Publications

Simon Bechert, Simon Aicher, Lyudmila Gorokhova, Laura Balangé, Monika Göbel, Volker Schwieger, Achim Menges, and 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, and 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

Tzu-Ying Chen, Simon Treml, Lior Skoury, J.orge Andres Christie Remy-Maillet, Hans Jakob Wagner, Achim Menges, and Jan Knippers. Controlled Anisotropy: A Design-to-Assembly Method for Resource-Efficient Timber Structures with Fibrous Joints. Proceedings of ACADIA 2024: Designing Change, November 2024. [PUMA: 2024 anisotropy architecture chen christie engineering fibrous itke joints knippers menges method ressource-efficient skoury structure timber treml wagner wood]

Tzu-Ying Chen, Simon Treml, Lior Skoury, J.orge Andres Christie Remy-Maillet, Hans Jakob Wagner, Achim Menges, and Jan Knippers. Controlled Anisotropy: A Design-to-Assembly Method for Resource-Efficient Timber Structures with Fibrous Joints. Proceedings of ACADIA 2024: Designing Change, November 2024. [PUMA: chen anisotropy method wagner joints 2024 knippers engineering structure skoury itke ressource-efficient christie timber fibrous wood menges treml architecture]

Evgenia Spyridonos, Yanan Guo, Marta Gil Pérez, and Hanaa Dahy. Geometrical and Structural Design Development of an Active-Bending Structure from Natural Fibre Pultruded Profiles: The LightPRO Shell. Developments in the Built Environment, (20):100577, Elsevier, December 2024. [PUMA: biomat guo geometrical dahy development Spyridonos natural 2024 active-bending gil profiles lightweight structure structural itke biocomposites pultruded architecture fibre]

Evgenia Spyridonos, Yanan Guo, Marta Gil Pérez, and Hanaa Dahy. Geometrical and Structural Design Development of an Active-Bending Structure from Natural Fibre Pultruded Profiles: The LightPRO Shell. Developments in the Built Environment, (20):100577, Elsevier, December 2024. [PUMA: 2024 Spyridonos active-bending architecture biocomposites biomat dahy development fibre geometrical gil guo itke lightweight natural profiles pultruded structural structure]

Evgenia Spyridonos, and Hanaa Dahy. Application of Natural Fibre Pultruded Profiles in Diverse Lightweight Structures and Architectural Scenarios. Architecture, Structures and Construction, (5)2Springer Nature Link, November 2024. [PUMA: 2024 architecture bio-based biomat dahy deployable fibre itke lightweight natural pultruded resin spyridonos structure]

Evgenia Spyridonos, and Hanaa Dahy. Application of Natural Fibre Pultruded Profiles in Diverse Lightweight Structures and Architectural Scenarios. Architecture, Structures and Construction, (5)2Springer Nature Link, November 2024. [PUMA: biomat dahy natural 2024 lightweight structure resin bio-based deployable itke spyridonos pultruded architecture fibre]

Pascal Mindermann, Denis Acker, Robert Wegner, Stefanos Fasoulas, and Götz T. Gresser. Long-span fiber composite truss made by coreless filament winding for large-scale satellite structural systems demonstrated on a planetary sunshade concept. Scientific Reports, (14)1:8190, Apr 8, 2024. [PUMA: Aerospace Characterization Composites Coreless Fiber Planetary analytical and composite engineering filament gresser itft mindermann peer-reviewed structure sunshade techniques truss wegner winding] URL

Vanessa Costalonga Martins, Sacha Cutajar, Christo van der Hoven, Piotr Baszyński, and Hanaa Dahy. FlexFlax Stool: Validation of Moldless Fabrication of Complex Spatial Forms of Natural Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (NFRP) Structures through an Integrative Approach of Tailored Fiber Placement and Coreless Filament Winding Techniques. Applied Sciences, (10)9:3278, May 2020. [PUMA: 2020 baszynski complex coreless costalonga cutajar dahy fabrication fiber fibre-reinforced flexflax forms hoven interactive itke moldless natural nfrp placement polymer spatial stool structure tailored validation winding]

August Lehrecke, Cody Tucker, Xiliu Yang, Piotr Baszynski, and Hanaa Dahy. Tailored Lace : Moldless Fabrication of 3D Bio-Composite Structures through an Integrative Design and Fabrication Process. Applied Sciences, (11)22:10989, MDPI, 2021. [PUMA: 2021 3D architecture baszynski bio-composite biomat craft dahy design digital fabrication integrative itke lace lehrecke moldless process structure tailored tucker]

August Lehrecke, Cody Tucker, Xiliu Yang, Piotr Baszynski, and Hanaa Dahy. Tailored Lace : Moldless Fabrication of 3D Bio-Composite Structures through an Integrative Design and Fabrication Process. Applied Sciences, (11)22:10989, MDPI, 2021. [PUMA: 2021 3D architecture baszynski bio-composite biomat craft dahy design digital fabrication integrative itke lace lehrecke moldless process structure tailored tucker]

Keerthana Udaykumar, Luis Orozco, Anna Krtschil, Achim Menges, and Jan Knippers. Interactive Gradient-Based Optimization Method for Column-slab Structures. In Yi Min Xie, Jane Burry, Ting Uei Lee, and Jiaming Ma (Eds.), Integration of Design and Fabrication, 1574--1584, International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS), Melbourne, Australia, 2023. [PUMA: 2023 architecture column-slab gradient-based interactive itke knippers krtschil menges optimization orozco structure timber udaykumar]

Walter Haase, Werner Sobek, Enrica Oliva, and Michele Andaloro. Adaptive facades: towards responsive building structures and envelopes. Facade Tectonics 2018 World Congress, March 12-13, 2018, Los Angeles, CA, (1):397--411, 2018. [PUMA: - adaptive, and component daylighting electro-chromic engineering, glare glass performance, seismic, shading, sobek structure]

Marta Gil Pérez, and Jan Knippers. Integrative Structural Design of Nonstandard Building Systems: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Industry. Technology Architecture + Design, (7:2):244-261, Taylor & Francis, Nov 16, 2023. [PUMA: 2023 building cfw coreless design digital fabrication gil industry integrative itke knippers research structural structure systems winding]

Marta Gil Pérez, and Jan Knippers. Integrative Structural Design of Nonstandard Building Systems: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Industry. Technology Architecture + Design, (7:2):244-261, Taylor & Francis, Nov 16, 2023. [PUMA: 2023 building cfw coreless design digital fabrication gil industry integrative itke knippers research structural structure systems winding]

Rode Christian, Tomalka Andre, Blickhan R., and Siebert Tobias. Structurally motivated models to explain the muscle’s force-length relationship. Biophys. Journal 1, (122)17:3541-3543, September 2023. [PUMA: PN2-8 actin biologie fibre muscle myosin myown physiology sceletal structure titin] URL

Seiichi Suzuki, Alison Martin, Yingying Ren, Tzu-Ying Chen, Stefana Parascho, and Stefana Pauly. BamX: Rethinking Deployability in Architecture through Weaving. In Kathrin Dörfler, Jan Knippers, Achim Menges, Stefana Parascho, Helmut Pottmann, and Thomas Wortmann (Eds.), Advances in Architectural Geometry 2023, 207-220, De Gruyter, Berlin, Oct 4, 2023. [PUMA: 2023 3D BamX architecture beams chen curved deployability elastic geometry gridshell itke martin parascho pauly ren structure suzuki weaving]

Simon Bechert, Daniel Sonntag, Lotte Aldinger, and 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, and 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]