A Seemingly simple Question more often than not taken for granted by Architects or made the civil Engineers
purview….
The ongoing workshop, by Prof.V.R. Shaw and Ar.Mangesh both Academicians from Ahmedabad, is an attempt to shatter all existing myths about looking at structures and delivering structural concept to students of Architecture.
Into the third day of the week long journey to understand structural concepts, students are working on structural models, designed by them, which shall be tested by the end of the workshop.
It has been and mind blowing experience witnessing the various form finding methods for mass, frame and tensile Structure. The technique using soap bubble to find the ideal form for tensile structures inspired by Frei Otto was spectacular to witness.
