Jannis Heise
Papers
3
Total Citations
30
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2
About
Jannis Heise is a pioneering researcher at the forefront of sustainable construction, specializing in additive timber manufacturing and robotic fabrication. His work fundamentally reimagines how wood—one of humanity’s oldest building materials—can be used in modern, large-scale architecture through advanced digital processes. Heise’s major contribution lies in developing novel, wood-based filaments and techniques that enable material-efficient, stress-aligned 3D printing, directly challenging the wasteful practices of conventional mass-timber panels. His most cited work, “Additive Timber Manufacturing” (2021, 19 citations), introduces a groundbreaking robotic fabrication method that brings additive manufacturing into the construction industry’s scale using renewable timber. Further advancing the field, his “Continuous Timber Fibre Placement” (2019) and “Advancing Additive Manufacturing with Renewable Materials” (2025) demonstrate a trajectory toward precision placement of beech veneer, optimizing material use by aligning fibers with structural stress paths. With a growing citation impact, Heise is a key figure in the movement toward bio-based, digitally fabricated architecture, offering a compelling vision for a future where buildings are grown, not wasted.
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- 2Continuous Timber Fibre Placement9 citations · 2019
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