Julien Gamerro
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Expertise
- Civil and Timber Engineering
- Structural Analysis
- Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA)
- Digital Fabrication
- Innovative structure
- Sustainable constructions
Julien Gamerro est ingénieur civil et enseignant à l’EPFL, où ses activités portent sur la construction bois, les systèmes structurels durables et la fabrication numérique appliquée au génie civil. En parallèle de son engagement académique, il développe une pratique professionnelle ancrée dans les réalités du terrain en tant que cofondateur du bureau d’ingénieurs civils élément 6, basé à Lausanne. Son parcours s’inscrit à l’interface entre innovation scientifique, conception structurale et développement de solutions constructives durables.
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Julien Gamerro is a civil engineer and lecturer at EPFL, focusing on timber construction, sustainable structural systems, and digital fabrication in civil engineering. Alongside his academic work, he maintains an active professional practice as co-founder of élément 6, a civil engineering office based in Lausanne. His career bridges scientific innovation, structural design, and the development of durable and forward-looking construction solutions.
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Julien Gamerro is a civil engineer and lecturer at EPFL, focusing on timber construction, sustainable structural systems, and digital fabrication in civil engineering. Alongside his academic work, he maintains an active professional practice as co-founder of élément 6, a civil engineering office based in Lausanne. His career bridges scientific innovation, structural design, and the development of durable and forward-looking construction solutions.
Curriculum vitae
Dr ès Sc. EPFL Génie Civil (spécialisation construction bois)
Journal Articles
- TSLAM: a tag-based object-centered monocular navigation system for augmented manual woodworking.
Construction Robotics
2024-04-16
DOI : 10.1007/s41693-024-00118-w
- TTool: A Supervised Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Visual Pose Detector for Tool Heads in Augmented Reality Woodworking
applied sciences
2024-04-03
DOI : 10.3390/app14073011
- Projector-based augmented stacking framework for irregularly shaped objects
Construction Robotics
2023-05-05
DOI : 10.1007/s41693-023-00099-2
- Geometrical digital twins of the as-built microstructure of three-leaf stone masonry walls with laser scanning
Scientific Data
2023
DOI : 10.1038/s41597-023-02417-3
- Design considerations for robotically assembled through-tenon timber joints
Construction Robotics
2022-09-26
DOI : 10.1007/s41693-022-00080-5
- Augmented-reality-assisted timber drilling with smart retrofitted tools
Automation in Construction
2022-04-29
DOI : 10.1016/j.autcon.2022.104272
- Experimental investigations on the load-carrying capacity of digitally produced wood-wood connections
Engineering Structures
2020-03-24
DOI : 10.1016/j.engstruct.2020.110576
- A Calculation Method for Interconnected Timber Elements Using Wood-Wood Connections
Buildings
2020-03-20
DOI : 10.3390/buildings10030061
- Rotational mechanical behaviour of wood-wood connections with application to double-layered folded timber-plate structure
Construction and Building Materials
2018
DOI : 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2017.12.178
- Théâtre Vidy Lausanne - A Double-Layered Timber Folded Plate Structure
Journal of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures
2017
DOI : 10.20898/j.iass.2017.194.864
Conference Papers
- Cockroach: an open-source tool for point cloud processing in cad
2022-04-09. CAADRIA 2022 POST-CARBON , Sydney, Australia , April 9-12, 2022. p. 325-334.DOI : 10.52842/conf.caadria.2022.2.325.
- Case-Study on the Creep Behavior of Interconnected Timber Elements using Wood-Wood Connections
2021-08-12. WCTE 2021 World Conference on Timber Engineering , Santiago, Chile , August 9-12, 2021.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-ibois-287997.
- Modelling Workflow for Segmented Timber Shells using Wood-wood Connections.
2019. Design Modelling Symposium Berlin 2019. Impact: Design with all Senses , Berlin, Germany , September 23-25, 2019. p. 596-607.DOI : 10.1007/978-3-030-29829-6_46.
- Mechanical Characterization of Timber Structural Elements Using Integral Mechanical Attachments
2018-08-20. World Conference on Timber Engineering , Seoul, South Korea , August 20-23, 2018.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-ibois-256646.
- Théâtre Vidy Lausanne - Ein zweischichtiges gefaltetes Flächentragwerk aus Brettsperrholz
2016. S-WIN FBK Weinfelden 2016: Digitale Fertigung im Holzbau , Weinfelden, Switzerland , October 18-19, 2016. p. 9-20.- Multiple Tab-and-Slot Joint : Improvement of the Rotational Stiffness for the Connection of Thin Structural Wood Panels
2016. World Conference on Timber Engineering , Vienna, Austria , August 22-25, 2016.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-ibois-221012.
Books
- Le pavillon en bois du Théâtre de Vidy
Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes (PPUR).Theses
- Development of Novel Standardized Structural Timber Elements Using Wood-Wood Connections
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8302.
Reports
- Initial experimental tests, setups, discussions and challenges for OSB connections
2016-10-01
Talks
- La realité augmenté au service de l'usinage de charpente
13e Forum International Bois Construction (FBC), Épinal, Nancy, April 3-5, 2024.- Land of thousand dances
Colloque- Rencontres du Réseau Scientifique Thématique PhilAU (ENSACF École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Clermont-Ferrand) intitulé “ Architecture & philosophie - Prendre soin ” 2021, Clermont-Ferrand, France, December 10 2021.- Modelling Workflow for Segmented Timber Shells using Wood-wood Connections.
Design Modelling Symposium Berlin, Impact : Design with all Senses, Berlin, Germany, Septembre 24, 2019.- 3D Finite Element Model for Shear Stiffness of Wood-Wood Connections for Engineered Timber Panels
International Conference on Computational Methods in Wood Mechanics – from Material Properties to Timber Structures. ECCOMAS Thematic Conference., Växjö, Sweden, June 17-19, 2019.- Simplified calculation model for interconnected timber elements using wood-wood connections
International Conference on Computational Methods in Wood Mechanics – from Material Properties to Timber Structures. ECCOMAS Thematic Conference., Växjö, Sweden, June 17-19, 2019.- Future challenges and need for research in timber engineering
8th Workshop of COST Action FP1402, Basis of Structural Timber Design - from research to standards, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2018-10-25.- How will we plan and build in 25 years and how will this process be regulated?
Workshop of COST Action FP1402, Oskar von Miller Forum, Munich, Germany, 2018-09-12.- Mechanical Characterization of Timber Structural Elements
World Conference on Timber Engineering, Seoul, South Korea, August 20-23, 2018.Student Projects
- Design and automated fabrication scenario for a wood shingle-based envelope system
2021-09-21Advisor(s) : Y. Weinand; J. Gamerro
- Numerical Model of a Timber Tab-and- Slot Joint
2019Advisor(s) : J. Gamerro; A. C. Nguyen; Y. Weinand
- Mechanical characterization of a prefabricated orthotropic slab made out of OSB Panels using wood-wood connections
2017Advisor(s) : Y. Weinand; J. Gamerro
Media
- augmented-stacking
2022-11-23.
Datasets
- Supplementary material for "AR-assisted timber drilling with smart retrofitted tools"
2021.
- Dataset of the paper: "Experimental investigations on the load-carrying capacity of digitally produced wood-wood connections".
2020-04-09.
- Vibration tests on interconnected timber elements using wood-wood connections
2019-12-19.