Form Finding Lab

Form Finding Lab has been a member of Linktree for 5 years and joined in June 2021. The social media accounts linked to from Form Finding Lab are: • Facebook • Instagram Besides social media accounts, formfindinglab has populated their site with: • Architectural swarms for responsive façades and creative expression | Science Robotics • Salma Mozaffari in USA – Alumni | ETH Zurich • Form-finding and metaheuristic multiobjective optimization methodology for sustainable gridshells with reduced construction complexity and waste • Numerical modeling of cantilevered bigon arm mechanics under gravity • Latest publication: Revisiting structural Lazo carpentry: geometry, mechanics, and construction - Architecture, Structures and Construction • www.bbc.co.uk • Latest publication: Exploratory analysis of a crowdsourcing metadata tool for building terminological consensus in civil engineering • Latest publication: Scaffold-free cooperative robotic disassembly and reuse of a timber structure in the ZeroWaste project - Construction Robotics • Application for Postdoctoral Research Associate • Bloomberg - How to Cool Down Parks in Hot Cities • Latest publication: A multi-objective optimization approach for novel shell/frame systems under seismic load • IWSS Summer School - Let's Shape! • Latest publication: Integration of kinks and creases enables tunable folding in meta-ribbons • Latest publication: An integrated digital design and construction approach for falsework-minimal masonry vaults • Live stream link for the inaugural Francqui lecture • Event Registration: inaugural Francqui lecture • Latest publication: Kirigami-inspired wind steering for natural ventilation • ANGELUS NOVUS E AEDIFICANTE.CANTIERE. CULTURA. PERSONE. FUTURO • What I am thinking: fictional engineer and artist Stephen Talasnik • Should we be Luddites or embrace future-oriented technologies ? • Latest publication: wrinkling of pneumatic membranes • Latest publication: rotational kirigami system • 2023 Digital Exhibition - Art of Science • CyLTV: Construir con 'Realidad Aumentada' • Princeton Engineering - A new twist on a classic math formula speeds work with looping structures • Balancing Act Architecture Lecture: Sigrid Adriaenssens • Bill Baker - Philosophy of Design | NORR ed 2022 (YouTube) • Latest publication: Effect of crease curvature on the bistability of the origami waterbomb base • Publication: Learning the nonlinear dynamics of mechanical metamaterials with graph networks • Publication: Differential formulation and numerical solution for elastic arches with variable curvature and tapered cross-sections • Newest research on structures and robots is out • Composers & Computers podcast • University of Miami zoom link • Form Finding Lab • Form Finding Lab BLOG • Harnessing extraordinary mechanics for structural design | MIT Architecture • Streaming link to MIT lecture Sep/30 • Post-doc position • Nomination: LightVault for the IStructE Structural Artistry Award • Mapped phase field method for brittle fracture (Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg.) • How will we live together? • IGS Mag: Robots and human collaboration • Pressurized thin shells (J-IASS) • Robotic Fabrication Methods (AutCon) • Lacing project