Petras Vestartas

Petras Vestartas is a researcher and instructor at EPFL, specializing in digital timber fabrication and computational design. He completed his Ph.D. at EPFL under Prof. Yves Weinand, developing a groundbreaking design-to-fabrication workflow for raw-sawn timber using joinery solver algorithms. His research bridges the gap between architectural design and manufacturing, focusing on sustainable local wood construction. His work includes developing open-source algorithms for wood joinery, laser scanning integration, and robotic fabrication. At EPFL, he teaches in the Digital Timber Construction postgraduate course and contributes to the MOOC on Advanced Timber Plate Structural Design, where he shares expertise in digital architecture, geometry processing, and advanced manufacturing workflows. His innovations include three types of timber joinery prototypes: segmented timber shells, nexorades, and trusses from tree forks, all designed to promote sustainable and economical solutions for local construction.