Zhenxiang Huang

ITECH MSc. Thesis Students:

• Floorplan Co-Configurator- Lianhan Huang, Jack Otto, 2025

International Workshops Lead:

• Prompt-to-Production: Aeonian Artefact Automation for Circular Timber Assemblies
  DigitalFutures 2024, Shanghai

Zhenxiang joined ICD in August, 2023. His academic journey began with a B.Arch degree from Tongji University. He furthered his education with a M.Sc degree from Cornell University, where his master's thesis under the guidance of Professor Jenny E. Sabin. His professional experience ranges across both United States and China. He worked on data-centric product development for an architectural office, Arrowstreet, in Boston, as well as robotic fabrication projects during internship with Fab-Union in Shanghai. He also worked as research assistant at Cornell University and Tongji University.

Currently he is working on the robotic fabrication of the research integration of the LCRL Multi-Storey Timber Slabs into the IntCDC Building of the DFG Cluster of Excellence IntCDC. This work tackles multiple production-related challenges, such as feasibility-driven workspace planning, spatial-temporal load-balancing coordination, and redundancy-aware project management with digital twin to create a robust, scalable and efficient multi-robot prefabrication framework for a large-scale timber building system.

Research:

• IntCDC - RP4.2: Cyber-Physical Fabrication Platform: Fluid Fabrication

Projects:

• EXC Building Demonstrator LCRL (in progress) 

Presentations:

• "A Computational Framework for Designing Structurally-Sound and Fabrication-Aware Layouts of Modular Timber Assemblies"
  MIT, Cambridge, USA
  In-Person Conference Presentation, 6.11.2025