Alberto Pugnale

Sketches of Thought: Inside the Black Box of AI

Gabriele Mirra, Alberto Pugnale

Original Creative Work - Design/Architectural Work  |  2020

‘Sketches of Thought’ is a human-machine collaborative design system based on Artificial Intelligence (AI). The first aim of ‘Sket..

Integrating Form, Structure And Acoustics: A Computational Reinterpretation Of Frei Otto's Design Method And Vision

A Pugnale

Journal article  |  2018  |  Journal of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures

In several of Frei Otto’s early membrane structures, acoustics was a rather relevant design aspect that could not be controlled th..

Dante Bini's Form-Resistant Binishells

Alberto Pugnale, Alberto Bologna

Journal article  |  2017  |  NEXUS NETWORK JOURNAL

This paper aims to review Dante Bini’s career, as well as his form-resistant Binishell and other pneumatic construction systems. T..

The Airshell prototype: a timber gridshell erected through a pneumatic formwork

A Liuti, A Pugnale, S Colabella

Conference Proceedings  |  2017

This paper presents the construction of Airshell, a small timber gridshell prototype erected by employing a pneumatic formwork. In..

Parametrico (Parametric)

A Pugnale

Book Chapter  |  2017

Building timber gridshells with air: Numerical simulations and technique challenges

A Liuti, A PUGNALE, B D'Amico

Conference Proceedings  |  2016

Construction has always been a fascinating and challenging aspect of timber gridshells. So far, only three techniques have success..

The Design Competition for Young Generation U-40: New National Stadium Japan

A Liuti, R Bessabava, A Pugnale

Original Creative Work - Design/Architectural Work  |  2016

Timber gridshells: Numerical simulation, design and construction of a full scale structure

B D'Amico, A Kermani, H Zhang, A Pugnale, S Colabella, S Pone

Journal article  |  2015  |  STRUCTURES

Timber gridshell structures, such as the Multihalle for the federal garden festival in Mannheim or the Downland Museum, have been ..

Erection of post-formed gridshells by means of inflatable membrane technology

Alessandro Liuti, Alberto Pugnale

Conference Proceedings  |  2015  |  LIVING AND LEARNING: RESEARCH FOR A BETTER BUILT ENVIRONMENT

This paper describes a new erection technique for post-formed timber gridshells which takes advantage of inflatable membrane techn..

Dante Bini’s ‘New Architectural Formulae’: Construction, Collapse and Demolition of Binishells in Australia 1974-2015

A PUGNALE, A Bologna

Conference Proceedings  |  2015

The Italian architect Dante Bini began his studies on shell structures during the 1960s. He developed and refined a form-finding a..