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This paper describes research for the development and implementation of a functionally and structurally intricate textile hybrid architecture, entitled M1, built in Monthoiron, France as part of the La Tour de l’Architecte complex. The term textile hybrid stands for the mutual exchange of structural action between bending- and form-active systems based on textile material behaviour. The implementation of such a structural logic is critical to this particular project as its presence is minimally impactful to the site, which houses a historically protected, and decrepit stone tower from the fifteenth century’s, as shown in Fig.1. The design by Leonardo da Vinci employed an innovative buttressing system to structure the tower without a significant foundation. The buttresses have since been scavenged from the site, though the M1 structure seeks a minimal footprint to protect areas where traces of the original buttressing structure still exist.

To explore the complexities for minimal site imposition, lightweight material deployment and spatial differentiation, a set of multi-scalar and multi-modal prototyping procedures are developed. In both physical and numerical simulation, data towards eventual full-scale implementation is cumulatively compiled and calibrated, interleaving aspects of topology, material specification, force distribution and geometry. This paper defines prototyping as the interplay between modes of design in physical form-finding, approximated simulation through spring-based methods, and finite element analysis to form, articulate and materialise the textile hybrid structure. A particular feature in the exchange between and within these modes of design is the consideration of geometric input as a critical variable in the form-finding of bending-active behaviour.

Sean Ahlquist

University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ann Arbor, USA

Julian Lienhardt, Jan Knippers

University of Stuttgart, Institute for Building Structures and Structural Design, Stuttgart, Germany

Achim Menges

University of Stuttgart, Institute for Computational Design, Stuttgart, Germany

Fig. 1 Stone Tower and M1 Textile Hybrid at La Tour de l’Architecte, Monthoiron, France (Photos and drawings provided by Christian Armbruster, 2011; Ahlquist and Lienhard, 2012)