KnitNervi: knitted formwork for ribbed concrete shells at MAXXI, Rome, 2022

Knitnervi is the pavilion-scale demonstrator of a flexible formwork system for constructing a ribbed concrete shell. The system consists of a bending-active gridshell, as falsework and reinforcement, encapsulated by a CNC-knitted flexible formwork.
A project by the Block Research Group (BRG) at ETH Zurich and Dr. Mariana Popescu from the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences at Delft University of Technology, constructed for the exhibition "Technoscape: The architecture of engineers" at the MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome, Italy, 2022.