List of Funded Research

Computerbasierte Methoden und KI für die Planung klimaneutraler Gebäude

 

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Human-Robot-Collaboration II

 

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Self-forming cylindrical wood components for sustainable lightweight structures

 

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RobotsReuse

 

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

 

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Co-Design Methods for Developing Distributed Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems for Construction

 

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Extension of the Cyber-Physical Prefabrication Platform

 

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Computational Co-Design Framework for Fibre Composite Building Systems

 

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Hybrid FRP-Timber Building System and Material System Development

 

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Co-Design from Architectural, Social and Computational Perspectives

 

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Data Processing and AI for Predictive and Adaptive Co-Design

 

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Cyber-Physical Fabrication Platform: Fluid Fabrication

 

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Co-Design of Multi-Storey Timber Building Systems for Building Stock Extension

 

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Task and Motion Planning for Collaborative Robotic Construction with Irregular Materials

 

AI-Based Timber Construction Process Planning

 

Knowledge Representation for Multi-Disciplinary Co-Design of Buildings

 

WTT-ZeroFassade

 

Adaptive Beauty: Transferring natural elegance to architected materials

 

Low-Cost, High-Insulation, Layer-Reduced, Mono-Material, Adhesive-Free, Digitally-Fabricated, Solid-Timber Construction

 

Robotic Screw-Press Gluing

 

Development of Wood Building Systems for Construction Processes using Distributed Robotics

 

Collaborative Research Centre, SFB 1244: Adaptive Building Skins and Structures

A02: Development of Integrative Architectural Design Methods for Adaptive Structures

 

Natural Fibre Structures

 

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

 

Material Culture – Rethinking the physical substrate for living together

 

Smarter Smart Materials - Integrating Human Interaction with Environmentally Responsive Material Systems

 

Autonomous Granular Materials in Architecture (AGMA)

 

Hygroshape

 

Wissentransfer für Leichtbau im Bauwesen (WiTra-LB)

 

Leveraging the Building Material as Part of the Robotic Kinematic System for Parallel Construction

 

Additive cyber-physical prefabrication platform for multifunctional, multi-scale load-adapted fibre composite building elements including fabrication simulation and digital twin

 

Computational co-design for fibre composite building systems including visual analytics and interfaces to mechanical and fabrication simulation

 

Building system development for long-span, fibre composite structures including structural health monitoring and alternatives for sustainable winding materials

 

Co-design from architectural, historical and social science perspectives: Opportunities, challenges and implications of an integrative approach to design and construction relations for multi-storey buildings

 

Cyber-physical fabrication platform for IntCDC wood building system utilizing human-machine collaborations including immersive analytics for augmented reality

 

Computational design, engineering and development of digitally fabricated, high performance, multi-storey wood building system

 

Responsive Autonomous Surface Structures Inspired by Passive Multi-phase Plant Movements

 

Leichtbau BW Innovation Challenge

 

Design, Fabrication and Engineering Methods for the Application of Curved Wood Components for High-performance and Resource-efficient Wood Construction: Project Tower Urbach, Remstal Garden Show 2019

 

Bio-based and bio-inspired 3D-printed shape-changing material systems

 

Research and development of a demonstrator building for long-span, lightweight structures based on a robotically fabricated, fibre composite building system

 

Research and development of a demonstrator building for long-span, segmented shell structures based on a robotically fabricated, lightweight timber building system

 

Construction-oriented fibre composite systems for robotically wound lightweight roof and ceiling systems

 

Collaborative Research Centre, SFB 1244: Adaptive Building Skins and Structures

Teilprojekt A02: Development of integrative design methods and computational design tools for adaptive structures and their digital production

 

Timber Construction 4.0

 

Additive Manufacturing of Large Fibre Composite Elements for Building Construction (AddFiberFab)

 

Human-Robot Collaboration in Timber Construction: Potentials for Prefabrication

 

Personalised 3D- and 4D-Printing of programmable, self-adjusting and multifunctional Material Systems for Sports and Medical Applications (4DmultiMATS)

