Abstract. Evolute GmbH is a high-tech company founded as a spin-off from Vienna University of Technology in 2008. Since its foundation, Evolute has gained a wealth of practical expertise in enabling building projects featuring complex geometry and in solving geometric problems in automation and production technology. The paneling of freeform surfaces with panel elements of different materials and combinatorics which fulfill desired properties, such as developability and size, is one of the architectural problems Evolute specializes in. During the talk, projects from Evolute's portfolio, which revolve around such problems, will be presented. These will serve as examples of the architectural industry's recent demands for complex geometry and as the motivation behind recent advances in discrete differential geometry. Such projects include the Investcorp Building in Oxford, UK and the Eiffel Tower pavilions. New approaches to these problems and the demand for interactive tools which seamlessly incorporate the constraints imposed from these problems will also be discussed.
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