"Actively bent timber gridshells" Dr. Almudena Majano
MPDA 2023 Open Lecture series
BarcelonaTech UPCSchool Master Programme in Parametric Design in Architecture.
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Almudena and Antonio join MPDA for a review on Actively bent timber gridshells in the context of Studio2 building system design.
Almudena is the head of the Laboratory of Structures at ETSAM and Associate Professor of the Department of Building Structures and Physics. Research focused on the structural use of timber, including material characterization, joints behavior and the development of wood-based products. Recent research activities deal with the rheological behavior of elastically curved timber laths and the development of computational models for the analysis of timber gridshells. She participated in the design and construction of a permanent elastic gridshell made of Eucalyptus globulus.