Global Practices in Architecture: Dr. Philippe Block, ETH Zurich. BLOCK Research Group. ETH - Innovedum - eQUILIBRIUM - an interactive, web-based learning platform for structural design. The Structural Basis of Architecture eBook: Bjorn N. Sandaker, Arne P. Eggen, Mark R. Cruvellier. Form and Forces: Designing Efficient, Expressive Structures eBook: Edward Allen, Waclaw Zalewski.
Interactive Graphic Statics. Some nice examples of processing-based interactive graphic static applets have been developed at the MIT.
Interactive Thrust is a project started by Philippe Block under supervision of John Ochsendorf. A truss geometry and its force diagram by Luigi Cremona. Another great interactiv webpage is Active Statics, developed by Simon Greenwold, Ed Allen and Waclaw Zalewski. Block_PhD_2009.pdf. Thrust Network Analysis. Thrust Network Analysis, a new method for generating compression-only vaulted surfaces and networks was developed by Philippe Block as part of his PhD.Using projective geometry, duality theory and linear optimization, it provides a graphical and intuitive method, adopting the same advantages of techniques such as graphic statics, but offering a viable extension to fully three-dimensional problems.
Form and force diagram, and the resulting compression only network. Parametric explorations of the indeterminacy of compression-only networks by the modification of the force diagram. TNA has been used for the structural design of the Mapungubwe National Park Interpretive Centre by Architect Peter Rich. Microsoft Word - $ASQ10152651_File000000_181666672.doc - InteractiveTools.pdf. Chair of structural design. Active Statics. Active Statics Active Statics is a set of eight highly interactive demonstrations that involve the user in experimentation with the relationship between structural form and forces.
For maximum transparency and creative potential, these demonstrations are based on graphic statics, a body of techniques used by such masters as Antonio Gaudi, Gustave Eiffel, and Robert Maillart to create their structural masterpieces. The external forces on each structure are plotted to a scale of length to force on a load line.