Publications

Simon Bechert, Christoph Schlopschnat, Monika Göbel, Simon Aicher, Achim Menges, und Jan Knippers. livMatS biomimetic shell: Structural advancements of segmented timber shells towards permanent building constructions. Structures, (79):109524, Elsevier, September 2025. [PUMA: 2025 Computational Form-finding Integrative Lightweight Modular Optimisation Plate Robotic Segmented Structural aicher bechert design engineering fabrication göbel itke knippers menges schlopschnat shells structure system timber]

Simon Bechert, Christoph Schlopschnat, Monika Göbel, Simon Aicher, Achim Menges, und Jan Knippers. livMatS biomimetic shell: Structural advancements of segmented timber shells towards permanent building constructions. Structures, (79):109524, Elsevier, September 2025. [PUMA: Robotic Optimisation shells göbel Structural knippers engineering Plate structure system itke fabrication menges aicher Lightweight Modular schlopschnat Form-finding design Integrative 2025 Segmented timber Computational bechert]

Simon Bechert, Simon Aicher, Lyudmila Gorokhova, Laura Balangé, Monika Göbel, Volker Schwieger, Achim Menges, und Jan Knippers. Segmented Timber Shells for Circular Construction: Relocation, Structural Assessment, and Robotic Fabrication of a Modular, Lightweight Timber Structure. Buildings, (15)112025. [PUMA: 2025 aicher assessment balangé bechert circular construction engineering fabrication gorokhova göbel itke knippers lightweight menges modular relocation robotic schwieger segmented shell structural structure timber] URL

Simon Bechert, Simon Aicher, Lyudmila Gorokhova, Laura Balangé, Monika Göbel, Volker Schwieger, Achim Menges, und Jan Knippers. Segmented Timber Shells for Circular Construction: Relocation, Structural Assessment, and Robotic Fabrication of a Modular, Lightweight Timber Structure. Buildings, (15)112025. [PUMA: modular relocation göbel gorokhova segmented knippers engineering shell circular structure itke fabrication menges aicher robotic lightweight assessment balangé structural 2025 construction schwieger timber bechert] URL

Omar Abdelhady, Evgenia Spyridonos, und Hanaa Dahy. Bio-Modules: Mycelium-Based Composites Forming a Modular Interlocking System through a Computational Design towards Sustainable Architecture. Designs, (7)1:20, MDPI, Februar 2023. [PUMA: 2023 abdelhady architecture biomat composite computational dahy design itke modular mycelium spyridonos sustainable]

Omar Abdelhady, Evgenia Spyridonos, und Hanaa Dahy. Bio-Modules: Mycelium-Based Composites Forming a Modular Interlocking System through a Computational Design towards Sustainable Architecture. Designs, (7)1:20, MDPI, 2023. [PUMA: modular biomat mycelium dahy sustainable 2023 design itke spyridonos composite abdelhady computational architecture]

Niccolo Dambrosio, Christoph Zechmeister, Marta Gil Pérez, Moritz Dörstelmann, Tim Stark, Katja Rinderspacher, Jan Knippers, und Achim Menges. livMatS Pavilion: Design and Development of a Novel Building System Based on Natural Fibres Coreless-wound Structural Components for Applicartons in Architecture. Journal of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, (Vol. 65)2:133 - 145, Juni 2024. [PUMA: composites computational construction coreless dambrosio design dörstelmann fabrication fibre filament freiburg gil itke knippers menges modular natural pavilion prefabrication rinderspacher robotic stark structures sustainable winding zechmeister]

Niccolo Dambrosio, Christoph Zechmeister, Marta Gil Pérez, Moritz Dörstelmann, Tim Stark, Katja Rinderspacher, Jan Knippers, und Achim Menges. livMatS Pavilion: Design and Development of a Novel Building System Based on Natural Fibres Coreless-wound Structural Components for Applicartons in Architecture. Journal of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, (Vol. 65)2:133 - 145, Juni 2024. [PUMA: modular dörstelmann prefabrication dambrosio natural knippers pavilion filament itke winding fabrication freiburg menges fibre sustainable coreless gil zechmeister robotic stark design composites structures construction rinderspacher computational]

Sacha Cutajar, Vanessa Costalonga Martins, Christo van der Hoven, Piotr Baszynski, und Hanaa Dahy. Towards Modular Natural Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Architecture. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), (1):564 - 573, ACADIA, 2020. [PUMA: 2020 architecture baszynski costalonga cutajar dahy fiber-reinforced hoven itke lightweight modular natural polymer] URL

Sacha Cutajar, Vanessa Costalonga Martins, Christo van der Hoven, Piotr Baszynski, und Hanaa Dahy. Towards Modular Natural Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Architecture. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), (1):564 - 573, ACADIA, 2020. [PUMA: 2020 architecture baszynski costalonga cutajar dahy fiber-reinforced hoven itke lightweight modular natural polymer] URL

