Master Theses

Selected thesis projects in the Integrative Technologies and Architectural Design Research (ITECH) programme.

2025

Floorplan Co-Configurator

Re-Frame

Framework for Reusing Building Components

ReGrain

Shape_Shift

Fib[Earth]Slab

Con[knit]uous Rubble

Copilot for Constraint-driven Generation of Architectural Design Evaluations and Suggestions

2024

A Robust, Transparent, and Steerable AI Agent System for the Design of Floor Plans

Adaptive Winding

Bridging the Sim-to-Real Gap in Collective Robotic Construction

Dis-Co

Empowering Data-Driven Decisions

Finite Element Simulation of Local Densified Timber

Gradient Density

Reclaimed Design

Textile Tango

Waste Textile Morphologies

2023

Augmented Handcraft

Awakened Structures

Deep Agency

Dendri Bots

Hybrid Synergies

Hygro Design

Linked Urban Data

m{AI}celium

Pneumatica

Programmable Breathing

Terra Incognita

2022

Augmented Intuition

Curve-Fit

Differential Boundary Deposition

Embraced Wood

Hybrid-Active Winding

Interactive Design Method for Irregular Column Layouts

Self-Formed Substrate

Slack Pack

2021

Adaptive Intelligent Space

A Distributed System for Fibrous Networks

Autonomous Robotic Materials

Building Across Scales - A Robotic Timber Fabrication System for On-Site Press Gluing

Controlled Anisotropy - A Design-Fabrication Method for Complex Timber Structures

[Design For] Robotic Assembly of Modular Timber Structures

Nonplanar 3D Printing on Fabric Formwork for Architectural Application

[Re]Design - Reclaimed Elements for Timber Construction

2020

A novel design methodology for optimized fiber layup of structural components made out of core-less filament winding

Actively Passive - A hybrid system for user-controllable environmentally-responsive architectural skins

Augmented Architecture - Enhancing the Architectural Design Process with Multi-Objective GAN

Augmented Robotic Craftsmanship - Enabling Collaborative Robotic Fabrication through Augmented Spatial Design of Thermoforming Textile

Co-Designing Material-Robot Behaviors - Systems for Autonomous Construction

Efficient Hybrid Structure for Long Span Aplications

Functional Multi-Material Systems

Hybrid Additive Manufacturing of Self-Shaping Building Components

Hybrid Fibre Architecture - Coreless Filament Winding for Quotidian Applications

Incremental Reconfiguration - A design methodology to adapt discrete building systems continuously over time

Inflatable fiber-reinforced polymer structures - a manufacturing method for rapid in-situ construction system

Joint Effort - Robot Team Enabled Carbon Fiber Joining Strategies for Lightweight Wood Construction

Multi-Objective Building Thermal Performance Optimization of the Mono Material Wood Wall System

timbRfoldR - Making Bending Active Systems Accessible in Planning, Fabrication, and Assembly

Working with Uncertainties - An Adaptive Fabrication System for Bamboo Structures Utilizing Computer Vision

2019

b-CTC-bent - Computational Tooth Construction

Curated Deformation

Design Based on Availability - Generative Design and Robotic Fabrication Workflow for Non-Standardized Sheet Metal Leftovers

Electroactive Skin - Towards Bio-Inspired Soft Responsive Envelopes

Haptic Reality - Novel Interfacing for Informed Assembly Systems

Meta-Morph - Adaptive architectural system using infinite-axis distributed robots

Multi-Agent Spatial Weaving

Stitchbot - on-textile design plus fabrication

Digitized Elasticity

Hybrid Formation

Object Oriented Material

RePneu

2018

Self-Choreographing Network - Towards Cyber-Physical Design and Operation Processes of Adaptive and Interactive Bending-Active Systems

Distributed Robotic Assembly System For in Situ Timber Construction

Resistant Filigrees  - Shape Optimization-to-Fabrication Workflow for coreless wound CFRP structures for spanning applications

Design Fab_Trix - A design to fabrication matrix with emphasis on fiber reinforced plastic

Fabrication of Double Curved Elements

Integrated Architectural Water Systems - A 3D printed and textile hybrid water capture, transport, and storage strategy for urban building envelopes

ReCrete - Fabrication strategies for precise application of reinforcement in 3D-printed concrete

Space Shifter - Multi-state elastic gridshells driven by sliding actuators

2017

Adaptive Fabrication of Sandwich Segmented Shells

Augmented Design Manufacturing

Bending-Active Lamination For Spatial Timber Structures - Robotically Fabricated Components with Continuous Fibre Alignment

Collaborative Robotic Winding For Coreless Fibrous Structures

Cyber Physical Macro Material - A UAV [re]configurable architectural system

Fibrous Integrity - Co-Designing Bending-Active Systems for Mobile Filament Winding in Architecture

Fibrous Augmentation - Three dimensional fibre arrangements in hybrid timber shells

