On February 28, 2025, ITECH Alumni Laura Marsillo, Clara Blum and Gonzalo Muñoz Guerrero received the IntCDC Master’s Thesis Award for their ITECH thesis project “Reclaimed Design – An availability-oriented design methodology for reclaimed lumber.”
The IntCDC Master’s Thesis Award, granted annually by the Cluster of Excellence Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture (IntCDC), supports outstanding master's students taking their first steps toward an academic career.
Reclaimed Design explores a novel approach to architectural design by placing material availability, specifically reclaimed lumber, at the core of the process, developing a computational-to-fabrication framework for its reuse.
ITECH M.Sc. Thesis Project 2024: Reclaimed Design - An availability-oriented design methodology for reclaimed lumber
Clara Blum, Laura Marsillo, Gonzalo Muñoz Guerrero
Thesis Advisers: Zuardin Akbar, Tzu-Ying Chen
Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Jan Knippers, Prof. Thomas Wortmann
This project was developed in part through the Autodesk Research Residency Program. The Autodesk Research Residency Program is a research and development program where a diverse global community of innovators from industry, academic, and entrepreneurial sectors collaborate to design, make, and de-risk the future together.
With support of: Polytec - https://www.polytec.com