CircleD

Circular design aims at expanding the lifespan of industrial products through repair and reuse. But mainstream computer-aided-design tools have been developed to support the creation of new products rather than the reuse of existing ones. The goal of this project is to revisit one of the core tasks of computer-aided-design - shape creation - under the new constraint of reusing parts of existing shapes. We will formulate shape reuse as a combinatorial optimization problem and we will explore geometry-driven and data-driven strategies to cope with the resulting computational complexity.