KnitNervi

Location

Year

2022

Knitnervi is a pavilion-scale demonstrator of a flexible formwork system for constructing a ribbed concrete shell. It consists of a bending-active gridshell, as falsework and reinforcement, encapsulated by a CNC-knitted shuttering.

Block Research Group

This research introduces a new typology of structurally efficient, funnel-shaped shells for light and open architectural applications. It uses a novel approach for the structural form finding of funicular shell shapes by defining free boundaries that are balanced by continuous tension rings.

block.arch.ethz.ch