Simulation ideas for this?

[Francisca_Alejandra (Francisca H)]

Hi there Before doing any ideas, I wanted to ask if you would suggest me some ideas for developing this project

Im trying to design a pavilion, draft is already made, I started with a very archaic manual modelling of different size triangles. Now I decided to go further with all different shapes, generation this enclosed surface. This will be hanging from different tensile points, therefore,

I started by a kangaroo simulation, but you work with meshes or a dot grid. Right? My question is, do you have any ideas how could I simulate this using different shapes and sizes?

My first idea was to create te kangaroo simulation with a general dot grid and later on manually, draw different shapes following the dots.

Other question that I have is that, do you think I can also include the weights of the materials? At least a general idea. This is because this rigid surface (is not textile and it can’t have double curvature) because each panel is an aluminium shape connected to the other one. That said, I would like to also simulate a bit the materials weight to know if the temporal cranes that are going to be hanging this structure might hold on.

I would appreciate any input in this matter! I’m a bit lost what tools should I use to achieve this goal thank you!!

[martynjhogg]

I would search “Origami” and “Kangaroo” and look at some of the uses of kangaroo for this sort of problem.

It sounds like you could create a kangaroo simulation and hang your pavillion from several fixed points and let Kangaroo work out what shape it will relax into.

Example of Kangaroo and Origami

[Francisca_Alejandra (Francisca H)]

Hi there! thank you so much for your reply. I checked the file and indeed is closer to what I aim for! But I think now that I have done more research, im trying to look more for a tensile structure but with no double curvature, just rigid elements. I have tried to search for something that could help me reaching this but no success!