Abstract
This work presents an alternative strategy to the design and fabrication of elastic timber gridshells to bring this type of structures closer to an industrialization and prefabrication context. The research focuses on the use of Moge surfaces as a bottom-up and construction-aware strategy that naturally leads to principal meshes featuring orthogonal nodes. This geometry is used as input in the initial stages of a proposed design-to-fabrication workflow, which comprises up to five models that drive information from a very first 3D parametric design stage to the generation of 2D fabrication file. Active bending, orthogonal meshes and CNC carpentry joints are integrated to lead to a gridshell that can be easily machined using only a 3-axis CNC router on structural boards. The methodology is validated through the construction of a full-scale demonstrator.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003658641-86