This PhD thesis aims to provide an indepth analysis on the applicability of the active bending principle to the design of lightweight structures, in particular pedestrian bridges.

In this paper structures that actively use bending as a self-forming process are reviewed. By bringing together important material developments and various historical as well as recently built samples of such structures, the aim is to show coherences in their design approach, structural systems and behavior.

This thesis presents a design-oriented methodology for the design, optimization and construction of sequentially erected elastic timber gridshells.

This paper describes timber gridshell design methods and building techniques. The authors’ experience with such projects is used to highlight the advantages of timber gridshells. Relevant built examples are presented and their formfinding and analysis methods are discussed.

In this thesis, a novel approach for the manufacturing of curved timber building components is proposed and analyzed.

In this paper, a ‘facilitating’ numerical framework is introduced in which, for a given continuous reference shape, a geometrically similar discrete model is found by implementation of a six degree of freedom formulation of the Dynamic Relaxation method, to handle members bending and torsional stiffness.

This thesis demonstrates the conception of the worldwide first double-story robotically assembled timber structure, explain its fabrication processes including an integrated envelope, and conclude by analyzing the robotic fabrication technologies in terms of their efficiency and structural and functional capabilities and limits.

This paper presents methods and techniques to robotically prefabricate timber frame modules. The key challenge of this research lies in enabling the digitally informed and fabricated spatial assembly of timber beams into prefabricated timber frame modules.

This paper introduces a variant of the timber grid shell, the timber Voronoi shell, whose surface is reticulated by Voronoi tessellation and whose edges are made of discrete dimensional timber. This work explores form-finding methods of the Voronoi shell as a compressive funicular shell.

In this study, They show a way to overcome the mentioned limitations by self-shaping gridshell systems, focusing on orthogonal and interconnected narrow wood bilayer strips.

In the article two interacting aspects of collaborative design are described: shaping of the form and the rational use of materials. Form shaping will be analyzed on the basis of pavilions. The material aspect of this paper is concerned with the use of wood in contemporary construction.

This paper summarizes the design and engineering work that went into the construction of a remarkable building that is a 9000m2 curved roof structure from 5 cm square timber laths which built in 1990.

This paper presents the design and construction of a 36m2 gridshell, the rigidity of which is achieved
through the bending of an initially flat grid of 210 reclaimed skis.

This paper proposes indicators to evaluate a priori the quality of design space of gridshells covered with different patterns for these fabrication constraints.

Voss nets constitute a proficient family of surfaces for the conception of doubly-curved structures. In this paper, they have been addressed for their capacity to model surfaces which can be built from elastically bent rectangular laths and covered with flat panels.

This paper proposes a new method based on smart materials and 4D printing technology to design and fabricate more compact structures that can realize self-reconfiguration via environmental stimulus without the need to alter sub-structures or components.

This research provides an overview of using folding techniques in architecture design, with an emphasis on their new applications.

This study focuses on folding techniques used in architecture for designing temporary spaces using foldable and deployable structures.

This paper presents a computational design method to obtain collapsible variations of rigid-foldable surfaces, i.e., continuously and finitely transformable polyhedral surfaces, homeomorphic to disks and cylinders.

This paper proposes a modeling method based on rationalizing curved folding in order to find the form variations of 1DOF origami mechanism.