Fibrous Integrity - Co-Designing Bending-Active Systems for Mobile Filament Winding in Architecture

The aim of this thesis is to develop an on-site construction method for fiber filament winding with a scale-independent work envelope.
Through the use of a bio-inspired co-design strategy the pos­sibilities of material design thinking and constructing will be enhanced while the material and robotic fabrication system are created simultaneously.
A bent composite grid is used as the work environment for a mobile robot which evolves the elastic structure into a stiff double-layer gridshell.

ITECH M.Sc. Thesis Project 2017: Fibrous Integrity - Co-Designing Bending-Active Systems for Mobile Filament Winding in Architecture 
Bruno Knychalla

Thesis Advisers: Maria Yablonina, James Solly

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Achim Menges
Second Supervisor: Prof. Jan Knippers