Publications

Dylan Wood, Laura Kiesewetter, Axel Körner, Kenryo Takahashi, Jan Knippers, and Achim Menges. HYGROSHELL – In Situ Self-shaping of Curved Timber Shells. In Kathrin Dörfler, Jan Knippers, Achim Menges, Stefana Parascho, Helmut Pottmann, and Thomas Wortmann (Eds.), Advances in Architectural Geometry 2023, 43-54, De Gruyter, Oct 4, 2023. [PUMA: 2023 architecture curved hygroshell itke kiesewetter knippers körner menges self-shaping shell situ takahashi timber wood]

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: 2021 CLT Timber aldinger architecture bechert computational connection cross-laminated crossing-screw curved design digital engineering fabrication folded integrative itke knippers lightweight menges self-shaping shell structure surface-active tower urbach wood]

Achim Menges, and Jan Knippers. Wahrzeichen aus selbstgeformtem Holz. Dach + Holzbau - das Profimagazin für Dachdecker und Zimmerer, 34 - 39, Bauverlag, Gütersloh, May 2020. [PUMA: 2020 aldinger architektur bechert holz holzbau itke knippers menges selbstgeformt turm urbach urbachturm wahrzeichen wood]

Dylan Wood, Philippe Grönquist, Simon Bechert, Lotte Aldinger, David Riggenbach, Katharina Lehmann, Markus Rüggeberg, Ingo Burgert, Jan Knippers, and Achim Menges. From Machine Control to Material Programming Self-Shaping Wood Manufacturing of a High Performance Curved CLT Structure - Urbach Tower. Making Resilent Architecture - FABRICATE 2020, (4)April 2020. [PUMA: 2020 aldinger bechert burgert clt curved gartenschau itke knippers lehmann manufacturing menges remstal riggenbach ruggeberg self-shaping structure timber tower urbach wood]

Elaine Bonavia, S. Vecvagare, Axel Körner, Dylan Wood, and Jan Knippers. Point load Actuated Adaptive Gridshells: Methods for initial design and modeling. Proceedings of IASS Annual Symposium 2019 – Structural Membranes 2019 Form and Force, Barcelona, Spain, October 2019. [PUMA: 2019 actuated architecture bonavia design grid gridshell initial itke knippers körner load method modeling modelling point shell vecvagare wood]

Dominga Garufi, Hans Jakob Wagner, Tobias Schwinn, Dylan Wood, Simon Bechert, Achim Menges, and Jan Knippers. Fibrous Joints for Lightweight Segmented Timber Shells. RCA Conference 2018, Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 2018. [PUMA: 2018 architecture bechert fibrous garufi itke joint knippers lightweight menges schwinn segmented shell timber wagner wood]

Jan Knippers, Achim Menges, Hanaa Dahy, Nikolas Früh, Axel Körner, Katja Rinderspacher, Saman Saffarian, EvyL.M. Slabbinck, James Solly, Lauren Vasey, and Dylan Wood. The ITECH approach: Building(s) to learn. Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposium 2018, Boston, USA, 16-19 July 2018. [PUMA: 2018 approach architectural building dahy design früh integrative itech itke knippers körner learn master menges program research rinderspacher saffarian slabbinck solly stuttgart technology university vasey wood]

Lotte Aldinger, Simon Bechert, Dylan Wood, Jan Knippers, and Achim Menges. Design and Structural Modelling of Surface-Active Timber Structures Made from Curved CLT - Urbach Tower, Remstal Gartenschau 2019. In Christoph Gengnagel, Olivier Baverel, Jane Burry, Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, and Stefan Weinzierl (Eds.), Impact: Design With All Senses, (30):419--432, Springer Nature, Cham, 2019. [PUMA: 2019 aldinger bechert clt curved gartenschau itke knippers menges remstal structures timber urbach wood]