All Outputs (22)

Physical structural assessment of a segmented concrete shell building floor prototype (2025)
Journal Article

To reduce the significant environmental impact of the construction industry, building floors designed as concrete shells that work mainly in compression and that are segmented for prefabrication and disassembly offer a promising alternative to reinfo... Read More about Physical structural assessment of a segmented concrete shell building floor prototype.

SQUIRREL: Balancing design automation and user interaction in a computational tool for designing segmented concrete shells (2025)
Journal Article

The Automating Concrete Construction (ACORN) project explored digital workflows from the design to the construction of reinforced concrete building floor elements, reducing carbon emissions and increasing efficiency of building processes. The resulti... Read More about SQUIRREL: Balancing design automation and user interaction in a computational tool for designing segmented concrete shells.

Structural analysis of concrete shells using deep learning methods (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The structural behaviour of concrete shells is complex, which typically makes their design and production more difficult than prismatic structures. The Finite Element (FE) method is often used for the structural analysis of shells, but obtaining accu... Read More about Structural analysis of concrete shells using deep learning methods.

Computational design exploration of a segmented concrete shell building floor system (2023)
Journal Article

The construction industry is responsible for nearly half of the UK's carbon dioxide emissions and the use of an extremely large volume of concrete - the world's most widely used man-made material - accounts for more than 7% of global carbon dioxide e... Read More about Computational design exploration of a segmented concrete shell building floor system.

A prototype low-carbon segmented concrete shell building floor system (2023)
Journal Article

Concrete shell structures offer a mechanically efficient solution as a building floor system to reduce the environmental impact of our buildings. Although the curved geometry of shells can be an obstacle to their fabrication and implementation, digit... Read More about A prototype low-carbon segmented concrete shell building floor system.

Digital design of automatically wound shear reinforcement for non-prismatic concrete beams (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Concrete is the world’s most widely used man-made material, accounting for around 7% of global CO2 emissions. Currently, up to half of the concrete used in buildings is unnecessary, as it is there because it is shaped using prismatic formworks, which... Read More about Digital design of automatically wound shear reinforcement for non-prismatic concrete beams.

Fabrication-aware parametric design of segmented concrete shells (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Research is underway to explore the potential of using structurally efficient non-prismatic geometries to substantially reduce the amount of concrete in building elements, thus reducing their carbon footprint. In particular, the benefits of using thi... Read More about Fabrication-aware parametric design of segmented concrete shells.

A path towards the off-site automated fabrication of segmented concrete shells for building floors (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Concrete shells are a more sustainable alternative than plates as building fl oors, thanks to their eff ective use of concrete in compression. Although the construction of these geometrically complex structures becomes more challenging, off -site aut... Read More about A path towards the off-site automated fabrication of segmented concrete shells for building floors.

Automating concrete construction: Sustainable social housing in Colombia (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The construction industry is a major source of carbon, and the main culprit is concrete. In addition, productivity for the construction sector is poor, and concrete construction in particular is labour intensive, slow, and costly. This paper introduc... Read More about Automating concrete construction: Sustainable social housing in Colombia.

Robotic apprentices: Leveraging augmented reality for robot training in manufacturing automation (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In the scope of Industry 4.0, a framework is proposed to leverage the potential of articulating Augmented Reality and Robotic Manufacturing in the construction industry. The objective of such framework is to enable robots to learn how to perform task... Read More about Robotic apprentices: Leveraging augmented reality for robot training in manufacturing automation.

Automated framework for the optimisation of spatial layouts for concrete structures reinforced with robotic filament winding (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Concrete is a major contributor to the environmental impact of the construction industry, due to its cement content but also its reinforcement. Reinforcement has a significant contribution because of construction rationalisation, resorting to regular... Read More about Automated framework for the optimisation of spatial layouts for concrete structures reinforced with robotic filament winding.

Automating concrete construction: Digital design of non-prismatic reinforced concrete beams (2020)
Book Chapter

The construction industry is responsible for nearly half of the UK’s carbon emissions, mainly due to the large amount of concrete used. Traditional formwork methods for concrete result in prismatic building elements with a constant cross-section, but... Read More about Automating concrete construction: Digital design of non-prismatic reinforced concrete beams.

Enabling parametric design space exploration by non-designers (2020)
Journal Article

In mass customization, software configurators enable novice end-users to design customized products and services according to their needs and preferences. However, traditional configurators hardly provide an engaging experience while avoiding the bur... Read More about Enabling parametric design space exploration by non-designers.

Implementing the Santa Marta Urban Grammar - A pedagogical tool for design computing in architecture (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We present a tool intended to enable non-expert users to apply and manipulate a shape grammar, SMUG, which encodes the urban design of informal settlements such as favelas. Such tool, the Interpreter, was developed considering that students would be... Read More about Implementing the Santa Marta Urban Grammar - A pedagogical tool for design computing in architecture.

Comparing digital tools for implementing a generative system for the design of customized tableware (2019)
Journal Article

In typical mass customization design processes, designers encode design processes into configurators that are subsequently used by end-users to customize products. Using the case study of ceramic tableware, we explore how to extend the role of design... Read More about Comparing digital tools for implementing a generative system for the design of customized tableware.

Managing complexity in mass customization through design space subdivision (2018)
Thesis

Although design is traditionally the métier of designers, nowadays participation in the design process is increasingly shared with end-users. Such transfer of design responsibility happens in various creative fields such as architecture and product d... Read More about Managing complexity in mass customization through design space subdivision.

A review of additive manufacturing for ceramic production (2017)
Journal Article

Purpose - In this paper, the authors aim to address the potential of mass personalization for ceramic tableware objects. They argue that additive manufacturing (AM) is the most adequate approach to the production of such objects. Design/methodology/a... Read More about A review of additive manufacturing for ceramic production.

Generic shape grammars for mass customization of ceramic tableware (2015)
Book Chapter

Research is currently being developed on mass customization of ceramic tableware. The objective of this research is to allow end users to personalize their tableware sets, namely to determine the shape of its elements. The implementation of mass cust... Read More about Generic shape grammars for mass customization of ceramic tableware.

Computational modelling and digital materialization of Alberti’s column system: a reflection on results obtained (2014)
Journal Article

We hereby focus the study of the Albertian column system, as part of the Digital Alberti project, a research initiative that aims to shed some light on the influence of Alberti on Portuguese architecture. Starting from Alberti’s treatise on architect... Read More about Computational modelling and digital materialization of Alberti’s column system: a reflection on results obtained.

Tableware shape grammar (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Mass customization is pointed as a means of improving a company’s competitiveness, which is an essential trait in Europe’s economic situation of today. This paper reports a mockup implementation of the mass customization paradigm to ceramic tableware... Read More about Tableware shape grammar.