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i. Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals
2022
- Pastrana, Rafael, Patrick Ole Ohlbrock, Thomas Oberbichler, Pierluigi D’Acunto, Stefana Parascho. 2022. “Constrained Form-Finding of Tension-Compression Structures using Automatic Differentiation.” In Computer Aided Design.
2021
- Huang, Yijiang, Caelan R. Garrett, Ian Ting, Stefana Parascho, and Caitlin T. Mueller. 2021. “Robotic Additive Construction of Bar Structures: Unified Sequence and Motion Planning.” Construction Robotics (2021), Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41693- 021-00062-z
- Bruun, Edvard, Rafael Pastrana, Vittorio Paris, Alessandro Beghini, Attilio Pizzigoni, Stefana Parascho and Sigrid Adriaenssens. 2021. “Three cooperative robotic fabrication methods for the scaffold-free construction of a masonry arch.” In Automation in Construction 129(6), Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2021.103803
2020
- Parascho, Stefana, Isla Xi Han, Samantha Walker, Alessandro Beghini, Edvard Bruun and Sigrid Adriaenssens. 2020. “A Cooperative Robotic Assembly Method for Compression-Only Vault Construction.” In Construction Robotics 4 (2020), pp. 117- 126, Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41693-020-00041-w
- Bruun, Edvard P. G., Ian Ting, Sigrid Adriaenssens, and Stefana Parascho. 2020. “Human– Robot Collaboration: A Fabrication Framework for the Sequential Design and Construction of Unplanned Spatial Structures.” Digital Creativity 31 (4): 320–36. https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2020.1845214
ii. Reviews
2022
- Parascho, Stefana. 2022. “From Automation to Collaboration: A Review of Construction Robotics”. In Annual Review of Control, Robotics and Autonomous Systems.
2021
- Han, Isla Xi, Forrest Meggers and Stefana Parascho. 2021.”Bridging the Collectives: A Review of Collective Human-Robot Construction.” In International Journal of Architectural Computing.
iii. Books and Book Chapters
Published
2021
- “Toward Critical Computation – Proceedings of ACADIA 2021.” book, published 2022. Edited by Kathrin Doerfler, Stefana Parascho and Jane Scott. Role: Editor.
- Parascho Stefana. 2021. “Home Position”, book chapter, in Design Studio Vol. 2: Intelligent Control 2021: Disruptive Technologies: 2021, edited by Rob Hyde and Filippos Filippidis, RIBA Publishing.
Publication in Progress
2023
- Parascho Stefana. 2023. “Beyond Optimization: Interaction as a Means to Resituate Digital Fabrication.” book chapter, in Homing the Machine.
- Parascho Stefana. “Design Space Explorations: On the role of visualisation in architectural fabrication and design.” book chapter, in Bio/Matter/Techno/Synthetics, University of Pennsylvania.
- Bruun, Edvard, Stefana Parascho and Sigrid Adriaenssens. 2023. “Cooperative Robotic Fabrication for a Circular Economy.” book chapter, in Circular Built Environment in the Digital Age. Edited by Catherine De Wolf, Sultan Çetin, and Nancy Bocken.
iv. Other publications
PhD Dissertation
2019
- Parascho, Stefana “Cooperative Robotic Assembly. Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication of Spatial Metal Structures.” ETH Zurich, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000364322
Conference Papers
2023
- Han, Isla Xi, and Stefana Parascho. 2023. ‘Improv-Structure: Exploring Improvisation in Collective Human-Robot Construction’. In Trends on Construction in the Digital Era, edited by António Gomes Correia, Miguel Azenha, Paulo J. S. Cruz, Paulo Novais, and Paulo Pereira, 233–43. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
2022
- Bruun, Edvard, Erin Besler, Sigrid Adriaenssens and Stefana Parascho. 2022. “Towards Computing Cooperative Robotic Sequences for the Disassembly and Reuse of Timber Frame Structures.” In ACADIA 2022 Hybrids and Haeccieties: Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture.
2020
- Han, Isla Xi, Edvard Bruun, Alessandro Beghini, Samantha Walker, Sigrid Adriaenssens and Stefana Parascho. 2020. “From Concept to Construction: A Transferable Design and Robotic Fabrication Method for a Building-Scale Vault.” In ACADIA 2020: Distributed Proximities, Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture.
