Principle studio attended the Smart Geometry Workshop and Conference in Barcelona to further the exploration into tensioned surfaces. The 'Building Prototypes' workshop served as an opportunity to develop through fabrication, the creative possibilities shared by digital design and the most up to date numerically controlled construction techniques.
The stage within the IAAC building in Barcelona
The tensioned fabric surface and cable net to be stretched across the IAAC hall, was calculated and stressed through Processing and imported in G.C to be developed into flat elements.
surface in G.C and Processing
This revealed to be the trickiest part of the exploration as no accurate method for the description of the fabric's elastic behaviour could be produced. A series of approximations involving the discretization of the mesh geometry were used to create flattened fabric templates
Cutting and stitching process
tensioned element within cable net
Despite the availability of a cutting machine, the fragility of the fabric made it impossible to use the cutter, which required for each profile to be hand cut. This and approximations in the unfolding script were perceivable once the 26 fabric tubes were connected to the net frame. For such a reason it was chosen to keep the 3 which appeared to describe the geometry more closely.
26 tubes failing to connect to each other and the supporting net
3 fabric tubes connected to the cable net
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