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Architectural swarms for responsive façades and creative expression | Science Robotics
Architectural swarms for responsive façades and creative expression | Science Robotics
Architectural swarms fuse swarm robotics and architectural façades to create spaces that adapt to people and the environment.
Salma Mozaffari in USA – Alumni | ETH Zurich
Salma Mozaffari in USA – Alumni | ETH Zurich
We're featuring alumni from all over the world from A to Z. Our next stop is in the United States of America with Salma Mozaffari, who is pivoting her career from theoretical structural engineering to digital fabrication and construction robotics.
Form-finding and metaheuristic multiobjective optimization methodology for sustainable gridshells with reduced construction complexity and waste
Form-finding and metaheuristic multiobjective optimization methodology for sustainable gridshells with reduced construction complexity and waste
Numerical modeling of cantilevered bigon arm mechanics under gravity
Numerical modeling of cantilevered bigon arm mechanics under gravity
Elastic Rod Networks (ERNs) formed from interconnected slender, elastic rods can undergo large nonlinear displacements, resulting in phenomena like mu…
Latest publication: Revisiting structural Lazo carpentry: geometry, mechanics, and construction - Architecture, Structures and Construction
Latest publication: Revisiting structural Lazo carpentry: geometry, mechanics, and construction - Architecture, Structures and Construction
This paper explores the potential of traditional Spanish timber roofs as a structural system that blends framework carpentry with Islamic geometric pattern
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With huge heads on spindly stalks, how do sunflowers defy gravity to stay standing?
Latest publication: Exploratory analysis of a crowdsourcing metadata tool for building terminological consensus in civil engineering
Latest publication: Exploratory analysis of a crowdsourcing metadata tool for building terminological consensus in civil engineering
Latest publication: Scaffold-free cooperative robotic disassembly and reuse of a timber structure in the ZeroWaste project - Construction Robotics
Latest publication: Scaffold-free cooperative robotic disassembly and reuse of a timber structure in the ZeroWaste project - Construction Robotics
ZeroWaste as a project aims to reposition existing timber building stock within a circular economy framework, reframing them as valuable resources for reus
Application for Postdoctoral Research Associate
Application for Postdoctoral Research Associate
Bloomberg - How to Cool Down Parks in Hot Cities
Bloomberg - How to Cool Down Parks in Hot Cities
Researchers at Princeton University are devising ways to transform green spaces into outdoor cooling centers.
Latest publication: A multi-objective optimization approach for novel shell/frame systems under seismic load
Latest publication: A multi-objective optimization approach for novel shell/frame systems under seismic load
Large-span buildings are used for a wide range of architectural purposes, such as commercial spaces, railway stations, ferry terminals, and airports. …
IWSS Summer School - Let's Shape!
IWSS Summer School - Let's Shape!
Summer School 2024 - Let's Shape ! Form Finding: Designing with Nature's Principles Overview
Latest publication: Integration of kinks and creases enables tunable folding in meta-ribbons
Latest publication: Integration of kinks and creases enables tunable folding in meta-ribbons
Latest publication: An integrated digital design and construction approach for falsework-minimal masonry vaults
Latest publication: An integrated digital design and construction approach for falsework-minimal masonry vaults
Live stream link for the inaugural Francqui lecture
Live stream link for the inaugural Francqui lecture
Event Registration: inaugural Francqui lecture
Event Registration: inaugural Francqui lecture
Latest publication: Kirigami-inspired wind steering for natural ventilation
Latest publication: Kirigami-inspired wind steering for natural ventilation
ANGELUS NOVUS E AEDIFICANTE.CANTIERE. CULTURA. PERSONE. FUTURO
ANGELUS NOVUS E AEDIFICANTE.CANTIERE. CULTURA. PERSONE. FUTURO
Venezia: a Palazzo Mora, ‘Angelus Novus’ e ‘Aedificante’ nei mesi della Biennale ArchitetturaDalla maestosa volta all’ingresso di Palazzo Mora, Angelus Novus...
What I am thinking: fictional engineer and artist Stephen Talasnik
What I am thinking: fictional engineer and artist Stephen Talasnik
Stephen Talasnik has always been exploring the intersection of drawing and building. His ongoing investigation explores the near seamless connection of drawing, sculpture, ephemeral site specific s…
Should we be Luddites or embrace future-oriented technologies ?
Should we be Luddites or embrace future-oriented technologies ?
Every day we are bombarded with scary proposals in the news about how robots and artificial intelligence will take our jobs. This year, we, at the Form Finding Lab, wanted to find out whether we ca…
Latest publication: wrinkling of pneumatic membranes
Latest publication: wrinkling of pneumatic membranes
Latest publication: rotational kirigami system
Latest publication: rotational kirigami system
2023 Digital Exhibition - Art of Science
2023 Digital Exhibition - Art of Science
CyLTV: Construir con 'Realidad Aumentada'
CyLTV: Construir con 'Realidad Aumentada'
Princeton Engineering - A new twist on a classic math formula speeds work with looping structures
Princeton Engineering - A new twist on a classic math formula speeds work with looping structures
Balancing Act Architecture Lecture: Sigrid Adriaenssens
Balancing Act Architecture Lecture: Sigrid Adriaenssens
Bill Baker - Philosophy of Design | NORR ed 2022 (YouTube)
Bill Baker - Philosophy of Design | NORR ed 2022 (YouTube)
Latest publication: Effect of crease curvature on the bistability of the origami waterbomb base
Latest publication: Effect of crease curvature on the bistability of the origami waterbomb base
Publication: Learning the nonlinear dynamics of mechanical metamaterials with graph networks
Publication: Learning the nonlinear dynamics of mechanical metamaterials with graph networks
Publication: Differential formulation and numerical solution for elastic arches with variable curvature and tapered cross-sections
Publication: Differential formulation and numerical solution for elastic arches with variable curvature and tapered cross-sections
Newest research on structures and robots is out
Newest research on structures and robots is out
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University of Miami zoom link
University of Miami zoom link
Application for Postdoctoral Research AssociatE
Application for Postdoctoral Research AssociatE
Form Finding Lab
Form Finding Lab
Form Finding Lab BLOG
Form Finding Lab BLOG
Harnessing extraordinary mechanics for structural design | MIT Architecture
Harnessing extraordinary mechanics for structural design | MIT Architecture
Streaming link to MIT lecture Sep/30
Streaming link to MIT lecture Sep/30
Post-doc position
Post-doc position
Nomination: LightVault for the IStructE Structural Artistry Award
Nomination: LightVault for the IStructE Structural Artistry Award
Mapped phase field method for brittle fracture (Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg.)
Mapped phase field method for brittle fracture (Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg.)
How will we live together?
How will we live together?
IGS Mag: Robots and human collaboration
IGS Mag: Robots and human collaboration
Pressurized thin shells (J-IASS)
Pressurized thin shells (J-IASS)
Robotic Fabrication Methods (AutCon)
Robotic Fabrication Methods (AutCon)
Lacing project
Lacing project
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