Biocomposite Façade Panels

Research Project 6-1 (RP 6-1)

DESIGN AND DIGITAL FABRICATION OF BIOCOMPOSITE FAÇADE PANELS

The aim of this project is to produce façade panels with maximum use of biocomposites from annually renewable Natural Fibres (NF) and their integration into cyber-physical fabrication and assembly processes.

Newly developed Natural Fibre Reinforced Polymer (NFRP) composites, also referred as biocomposites, will be digitally fabricated by automatised fibre and tape placement methods. The panels will be designed with integrated sandwich cores to enable embedded functions, in particular thermal insulation, fire stop and acoustic absorption.

In a bottom-up approach, the parametric design of the panels will take place in an iterative process according to the fabrication, mechanical and physical properties as well as the assembly processes. Through this research, biocomposites will be investigated as a partial replacement of conventional materials such as wood, aluminium, concrete, etc. used for façade panels.

This will contribute to the goal of sustainability in the future architecture, firstly through the use of alternative ecologic building materials and secondly through the use of digital off-site and on-site fabrication and digital assembly techniques.

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS

Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hanaa Dahy
Bio-based Materials and Materials Cycles in Architecture (BioMat) Research Group at Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE), University of Stuttgart

TEAM

Dr.-Ing. Jan Petrs (BioMat at ITKE)
Piotr Baszynski (BioMat at TKE)
Evgenia Spyridonos (BioMat at ITKE)

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

  1. 2021

    1. Lehrecke, A., Tucker, C., Yang, X., Baszynski, P., & Dahy, H. (2021). Tailored Lace : Moldless Fabrication of 3D Bio-Composite Structures through an Integrative Design and Fabrication Process. Applied Sciences, 11, Article 22. https://doi.org/10.3390/app112210989

  2. 2020

    1. Costalonga Martins, V., Cutajar, S., van der Hoven, C., Baszynski, P., & Dahy, H. (2020). FlexFlax Stool: Validation of Moldless Fabrication of Complex Spatial Forms of Natural Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (NFRP) Structures through an Integrative Approach of Tailored Fiber Placement and Coreless Filament Winding Techniques. Applied Sciences, 10, Article 9. https://doi.org/10.3390/app10093278
    2. Cutajar, S., Costalonga Martins, V., van der Hoven, C., Baszynski, P., & Dahy, H. (2020). Towards Modular Natural Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Architecture. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), 1, 564–573. https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2020.1.564
    3. Rihaczek, G., Klammer, M., Basnak, O., Petrs, J., Grisin, B., Dahy, H., Carosella, S., & Middendorf, P. (2020). Curved Foldable Tailored Fiber Reinforcements for Moldless Customized Bio-Composite Structures. Proof of Concept: Biomimetic NFRP Stools. Polymers, 12, Article 9. https://doi.org/10.3390/app10093278

    

To the top of the page