The authors propose a new clamped joint system that can easily join wooden members together and a wooden spatial structure that utilizes this system. The proposed system can clamp wood members without the need for special joint machining. Two types of clamps h...

This facility was used for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. It is a multi-purpose arena with up to 11,000 seats, and the roof covers the large space of the auditorium and stadium column-free. In this paper, the structural design of the main arena i...

Pavilion Bukit Jalil Mall is a new high-end commercial development located in Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The main attraction of the mall is the piazza, an external event space covered by the Mega Canopy, a 115m span and 20 to 40m high freeform steel ...

This paper reflects upon a sequence of seven research studios, taught within a six-year timespan in three different architecture schools, in which we developed approaches to casting thin-shell (monocoque) paper structures at full scale. Processes of material s...

The Mannheim Gridshell, Germany, is one of the world???s most important buildings of lightweight architecture. Its free-form shape and large span are impressive features of its filigree construction. With this extraordinary structure, Pritzker Prize winner Fre...

The growing of natural fibres ‐ such as wicker ‐ is deeply virtuous: it helps to diversify the forest cover, itrequires limited inputs ??? even in water, little maintenance, and its CO2 emissions are minimal. Their uses in basketry date back to the Neolithic p...

Pneumatic formwork is a kind of inflated fabric-polyurethane composite formwork formed by spraying polyurethane on the interior surface of the membrane. A numerical analysis model of composite pneumatic formwork considering the stiffness contribution of polyur...

Spatial cable-truss structure without inner ring cables (SCSWIRC) is a new type of cable-truss tension structures (CTTS), and its anti-collapse ability is strong, but its construction forming is difficult. The main reason is that there are a lot of struts (or ...

In this study, we propose a form-finding method for the free-formed reticulated shell structure, considering both structural performance and regularization of node connection patterns. The coordinates of the nodes of the reticulated shells are represented on t...

Ribbed floor systems, which include ribbed slabs and columns, are used extensively to enhance the structural performance of buildings. With the emerging topology optimization and advanced manufacturing techniques, the material usage and construction process of...

MycoCreate 2.0 is a spatial structure with load-bearing components made of mycelium-based composites, built for the 2022 Biomaterials Building Exposition at the University of Virginia, and has been initially conceptualized for the 2021 IASS Innovative Lightwei...

This research addresses innovations in building structural components through the generative design technique Bi-directional Evolutionary Structural Optimization (BESO) and the application of large-scale 3D robotic printing to produce efficient and elegant spa...

We consider a truss as a graph consisting of nodes and edges, and combine graph embedding (GE) and reinforcement learning (RL) to develop an agent for generating a stable assembly path for a truss with arbitrary configuration. GE is a method of embedding the f...

The HexBox Canopy demonstrates a new "plug & play" system for the rapid on-site assembly and disassembly without formwork of a segmented timber shell, consisting of relatively inexpensive, prefabricated hexagon-shaped boxes made from plywood plates. With 1...

Mesostructured patterns are a modern and efficient concept based on designing the geometry of structural material at the meso-scale to achieve desired mechanical performances. In the context of bending-active structures, such a concept can be used to control t...

Auxetic mechanisms based on corner-connected polygonal tiles have been used to design deployable structures and are currently applied to programmable surfaces. However, existing surface structures are realized by compliant kirigami, and the realization with ri...

The increasing scarcity of materials in the building industry is the result of many years of exploitation of limited resources. How can our design and construction methods encourage the circular use of materials and components to address this problem? This pap...

Current suspen-domes use loop cables which are key elements and carry large tensions. Loop-free suspen-dome was proposed for improving the collapse resistance and reducing cable tensions. The collapse resistance of loop-free suspen-dome has not been verified. ...

Current advances in construction automation, especially in large-scale additive manufacturing, highlight the vast potential for robots in architecture. Robotic construction is unique in its potential to reproduce highly complex structures. To advance the quest...

This paper presents the development and application of a computational design tool that can be used to explore an AI-generated design space for the conceptual design of shell and tensile structures. An AI model was trained to extract geometric features from a ...