gridshell
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thumb|250px|The steel gridshell by Vladimir Shukhov (during construction), [[Vyksa near Nizhny Novgorod, 1897]] thumb|right|Multihalle in Mannheim, a wooden gridshell structure designed by [[Frei Otto]] right|thumb|Interior of the gridshell Savill Building thumb|right|Solidays Forum: a 350 m2 glassfibre composite material elastic gridshell, Paris, France, 2011 thumb|right|Ephemeral Cathedral: a 400 m2 glassfibre composite material elastic gridshell, Créteil, France, 2013
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It sits within the topics Lattice shell structures, Russian inventions and Structural system.
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Gridshell buildings
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thumb|250px|The steel gridshell by Vladimir Shukhov (during construction), [[Vyksa near Nizhny Novgorod, 1897]] thumb|right|Multihalle in Mannheim, a wooden gridshell structure designed by [[Frei Otto]] right|thumb|Interior of the gridshell Savill Building thumb|right|Solidays Forum: a 350 m2 glassfibre composite material elastic gridshell, Paris, France, 2011 thumb|right|Ephemeral Cathedral: a 400 m2 glassfibre composite material elastic gridshell, Créteil, France, 2013
A gridshell is a structure which derives its strength from its double curvature (in a similar way that a fabric structure derives strength from double curvature), but is constructed of a grid or lattice.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “gridshell” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.