Publications

Simon Bechert, Christoph Schlopschnat, Monika Göbel, Simon Aicher, Achim Menges, and 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]

Anna Krtschil. Integrative Structural Design for a Multi-Storey Timber Building System. Forschungsberichte aus dem Institut für Tragkonstruktionen und konstruktives Entwerfen, Universität Stuttgart, 50:73, Institut für Tragkonstruktionen und Konstruktives Entwerfen, Universität Stuttgart, May 2024. [PUMA: multi-storey 2024 building engineering integrative system design krtschil structural itke timber holzbau]

Marta Gil Pérez, Nikolas Früh, Riccardo La Magna, and Jan Knippers. Integrative structural design of a timber-fibre hybrid building system fabricated through coreless filament winding: Maison Fibre. Journal of Building Engineering, (49)ELSEVIER SCI LTD, May 22, 2022. [PUMA: 2022 Knippers Magna analysis architecture biennale building coreless design element engineering fabricated fibre filament finite from:petraheim früh gil hybrid integrative itke maison structural system timber-fibre venice winding]

Marta Gil Pérez, Nikolas Früh, Riccardo La Magna, and Jan Knippers. Integrative structural design of a timber-fibre hybrid building system fabricated through coreless filament winding: Maison Fibre. 2022. [PUMA: 2022 building coreless design fabricated filament from:petraheim früh gil hybrid integrative itke knippers magna structural system timber-fibre]

Niccolo Dambrosio, Christoph Zechmeister, Rebeca Duque Estrada, Fabian Kannenberg, Marta Gil Pérez, Christoph Schlopschnat, Katja Rinderspacher, Jan Knippers, and Achim Menges. Design and development of an FRP-Timber hybrid building system for multi-story applications in architecture: Maison Fibre. Proceedings of the ACADIA Conference 2021, 2021. [PUMA: frp dambrosio development biennale knippers 2021 application Estrada system hybrid itke from:petraheim multi-story menges fibre Zechmeister building schlopschnat kannenberg design maison venice Duque frp-timber rinderspacher architecture]

Marta Gil Pérez, Niccolo Dambrosio, Bas Rongen, Achim Menges, and Jan Knippers. Structural optimization of coreless filament wound components connection system through orientation of anchor points in the winding frames. In C. Lazaro, K.-U. Bletzinger, and E. Onate (Eds.), Proceedings of IASS Annual Symposia 2019: Form and Force, (2019):1381--1388, International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS), 2019. [PUMA: components dambrosio coreless rongen frames gil knippers filament points system wound optimization structural itke from:petraheim anchor winding connection menges orientation]

Sean Ahlquist, Achim Menges, Julian Lienhard, and Jan Knippers. Textile hybrid M1 at La Tour de l´Architecte – Research on Hybrid Form- and Bending Systems. TensiNews, Newsletter of the European Based network for the Design and Realisation of Tensile Structures, 6 - 9, May 2013. [PUMA: 2013 ahlquist bending form from:petraheim hybrid itke knippers lienhard m1 menges system textile tour] URL

Simon Schleicher, Julian Lienhard, Simon Poppinga, Thomas Speck, and Jan Knippers. A methodology for transferring principles of plant movements to elastic systems in architecture. COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN, (60)Issue C:105-117, March 2015. [PUMA: biomimetic speck knippers poppinga movements peer-reviewed transferring system itke lienhard from:petraheim 2015 plant schleicher elastic principles architecture methodology] URL

Gundula Schieber, Larissa Born, P. Bergmann, Axel Körner, Anja Mader, Saman Saffarian, Oliver Betz, Markus Milwich, Götz T. Gresser, and Jan Knippers. Hindwings of insects as concept generator for hingeless foldable shading systems. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, (13)1IOP Publishing Ltd, December 2018. [PUMA: 2018 bergmann betz biomimetic born concept foldable from:petraheim generator gresser hindwings hingeless insects itke knippers körner mader milwich saffarian schieber shading system]

