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20 February 2023

Mass Timber Staircase

Stairs are not easy to be designed, we know that, but many different Mass Timber projects challenged us with this kind of design and we’re going to show […]
8 September 2021

Form-Finding Optimization

One of the very first engineers working on form-finding is the Italian Pierluigi Nervi. He worked on this (without any FEM software!) because of the shortage […]
6 May 2021

Augmented Reality for Timber AEC

In recent years we have heard a lot about these new emerging technologies: virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality.At Ergodomus we love to push the […]
1 March 2021

Eggstrordinary engineering!

Spring is in the air and Easter will soon be upon us. That means it is time for the annual Ergodomus Egg Competition.
9 December 2020

Christmas Tree Structural Optimization

It’s Christmas time and here in the office we were wondering how the position and the weight of the decoration can affect the equilibrium of a […]
2 October 2017

Complex Geometries; From Design to Reality

Great Architects such as the late Zaha Hadid saw natural structures as structures made from extremely complex geometries. Obviously, credit goes to those who have the […]
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