Bending-Reinforced Grid Shells for Free-form Architectural Surfaces

Francesco Laccone, Nico Pietroni, Paolo Cignoni, Luigi Malomo

Abstract: Highlights•Novel method to generate reinforcement structures for supporting arbitrary free form grid shells.•Meshing strategy to align a grid to the main bending directions.•Initialization of the reinforcement from the discrete bending of any quad-dominant grid shell.•Single- and Multi-parameter optimization strategies.