Abstract
The paper discusses various aspects of the interrelation between climate and structures as part of the biosphere’s ecosystem. Structural design is hereby understood as a subsystem of humanity, seen as a biological organism, and the climate, as part of the organism’s abiotic environment. Possibilities within recent advancements in digitalization and automation to adopt structural design to climatic loading conditions and to mitigate the effect of the manufacturing of structures on the climate are presented as core disciplines of the research group ‘Climate&Structures’ and are placed within the ecosystem’s interrelations. These disciplines are: observation and simulation of climatic loading phenomena (icing, snow- and wind loading), adaption of structures to these with parametric multi-objective and topology optimization, and realization of these structures with additive manufacturing with circular and recycled construction materials.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposium 2019 – Structural Membranes 2019 Form and Force |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Publisher | International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS ) |
| Publication date | 2019 |
| Publication status | Published - 2019 |
| Event | IASS Annual Symposium 2019 - Structural Membranes 2019: Form and Force - Crowne Plaza Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Duration: 7 Oct 2019 → 10 Oct 2019 http://congress.cimne.com/formandforce2019/frontal/Objectives.asp |
Conference
| Conference | IASS Annual Symposium 2019 - Structural Membranes 2019 |
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| Location | Crowne Plaza Barcelona |
| Country/Territory | Spain |
| City | Barcelona |
| Period | 07/10/2019 → 10/10/2019 |
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Keywords
- Ecological structures
- Climate
- Climatic loading
- Wind load
- Snow load
- Icing
- Parametric multiobjective optimization
- Topology optimization
- Constructional 3D-printing
- Biologically based concrete composites