%0 Journal Article
%T Shaping hybrids ¨C Form finding of new material systems
%A Christoph Gengnagel
%A Martin Tamke
%A Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen
%A Riccardo La Magna
%J International Journal of Architectural Computing
%@ 2048-3988
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1478077118778587
%X Form-finding processes are an integral part of structural design. Because of their limitations, the classic approaches to finding a form ¨C such as hanging models and the soap-film analogy ¨C play only a minor role. The various possibilities of digital experimentation in the context of structural optimisation create new options for the designer generating forms, while enabling control over a wide variety of parameters. A complete mapping of the mechanical properties of a structure in a continuum mechanics model is possible but so are simplified modelling strategies which take into account only the most important properties of the structure, such as iteratively approximating to a solution via representations of kinematic states. Form finding is thus an extremely complex process, determined both by the freely selected parameters and by design decisions
%K Bending active
%K form finding
%K hybrid structures
%K simulation
%K textile architecture
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1478077118778587