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Integrative structural design methods for bamboo woven deployable structures: The BamX! Research Pavilion

Chen, Tzu-Ying
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Suzuki, Seiichi  
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Gil Pérez, Marta
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Block, Philippe
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Boller, Giulia
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August 26, 2024
Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposium 2024: Redefining the Art of Structural Design
IASS Symposium 2024 - Redefining the Art of Structural Design

Bamboo deployable structures take advantage of the high elasticity of the naturally grown material to achieve substantial shape change beyond mechanical deployment. The deployability maximizes prefabrication while maintaining transportation compactness. The BamX! Pavilion investigates the deployability of cylindrical bamboo components and the embedded locking mechanism through geometry. The interlocking weaving pattern stiffens the cylinders by connecting selective points between the deployed cylindrical components, forming a static load-bearing structure. The inconsistency of the mechanical properties of raw bamboo, together with the complexity of the system required an integrative structural design approach. The method includes material characterization, structure system conceptualization, and multi-scale structural analysis. Calibrations are performed both on the component level and the material level. Physical testing on single cylinders facilitates a simplification on the initial form-finding FE into a strut-represented model for rapid iterations on global topology. Once the global topology optimization is accomplished, the characterized mechanical properties from material tests allow for a more sophisticated simulation of the final woven geometry. This paper evaluates the non-standard material and the required multi-scale sampling and analysis workflow towards designing and fabricating a bamboo woven deployable structure: the BamX! Pavilion.

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conference paper
Author(s)
Chen, Tzu-Ying

University of Stuttgart

Suzuki, Seiichi  

EPFL

Gil Pérez, Marta
Guo, Yanan
Knippers, Jan
Editors
Block, Philippe
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Boller, Giulia
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DeWolf, Catherine
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Pauli, Jacqueline
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Kaufmann, Walter
Date Issued

2024-08-26

Publisher

International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS)

Published in
Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposium 2024: Redefining the Art of Structural Design
Series title/Series vol.

Proceedings of IASS Annual Symposia; 2024

ISSN (of the series)

2518-6582

Subjects

Deployable structures

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bamboo woven architecture

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computational design

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integrative design

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material characterisation

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mechanical testing

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non-standard material

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structural design

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Event nameEvent acronymEvent placeEvent date
IASS Symposium 2024 - Redefining the Art of Structural Design

IASS 2024

Zürich, Switzerland

2024-08-26 - 2024-08-30

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October 29, 2024
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/241767
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