Recently, HIBRIDa team has presented a 20 meters new adaptative installation at the Design Hub Museum in Barcelona called HYPERMEMBRANE, as a demo for the 7th European research project granted for the European commission (Research European Agency).
© HYBRIDA, Sylvia Felipe, Jordi Truco
The HyperMembrane is a standard construction system for freeform and adaptable structures in architecture. It consists on a system of Physical and Digital elements able to generate multiple and non-predetermined shapes, modifiable regarding to different spatial, solar or energetic requirements. HYPERMEMBRANE is to be an adaptable system able to produce an immense variety of complex structural morphologies for architectonical proposals through a modular standardized, driven by a software system.
© HYBRIDA, Sylvia Felipe, Jordi Truco
Hypermembrane system features are highly innovative in the context of architectural structures, elasticity and formal adaptability, algorithmic shape control ability and freestanding in an unlimited number of equilibrium positions. The installation is a paradigm of biomimetic architecture due to its muscular behavior. Hypermembrane’s goal is to achieve a formal exuberance by means of the system’s flexural compression capacity. The system bases its capacity to generate a form on the intelligent organization of the material.
© HYBRIDA, Sylvia Felipe, Jordi Truco
To advance the implementation of this system has been necessary to carry out a task of research and technological development in a wide spectrum of disciplines, such as numerical models for simulating behaviors and computational design in the field of architecture (I + D performed by CIMNE), the design of composite materials and its industrialization and system design performance in the field of mechatronics(R & D performed by the technology center ASCAMM).
Courtesy of © HIBRIDa: Sylvia Felipe – Jordi Truco
Project info :
Designer :Project Drafted : 2011
Execution : 2013
Area : 120 m²
Photography : Contract management : Sylvia Felipe, Jordi Truco, Emili Costabella, CIMNE, EUROCONT
Construction management : Sylvia Felipe, Jordi Truco, Emili Costabella, EUROCONT
HYBRIDa Team : Marco Verde, Emmanuel Rufo Calderon Gonzalez, Giacommo Venditti, Andres Dejanon, Carmelo Santana, Stefano Campisi, Shasank shrivastva
Location : Lightweight Temporary and Dismountable Structure
External Collaborators :
Control Engineering : EURECAT (Agusti Chico, Agustin Fernandez)
Mechatronics : EURECAT (Agusti Chico, Joan Guasch, Mª Eugenia Rodriguez)
Material Technologies : EURECAT (Agusti Chico, Joan Guasch, Mª Eugenia Rodriguez, Mailaen Biurrun)
Industrial Design : EURECAT (Agusti Chico, Begoña Fernandez)
Computational Models for Geometry Simulation : CIMNE (Oscar A. Fruitos Bickham, Omar Salomon)
Computational Models for Dynamic Finite Elements Calculation : CIMNE (Oscar A. Fruitos Bickham, Omar Salomon)
Membrane Design : HYBRIDa
Thermoplastic Composite Strips Pultrusion : GDP (Fabrice Maimbourg, Valerie Denis, Jérémy Barbereau)
Mechanical Engineering Production Components : MECANITZAT IME
On-Site Assembly : BEC
Estimated Construction Cost (PEM) : €314,000
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