Marc-Steffen Fahrion, Kurt Denzel, und Werner Sobek. Das Prinzip der Schwesterlichkeit - Mitversorgung von Denkmälern durch Plusenergiegebäude. In Bernhard Weller, und Sebastian Horn (Hrsg.), Denkmal und Energie 2018: Energieeffizienz, Nachhaltigkeit und Nutzerkomfort, 79--92, Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden, 2017. [PUMA: (Architekt), (Architekt, (renewable), Aktivhaus, Baden-Württemberg, Batteriespeicher, Bauen, Baugeschichte, Bundesrepublik, Corbusier Daten(technisch), Denkmalpflege, Deutschland, Electro Elektromobilität, Energie(erneuerbar), Energiedach, Energiekonzept, Energieverbrauch, Energieversorgung, Experimentalhaus, Flachdach, Forschungsprojekt, Grid, Group Heritage Home, Ingenieur), Ingenieur, Jeanneret, Le Modulbauweise, Montage, Mustersiedlung, Neues PV PV-Anlage, Pierre Planer), Plusenergiehaus, Site, Smart Sobek Sobek, Solarthermie, Stadtquartier, Steuerungstechnik, Stuttgart(11), TGA, Trägerrost, Vacuum Vakuumisolationspaneel, Vorfertigung, WSGreen Weissenhof Weißenhofsiedlung, Weltkulturerbe, Werner World assembly, beam building care concept, construction, consumption, control data(technical), energy estate, experimental flat grid, grillage, history, home, house, isolation mobility, model modular monuments, new of panel, plus prefabrication, project, quarter, quarters, research roof, solar supply, system, technology, the thermics, town twenties,] URL

Werner Sobek, und Bernd Köhler. Bauen mit Rezyklaten: die Experimentaleinheit UMAR im Schweizer NEST-Campus. Ingenieurbaukunst 2019 made in Germany, 56--63, Ernst, Berlin, 2019. [PUMA: Altglas, Baumaterial, Blech, Dämmstoff, Entwurf, Fassade, Fichte, Forschungsgebäude, Hanf, Holzbauweise, Lehm, Modulbauweise, Recycling, Tragwerk, Trockenbau, Verbindung, Vollholz, Vorfertigung, Wandverkleidung, Werkstoff, Wiederverwendbarkeit, Wohnungsbau, Zellulose, building, cellulose, connection, construction construction, design, dry esthetics, facade, glass, hemp, housing insulating lining loam, material, method, modular pine, plate, prefabrication, recyclability, recycling, research sobek solid structure, timberconstruction wall waste wood, Ästhetik,]

Simon Bechert, Daniel Sonntag, Lotte Aldinger, und Jan Knippers. Integrative structural design and engineering methods for segmented timber shells : BUGA Wood Pavilion. Structures, (34)December:4814-4833, Elsevier, 2021. [PUMA: 2021 aldinger bechert buga computational design engineering fabrication finger form-finding heilbronn integrative itke joints knippers lightweight methods modular optimization plate robotic segmented shell sonntag structure timber]

Simon Bechert, Daniel Sonntag, Lotte Aldinger, und Jan Knippers. Integrative structural design and engineering methods for segmented timber shells : BUGA Wood Pavilion. Structures, (34)December:4814-4833, Elsevier, 2021. [PUMA: modular finger sonntag segmented knippers engineering shell 2021 structure itke from:petraheim fabrication form-finding buga methods aldinger joints heilbronn plate robotic lightweight integrative design optimization timber computational bechert]

Marta Gil Pérez, Bas Rongen, Valentin Koslowski, und Jan Knippers. Structural design assisted by testing for modular coreless filament-wound composites: The BUGA Fibre Pavilion. Construction and Building Materials, (301)September 2021. [PUMA: (FEA) 2021 Buckling Carbon Fibre-polymer Finite Lightweight Mechanical analysis architecture buga composite composites coreless design dome element engineering fibre filament filament-wound gil heilbronn itke knippers koslowski modular pavilion perez rongen structural structure testing winding]

Marta Gil Pérez, Bas Rongen, Valentin Koslowski, und Jan Knippers. Structural design assisted by testing for modular coreless filament-wound composites: The BUGA Fibre Pavilion. Construction and Building Materials, (301)September 2021. [PUMA: Finite modular knippers pavilion engineering 2021 analysis Carbon filament itke from:petraheim Mechanical winding testing (FEA) fibre buga filament-wound structurestructural koslowski coreless Fibre-polymer Lightweight rongen perez heilbronn dome design composite composites element Buckling architecture]

Moritz Dörstelmann, Stefana Parascho, Marshall Prado, Achim Menges, und Jan Knippers. Integrative Computational Design Methodologies for Modular Architectural Fiber Composite Morphologies. ACADIA Conference, 219 – 228, Los Angeles, USA, Oktober 2014. [PUMA: modular dörstelmann parascho methodologies fiber method knippers morphologies integrative design itke from:petraheim prado 2014 composite architectural computational menges architecture]

Stefana Parascho, Jan Knippers, Moritz Dörstelmann, und Marshall Prado. Modular Fibrous Morphologies: Computational Design, Simulation and Fabrication of Differentiated Fibre Composite Building Components. In Philippe Block, Jan Knippers, Niloy J. Mitra, und Wenping Wang (Hrsg.), Advances in Architectural Geometry 2014, 29 – 46, Springer International Publishing, Cham, Heidelberg, New York, 2015. [PUMA: 2015 architecture composite computational design dörstelmann fabrication fibre fibrous from:petraheim itke knippers modular morphologies parascho prado simulation]

Jan Knippers, und Thorsten Helbig. Verglaste Gitterschalen. In Gerald Staib, ‎Andreas Dörrhöfer, und Markus Rosenthal (Hrsg.), Elemente und Systeme: Modulares Bauen – Entwurf, Konstruktion, neue Technologien, 208 – 213, Edition Detail, München, 2008. [PUMA: modular schale architektur glas glasbau helbig knippers 2008 itke konstruktion from:petraheim gitterschale]

Alexander Hub, und Jan Knippers. Tragwerk und Konstruktion. In Jürgen Adam, Katharina Hausmann, und Frank Jüttner. (Hrsg.), Entwurfsatlas Industriebau, 37-40, Birkhäuser, Basel, Berlin, Boston, 2004. [PUMA: modular hub itke konstruktion from:petraheim 2004 architektur knippers tragwerk bauingenieurwesen]