Symposium in Zurich (ETH).
The Hypar Up pavilion received the first prize in the “Design Competition and Exhibition of Innovative Lightweight Structures 2023”, at the IASS Symposium 2023 in Melbourne, Australia.
At the IASS Symposium 2023, Gabriele Mirra and I were presented with the Tsuboi Award for "the most meritorious paper published in the Journal of the IASS in 2022".
Our new book 'Architecture Beyond the Cupola: Inventions and Designs of Dante Bini' is now available for purchase through the Springer website as a hardcopy or eBook. This book reviews Dante Bini’s inventions and designs, focusing on his form-resistant Binishell and other pneumatic construction systems.
Sofia Colabella, Gabriele Mirra, Michael Mack and I are thrilled to lead a masterclass on Aeolus at the upcoming IASS Symposium 2023 in Melbourne. Aeolus is an acoustic modelling plugin for Grasshopper (Rhinoceros 3D) developed and released by Gabriele Mirra via Food4Rhino. The masterclass will focus on architectural acoustics with Aeolus.
This article investigates the ability of AI to generate plausible design options by recombining features extracted from just 40 dataset samples of shell and tensile structures, and how the trained model can communicate with the designer through existing CAD software.
Our new article: "Expertise, playfulness and analogical reasoning: three strategies to train Artificial Intelligence for design applications" has been published in “Architecture, Structures and Construction”.
Our new article: "An Artificial Intelligence Agent That Synthesises Visual Abstractions of Natural Forms to Support the Design of Human-Made Habitat Structures" has been published in “Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution”.
The International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) is currently celebrating Frei Otto with a Special Issue of the IASS Journal (Vol.59, No.1, March 2018).