The Downland Gridshell is part of The Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, which covers a total of 50 acres exhibiting nearly 50 historic buildings from different periods and styles, along with ...

Architectural engineer Gregory Quinn has developed SheltAir, domed bio-containment pods erected using inflatable cushions that could help coronavirus patients isolate. SheltAir consists of a ...

Drawing on earlier gridshell experiments and projects, such as Frei Otto’s famous Multihalle in Mannheim made of timber, the pavilion utilizes minimal material and is able to cover large spans.

Roof for the Multihalle (multipurpose hall) in Mannheim, Germany Completed in 1975 over the course of five years, the Multihalle is topped by a double curvature wooden gridshell structure designed ...

These have opening lights which are operated by the building management system. Each curved gridshell is 13.2m long by 7.2m wide; in form it is a shallow barrel vault with a complex double curvature, ...

A wood-frame roof may not sound unusual, but Buro Happold's take on it – the UK's first timber "gridshell" at a Sussex history museum – is enough to make a structural engineer whimper with fear. A ...

But wood is another favorite. With timber serving as the primary structural material, he has created wildly sculptural buildings, such as the Centre Pomipidou’s branch in Metz, France, with a swoopy, ...

The entire 60m² structure – a ‘dry laminated’ gridshell – is bound together with cable ties, enabling the structure to be dismantled in one day by two people and the timber reused by the university ...

They are currently breaking ground on their grand finale of a three-year series of gridshell projects, and the most extensive design–build project Dalhousie has produced yet. We spoke with Lead ...

Nearly 2,800 uniquely shaped facade panels cover the more than 100,000-square-foot surface of the building’s free-form timber gridshell. Although there are three primary cladding-panel types—metal, ...

Seeking to avoid a standard slab and column design, Elding Oscarson collaborated with Florian Kosche, an Oslo-based structural engineer to devise a freestanding gridshell roof for the building.