Inno-wave-tion. Tensairity in practice structural membranes 2015

For an around-the-world traveling pavilion, designed by Silvain Dubuisson Architecte, Tentech engineered a light weight roof structure based on the so-called Tensairity principle, commissioned by Buitink Technology and Highpoint Structures. Rhino's Grasshopper was used as a a starting-point for form-generation and engineering and greatly eased the process to create workshop drawings and patterning of the fabric