Research

This section provides an overview on Research Areas, ongoing Research Projects, ongoing Doctoral Research, Research Infrastructure, and Software and Hardware Tools.

Research Areas

Timber Architecture

Fibrous Architecture

Fibrous Architecture

Material Programming

AI and Data Integration

Agent-Based Modeling

Human-Machine Collaboration

Distributed Robotics

Aggregate Architecture

Funded Research Projects (ongoing)

List of Funded Research

DFG Cluster of Excellence EXC 2120

DFG Collaborative Research Centre SFB 1244

DFG Priority Program SPP 2187

Computerbasierte Methoden und KI für die Planung klimaneutraler Gebäude

Human-Robot-Collaboration II

Self-forming Cylindrical Wood Components for Sustainable Lightweight Structures

Robots//Reuse

Modular Data Architecture for Preparation, Annotation and Exchange for Conceptual Design

Data Processing and AI for Predictive and Adaptive Co-Design

Task and Motion Planning for Collaborative Robotic Construction with Irregular Materials

Knowledge Representation for Multi-Disciplinary Co-Design

Adaptive Beauty: Transferring natural elegance to architected materials

Robotic Screw-Press Gluing

Innovative AI-based Sustainable Timber Construction Process Planning

A02 | Development of Integrative Architectural Design Methods for Adaptive Structures

Agent-based Methods for Fabrication-oriented Design of Adaptive Modular Pre-fab Concrete Construction

Architectural Integration of Self-shaping Mechanisms

Doctoral Research (ongoing)

Doctorate Degree at the ICD

Towards Fabrication-Informed Design Freedom: Agent Based Modelling Methods for the Co-Design of a Multi-Storey Wood Building System and its Cyber-Physical Fabrication

Project-based Robotic Timber Construction

Material programming for 4D-printing: Architected mesostructures for bio-inspired self-shaping

Computational Design and Fabrication Strategies based on the Development of Multiple, Collaborative, Mobile Robotic Fabrication Systems in Architecture

Timber Plate Shells as a Roof Construction System

Integrated Computational Design Methods Based on Machine Learning Tools for Biomimetic Continuous Shell Extrusion

Evolution-Inspired Exploratory Design Tools

3D printed Hygroscopic Programmable Material Systems

Erosion-Based Formation Processes in Architecture

Architectural Potentials of Robotic Manufacturing in Timber Construction

Actuated Adaptive Architecture

Research Infrastructure

Additive Manufacturing Lab

Computational Construction Laboratory

Robotic Prototyping Laboratory

Software Tools

ABxM

Opossum

Vizor

Virtual Robot

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