9:00-10:10 - Plenary Lecture 1: Simon GUEST (Cambridge University) - Understanding Tensegrity with an Energy Function

10:10-10:40 - Plenary Lecture 2: Kai Uwe BLETZINGER (TUM School of Engineering and Design) - Form finding by shape optimization with implicit splines and vertex morphing

10:50 - 11:15 - break

11:20 - 13:30 - Parallel Sessions- Form-Finding and Optimization of Shell and Spatial Structures 

• 1008 - Chris J K WILLIAMS - Internal force and moment surfaces for shells 

• 1009 - Marco Martino ROSSO - Steel frames optimization considering beam-column joint stiffness and geometric constraints

• 1016 - Gloria Rita ARGENTO - Isogeometric refinement for shape optimization with a tunable number of variables

• 1020 - Raffaele CUCUZZA - Structural Optimization Through Cutting Stock Problem

• 1027 - Jonathan MELCHIORRE - Gridshell Multi-step Structural Optimization with Improved Multi-body Rope Approach and Pareto-search algorithm

• 1042 - Valerio VARANO - About the directions of principal eccentricities in continuous shells

• 1093 - Tao SUN - Geometry-driven stock-constrained form-finding through graphic statics

• 1040 - Claudia CHIANESE - Form-finding of membrane shells via isogeometric analysis

14:30 - 15:00- Keynote Session 1 - Fernando FRATERNALI (Università di Salerno) - Designing seismic isolators through lattice metamaterials

15:00- 16:30 - Parallel Sessions

• 1004 - Roberto SPAGNUOLO - Structural sensitivity and evolution

• 1029- Romane BOUTILLIER - Topology optimisation of architectural meshes adapted to the support conditions

• 1038 - Davide PELLIS - Principal symmetric structures

• 1017 - Arianna VENETTONI - Principal lines on shells: which are more meaningful? 

• 1067 - Francesco LACCONE - Statics and stability of bending-optimized double-layer grid shell

• 1075 -Pierluigi D’ACUNTO - Design of reciprocal self-stressed roof structures with graphic statics

17:00 - 17:30 - Keynote Session 2 - Giuseppe FALLACARA (Politecnico di Bari) - New frontiers of stereotomic stone architecture

17:30 - 19:30 - Parallel Sessions

• 1043 - Dario COSTANTINO - The use of pneumatic vacuum for the assembly of innovative stereotomic structures

• 1026 - Ilaria CAVALIERE - Multy body Rope Approach and Funicular Prototype for Pavillion Inspired to Guarino Guarini’s Architecture

• 1069 - Valeria GOZZI - Spatial plates structures behaviour: the case study of the control tower of Alptransit in Pollegio - CH

• 1056 - Nicola RIMELLA - Application of Reinforcement Learning within InfraBIM context

• 1079 - Carlo Luigi OSTORERO - Architecture VS AI - Will ChatGPT replace umankind in architectural design?

• 1090 - Germano RAGOSTA - Optical method of 3D deformation and strain measurement for large scale civil engineering measurement and monitoring and for material optimization

• 1097 - Yuan XU - A novel apparatus and methodology to characterise the high-rate behaviour of materials under complex loading conditions

• 1116 - Devid FALLIANO - Toward Positional Optimization Of Physical And Mechanical Properties Of Structural Elements: Visions And Opportunities

9:00 - 9:40 - Plenary Lecture 1:  Massimo COMPARINI (Thales Alenia Space) , Valentina SUMINI (Politecnico di Milano) - Space Architecture: A multidisciplinary form-finding 

9:40 - 10:20 - Plenary Lecture 2: Hugo PEIRETTI (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) - Relationship between the past and the present of shells and spatial structures. From the teachings of Eduardo Torroja to more recent achievements

10:20 – 10:50 - Keynote 1 - Massimo CUOMO (Università di Catania) - Variational formulations for the form finding of flexible structures

10:50 - 13:00 - Parallel Sessions - Space Architecture: A multidisciplinary form-finding

• 1082 - Maria Antonietta PERINO - Human-centered Design for Exploration Habitable Modules

• 1051 - Marta ROSSI  - Designing with Technical Textiles on Mars: Material Properties and sustainable-by-design Principles for Enhancing Efficient Construction in Extreme Environments

