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Generation of elastic geodesic gridshells with anisotropic cross sections

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Nicolas Robin Montagne

Geodesic gridshells are shell structures made of continuous elements following geodesic lines. Their properties ease the use of beams with anisotropic cross-sections by avoiding bending about their strong axis. However, such bending may arise when flatteni ...

2021

The reuse of load-bearing components

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting, Catherine Elvire L. De Wolf

Load-bearing systems of buildings are poorly valued when they reach functional obsolescence. Still, they contribute the most to the material weight and embodied impacts of buildings and infrastructures. The reuse of structural components therefore offers g ...

IOP Publishing2019

Automatic generation of diverse equilibrium structures through shape grammars and graphic statics

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet

This article presents a computational design methodology that integrates generative (architectural) and analytical (engineering) procedures into a simultaneous design process. By combining shape grammars and graphic statics, the proposed methodology enable ...

2016

Building structures made of reused cut reinforced concrete slabs and walls: A case study

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Nicole Widmer

Reuse of reinforced concrete (RC) components reduces construction’s environmental impacts and waste. Rather than crushing the concrete of an obsolete structure, its components are saw cut and later reassembled in a new structure. The theoretical feasibilit ...

CRC Press2023

Structural component reuse of precast and cast-in-place reinforced concrete in architecture since the late 1960s in Europe

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Célia Marine Küpfer

The reuse of concrete pieces salvaged from structures undergoing transformation or demolition into new architectural projects has gained a sudden and visible interest over the past five years. However, the practice of reusing concrete pieces in new structu ...

vdf Hochschulverlag AG2024

Low-tech methods for the reuse of reinforced concrete structural elements

Nicole Widmer, Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Julie Rachel Devènes

Most of existing buildings are made of concrete, new buildings are being built with it and others are demolished when still in good structural condition. This drives increased demands for raw materials, greenhouse gas emissions, and an accumulation of demo ...

2023

Integrating constructability constraints into an equilibrium-aware grammar for generative structural design

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Ioannis Mirtsopoulos

Generating efficient structural forms, such as strut-tie models or reticulated steel structures, significantly relies on optimization methods that yield unique solutions, but with limited control over topology and force distribution. This paper presents a ...

CRC Press2025

Reading the existing: What discarded materials bring to the project

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Célia Marine Küpfer, Maxence Grangeot, Barbara Ludivine Justine Lambec

Buildings are being demolished sooner and sooner after their construction. Regrettably this trend shows no signs of being reversed anytime soon. Demolition activities are driven today by real estate developments fueled by investment logics and rapidly chan ...

EPFL Press2024

Re:Crete – reuse of concrete elements in new structures: A footbridge prototype

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting, Célia Marine Küpfer, Julie Rachel Devènes

Concrete accounts for the largest share of worldwide building material use and waste generation, with cement production being responsible for approximately 9% of global anthropogenic CO2 emissions. A currently untapped strategy to significantly reduce thes ...

CRC Press2022

Large Concrete Rubble as a New Structural Construction Material: Opportunities and Digital Processes for Load-Bearing Walls

Christophe Moser, Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Maxence Grangeot

Concrete is amongst the most wasted materials on earth, mainly due to building demolitions. Currently, after a building’s end of life, concrete is crushed to be used as replacement gravel in new concrete mixes or for backfilling. Aiming to increase the cir ...

MDPI AG2025

Embodied Carbon Benefits of Reusing Structural Components in the Built Environment: a Medium-rise Office Building Case Study

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting, Catherine Elvire L. De Wolf

This paper provides parametric estimates of embodied carbon reductions when structural components are reused in a typical office building. First, a lower bound of structural material quantities is estimated for a typical steel frame structure in a low-rise ...

2018

Discrete Voss surfaces: Designing geodesic gridshells with planar cladding panels

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Nicolas Robin Montagne

The design and construction of doubly-curved structures often reveals to be challenging and can result in complex manufacturing and assembly. A recent strategy to tackle this difficulty consists in exploiting the connection between discrete differential ge ...

2022

Synthesis of Kit-of-parts Structures for Reuse

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Gennaro Senatore, Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting, Ioannis Mirtsopoulos, Alex-Manuel Muresan

This paper shows a computational workflow to design a kit of parts consisting of linear bars and spherical joints that can be employed to assemble, take apart, and rebuild diverse reticular structures, e.g. gridshells and space frames. Being able to reuse ...

2021

Plane Reciprocal Diagrams

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet

James Clerk Maxwell is one of the giants of scientific thought, and whilst his groundbreaking contributions to electromagnetism and statistical physics are well known, his profound insights into the theory of structures are appreciated less widely. Maxwell ...

Cambridge University Press2025

Structural Design with Reclaimed Materials: an Elastic Gridshell out of Skis

Sofia Colabella, Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Endrit Hoxha

This paper presents the design and construction of a 36m2 gridshell, the rigidity of which is achieved through the bending of an initially flat grid of 210 reclaimed skis. The generated waste for its production is near zero as it is mostly built from disca ...

2017

A concrete answer for circular construction: three prototypes reusing saw-cut elements

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Célia Marine Küpfer

Existing concrete buildings should be retained for as long as possible to reduce the environmental burden of demolition and new construction. However, when urban pressure makes demolition unavoidable, salvaging and reusing concrete elements elsewhere in ne ...

2024

The Graphic Statics behind the Collier Memorial

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet

This paper reviews the various graphic statics methods applied during the early structural design of the Collier Memorial, Cambridge, MA. Built in 2015 to honor fallen MIT Police Officer Sean Collier, the monument is a vaulted assembly of massive granite b ...

2018

Constraint-Driven Design with Combinatorial Equilibrium Modelling

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet

This paper presents an extension to the Combinatorial Equilibrium Modelling (CEM) design framework. So far, CEM gives the possibility to generate and explore multiple spatial equilibrium solutions in the early conceptual design phase. In addition to the fo ...

2017

Disused Concrete, Digital Acupuncture and Reuse

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Stefana Parascho, Maxence Grangeot

Crushing concrete liberated from demolished buildings to provide recycled aggregate is argued to be a sustainable way of reducing material extraction. Yet, in these high‐energy processes, large amounts of new cement is often used, negating this as a low‐ca ...

Wiley2024

A standardized method to assess the reuse potential of building components

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Barbara Ludivine Justine Lambec

This paper presents a standardized assessment method to evaluate the reuse potential of building components, addressing the construction industry's need for sustainable resource management. The procedure relies on basic data about the assessed building, wi ...

CRC Press2025