Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
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The Dome as Minimal Housing Unit: “Ghibli” and “D-Home” Prototypes
In this paper are presented two domed minimal housing units: Ghibli and D-Home. Both prototypes were outlined from the discretization of a domed space, using the geometry of the truncated icosahedron, an Archimedean solid that allows the discretization and tessellation of a concentric sphere with only two types of flat surfaces: pentagonal and hexagonal. In this way, both manufacturing and assembly operations will be facilitated and hastened by the presence of only two structural modules. The prototypes are verged in two different constructive solutions—D-Home uses a lightweight timber system, while Ghibli is an experimentation that employs a massive system. The prototypes show the possibilities offered by digital fabrication combined with subtractive and additive manufacturing techniques. The prototypes also show, specifically, how important is for a designer to master geometry and thus be able to create visually complex and unitary solutions, at the same time, reducing costs and facilitating the assembly.
The Dome as Minimal Housing Unit: “Ghibli” and “D-Home” Prototypes
In this paper are presented two domed minimal housing units: Ghibli and D-Home. Both prototypes were outlined from the discretization of a domed space, using the geometry of the truncated icosahedron, an Archimedean solid that allows the discretization and tessellation of a concentric sphere with only two types of flat surfaces: pentagonal and hexagonal. In this way, both manufacturing and assembly operations will be facilitated and hastened by the presence of only two structural modules. The prototypes are verged in two different constructive solutions—D-Home uses a lightweight timber system, while Ghibli is an experimentation that employs a massive system. The prototypes show the possibilities offered by digital fabrication combined with subtractive and additive manufacturing techniques. The prototypes also show, specifically, how important is for a designer to master geometry and thus be able to create visually complex and unitary solutions, at the same time, reducing costs and facilitating the assembly.
The Dome as Minimal Housing Unit: “Ghibli” and “D-Home” Prototypes
Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics
Viana, Vera (Herausgeber:in) / Murtinho, Vítor (Herausgeber:in) / Xavier, João Pedro (Herausgeber:in) / Colella, Micaela (Autor:in)
International Conference Geometrias: Thinking, Drawing, Modelling ; 2017 ; Coimbra, Portugal
26.06.2020
12 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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