Last Thusday Ramboll showcased the work of their applied computational design unit at the building centre. In a follow on from Colin's blog on being thrifty, the skilful use of parametric design allows for thriftiness when it comes to structural design.
In the mid 20th century Pier Luigi Nervi mimicked bone structures at the Gatti Wool Mill to reduce the amount of concrete used. Rambol parametric boffins have applied the same principals of mapping stress to double curved roof of Greenlands National Gallery of Art. This has greatly cut the embodied carbon of the building. Perhaps as this drive to reduce carbon emissions intensifies we will see the structures of large buildings tend towards more organic, efficient forms.
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