Technical Papers

Date/Time: 04 – 13 December 2020
All presentations are available in the virtual platform on-demand.

Lecturer(s):
Konstantinos Gavriil, TU Wien, Austria
Ruslan Guseinov, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Austria
Jesus Perez, URJC Madrid, Spain
Davide Pellis, TU Wien, Austria
Paul Henderson, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Austria
Florian Rist, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia
Helmut Pottmann, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia
Bernd Bickel, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Austria

Bio:

Description: Cold bent glass is a promising and cost-efficient method for realizing doubly curved glass façades. They are produced by attaching planar glass sheets to curved frames and require keeping the occurring stress within safe limits. However, it is very challenging to navigate the design space of cold bent glass panels due to the fragility of the material, which impedes the form-finding for practically feasible and aesthetically pleasing cold bent glass façades. We propose an interactive, data-driven approach for designing cold bent glass façades that can be seamlessly integrated into a typical architectural design pipeline. Our method allows non-expert users to interactively edit a parametric surface while providing real-time feedback on the deformed shape and maximum stress of cold bent glass panels. Designs are automatically refined to minimize several fairness criteria while maximal stresses are kept within glass limits. We achieve interactive frame rates by using a differentiable Mixture Density Network trained from more than a million simulations. Given a curved boundary, our regression model is capable of handling multistable configurations and accurately predicting the equilibrium shape of the panel and its corresponding maximal stress. We show predictions are highly accurate and validate our results with a physical realization of a cold bent glass surface.