Dr.
Petras
Vestartas
Petras Vestartas is a post-doctoral researcher at the Block Research Group since 2023. He holds architecture degree from VAA (Lithuania) and completed his PhD at IBOIS, EPFL (Switzerland). His research focused on digital timber fabrication, scanning methods, robotic tool-path planning, and geometry processing. He has developed software applications like compas_wood (timber joinery), NGon (mesh processing), OpenNest (2D nesting), Raccoon (CNC fabrication), and Cockroach (point-cloud processing). Petras has extensive experience teaching and conducting workshops, supervising thesis projects. He was a research assistant at CITA, KADK (Denmark), and gained experience in international architecture offices (Cebra (Denmark), Do-Architects (Lithuania), DMAA (Austria)).
Work Topic
Panelized Timber Vaulted Floors and COMPAS framework development, and teaching.
Role in the NCCR Digital Fabrication
Project
Panelized Timber Vaulted Floors
NCCR publications
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Modelling Workflow for Segmented Timber Shells Using Wood-Wood Connections (2020)
- Date: 01.01.2020
- Authors: Dr. Petras Vestartas, Dr. Nicolas Rogeau, Julien Gamerro, Prof. Dr. Yves Weinand
- Event: Design Modelling Symposium Berlin (DMSB 2019)
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Segmented Spiral Using Inter-Connected Timber Elements (2019)
- Date: 07.10.2019
- Authors: Dr. Petras Vestartas, Loic Pelletier, Martin Thomas Nakad, Prof. Dr. Aryan Rezaei Rad, Prof. Dr. Yves Weinand
- Event: IASS 2019: FORM and FORCE
External URL(s)
Phone
+41 78 726 14 87