@inproceedings{1e90ea07fc334cb0bceaa6fb96c2168c,
title = "Into lightness: Furniture as Proxies for radical experimental Structural Design using Advanced Manufacturing",
abstract = "Following the tradition of architects Charles and Ray Eames, Frank Gehry, Jean Prouv{\'e} and Greg Lynn, the paper presents research pertaining to application of structural design using furniture as proxy to understand and empirically test experimental structural hypothesis. Five state-of-the-art designs by the authors explore the opportunities and challenges in the area of structural performance, material selection and transition, mechanical properties, manufacturing process and assembly procedure. All projects investigate the load distribution through lean structure members, the proportion of supporting points on the ground with respect to material mass, the slenderness ratio of the structural member and the overall span and applied force capacity in functional load cases. This process demonstrates the effectiveness of experimental furniture design to bridge the gap between intuitive structural knowledge and digital simulations, and to provide hint on the implication of structural strategies in the field of architectural design and to solve complex challenges at the level of conceptualization, development of components and assembly workflow.",
keywords = "3D Printing, Additive Manufacturing, Form Finding, Furniture, Generative Design, Geometry, Proxies, Spatial Structures, Structural Design",
author = "Carlos Banon and Felix Raspall and Toh, {Hui Ping}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: Copyright {\textcopyright} 2019 by Odysseas KONTOVOURKIS, George TRYFONOS, Panagiota KONATZII Published by the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) with permission.; IASS Symposium 2019 - 60th Anniversary Symposium of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures; Structural Membranes 2019 - 9th International Conference on Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures, FORM and FORCE ; Conference date: 07-10-2019 Through 10-10-2019",
year = "2019",
language = "English",
series = "IASS Symposium 2019 - 60th Anniversary Symposium of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures; Structural Membranes 2019 - 9th International Conference on Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures, FORM and FORCE",
publisher = "International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering",
pages = "1317--1324",
editor = "Carlos Lazaro and Kai-Uwe Bletzinger and Eugenio Onate",
booktitle = "IASS Symposium 2019 - 60th Anniversary Symposium of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures; Structural Membranes 2019 - 9th International Conference on Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures, FORM and FORCE",
}