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To explore the design space of funicular funnel shells, the TNA method was implemented as an interactive, digital tool. It takes advantage of the inherent, bidirectional interdependency of form and forces represented in visual diagrams, which are essential for a user-driven and controlled exploration in the structural form-finding process. Thus, the implementation and design of the form-finding tool focused on design through exploration, underlining the visual and playful nature of the approach, mainly targeting the early structural design phases. The software was developed for in-house research but also released as simple design tool for compression-only structures, so without the option to include the continuous tension ties, under the name RhinoVAULT (Rippmann et al. 2012) as a free plug-in for the CAD software Rhinoceros (McNeel 2013).