Our postdoctoral researcher Lidia Atanasova will give a lecture on “Building with humans and robots” this Tuesday, 30. June, as part of the lecture series “COLLECTIVE EFFORT” at the Universität der Künste Berlin UdK, organized by the Designing_AI Lab and Institute of Product and Fashion Design. [read more]

We were delighted to welcome architects Gilbert Berthold (Zurich) and Mauritz Lüps (Munich) as guest critics and lecturers for the Midterm review of our master's studio on the renovation of the Fritz-Pflaum-Hütte. Drawing on their experience with local materials, prefabrication, and traditional building crafts, they shared inspiring insights and engaged in lively discussions with our students. The review was further supported by the contributions of architect Rainer Schmid and hut warden Stefan Schiller, who provided valuable on-site perspectives and practical construction expertise. Our… [read more]

The research project "Timber Earth Slab" reached the finals of the DGNB Sustainability Challenge 2026. As a finalist, the team was invited to present the project at Sustainability Day in Stuttgart and exchange ideas with experts and visitors. [read more]

The opening session, "Development Journeys," of the Future of Construction 2026 Symposium at ETH Zurich was moderated by Prof. Dr. Kathrin Dörfler. Together with Yoana Taseva (HKS | LINE), Lui Orozco (Egoin), Prof. Edyta Augustynowicz (BFH), and Götz Hilber (Rematter), she explored whether technology and advanced training can shape meaningful career trajectories. The panel discussed how new innovative workflows, from large-scale 3D printing and automated timber construction to automated timber-earth systems, are transforming architectural practice, bridging the gap between cutting-edge… [read more]

Dr. Avishek Das (TUM Professorship of Digital Fabrication) and Tamira Wrabel (TUM Chair of Computing in Civil and Building Engineering) presented their work at COMPAS Dev Day 2026, ETH Zurich, as part of the DFG project FOR5672. They introduced the Information Backbone for Roboticized Construction and demonstrated a robotic simulation pipeline via Isaac Sim. Their work lays the foundation for a cyber-physical framework enabling both virtual planning and simulation, as well as the real-world deployment and control of human-robot construction fleets. [read more]

At the recent Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW) symposium, "Planning and Building for the Future," Prof. Kathrin Dörfler presented innovative approaches to robot-assisted on-site fabrication. Her lecture, "Human-Robot Teams in Construction," explored how agile automation and human expertise interact on-site. The focus was on collaborative processes that seamlessly link digital precision with traditional craftsmanship to advance the construction transition. A full recording of the lecture is now available in the BAdW media library. [read more]

Dr. Avishek Das and Prof. Dr. Kathrin Dörfler presented their work within the DFG project FOR5672, Information Backbone for Roboticized Construction, at the Technical University of Hamburg. Their presentation on Subproject E focused on human–robot collaboration, this time highlighting approaches for representing humans in virtual construction environments to simulate turn-taking task allocations with robots. [read more]

On January 13, students of the Master Studio Terra Habita presented their final projects at Pavillon 333. The task of the project was to design a pavilion as a meeting place, conceived as a prototypical building block that could later be expanded into a residential or office building, exploring timber and earth as primary materials. [read more]

A five day COMPAS_RRC workshop brought together the Technical University Munich, the COMPAS Association (ETH Zurich), and ABB Robotics for a week of collaboration, coding, and hands on experimentation with virtual and real robots. Participants learned to set up the COMPAS_RRC environment, connect to ABB robots, and bring parametric design data from Rhino/Grasshopper into robotic fabrication. The workshop was a great example of how collaboration across disciplines, combined with shared knowledge and experience, can lead to progress. [read more]

Climate Active Envelopes was featured at the Lange Nacht der Museen at the Deutsche Museum in Munich! The project shows how digital designs can be collaboratively realised by a mobile robot and masonry apprentices, demonstrating the integration of computational design and robotic fabrication in creating monolithic brickwork building envelopes. Visitors were invited to engage hands-on with the project’s interactive user interface, experimenting with their own self-shading building envelope designs. [read more]