How Virtual Became Reality

In collaboration with the Architectural Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering at Tishk International University, the Interior Design Engineering Department organized a Joint International Workshop titled “How Virtual Became Reality”, held on June 9th, 2022.

Tishk International University | Interiordesign Department

Assoc Prof. Sabah Shawkat presented the workshop; a Structure Designer at the University of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia, specializes in Lightweight structures, Tensile Integrity Structures, Grid Shells and Reciprocal Frames.

The workshop aimed to discuss free constructions from shapes based on straight lines. As it is known, the basic elements of standard shapes are line and plane, positive-curved line guides the spherical geometry, while a negative-curved line guides hyperbolic geometry. The “Form Finding” method allows searching for shapes regardless of traditional compositional, static, or constructional principles using a virtual, so-called trans-architecture. Evolution in nature, which optimized natural structures, has also become a significant source of inspiration for the shapes of structures in construction and architecture. However, the “Free Form” shapes have no analogy in nature, and it is impossible to describe them mathematically. We want to choose our approach to the shape search and optimization of the so-called free-form membrane constructions of synclastic and anticlastic shapes.

  • Tishk International University | Interiordesign Department
  • Tishk International University | Interiordesign Department
  • Tishk International University | Interiordesign Department
  • Tishk International University | Interiordesign Department