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Her research focuses on the development of KnitCrete, a novel, material-saving, labour-reducing, cost-effective formwork system for casting of doubly-curved geometries in concrete using 3D knitting. She is the main author of the award-winning KnitCandela shell and has been included in the MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35 list in 2019.

Position im NFS Digitale Fabrikation

Alumni: Postdoctoral Researcher

NFS Publikationen

• Thin‐walled concrete beams with stay‐in‐place flexible formworks and integrated textile shear reinforcement (2023)

  • Datum: 01.08.2023
  • Autoren: Dr. Minu Lee, Dr. Jaime Mata Falcón, Dr. Mariana Popescu, Prof. Dr. Walter Kaufmann

• Structural design, digital fabrication and construction of the cable-net and knitted formwork of the KnitCandela concrete shell (2021)

  • Datum: 01.06.2021
  • Autoren: Dr. Mariana Popescu, Dr. Matthias Rippmann, Dr. Andrew Liew, Dr. Lex Reiter, Prof. Dr. Robert Flatt, Dr. Tom Van Mele, Prof. Dr. Philippe Block

• Design of a funicular concrete bridge with knitted formwork (2021)

  • Datum: 01.01.2021
  • Autoren: Sam Bouten, Dr. Mariana Popescu, Dr. Francesco Ranaudo, Dr. Tom Van Mele, Prof. Dr. Philippe Block, Pierre Mengeot, Kenneth Wyns
  • Event: IABSE Congress: Structural Engineering for Future Societal Needs

• KnitCandela - Challenging the construction, logistics, waste and economy of concrete-shell formworks (2020)

  • Datum: 06.04.2020
  • Autoren: Dr. Mariana Popescu, Dr. Matthias Rippmann, Dr. Tom Van Mele, Prof. Dr. Philippe Block
  • Event: Fabricate 2020 (virtual)
  • Bemerkungen: Due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) the conference was conducted virtually.

• KnitCrete: Building in Concrete with a Stay-in-Place Knitted Fabric Formwork (2020)

  • Datum: 01.01.2020
  • Autoren: Dr. Mariana Popescu, Dr. Matthias Rippmann, Dr. Tom Van Mele, Prof. Dr. Philippe Block

• Potential Approaches for Reinforcing Complex Concrete Structures with Integrated Flexible Formwork (2020)

  • Datum: 01.01.2020
  • Autoren: Dr. Minu Lee, Dr. Jaime Mata Falcón, Dr. Mariana Popescu, Prof. Dr. Philippe Block, Prof. Dr. Walter Kaufmann
  • Event: 2nd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication (Digital Concrete 2020) (virtual)

• Betonschale mit gestrickter Schalung (2019)

  • Datum: 01.01.2019
  • Autoren: Dr. Mariana Popescu, Dr. Matthias Rippmann, Dr. Andrew Liew, Dr. Tom Van Mele, Prof. Dr. Philippe Block

• Building in Concrete with an Ultra-lightweight Knitted Stay-in-place Formwork: Prototype of a Concrete Shell Bridge (2018)

  • Datum: 01.06.2018
  • Autoren: Dr. Mariana Popescu, Dr. Lex Reiter, Dr. Andrew Liew, Dr. Tom Van Mele, Prof. Dr. Robert Flatt, Prof. Dr. Philippe Block

• Automated generation of knit patterns for non-developable surfaces (2017)

  • Datum: 01.01.2017
  • Autoren: Dr. Mariana Popescu, Dr. Matthias Rippmann, Dr. Tom Van Mele, Prof. Dr. Philippe Block
  • Event: Design Modelling Symposium Paris 2017

• The Armadillo Vault: Computational design and digital fabrication of a freeform stone shell (2016)

  • Datum: 01.01.2016
  • Autoren: Dr. Matthias Rippmann, Ursula Frick, Dr. Tom Van Mele, Edyta Augustynowicz, Tomás Méndez Echenagucia, Cristian Javier Calvo Barentin, Dr. Mariana Popescu, Prof. Dr. Philippe Block
  • Event: 5th Advances in Architectural Geometry Symposium (AAG 2016)

• Complex concrete casting: knitting stay-in-place formwork (2016)

  • Datum: 01.01.2016
  • Autoren: Dr. Mariana Popescu, Dr. Matthias Rippmann, Dr. Tom Van Mele, Prof. Dr. Philippe Block
  • Event: IASS 2016 Tokyo Symposium: Spatial Structures in the 21st Century

Medienmitteilungen

• Betonschale aus Stahlseilen und gestrickter Schalung
• Beton ist ihre Masche
• Meet the Innovators Under 35: Mariana Popescu

Externe URL(s)

• KnitCandela project page
• Stay-in-place knitted formworks research page