Publications

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]

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]

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]

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, 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]

Axel Körner. Subtractive Manufacturing for Variable-Stiffness Plywood Composite Structures. In R. Setchi, R.J. Howlett, M. Naim, and H. Seinz (Eds.), Proceedings of the SDM 2014, Internat. Conference on Sustainable Design & Manufacturing, 50 – 66, Cardiff, Wales, UK, 2014. [PUMA: 2014 architecture composite from:petraheim itke körner manufacturing plywood stiffness structure subtractive variable variable-stiffness]

Serban Bodea, Nicolo Dambrosio, Christoph Zechmeister, Marta Gil Pérez, Valentin Koslowski, Bas Rongen, Moritz Dörstelmann, Ondrej Kyjanek, Jan Knippers, and Achim Menges. BUGA Fibre Pavilion: Towards robotically-fabricated composite building structures.. In Jane Burry, Jenny Sabin, Bob Sheil, and Marilena Skavara (Eds.), Fabricate 2020., 234 - 245, UCL Press, London, 2020. [PUMA: dörstelmann frp dambrosio knippers pavilion 2020 cfp structure itke from:petraheim kyjanek fabricate menges fibre buga koslowski rongen gil perez zechmeister heilbronn bodea robotical composite architecture]

Larissa Born, Florian A. Jonas, Katharina Bunk, Tom Masselter, Thomas Speck, Jan Knippers, and Götz T. Gresser. Branched Structures in Plants and Architecture. Biomimetic Research for Architecture and Building Construction, (8):195 -215, Springer, Cham, 2016. [PUMA: 2016 architecture biomimetic bionik born branched bunk from:petraheim gresser itke jonas knippers masselter plant speck structure]

Simon Poppinga, Axel Körner, Renate Sachse, Larissa Born, Anna Westermeier, Linnea Hesse, Jan Knippers, Manfred Bischoff, Götz T. Gresser, and Thomas Speck. Compliant Mechanisms in Plants and Architecture. Biomimetic Research for Architecture and Building Construction.. Biomimetic Research for Architecture and Building Construction, (8):169 -193, Springer, Cham, 2016. [PUMA: 2016 architecture biomimetic bionik bischoff born compliant construction from:petraheim gresser hesse itke knippers körner poppinga sachse speck structure westermeier]

Riccardo La Magna, Simon Schleicher, and Jan Knippers. Bending-Active Plates: Form and Structure.. In S. Adriaenssens, F. Gramazio, M. Kohler, Achim Menges, and M. Pauly (Eds.), Advances in Architectural Geometry 2016, 170 -186, vdf Hochschulverlag, Zürich, 2016. [PUMA: 2016 architecture bending-active engineering from:petraheim geometry itke knippers magna plates schleicher structure]

Julian Lienhard, Simon Schleicher, and Jan Knippers. Bio-inspired, Flexible Structures and Materials. In Fernando Pacheco Torgal, J. A. Labrincha, M. V. Diamanti, C.-P. Yu, and H. K. Lee (Eds.), Biotechnologies and Biomimetics for Civil Engineering, 275 – 296, Springer International Publishing, Cham, Heidelberg, 2014. [PUMA: biomimetic knippers engineering structure bionik flexible lienhard material from:petraheim 2015 schleicher architecture bio-inspired]

Frédéric Waimer, Riccado La Magna, Steffen Reichert, Tobias Schwinn, Achim Menges, and Jan Knippers. Integrated Design Methods for the Simulation of Fibre-based Structures. In Cristoph Gengnagel, Axel Kilian, J. Nembrini, and F Scheurer (Eds.), Rethinking Prototyping, Proceedings of 4th Design Modelling Symposium Berlin 2013, 1 -14, Universität der Künste, Berlin, 2013. [PUMA: waimer schwinn methods reichert simulation 2013 magna knippers engineering structure design itke from:petraheim menges architecture fibre-based fibre]

Alexander Hub, and Jan Knippers. Load-bearing Structures and Construction of Industrial Buildings. In Jürgen Adam, Katharina Hausmann, and Frank Jüttner (Eds.), Industrial Buildings: A Design Manual, 37 – 40, Birkhäuser, Basel, Berlin, Boston, 2004. [PUMA: load-bearing knippers engineering modul structure industrial hub itke from:petraheim 2004 construction architecture]

Don-U Park, Alexander Hub, Kyung-Ju Hwang, and Jan Knippers. The new developments of smart and lightweight structures with glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) in architecture and structural engineering. POAR People & Architects, (113):82 -95, September 2005. [PUMA: polymer fiber glass knippers engineering gfrp lightweight reinforced smart structure structural 2005 hub itke from:petraheim hwang park architecture]