page_title: Gridshell
section_title: Gridshell buildings
hierarchical_section_title: Gridshell / Gridshell buildings
caption_attribution_description: English: Design: SUTD City Form Lab. Engineering: ARUP Singapore Construction: AIH Builders and SUTD students Sponsors: AIH, ARUP, Autodesk Completion: May 2013
context_page_description: A gridshell is a structure which derives its strength from its double curvature, but is constructed of a grid or lattice.
  The grid can be made of any material, but is most often wood or steel.
  Gridshells were pioneered in the 1896 by Russian engineer Vladimir Shukhov in constructions of exhibition pavilions of the All-Russia industrial and art exhibition 1896 in Nizhny Novgorod.
  Large span timber gridshells are commonly constructed by initially laying out the main lath members flat in a regular square or rectangular lattice, and subsequently deforming this into the desired doubly curved form. This can be achieved by pushing the members up from the ground, as in the Mannheim Multihalle. More recent projects such as the Savill Garden gridshell were constructed by laying the laths on top of a sizeable temporary scaffolding structure which is removed in phases to let the laths settle into the desired curvature.
context_section_description: Shukhov Rotunda by Vladimir Shukhov, 1896
  Mannheim Multihalle by Frei Otto and Arup Structures 3 (many of whose team members later left to found Buro Happold), a very large exhibition space constructed in 1975.
  Japan Pavilion, Expo 2000, by Frei Otto, Buro Happold, Shigeru Ban and SONOCO, a gridshell of circular paper tubes , 2000.
  Flimwell Woodland Enterprise Centre Modular Gridshell  by Feilden Clegg and Atelier One, 2000.
  Weald & Downland Open Air Museum by Buro Happold and Edward Cullinan architects, a two-layer wooden gridshell, and the first gridshell constructed in the UK, 2002.
  Pishwanton Hand-Built Gridshell  by David Tasker and Christopher Day, 2002.
  Helsinki Zoo viewing platform by Ville Hara, 2003
  Savill Building in Windsor Great Park by Buro Happold and Glenn Howells Architects, a large four-layer wooden gridshell, 2006.
  Courtyard roofing of rural villa, Ostuni, Italy, by cmmkm architettura e design, Roberto Ruggiero, Alfonso Petta, Felice Grasso and Fabio Figlia, 2007.
  Masseria Ospitale's terrace roofing, Lecce, Italy, by cmmkm architettura e design with Bernardino D'Amico and Filomena Nigro, 2010.
  Centre Pompidou-Metz by Shigeru Ban and Arup, 2010.
  Solidays 2011 Gridshell 
  Gridshell pavilion for Naples School of Architecture courtyard by Andrea Fiore, Daniele Lancia, Sergio Pone, Sofia Colabella, Bianca Parenti, with Bernardino D'Amico (Structural Consultant) and Francesco Portioli (Structural Consultant), 2012.
  Pavillion in Selinunte’s archeological site by cmmkm architettura e design and arch. Bernardino D’amico, arch. Andrea Fiore and arch. Daniele Lancia, 2012
  SUTD Library Pavilion, Singapore, by SUTD City Form Lab and engineers at ARUP Singapore, 2013.
  Bamboo amphitheater space structure, PUC Rio de Janeiro, by Bambutec, 2014.
  Crossrail Place, London, by Foster + Partners, 2015.
caption: SUTD library pavilion
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