• 1117 - Matteo PAVESE - Simulant Material Characterization and StructuralOptimization for Extra-terrestrial Settlemen

• 1112 - Costanza ANERDI - Space Architecture Goes Green: Investigating Hemp Fiber Reinforcement for Regolith-Based Structures

• 1099 - Valentina SUMINI - A sustainability by design lesson learned from Space Architecture

• 1100 - Valentina SUMINI - A mobile habitat for human lunar exploration

• 1025 - Andrea MANUELLO - Adaptive Structures with Intrinsic Control: Exploratory Habitation- Vehicles for Space Environment

14:30 – 16:00 - Erica  LENTICCHIA (Politecnico di Torino) - Lecture on Pier Luigi Nervi places. Padiglione C Torino Esposizioni

The Turin Exhibition Center was conceived immediately after the Second World War to host the annual Automobile Show, and was supported and promoted the Fiat motor company, located in Turin. The two main buildings of the complex, Halls B and C, represent a remarkable example of innovative use of the new advanced techniques in reinforced concrete construction, which combined the new prefabrication procedures and the re-invention of ferrocement by Nervi. The ferrocement, whose use is here combined with extensive use of prefabrication, is adopted for its lightness, resistance and malleability to make structural elements resistant in shape, with extraordinary results from an aesthetic point of view. 

16:00 – 19:30 -  Cristina CHIORINO (PLN Project Foundation) - Lecture on Pier Luigi Nervi places. Palazzo del Lavoro 

The Palace of Labour designed and built by Nervi and his son Antonio for the Turin exhibition of 1961 was the result of a competition held in 1959. The building—containing 7897 square meters of exhibition space—had to be capable of conversion to a technical school at the end of the exhibition. It was erected in less than eighteen months. Like Mies van der Rohe’s buildings, there is a subtle fusion of structure and space in Nervi’s buildings. But whereas Mies searched for free internal space, Nervi’s aesthetic is dependent on an energetic exhibition of the structural parts of a building. The Palace of Labour was no exception… the simple 48.77 square meters shape was divided into sixteen structurally separate steel roofed compartments each supported on 19.8-meters-high concrete stems. The external walls, entirely clad in glass, wrapped round the perimeter of the building and incorporated large 70-foot-high vertical mullions.

8:30 - 9:10 - Plenary Lecture 1 - Carlos LAZARO (Universitat Politècnica de València) Two lightweight structures with steel-fibre reinforced concrete

9:10 - 9:40 - Plenary Lecture 2 - Charis GANTES (National Technical University of Athens) Structural Challenges Encountered in the Design of Tubular Steel Wind Turbine Towers

9:50 - 11:20 - Parallel Sessions - Textile-hybrid structures

• 1068 - Mirhossein AHMADNIA - Exploring the Potential of Fibrous Tectonics for Façade Application: A Form-Finding, FEM Analysis, and Optimization study

• 1077 - Evangelia VLACHAKI - A hybrid vault structure by coupling origami folded plates with a scissor–four bar linkage frame: geometric configuration and kinematic behavior

• 1110 - Giulio ZANI - A unidirectional ribbed floor system with prefabricated fiber-reinforced concrete beams and textile-reinforced concrete shells

• 1055 - Milan DRAGOLJEVIC - Review of lightweight structures use for archaeological shelters with a proposal of the design improvement for their foundations

• 1021 - Stefano INVERNIZZI - Investigating the Influence of the Improved Multibody Rope Approach on the Dynamic Behavior of Grid-shell Structures

• 1086 - Valentina BEATINI - Testing a foldable origami sandwich panel and kirigami joints

11:20 - 11:40 - break

11:40 - 13:30 - Parallel Sessions

• 1072 - Salvatore VISCUSO - Parametric design and structural analysis of a membrane tensile roof in Milan

• 1073 - Katherine LIAPI - Minimal surface tensegrity structures: Design algorithm implementation in real world applications

• 1078 - Anastasia IOANNIDI - A modular Origami Frame Structure for Offshore Applications

• 1062 - Juan Jose CASTELLON GONZALEZ - Mixed Reality Holographic Models for the interactive and synergetic exploration of spatial structures in architectural design and education