Nervi Virtual Lab

The activity carried out by the NerViLab (Nervi Virtual Lab) group - within the framework of the research project “Pier Luigi Nervi: architecture as a challenge”, promoted by the Association  “Pier Luigi Nervi Research and Knowledge Management Project” - hinges on the analysis of the structural, formal geometric and construction aspects of a number of works by Pier Luigi Nervi. To represent and analyze Nervi’s exemplary synthesis between structure, geometric form and construction, a non-standard reverse engineering operation is carried out, employing a research methodology based on a virtual laboratory in which computer models of the architectural works are developed.