Fluid Formations - Design and fabrication of soft matter structures with functional stiffness gradients

Segmented Shells and Space - Geometric gradation for spatial adaptation of segmented timber shells in architecture

Tailoring Self-Formation - Fabrication and simulation of membrane-actuated stiffness gradient composites

Tangible Formations - Intuitive design and fabrication process through real time human computer interaction

Wrap Up - A fabrication process for a 3D modular fibre composite architecture system

Biocomposites in Architecture - Light-weight thermoformable bio-based sandwich panels

Air-Driven Compliant Fold - Designing a morphing skin based on compliant folding structures with regular patterns and embedded pneumatic cushions

Hygroscopic Shape-Changing Networks - Hierarchical programming of large scale responsive structures

Kinetic Elastic Morphologies - Aesthetics of Movement

Winding, Form Finding and Structural Investigation of a Branching Joint Made From Fibre-Reinforced Polymers

2016

Bending-Active Segmented Shells

Assembly-aware Design of Masonry Shell Structures - A Computational Approach

MAV Assisted Fabrication Strategy for Large Scale Fiber Composite Structures

Reconfigurable Tensegrity Systems - Kinematic actuation of a responsive tensegrity network for adaptive deployable structures

Tailored Structures - Adaptive Robotic Fabrication of Sewn Veneer Composites

Analysis of Beetle Wing Folding and Application in Deployable Shading System

Application of a Variable Stiffness to Compliant Kinetic Systems in Buildings

Snap-Buckling in Adaptive Bending-Active Systems

Fabric Formwork For Reinforced Concrete Shells - Implementation of finite element method for form-finding membranes with concrete

Architectural Assembly via Artificial Bionomics of Fungi

Economy as Strategic Driver in Integrative Design and Fabrication Processes For Coreless Filament Winding

Integrated Fibrous Building System

Robotic Additive Fabrication of Continuous Double Curved Material-Informed Wood Veneer Surfaces

Machine Learning in the Exploratory Design Process For Robotically Wound Filament Structures - An interactive design platform using active learning

Selectively Self-Reinforcing Aggregates - A two particle-type granular system for performance in tension

2015

Architectural Potentials of Elastically Bent Segmented Shells

Emergent Spaces - Simulations and Analysis of Spatial Aggregate Formations

Hygrogates - Climate Responsive Construction Principles of Hygroscopic Aggregate Structures

In-Formed Connectivity - Employing robotic fabrication and hygroscopic shrink-fitting for three-dimensional cellular plate structures

Knitflatable Architecture

Mobile Robotic Fabrication System For Filament Structures

Regenerative Matter - Behavior-based robotic strategies for Adaptive Design of Aggregate Systems

Robotic Softness - Behavioural Robotic Fabrication Process of a Woven Space

Spanned Flexure - Convertible Roof Systems Using Elastic Kinetic Plates Actuated by Tension Cables

Torsion as A Design Driver in Bending-Active Tensile Structures - An Assembly-Based Approach for Torsion in Plate-Hybrid Structures

Adaptive Growth

Adaptive Pneumatic Shell Structures - Feedback-driven robotic stiffening of inflated extensible membranes and further rigidification for architectural applications

Adaptive Wood Plates - Hygroscopic responsive elements in architectural plate systems

Behavioral Deposition - Feedback-driven strategies for additive fabrication with quasisolids

Bio-Inspired Variable Stiffness in Fibrous Composites

Grain Informed Wooden Fabric - Interwoven material systems based on elastically bent wooden strips

Growing Crystalline Structures - Ephemeral Salt Formations in The Southern Evaporation Ponds of the Dead Sea

Joint Pattern Optimization of Segmented Shells

Multi-Pneumatic Formwork For Cellular Composite Structural Elements

Springtail - Pneumatically Actuated Bistable System Based On Biomimetic Principles

Strategies for Analysis and Robotic Processing of Irregular Timber

Programmable Folding - Computational geometry with embedded assembly logic

2014

Augmented Grain - Behaviour Tailoring in Naturally Responsive Surfaces

Entangled Granulates - Designed Tensile Granulate Systems

Graded Light - Modulating the daylight in aggregate structures using online controlled robotic processes

Programmable Matter - Hygroscopic actuation of multidirectional lattice structures

Robotically Fabricated Gluelam - Additive fabrication techniques for complexly shaped glued laminated timber

Spacer Fabric Architecture

Emergent Fibre Arrangements - Form-Finding Fiber Experiments For Digital Construction

Robotically Manipulated Fabrication Protocol -  Freeform deposition of fiber reinforced polymer

ICD Diploma

ICD Diploma 2014: Encoded Surfaces

ICD Diploma 2012: Connecting Intelligence

ICD Diploma 2012: Differentiated Tensile Wood Laminate Morphologies

ICD Diploma 2010: Morphogenetic Beachscape

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Samuel Leder

Dr.-Ing.

Research Group Leader | Distributed Robotic Construction

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