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The desire for new mostly fluent “soft spaces” in architecture cannot be overseen any more. Therefore new tools and approaches are tried out to create architecture with special spatial qualities. In combination with common building-technologies and considered as architectural elements, spatially curved membrane structures and especially anticlastic Minimal Surfaces offer one possible approach to this topic. This paper presents the result of the research on Minimal Surfaces of membrane corner solutions representing one part of a comprehensive basic research in this field. In connection with the exploration of corner solutions, the meaning and potential of analog and digital approaches became obvious. Depending on the potential of the selected tool, the desired results or the purpose of the research one of these strategies will be preferred. Further on this paper partly reveals new correlations between Minimal Surface and boundary conditions and so far unknown rules in its selforganizing processes. Case studies document new capabilities in designing and creating space in architecture. Latest approaches are dealing with alternative boundary conditions, case studies and with software implementation in terms of scripting found rules.
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Filz, G.H. (2011). SOFT.SPACES_Analog and Digital Approaches to Membrane Architecture on the Example of Corner Solutions. In: Gengnagel, C., Kilian, A., Palz, N., Scheurer, F. (eds) Computational Design Modelling. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23435-4_13
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