During an intense week workshop, IAAC students developed a small scale project (benches prototypes), developed and conducted under the supervision of Panagiotis Michalatos, using structural information as a driving factor. The workshop explored the degree in which many models and methods used in computational structural optimization make various assumptions that render the materialization of their outcomes open to design interpretation. The students were working in groups, using different materials as cardboard or wood, while the tools used that they used were : Rhino + Grasshopper + custom grasshopper components for near real time Finite element analysis Custom Topology optimization and structural pattern generation software.
