Form-Finding and Structural Optimization: Gaudi Workshop
As taught in: Fall 2004
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:
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.


