Bas Rongen

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Bas Rongen is a leading researcher in computational design and robotic fabrication for lightweight fiber composite structures. His primary research areas include coreless filament winding, architectural robotics, and structural optimization of fiber-reinforced polymers. Rongen’s major contribution lies in pioneering the design, engineering, and on-site realization of large-scale, robotically wound pavilions that push the boundaries of material efficiency and structural performance. His most cited work, the BUGA fibre pavilion (2020, 38 citations), details the first coreless-wound, load-bearing shell built from carbon and glass fibers, demonstrating a radical reduction in material use through algorithmic form-finding and robotic fabrication. A subsequent study on material monitoring of a composite dome pavilion (2021, 10 citations) provided critical insights into the structural health and long-term behavior of these novel systems under real environmental loads. Rongen’s work, developed through the ICD/ITKE collaboration at the University of Stuttgart, has been instrumental in translating advanced manufacturing research into buildable, high-performance architecture, establishing a new paradigm for sustainable, fiber-based construction.