Publications by Stefana Parascho

Learning to Assemble with Alternative Plans

Maryam Kamgarpour, Stefana Parascho, Gabriel Rémi Vallat

We present a reinforcement learning framework for constructing assemblies composed of rigid parts, which are commonly seen in many historical masonry buildings and bridges. Traditional construction methods for such structures often depend on dense scaffold ...

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)2025

DiffCheck: A scan-CAD evaluation tool for digital manufacturing and assembly processes in timber construction

Yves Weinand, Julien Gamerro, Stefana Parascho, Andrea Settimi

In digital timber construction, scanning technologies and point cloud data are widely used due to the accessibility of affordable 3D sensors, photogrammetry, and userfriendly CAD tools. While typically not employed for accuracy checks in timber fabrication ...

CRC Press2025

New tectonics of concrete through rubble reuse

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Stefana Parascho, Maxence Grangeot

Driven by the sustainability of the construction industry, concrete rubble is increasingly considered as a construction material rather than a waste. Analysing structures from such material through the conceptual tool of tectonics highlights a fertile grou ...

CRC Press2025

Disused Concrete, Digital Acupuncture and Reuse

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Stefana Parascho, Maxence Grangeot

Crushing concrete liberated from demolished buildings to provide recycled aggregate is argued to be a sustainable way of reducing material extraction. Yet, in these high‐energy processes, large amounts of new cement is often used, negating this as a low‐ca ...

Wiley2024

Concrete rubble as a new construction material: Panorama of applications to known structural typologies

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Stefana Parascho, Maxence Grangeot

Concrete rubble is among the most wasted materials worldwide. In this paper, we present a panorama of the upcycling potential of disused concrete rubble as construction material for new low-carbon structures. We identify 15 existing structural applications ...

IASS2024

Upcycling concrete rubble into masonry walls: Design and assessment of two prototypes built with digitally augmented tools

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Stefana Parascho, Maxence Grangeot

Concrete rubble is currently a downcycled material whose upcycling remains under-explored and complex. This paper presents an accessible upcycling strategy to design and build slender structural masonry walls made from off-the-pile large demolition concret ...

Springer Nature Switzerland2024

Beyond Optimization: Interaction as a Means to Resituate Digital Fabrication

Stefana Parascho

In this case study, researcher and professor Stefana Parascho proposes that interactive and improvisational robotic fabrication can be a means to counteract what she perceives to be one of digital fabrication’s more detrimental fixations: optimization. In ...

Taylor and Francis2024

Assembly of Spaceframes in Hybrid Teams: Adaptive Digital Fabrication Workflows for Human-Robot Collaboration

Stefana Parascho

In spatial timber assemblies, a multitude of factors can lead to errors that hinder the implementation of complete automation including but not limited to inaccuracies of the robotic setup, deformations of the structures during assembly, or the natural dim ...

CAADRIA Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia2024

Evaluation date as support material for diffCheck publication icsa 2025

Yves Weinand, Julien Gamerro, Stefana Parascho, Andrea Settimi

This dataset contains the data, pipelines (in the form of .ghx files) and numerical results of the evaluation of diffCheck, an open-source scan-to-CAD comparison plugin for Rhino3D. The dataset is divided into two main compressed folders: Additive and `S ...

Zenodo2024

Rising from rubble - Leveraging existing construction tools for upcycling concrete waste into slender walls

Katrin Beyer, Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Stefana Parascho, Qianqing Wang, Maxence Grangeot

In this paper, we present a new method for upcycling concrete rubble waste into slender walls through the lightweight digital augmentation of mainstream construction machines. By using such method, the environmental impact of concrete construction and demo ...

Springer2024