Publications de Stefana Parascho

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From concrete waste to walls: An investigation of reclamation and digital technologies for new load-bearing structures

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Stefana Parascho, Maxence Grangeot

The research presented in this paper highlights current practices for the end-of-life of concrete and explores opportunities in using unaltered concrete rubbles from demolition for the digital construction of structural walls. Through research by iterative ...

2023

DiffCheck: A scan-CAD evaluation tool for digital manufacturing and assembly processes in timber construction

Yves Weinand, Julien Gamerro, Stefana Parascho, Andrea Settimi, Marianthi Eririni Kladeftira, Eleni Maria Skevaki, Damien Lambert Alain Félicien Gilliard

In digital timber construction, scanning technologies and point cloud data are widely used due to the accessibility of affordable 3D sensors, photogrammetry, and userfriendly CAD tools. While typically not employed for accuracy checks in timber fabrication ...

CRC Press2025

Learning to Assemble with Alternative Plans

Gabriel Rémi Vallat, Maryam Kamgarpour, Stefana Parascho, Ziqi Wang, Jingwen Wang

We present a reinforcement learning framework for constructing assemblies composed of rigid parts, which are commonly seen in many historical masonry buildings and bridges. Traditional construction methods for such structures often depend on dense scaffold ...

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)2025

Constrained Form-Finding of Tension-Compression Structures using Automatic Differentiation

Stefana Parascho

This paper proposes a computational approach to form-find pin-jointed bar structures subjected to combinations of tension and compression forces. The generated equilibrium states can meet structural and geometrical constraints via gradient-based optimizati ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

Rising from rubble - Leveraging existing construction tools for upcycling concrete waste into slender walls

Katrin Beyer, Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Stefana Parascho, Maxence Grangeot, Qianqing Wang

In this paper, we present a new method for upcycling concrete rubble waste into slender walls through the lightweight digital augmentation of mainstream construction machines. By using such method, the environmental impact of concrete construction and demo ...

Springer2024

Concrete rubble as a new construction material: Panorama of applications to known structural typologies

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Stefana Parascho, Maxence Grangeot

Concrete rubble is among the most wasted materials worldwide. In this paper, we present a panorama of the upcycling potential of disused concrete rubble as construction material for new low-carbon structures. We identify 15 existing structural applications ...

IASS2024

New tectonics of concrete through rubble reuse

Tanguy Emile Jean-Baptiste Auffret-Postel, Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Stefana Parascho, Maxence Grangeot

Driven by the sustainability of the construction industry, concrete rubble is increasingly considered as a construction material rather than a waste. Analysing structures from such material through the conceptual tool of tectonics highlights a fertile grou ...

CRC Press2025

Structural Concrete Rubble Arrangements - A Framework for Upcycling Demolition Waste into Slender Masonry Walls for Buildings

Katrin Beyer, Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Stefana Parascho, Maxence Grangeot, Qianqing Wang

Reused concrete rubble is a challenging material to design and construct with despite its potential for diverging waste from landfilling and energyintensive recycling. We propose a design to construction framework that leverages a camera and computationall ...

Springer Nature Switzerland2024

Evaluation date as support material for diffCheck publication icsa 2025

Yves Weinand, Julien Gamerro, Stefana Parascho, Andrea Settimi, Marianthi Eririni Kladeftira, Eleni Maria Skevaki, Damien Lambert Alain Félicien Gilliard

This dataset contains the data, pipelines (in the form of .ghx files) and numerical results of the evaluation of diffCheck, an open-source scan-to-CAD comparison plugin for Rhino3D. The dataset is divided into two main compressed folders: Additive and `S ...

Zenodo2024

BamX: Rethinking Deployability in Architecture through Weaving

Mark Pauly, Stefana Parascho, Tian Chen, Yingying Ren, Seiichi Eduardo Suzuki Erazo

Deployable gridshells are a class of planar-to-spatial structures that achievea 3D curved geometry by inducing bending on a flat grid of elastic beams. However, theslender nature of these beams often conflicts with the structure’s load-bearing capacity.To ...

De Gruyter2023

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

Reinforcement learning for scaffold-free construction of spanning-structures

Maryam Kamgarpour, Stefana Parascho, Anna Maria Maddux, Gabriel Rémi Vallat, Jingwen Wang

In construction robotics, a conventional design-to-fabrication work-flow starts with designing a structure, followed by task and robotic motion planning, and ultimately, fabrication. However, this approach can prove unsuccessful, as we may only discover th ...

New York2023

Assembly of Spaceframes in Hybrid Teams: Adaptive Digital Fabrication Workflows for Human-Robot Collaboration

Alexandra Nicole Pittiglio, Stefana Parascho, Marianthi Eririni Kladeftira, Eleni Maria Skevaki

In spatial timber assemblies, a multitude of factors can lead to errors that hinder the implementation of complete automation including but not limited to inaccuracies of the robotic setup, deformations of the structures during assembly, or the natural dim ...

CAADRIA Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia2024

Beyond Optimization: Interaction as a Means to Resituate Digital Fabrication

Stefana Parascho

In this case study, researcher and professor Stefana Parascho proposes that interactive and improvisational robotic fabrication can be a means to counteract what she perceives to be one of digital fabrication’s more detrimental fixations: optimization. In ...

Taylor and Francis2024

Construction Robotics: From Automation to Collaboration

Stefana Parascho

2022

Upcycling concrete rubble into masonry walls: Design and assessment of two prototypes built with digitally augmented tools

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

Concrete rubble is currently a downcycled material whose upcycling remains under-explored and complex. This paper presents an accessible upcycling strategy to design and build slender structural masonry walls made from off-the-pile large demolition concret ...

Springer Nature Switzerland2024