Published Research

Date: 2026-09-21 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Tags: research, paper, conference

Format Engineers (2026). Reuse Steel in the Delivery of Optimised Public Infrastructure . In: Proceedings of the IASS–IWSS 2026 Joint Conference: R-Evolution of Shapes: Sustainability, Re-Use, and New Design Paradigms, 14–18 September 2026, Turin, Italy.
Format Engineers (2026). A Load Redistribution Approach for Enhancing Robustness in Highly Optimized 3D Spatial Frame Structures . In: Proceedings of the IASS–IWSS 2026 Joint Conference: R-Evolution of Shapes: Sustainability, Re-Use, and New Design Paradigms, 14–18 September 2026, Turin, Italy.
Format Engineers (2026). Optimisation of Waste Steel Led the Design of Low-Carbon Public Infrastructure . In: Design Modelling Symposium 2026 (DMS 2026): Circularity, 14–16 September 2026, EPFL, Lausanne and Fribourg, Switzerland.

Format Engineers & WSP UK (2025). Tan House Footbridge: Designing with repurposed steel, from early design stages to fabrication . In: The Structural Engineer, Volume 103, Issue 2, February 2025.
Expedition Engineering & Format Engineers (2025). Steel Reuse in Bridges . Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Research & Development Enabling Fund Report, April 2025.
Melville, S., Hawkins, W., & Ash, N. (2025). CSL Mini Shell: Structural assessment and augmented reality construction of a sprayed concrete shell prototype . In: Proceedings of the IABSE Congress Ghent 2025: The Essence of Structural Engineering for Society, August 2025.
Vercruysse, E., Davies, K., & Solly, J. (2025). A Forest Datum: The Use of Crown Timber in a Structural System . In: Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposium 2025, October 2025.

Church, M., & Melville, S. (2024). Lotus Aeroad – Pushing the Scale of Tensegrity Structures . In: Architecture and Design for Industry 4.0: Theory and Practice, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, Springer.

Johnson, S., Dixit, M., Boyer, L., & Melville, S. (2022). Counterfactual Modeling in Historical Reconstruction: El Lissitzky’s Horizontal Skyscraper WB2 . In: Technology|Architecture+Design, 6(1), 46-58.
Debney, P., Jeffries, P., Christodoulou, A., Titulaer, R., Shepherd, P., Lineham, S., Lazenby, H., Melville, S. & Solly, J. (2022). Advanced Applications in Computational Design . In: Industry 4.0 for the Built Environment (pp. 77-102). Springer, Cham.

Christie, J., Bodea, S., Solly, J., Menges, A., & Knippers, J. (2021). Filigree shell slabs–material and fabrication-aware shape optimisation for CFRP coreless-wound slab components . AAG2020, Paris, France, 28-29.
Johnson, S., Dixit, M., Boyer, L., & Melville, S. (2021). Counterfactual Modeling in Historical Reconstruction: El Lissitzky’s Horizontal Skyscraper WB2 . In: Proceedings of the 2021 Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD 2021).

Solly, J. (2020). Coreless Filament Winding: From Academia to Practice . In: Design Transactions Rethinking Information Modelling for a New Material Age Edited by Bob Sheil, Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, Martin Tamke, and Sean Hanna

Houck, L., Dodson, J., Melville, S., Pearson, W., Thiis, T. (2019) The process of rocking CLT into a HOT cabin . In: ICSA 2019, 4th International Conference on Structures and Architecture, 24-26 July 2019, Lisbon.

Klasz, W., Melville, S., Pellegrino, M. (2018). K2E for Form-Finding & Assembling . In: Proceedings of Advances in Architectural Geometry 2018 (AAG 2018), Gothenburg, Sweden.
Klasz, W., Melville, S., Pellegrino, M. (2018). The relevance of self formation in teaching structural design . In: IV International Conference on Civil Engineering Education, EUCEET 2018, 5-8 September 2018, Barcelona.

Harding, J., Brandt-Olsen, C., Melville, S., Hills, S. (2017). The UWE Research Pavilion 2016 . In: Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposium 2017, 25-28 September 2017, Hamburg.
Melville, S., Brandt-Olsen, C., Harding, J. (2017). Calibrated modelling of form-active structures . In: Proceedings of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering, 19-20 April 2017, Bath.

Harding, J., Pearson, W., Lewis, H. and Melville, S. 2014. The Ongreening Pavilion . In: Proceedings of the AAG Symposium 2014, 18-21 September 2014, London.
Nielsen, T., Melville, S., Sproat, I. 2014. Populating surfaces with holes using particle repulsion based on scalar fields . In: Proceedings of the CAADe conference 2014, Northumbria.
Melville, S. 2014. Wonders and Blunders. In: Building Magazine

Melville, S., Harding, J., Lewis, H., 2013. TRADA Pavilion - Searching for Innovation and Elegance in Complex Forms Supported by Physical and Software Prototyping . In: Prototyping Architecture: The Conference Papers, Building Centre Trust, London, ISBN 10 – 0-901919-17-9, 2013
Shepherd, P. and Pearson, W., 2013. Topology optimisation of algorithmically generated space frames . In: Proceedings of the IASS Symposium 2013, 23-27 September 2013, Wroclaw.

Published Research (2026)