La Magna is a technological system to shelter outdoor spaces with flat deployable elastic gridshells

La Magna is a timber gridshell composed of LVL planks and a steel arched support. The timber gridshell is formed by the elastic transformation during the deployment on site. This enables the gridshell to be prefabricated, and to be transported flat and compact. These two features are key to guarantee precision and cost reduction.

Gridshells gain their strength from the double curvature configuration. In this case, the curvature emerges during the deployment from a flat grid to an expanded curved grid by the special layout of planks.

The system can adapt to a myriad of underlying surfaces and can vary the density according to loads. It can also vary the overall dimensions. The surface can be both of positive curvature (sinclastic) or negative curvature (anticlastic). In order to meet specific covering demants, the target surface can also  have varying curvature and a custom perimeter.