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Second Year Colloquium and Research Exhibition „Prototypes“ in Barcelona on February 12-14, 2018
On February 12-14,2018 the InnoChain Second Year Colloquium and Research Exhibition “Prototypes” will take place at COAC in Barcelona. In this pinnacle event within the Innochain network, all 15 ESR projects will be presented in plenum towards all Innochain Beneficiaries and Industry Partners.
Paper Award for Elytra Filament Pavilion
The ITKE and ICD have been awarded the Publication Prize of the University of Stuttgart 2017 for their paper “Elytra Filament Pavilion: Robotic Filament Winding for Structural Composite Building Systems” which was presented at the Fabricate 2017 Conference in Stuttgart. The award was presented...
Digital Design & Full Scale Fabrication Course – IoA
CONTROLLED ACTIVE BENDING STRUCTURES
“The form is a system which organises itself in the presences of both internal and external forces and these organizations can shape patterns traced through mathematical rules.”
D’ Arcy Thompson
In this framework, this 5-days course focuses on the creation of...
Open Lecture TU Graz : Adaptive structures and material performance
This week Efilena Baseta visited TU Graz as a jury member of the midterm presentation of the studio ”Break it till you Make it” led by Urs Hirschberg. The students focus on experimenting on various materialities of wood with the final goal of building an 1:1 info point. After the reviews...
Blumer Lehmann secondment
The last months I have been working on scaling up the micro-scalar (1 dm) dynamic behavior of wood veneer into macroscalar dynamic wooden structures (10m) exploring controlled bending-active systems.
From the 6th till the 18th of November I conducted my secondment in Blumer Lehman in...
8th International Conference on Fibre-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Composites in Civil Engineering
This post is somewhat late, but taking advantage of the new Innochain data repository, here is the paper presented at CICE 2016 by James Solly (ESR08) on behalf of his co-authors Professor Jan Knippers and researchers Valentin Koslowski and Timo Fildhuth.