Twisted Beams on Surface

Twisted beams with custom cross-section curve aligned normal to a given surface.


Download the gh-definition here.

PQ Mesh Design: Morpharchitecture Workshop - Lyon 2010

The gh definition presented here has been used for the design of a shell structure build from sheet material at Les Grandes Ateliers, Lyon, by architecture students of Ecole nationale supérieure d'architecture de montpellier and the TU Delft.



The pq design tool ensured the planarity of the quadrilateral faces, that allowed the fabrication of the shell from flat sheet material.


Photo by Robert Vierlinger.