- Parascho, Stefana, Isla Xi Han, Alessandro Beghini, Masaaki Miki, Samantha Walker, Edvard Bruun and Sigrid Adriaenssens. 2021. “LightVault.” In AAG 2020: Advances in Architectural Geometry.
- Vittorio, Paris, M. Lepora, Alessandro Beghini, Stefana Parascho and Sigrid Adriaenssens, 2020. “Robotic construction of a self-balancing glass masonry vault: DEM study of the stability during the construction stages.”, In IASS Annual Symposium and Spatial Structures Conference 2020/21
- Beghini, Alessandro, Samantha Walker, Masaaki Miki, Isla Xi Han, Sigird Adriaenssens and Stefana Parascho, 2021. “Robotic construction of a self-balancing glass masonry vault: Design and Tessellation.” In IASS Annual Symposium and Spatial Structures Conference 2020/21 (accepted)
2019
- Gandia Augusto, Stefana Parascho, Romana Rust, Gonzalo Casas, Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler (2019) “Towards Automatic Path Planning for Robotically Assembled Spatial Structures.” In ROBARCH – Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art and Design, edited by Willmann J., Block P., Hutter M., Byrne K., Schork T. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92294-2_5
- Piškorec Luka, David Jenny, Stefana Parascho, Hannes Mayer, Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler (2019) “The Brick Labyrinth.” In ROBARCH – Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art and Design, edited by Willmann J., Block P., Hutter M., Byrne K., Schork T. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92294-2_37
2018
- Parascho, Stefana, Thomas Kohlhammer, Stelian Coros, Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler. 2018. “Computational Design of Multi-Robotically Assembled Spatial Structures.” In AAG – Advances in Architectural Geometry 2018, pp. 112–139, edited by Lars Hesselgren, Axel Kilian, Olga Sorkine Hornung, Samar Malek, Karl-Gunnar Olsson, and Christopher John Kenneth Williams, Göteborg, Sweden: Klein Publishing GmbH. https://research.chalmers.se/en/publication/504188
2017
- Parascho, Stefana, Augusto Gandia, Ammar Mirjan, Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler. 2017. “Cooperative Fabrication of Spatial Metal Structures.” In Fabricate 2017, pp. 24-29, edited by Achim Menges, Bob Sheil, Ruairi Glynn and Marilena Skavara, London: UCL press, ISBN: 978-1-78735-001-4, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1n7qkg7.7
2014
- Parascho, Stefana, Jan Knippers, Moritz Dörstelmann, Marshall Prado and Achim Menges. 2014. “Modular Fibrous Morphologies: Computational Design, Simulation and Fabrication of Differentiated Fibre Composite Building Components.” In AAG – Advances in Architectural Geometry 2014, pp. 29-45, edited by Philippe Block, Jan Knippers, Niloy J. Mitra, Wenping Wang, Springer, ISBN 978-3-319-11418-7, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11418-7_3
- Dörstelmann, Moritz, Stefana Parascho, Marshall Prado, Jan Knippers and Achim Menges. 2014. “Integrative Computational Design Methodologies for Modular Architectural Fiber Composite Morphologies.” In ACADIA 2014 Design Agency: Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, pp. 219-228, edited by David Gerber, Alvin Huang and Jose Sanchez, ACADIA and Riverside Architectural Press, ISBN 978-1-926724-49-2, DOI: https://doi.org/10.13140/2.1.5186.0485
Accepted for Publication
2023
- Duong, Eric, and Stefana Parascho. 2023. ‘Social Signals: An Adaptive Installation for Mediating Space during COVID-19 and Beyond’ – accepted for publication, CAADfutures, Delft NL.
Invited Articles
2023
- Parascho Stefana. 2023. “Invisible Motions” Drawing Codes – Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, Applied Research + Design.
2019
- Parascho Stefana. 2019. “def help(): technical support” Pidgin Magazine, nr. 26. Princeton University.
2018
- Parascho Stefana. 2018. “Integrative Architekturmodelle” Kunst + Architektur, nr. 2018.4. Gesellschaft für Schweizerische Kunstgeschichte, Berne, Switzerland. ISBN: 978-3- 03797-345-5
2017
- Parascho, Stefana. 2017. “Un labirint de caramida.” igloo habitat & architectura, nr. 179, Aug- Sep 2017. pp. 138-141. Igloo Media, Bucharest, Romania.
