Research Projects
CategoryEarthen Shell Seminar May 2017
Seminar ran at IAAC in May 2017- 5 sessions.
Number of participanst: 12
Tutors: Stephanie Chaltiel, Abdullah Ibrahim, Noor El-Gewely
Advisor CFD and Augmented Reality: Angelos Chronis
Special thanks to Maite Bravo (Iaac) for her very rich input in the seminar
External Jury members: Verena...
Elytra Filament Pavilion – Robotic Filament Winding for Structural Composite Building Systems
Fabricate 2017 Paper on the Elytra Pavilion
Innochain ESR James Solly (ESR08), working on the research topic Virtual Prototyping FRP, presented at the Fabricate 2017 conference in Stuttgart, Germany in April 2017 alongside co-authors Marshall Prado and Moritz Doerstelmann of the ICD.
Their...
FlectoFold / Materialisation & Evaluation Process
ESR12- MATERIAL GRADIENT FRP
AUTHOR: Saman Saffarian
FlectoFold is an Elastic-Kinetic Material-Gradient facade component.
This video showcases the Materialisation and Evaluation Process.
Design Probes Colloquim Vienna
First Year Design Probes
Innovation Lab Angwandte Vienna.
During 2 days, each ESR presnted his/her progress so far.
Here is the content of my presentation
Small Scale Robots spraying for large scale shells
I propose to take advantage of advanced robotic fabrication involving people fabricating...
ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2016/2017
ESR08 – Virtual Prototyping FRP
ESR12 – Material Gradient FRP
AUTHORS: James Solly and Saman Saffarian
Lightweight, Long-Span Fibrous Construction
Since October 2015 Sam and James have been working on the ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2016/2017 that was developed within the ITECH Master Studio....
Innochain Colloquium Presentation – Integrating Building Physics for Performance Control
This is the video from the project’s presentation at the Design Probes Exhibition in Vienna, earlier this month.
In its current stage, the research has investigated the state of the art in CFD integration through a number of key experiments – design probes – with similar objectives that aim to...