Faith Can Also Move Composite Gridshells

Lionel Du Peloux (1, 2) , Frédéric Tayeb (1) , Olivier Baverel (1) , Jean-François Caron (1)

1 navier umr 8205 - Laboratoire Navier
2 T/E/S/S - T/E/S/S atelier d'ingénierie

This paper presents the overall design and construction process of a gridshell in composite materials at Créteil, in Paris suburb. This religious edifice of 350m² is a temporary cathedral meant to gather the parishioners during the two-years renovation of their permanent cathedral. It can accommodate up to 500 people and complies with all the required performances for such a building: structural stiffness, fire safety, waterproofness, lightning, thermal comfort, etc. This project arises thanks to a long-term collaboration between T/E/S/S and NAVIER and marks the accomplishment of a ten-years research project in the area.

Mots clés: large span; church; formfinding; gridshell; composite; glass fibre reinforced polymer; cathedral; freeform; double curvature

Domaines: Génie civil; Matériaux composites et construction; Structures

Lionel Du Peloux, Frédéric Tayeb, Olivier Baverel, Jean-François Caron. Faith Can Also Move Composite Gridshells. IASS Symposium 2013: "Beyond the Limits of Man", International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, Sep 2013, Wroclaw, Poland. ⟨hal-01199036⟩