Dr.
Mariana
Popescu
Alumni
Dr. Mariana Popescu is post-doctoral researcher at the Block Research Group (BRG) at the Institute of Technology in Architecture at ETH Zurich, involved in the NCCR Digital Fabrication. Popescu is an architect with a strong interest in innovative ways of approaching the fabrication process and use of materials. She studied architecture at the Delft University of Technology, before obtaining her PhD at the BRG in 2019. 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.
Work Topic
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.
Role in the NCCR Digital Fabrication
Alumni: Postdoctoral Researcher
Current position
Assistant Professor of Parametric Structural Design and Digital Fabrication, TU DelftNCCR publications
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- Date: 01.08.2023
- Authors: Dr. Minu Lee, Dr. Jaime Mata Falcón, Dr. Mariana Popescu, Prof. Dr. Walter Kaufmann
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- Date: 01.06.2021
- Authors: Dr. Mariana Popescu, Dr. Matthias Rippmann, Dr. Andrew Liew, Dr. Lex Reiter, Prof. Dr. Robert Flatt, Dr. Tom Van Mele, Prof. Dr. Philippe Block
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Design of a funicular concrete bridge with knitted formwork (2021)
- Date: 01.01.2021
- Authors: 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
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- Date: 06.04.2020
- Authors: Dr. Mariana Popescu, Dr. Matthias Rippmann, Dr. Tom Van Mele, Prof. Dr. Philippe Block
- Event: Fabricate 2020 (virtual)
- Notes: Due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) the conference was conducted virtually.
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KnitCrete: Building in Concrete with a Stay-in-Place Knitted Fabric Formwork (2020)
- Date: 01.01.2020
- Authors: Dr. Mariana Popescu, Dr. Matthias Rippmann, Dr. Tom Van Mele, Prof. Dr. Philippe Block
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- Date: 01.01.2020
- Authors: 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)
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Betonschale mit gestrickter Schalung (2019)
- Date: 01.01.2019
- Authors: Dr. Mariana Popescu, Dr. Matthias Rippmann, Dr. Andrew Liew, Dr. Tom Van Mele, Prof. Dr. Philippe Block
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- Date: 01.06.2018
- Authors: Dr. Mariana Popescu, Dr. Lex Reiter, Dr. Andrew Liew, Dr. Tom Van Mele, Prof. Dr. Robert Flatt, Prof. Dr. Philippe Block
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Automated generation of knit patterns for non-developable surfaces (2017)
- Date: 01.01.2017
- Authors: Dr. Mariana Popescu, Dr. Matthias Rippmann, Dr. Tom Van Mele, Prof. Dr. Philippe Block
- Event: Design Modelling Symposium Paris 2017
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The Armadillo Vault: Computational design and digital fabrication of a freeform stone shell (2016)
- Date: 01.01.2016
- Authors: 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)
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Complex concrete casting: knitting stay-in-place formwork (2016)
- Date: 01.01.2016
- Authors: 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