Parametric Carbon Optimization

Aviation-terminal shell canopy on tree columns: wing planform, dune waves, hypar twist and hexagonal skylights, linked to structural response and embodied carbon. Research prototype, not for design use.

Presets

Solver history

Model and assumptions

Form: wing planform with tapered tips and crescent sweep, upsweep, wave and hypar twist of the cross-section; the form parameters are architectural intent and stay fixed during optimization.
Section properties are integrated numerically from the real twisted and bent profile, including thickened edge beams.
Conical tree columns act as point supports of a continuous shell girder (three-moment solution, creep-reduced stiffness).
Tapered ribs and hexagonal skylights change wing stiffness, panel buckling and mass; wing deflection and buckling use shallow-shell surrogates that rank designs, they do not certify them.
Carbon = (shell + ribs + trees) × density × 0.34 kgCO₂e/kg, a cement-rich HPC/UHPFRC mix, cradle to gate.
Optimizer: seeded (1+λ) evolution strategy over the structural parameters, minimizing carbon with stiffness, utilization and ≤40° slope penalties.

Volume, m³–

Carbon, kgCO₂e–

Max deflection, mm–

Utilization–

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