A workshop on the design of canopy structures

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Nazmiye Ozturk

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This paper is related to a workshop implemented in Anadolu University, Faculty of Architecture and Design. The “Canopy Structure Design Workshop” lasts 4 weeks. The mentioned workshop was done with a group of 70 2nd year undergraduate students. 14 teams of 5 were made out of these students. They were asked to develop their projects with models. At the end of the process, the students made 14 canopy structures of wood with a 1:1 scale. Some of these are called Flexible Structure, Armadillo and Tensegrity. This study comprises the photographs and evaluations of the designs obtained at the end of the “Canopy Structure Design Workshop”. In the assertion is explained the positive and negative properties of these designs.

Keywords: structural design, canopy structure design, design education, evaluation of students projects

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