Julien Glath

• Master of Architecture
• PhD Student at École nationale des ponts et chaussées

Timber is increasingly considered as an alternative to other structural mate-rials, such as steel and concrete, allowing to reduce the environmental im-pact of the construction industry. However, it often becomes waste at the end of its service life because it is challenging to recover from buildings due to the use of non-reversible connection syst...

In the face of climate change, it is essential to rethink how we build to reduce the environmental impact of the construction industry. Timber construction can be a solution to reduce the use of concrete or steel, whose manufacture emits much CO 2. This paper proposes a method to reinterpret tenon and mortise joints for construction. Friction-based...

Face à la diminution des ressources et afin de réduire l’impact carbone du secteur de la construction, il est important d’envisager la fin de vie des bâtiments. Il faut considérer les constructions et leur structure comme des éléments pouvant être démontés ou désassemblés pour être recyclés ou réutilisés. Cette recherche s’intéresse aux assemblages...

In the face of dwindling resources and to reduce the construction sector’s carbon footprint, it is important to envisage the building’s end of life. It is necessary to consider buildings and their structures as elements that can be dismantled/disassembled for recycling/reuse. To address these issues, this work focuses on non-sequential assemblies t...

This paper proposes a method to design non-sequential assembly for construction. Unlike interlocking assemblies, a non-sequential joint can be assembled with simultaneous movement of all parts and blocked only by its kinematic. Thanks to robotic manufacturing and advances in digital fabrication, we can produce complex joints which can be easily ass...