Publications by Seiichi Eduardo Suzuki Erazo

Interactive Design of C-shells Using Reduced Parametric Families

Mark Pauly, Seiichi Eduardo Suzuki Erazo, Quentin Christian Becker

Elastic gridshells are a class of planar-to-3D linkages typically composed of straight flexible beams connected via rigid rotational joints. The integration of planar curved flexible beams into these linkages significantly broadens their design space, allo ...

2024

Computational Homogenization for Inverse Design of Surface-based Inflatables

Mark Pauly, Florin Isvoranu, Uday Kusupati, Seiichi Eduardo Suzuki Erazo, Yingying Ren, Francis Julian Panetta

Surface-based inflatables are composed of two thin layers of nearly inextensible sheet material joined together along carefully selected fusing curves. During inflation, pressure forces separate the two sheets to maximize the enclosed volume. The fusing c ...

2024

Integrative structural design methods for bamboo woven deployable structures: The BamX! Research Pavilion

Seiichi Eduardo Suzuki Erazo

Bamboo deployable structures take advantage of the high elasticity of the naturally grown material to achieve substantial shape change beyond mechanical deployment. The deployability maximizes prefabrication while maintaining transportation compactness. Th ...

International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS)2024

Computational Design of a Kit of Parts for Bending Active Structures

Mark Pauly, Uday Kusupati, Seiichi Eduardo Suzuki Erazo, Quentin Christian Becker

Bending-active structures are composed of elastic elements that deform to achieve a desired target shape. To support effective design, inverse algorithms have been proposed that optimize the geometry of each element specifically for each design. This makes ...

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)2024

BamX: Rethinking Deployability in Architecture through Weaving

Mark Pauly, Stefana Parascho, Seiichi Eduardo Suzuki Erazo, Yingying Ren, Tian Chen

Deployable gridshells are a class of planar-to-spatial structures that achievea 3D curved geometry by inducing bending on a flat grid of elastic beams. However, theslender nature of these beams often conflicts with the structure’s load-bearing capacity.To ...

De Gruyter2023

RUM: Reconfigurable Umbrella Mesh

Mark Pauly, Florin Isvoranu, Uday Kusupati, Seiichi Eduardo Suzuki Erazo

We propose Reconfigurable Umbrella Meshes (RUMs), a new class of preassembled deployable structures. A RUM has a compact rest state that can be easily altered to deploy into different bending-active 3D target shapes. RUMs consist of elastic beams and rigid ...

De Gruyter2023

C-shells: Deployable Gridshells with Curved Beams

Mark Pauly, Seiichi Eduardo Suzuki Erazo, Quentin Christian Becker, Yingying Ren, Francis Julian Panetta, Davide Pellis

We introduce a computational pipeline for simulating and designing C-shells, a new class of planar-to-spatial deployable linkage structures. A C-shell is composed of curved flexible beams connected at rotational joints that can be assembled in a stress-fre ...

2023