Form-Finding and Structural Optimization: Gaudi Workshop

As taught in: Fall 2004

A interior photo of the church being worked on.

Expiatory Church of the Sagrada Familia, by Antoni Gaudi. (Image courtesy of Nicolas Janberg of Structurae.)

Instructors:

Prof. Erik Demaine

Prof. John Ochsendorf

Martin Demaine

Simon Greenwold

Axel Kilian

Prof. Barbara Cutler

MIT Course Number:

4.491

Level:

Graduate

Course Features

Course Description

Inspired by the work of the architect Antoni Gaudi, this research workshop will explore three-dimensional problems in the static equilibrium of structural systems. Through an interdisciplinary collaboration between computer science and architecture, we will develop design tools for determining the form of three-dimensional structural systems under a variety of loads. The goal of the workshop is to develop real-time design and analysis tools which will be useful to architects and engineers in the form-finding of efficient three-dimensional structural systems.