Authors
R. Oval, M. Rippmann, T. Van Mele, O. Baverel, P. Block
Abstract
This paper presents a methodology to generate structural patterns for masonry vault design. First, a quad- dominant block decomposition is proposed based on a medial axis pruning/rebranching method from an input that comprises outer and inner boundaries as well as point and curve features, representing a point load or a crease in the structure, for instance. The meshing and smoothing of the resulting set of patches is straightforward and the mesh densities can be controlled globally and locally. The resulting meshes can be processed for form finding and further optimisation. Second, fabrication-and construction-aware rules to convert these form-found patterns into a tessellation are proposed.
