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: 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: 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, 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]

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]

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]

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]

Pascal Mindermann, Bas Rongen, Drilon Gubetini, Jan Knippers, and Götz T. Gresser. Material Monitoring of a Composite Dome Pavilion Made by Robotic Coreless Filament Winding. Materials, (14):5509, September 2021. [PUMA: imaging knippers 2021 filament Pavilion structure gubetini BUGA itke from:petraheim winding microscopy Fiber coreless rongen scanning mindermann gresser heilbronn robotic biomimetics lightweight on-site dome inspection thermal electron architecture]

Timo Sippach, Hanaa Dahy, Kai Uhlig, Benjamin Grisin, Stefan Carosella, and Peter Middendorf. Structural Optimization through biomimetic-inspired material-specific Application of plant-based Natural Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites (NFRP). Polymers, Basel, Dec 19, 2021. [PUMA: biomat dahy fiber natural topology 2021 reinforced carosella structure high-performance itke from:petraheim uhlig placement architectural material-appropriate grisin polymer sustainable tailored biomimetics lightweight NFRP middendorf flax design optimization composites sippach biocomposites architecture]

Simon Bechert, Lotte Aldinger, Dylan Wood, Jan Knippers, and Achim Menges. Urbach Tower: Integrative structural design of a lightweight structure made of self-shaped curved cross-laminated timber. Structures, (33):3667--3681, ELSEVIER SCI LTD, October 2021. [PUMA: surface-active knippers engineering shell 2021 digital structure itke from:petraheim fabrication menges cross-laminated curved folded Timber aldinger crossing-screw CLT lightweight integrative self-shaping design connection urbach wood computational architecture bechert tower]

Marta Gil Pérez, InA Sin, SeungDeog Kim, and Thomas Kang. A study on fabric design of the Seoul Southwestern Baseball Dome. Proceedings of IASS Annual Symposia, (2014)8:1--8, 2014. [PUMA: membrane modeling gil engineering analysis kim nonlinear structure itke from:petraheim sin kangsend:unibiblio]

Seiichi Suzuki. Topology-Driven Form-Finding: Interactive Computational modelling of bending-active and textile hybrid structures through active-topology based real-time physics simulations, and ist emerging design potentials. In Jan Knippers (Eds.), Forschungsberichte aus dem Institut für Tragkonstruktionen und Konstruktives Entwerfen, Stuttgart: Institut für Tragkonstruktionen und Konstruktives Entwerfen, ITKE, Stuttgart, Germany, March 2020. [PUMA: 2020 active-topology bending-active computational diss dissertation form-finding from:petraheim hybrid interactive itke modelling simulation structure suzuki textile topology-driven]

Frédéric Waimer, Markus Gabler, and Jan Knippers. New developments for tensile cable net structures. In International Association for Shell, and Spatial Structures (Eds.), Proceedings of the International IASS Symposium, Seoul, Korea, 2012. [PUMA: waimer development 2012 knippers engineering structure itke from:petraheim gabler tensile cable net architecture]

Seiichi Suzuki Erazo, Evy Laura Maurice Slabbinck, and Jan Knippers. A comparative overview of generative approaches for computational form-finding of bending-active tensile structures. Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposium 2017, Hamburg, Germany, 25-28 Sept. 2017. [PUMA: overview approach bending-active knippers erazo structure 2017 itke from:petraheim comarative tensile computational form-finding suzuki architecture slabbinck generative]

Evy Laura Maurice Slabbinck, Axel Körner, and Jan Knippers. Torsion as a design driver in plate-bending-active tensile structures. Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposium 2017, Hamburg, Germany, 25-28 Sept 2017. [PUMA: bending-active körner knippers plate structure torsion 2017 design itke from:petraheim plate-bending-active driver tensile slabbinck]

Evy Laura Maurice Slabbinck, Seiichi Suzuki Erazo, James Solly, Anja Mader, and Jan Knippers. Conceptual framework for analyzing and designing bending-active tensile hybrid structures. Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposium 2017, Hamburg, Germany, 25-28 Sept 2017. [PUMA: conceptual bending-active designing knippers analysis erazo structure framework analyzing mader 2017 design hybrid solly itke from:petraheim tensile suzuki architecture slabbinck]

P. A. G. S. Giachini, Al Bahar Bahar, James Solly, Evy Laura Maurice Slabbinck, and Jan Knippers. Irregular cable nets: exploring irregularity as a driver for form and structure. Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposium 2017, Hamburg, Germany, 25-28 Sept 2017. [PUMA: 2017 architecture bahar cable driver exploring form from:petraheim giachini iass irregular irregularity itke knippers net slabbinck solly structure]

Seiichi Suzuki, Evy L. M. Slabbinck, and Jan Knippers. Computational Bamboo: Digital and Vernacular Design Principles for the Construction of a Temporary Bending-Active Structure. Impact: Design With All Senses. Proceedings of the Design Modelling Symposium 2019, 224 – 236, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Berlin, Germany, September 2020. [PUMA: temporary bending-active knippers vernacular 2020 digital structure design itke from:petraheim bamboo construction principles computational suzuki slabbinck]

Andreas Schönbrunner, Nicola Haberbosch, Riccardo La Magna, Simon Schleicher, Julian Lienhard, and Jan Knippers. Design strategies for bending-active plate structures out of multiple cross-connected layers. Proceedings of the IASS Symposium 2015, 2015. [PUMA: 2015 bending-active cross-connected design from:petraheim haberbosch itke knippers layer lienhard magna multiple plate plate-structures schleicher schönbrunner strategies structure]