 

Smart, Innovative Manufacturing of Curved Wooden Components for Architecture with Complex Geometry

 

Performative Design Methodology based on Robotic Fabrication for Sustainable Architecture

 

Highly Insulated and Recyclable Solid Timber Construction

 

Collaborative Research Centre Transregio 141 – Biological Design and Integrative Structures

Teilprojekt A07: The skeleton of the sand dollar as a biological model for segmented shells in building construction

 

Collaborative Research Centre Transregio 141 – Biological Design and Integrative Structures

Teilprojekt A08: Continuous fused deposition modelling of architectural envelopes based on the shell formation of molluscs

 

Collaborative Research Centre Transregio 141 – Biological Design and Integrative Structures

Teilprojekt B02: Evolutionary processes driving biological variation and diversity as models for ex-ploratory digital design tools in architecture

 

Holz R3 – Regional, Robotisch Gefertigt, Ressourcenschonend: Holzleichtbau und digitale Planung für das Bauen im Bestand

 

Combination of local robotic precision and autonomous flying drones for resource efficient production of continuous architectural scale fiber composite structures

 

LUX _ Light, natural ressource for cities and buildings

 

Robotic Fabrication in Timber Construction

 

Design Computation for Automotive Design

 

Evolutionary Computational Design for Automotive Design

Autonomous Assembly: Artificial Intelligence Methods for Collective Robotic Construction

 

Strategies for Human-Robot Collaboration in Building Prefabrication

 

Programming Shape-change: Integrative computational design of materials, mesostructures, and mechanisms for 4D printing

 

Agent Based Modelling Methods for Co-Design and Cyber-Physical Fabrication of Multi-Storey Wood Building Systems

 

Computational Fiber Architecture: Co-Design of large-scale, load-adapted fiber composite building components

 

Project-based Robotic Timber Construction

 

Adaptation Agency: Agent-based design methods for the architectural design and future reconfiguration of adaptive structures

 

Co-Design Methods for Collective Robotic Construction Systems in Architecture

 

Mono-Material Wood Wall: Improving Building Physics and Production Efficiency in a Solid Timber Building Envelope

 

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

 

Integrated Computational Design Methods Based on Machine Learning Tools for a Newly Developed Biomimetic Continuous Shell Extrusion Technology design tools in architecture

 

Evolutionary processes driving biological variation and diversity as models for exploratory digital design tools in architecture

 

Erosion-Based Morphological Formation Processes in Architecture

 

Timber Plate Shells as a Roof Construction System

 

Architectural Potentials of Robotic Fabrication in Timber Construction

 

Upscaled, Robotic Coreless Filament Winding Methods For Lightweight Building Elements For Architecture

 

4D Printed Hygroscopic Programmable Material Architectures

 

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

 

Material Programming for Fabrication

 

A Systematic Approach for Developing Agent-based Architectural Design Models of Segmented Shells

 

Designing for Unsupervised Construction: An Investigation of the Affordances of On-Site Assembly

 

Strategies for cyber-physical robotic fabrication and construction in architecture

 

Computational Design Methoden für die Gestaltung von Automobilen

 

Granular Architectures: Granular materials as "designer matter" in architecture

 

Generative Agent-Based Architectural Design Computation Based on the Integration of Material, Fabrication and Construction Systems

Urbach Tower

 

ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2016-17

 

Elytra Filament Pavilion

 

Elytra Filament Pavilion

 

ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2015-16

 

University of Stuttgart Fair Stand

 

ICD Aggregate Pavilion 2015

 

ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2014-15

 

Hive: A Human and Robot Collaborative Building Process

 

ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2013-14

 

Leichtbau BW Installation

 

Landesgartenschau Exhibition Hall

 

HygroSkin: Meteorosensitive Pavilion

 

ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2012

 

HygroScope: Meteorosensitive Morphology

 

Material Equilibria Installation

 

 

Textile Hybrid M1: La Tour de l’Architecte

 

 

ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2011

 

 

ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2010