Joseph Schwartz's research while affiliated with ETH Zurich and other places

... Finally, the workflow of The Canopy shows that the pursuit of structural art is not about letting the structure's sound overshadow the building itself [34]. We can instead find an interdependent and solid balance between the two by utilizing the proper design medium and process [35,36]. Obviously, achieving this equilibrium requires multiple iterations of the design process instead of allowing the structure to realize the building's form in a "post-rationalization" manner. ...

... The post-configured construction process requires particular attention to the design of the construction phases, as well discussed in some research works [9][10][11][12]. For both the pre and post configured categories, pre-tensioned members play an important role in stiffening the gridshell structure [13][14][15][16]. ...

... The area and the normal vector of faces in the force polyhedron determine the force magnitude and force type of its reciprocal member in the form diagram. Akbarzadeh et al. have clarified and illustrated Rankin's propositions of polyhedral reciprocal diagrams [8,9]. Although the contribution is relatively recent, it has shown potentials for form-finding and design of spatial structures [10][11][12][13][14]. Also, a handful of computational techniques exists to generate the dual diagram, provide algorithms for manipulation of form and force polyhedrons, and create force visualizations by geometrical summations of the dual diagrams [9,[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]. ...

... The search for freeform in contemporary architecture is becoming a two-pronged task, combining the search for aesthetic expression and structural optimisation to select sustainable geometry in each project [47]. ...

... Conceptual design of a multi-story building with varying topology. 59 differences in their internal structure. Indeed, bits can very likely not be used to replace atoms, but they can be used to empower them. ...

... This work started as a collaboration with Dr. Pierluigi D'Acunto of ETH Zurich -Chair of Structural Design of Prof. Dr. Josheph Schwartz -during an academic secondment in December 2018. The results of this research will be presented in two conferences: Symposium for the International Association of Shell and Spatial Structures -Barcelona, October 2019 (Konstantatou et al., 2019a) and the International fib Symposium on Conceptual Design of Structures -Madrid, September 2019 (Konstantatou et al., 2019b). ...

... The Combinatorial Equilibrium Modeling (CEM) [17] method is used to design the initial geometry of the tree canopy structure at the global scale. The CEM is an equilibrium-based form-finding approach grounded in graph theory and Vector-based Graphic Statics [43]. It is particularly tailored for generating spatial pin-jointed frameworks subject to tensile and compressive axial forces according to user-defined initial design inputs: the topology diagram and its associated metric parameters. ...

... An approach to the design of freeform surfaces as combinations of hyparssmooth poly-hypar surfaces, also referred to as hyperbolic nets [25]or A-nets [24], -has been recently introduced from a structural perspective [12,13,11]. While in the existing precedents, hypars are generally joined through folds that work as stiffening beams, leading to bending actions at the edges [3,7,35,31,36,38,37,19], in the smooth poly-hypar surfaces, different hypars are combined smoothly. ...

... An approach to the design of freeform surfaces as combinations of hyparssmooth poly-hypar surfaces, also referred to as hyperbolic nets [25]or A-nets [24], -has been recently introduced from a structural perspective [12,13,11]. While in the existing precedents, hypars are generally joined through folds that work as stiffening beams, leading to bending actions at the edges [3,7,35,31,36,38,37,19], in the smooth poly-hypar surfaces, different hypars are combined smoothly. ...

... Inspiring the Next Generation 2 of structures to architecture students. Recent studies proposed incorporating physical models to teach structures in architecture schools (Vrontissi et al. [5], Soto-Rubio [6]). The pedagogical model proposed in this paper seeks to contribute to this effort by proposing a holistic approach in which more comprehensive methodologies are employed to teach structure concepts in a way that is geared towards the architectural discipline. ...