Jan Knippers. Pultruded Systems for Advanced Infrastructure Systems. 8th World Pultrusion Conference Budapest, Hungary, 2006. [PUMA: system 2006 itke from:petraheim advanced infrastructure pultruded engineering]

Don-U Park, Jan Knippers, and Kyung-Ju Hwang. Development of node connecting systems used for spatial structures. Conference proceeding of the 9th Asian Pacific Conference on Shell and Spatial Structures (APCS2009), 31, Nagoya Japan, May 2009. [PUMA: development knippers engineering structure 2009 node system connecting itke from:petraheim connection hwang spatial park]

Julian Lienhard, Simon Schleicher, Jan Knippers, Thomas Speck, Tom Masselter, and Simon Poppinga. Biomimetic deployable systems in architecture. In L. Chwee Teck (Eds.), IFMBE Proceedings, 6th World Congress on Biomechanics, (Vol. 31):40 – 43, 2010. [PUMA: biomimetic masselter speck knippers 2010 poppinga system itke lienhard from:petraheim schleicher deploayble architecture]

Julian Lienhard, and Jan Knippers. Permanent and convertible membrane structures with intricate bending-active support systems. In International Association for Shell, and Spatial Structures (Eds.), Proceedings of the International IASS Symposium, 21-24 May 2012. [PUMA: bending-active membrane biomimetic 2012 convertible knippers structure intricate system itke lienhard permanent from:petraheim support]

Kenryo Takahashi, Axel Körner, Valentin Koslowski, and Jan Knippers. Scale Effect in Bending-active Plates and a Novel Concept for Elastic Kinetic Roof Systems. Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposium 2016, Tokyo, Japan, 26-30 Sept 2016. [PUMA: 2016 bending-active biomimetic concept effect elastic from:petraheim itke kinetic knippers koslowski körner novel plates roof scale system takahashi]

Larissa Born, Axel Körner, Gundula Schieber, A.S. Westermeier, Simon Poppinga, R. Sachse, P. Bergmann, Oliver Betz, Manfred Bischoff, Thomas Speck, Jan Knippers, Markus Milwich, Götz T. Gresser, and A. Herrmann. Fiber-reinforced plastics with locally adapted stiffness for bio-inspired hingeless, deployable architectural systems. (742):689-696, 2017. [PUMA: bergmann biomimetic betz born knippers adapted poppinga stiffness system 2017 itke from:petraheim architectural westermeier bio-inspired herrmann körner schieber sachse speck gresser plastic fiber-reinforced deployable hingeless milwich locally bischoff]

Simon Bechert, Abel Groenewolt, Oliver D. Krieg, Achim Menges, and Jan Knippers. Structural Performance of Construction Systems for Segmented Timber Shell Structures. Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposium 2018 Creativity in Structural Design, Boston, USA, 16-19 July 2018. [PUMA: segmented knippers shell performance groenewolt structure system 2018 structural itke from:petraheim construction krieg timber menges architecture bechert]

Mathias Maierhofer, Valentina Soana, Maria Yablonina, Seiichi Suzuki, Achim Körner, Jan Knippers, and Achim Menges. Self-Choreographing Network: Towards cyber-physical design and operation processes of adaptive and interactive bending-active systems. Proceedings of ACADIA 2019: the 39th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, Austin, Texas, USA, 21-26 Oct 2019. [PUMA: bending-active yablonina process körner knippers interactive network self-choreographing 2019 adaptive system maierhofer design itke from:petraheim cyber-physical operation menges suzuki architecture soana]

Julian Lienhard. Bending-Active Structures: Form-finding strategies using elastic deformation in static and kinetic systems and the structural potentials therein. In Jan Knippers (Eds.), Forschungsberichte aus dem Institut für Tragkonstruktionen und Konstruktives Entwerfen, (36)Stuttgart: Institut für Tragkonstruktionen und Konstruktives Entwerfen, ITKE, Stuttgart, Germany, 2014. [PUMA: 2014 architecture bending-active deformation diss dissertation elastic engineering form-finding forschungsbericht from:petraheim itke kinetic lienhard potential static strategies strategy structural structure system using]