Rupert Werner Maleczek

Rupert Werner Maleczek
University of Innsbruck | UIBK · Institute of Design | Structure and Design | i.sd

Dr. techn Dipl.Ing.

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Complex formed concrete shells are widely used in building environments as thin, lightweight, and cost-effective solutions. To simplify the formwork required for such structures, this study explores the potential to form complex shells from flat, flexible concrete plates through a controlled uplifting process. Flexible concrete is characterised by...
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The adaption of curved folding strategies in timber construction applied to thin wooden plates is the topic of ongoing research. In the actual context the authors develop the strategy further with the aim of an introduction of the strategy in the AEC. For this purpose, demonstrators in various scales and materials were developed [1] [2]. While curv...
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Recent investigations on foldable structures and particularly foldable tubes, raise the question if they can be advantageous for the construction of bridge-like beams. Transporting a flat packed structure on site and deploying it there, instead of bringing or constructing the structure on site will have a positive impact on the grey energy. Althoug...
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We introduce an alternative way of constructing continuous flexible tubes and tubular structures based on a discrete, semi-discrete and smooth construction of surfaces known as T-hedra in the discrete case and profile-affine surfaces in the smooth setting, respectively. The geometric understanding of this method enables us to generalize discrete tu...
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In recent years, technical folding, also known as structural origami, has been developed and implemented in many fields and applications to a wide range of materials. As many techniques are inspired by computational origami, their output is in most cases a three-dimensional mesh that can be developed without stretching or tearing in a planar mesh t...
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In this publication, the authors show and discuss a method, that allows the forming of flat sheets of material to a wished three-dimensional state, based on bespoke slits cut into the sheet. Especially a method known as Kerf is investigated. As current methods are using a grid of slits from border to border in linear or orthogonal crossing configur...
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We show a novel method to design a curved crease folding that constructs the edge-rounded, i.e., filleted, version of a given polyhedral surface. We replace each edge with a smoothly rounded cylinder and each vertex with a generalized cone, such that the surfaces joined through curved creases form a single developable surface with possible cuts at...
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Curved-crease origami design is a novel area of research with applications in fields such as architecture, design, engineering, and fabrication ranging between micro and macro scales. However, the design of such models is still a difficult task which requires preserving isometry between the 3D form and 2D unfolded state. This paper introduces a new...
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Designs based on developable surfaces can be convenient for many reasons, however designing developable patterns that make use of curved creases is a challenge. Many studies propose new methods to tackle the problem but sometimes these methods do not generate a parametric model which is easily modifiable by changing the input parameters. Furthermor...
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Curved Folding as a method to generate structures with bent plates is a widely used design strategy in many fields. Even though the digital approaches in curved folding and active bending are constantly evolving, the materialization of these structures in a larger scale is the current bottleneck. This is obvious for materials that are not foldable...
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This paper presents the research on deployable structures consisting of linear folded stripes. Based on the investigation that an equal sided flat hexagonal network from linear folded stripes represents a mobile mechanism, the aim of this research is to develop strategies to transform this flat mechanism into a three-dimensional one. As the stripe...
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Wenn BIM den aktuellen Stand der technischen Architekturfabrikation mit standardisierten Elementen beschreibt, dann soll dieser Text hier eine weitere, bislang wenig beachtete Möglichkeit im Umgang mit Sonderformen in der Fabrikation aufzeigen. Am Beispiel eines von Studierenden umgesetzten Pavillons wird die Entwicklung und Umsetzung einer ganzhei...
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This paper presents the research on curved folded structures, assembled from digitally fabricated thin wooden sheet material with integral joints. The related research project investigates the potentials of wooden plates, bent during assembly with finger joints, for its ability to generate self-stabilized load-bearing structures with augmented stif...
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This work presents the investigation on linear folded interwoven strips. Interwoven strip systems represent a multilayer variation of linear folded strips [1], in order to build stable spatial configurations. The multilayer arrangement enables different and new configurations and extends the existing possibilities of this particular system. The add...
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Inspired by the work of David Huffman [1], especially his research on cones, this work investigates one particular strategy to generate freestanding structures from assemblies of folded cones. The reflective folding strategy described by Huffman is adapted to generate stable elements consisting of folded sheet material that are assembled into a lar...
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Abstract This paper presents the research to find a computational method for creating freeform structures consisting of linear double folded stripes. The author developed an algorithm that enables a freeform-surface approximation with folded rectangular stripes. In assembled state they form either hexagonal or octagonal three-dimensional patterns....
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In contrast to the common use of folding as surface approach, the work presented here explores its use for reticular structures. The focuses are reticular structures made from linear folded stripes that create a wide variety of forms. The strategy of linear folded stripes has been intensively investigated and described since a few years. This artic...
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This paper presents ongoing research related to the self-organized folding of fiber cement and textile concrete sheet elements, with gravity and friction as guiding concept. Textile concrete is mostly produced in textile-like sheets that present the potential to create 3D objects from developable surfaces. This type of manufacturing is consistent w...
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This paper presents the ongoing research to obtain an aggregated structure consisting of trihedral polyhedral modules that approximate a given ideal design surface. The aim of this research is to develop geometric and computational design methods to generate such an assembly in order to erect spatial figurations. In this paper a naming and construc...
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This paper presents ongoing research related to the self-organized folding of fiber cement and textile concrete sheet elements, with gravity and friction as guiding concept. Textile concrete is mostly produced in textile-like sheets that present the potential to create 3D objects from developable surfaces. This type of manufacturing is consistent w...
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This Paper presents the research to find a computational method for creating structures consisting of identical linear folded stripes. The authors developed technique that enables creation and structuralisation of pre-defined open linear folded stripes. The algorithm produces a series of stripes that form an regular hexagonal honeycomb structure fr...
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This paper presents the research to find a computational method for creating freeform structures consisting of simple linear folded (parallel) stripes [Fig. 1]. The author developed a geometric algorithm that enables a structuralisation from single curved to double curved surfaces. The term structuralization stands here for the approximation of a g...

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