This study falls within the scope of research dedicated to the design of small-scale elastic gridshells made of timber. A single-layer gridshell is presented, which was built in an academic framework during the Master of Parametric Design in Architecture at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. It is studied how far its structural performance can be improved while maintaining the simplicity of single-layer gridshells and avoiding extensive designs of the nodes. Therefore, advanced computational tools are applied to develop optimization algorithms to generate efficient patterns for the bracing and the second layer.
Keywords: Chebyshev, elastic gridshell, bracing, efficiency, structural optimization, structural performance.
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