On Monday, 02.04, Harvard GSD studio ‘A Moratorium on New Construction’ by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Alia Bader and Kathlyn Kao will be holding their final reviews with Prof. Dr Kathrin Dörfler on the jury panel alongside Menna Agha, Marija Maric, Stephen Gray, and Rahul Mehrotra. We wish all the students good luck with their presentations! [read more]

The Professorship of Digital Fabrication offers together with lecturers from ETHZ a further one-day Compas Workshop. This time Philippe Fleischmann (NCCR Digital Fabrication) will introduce Compas RRC, a Python communication interface for industrial robots, developed on Compas Fab. Agenda 10:00-12:00: ABB Simulation workshop with Compas RRC 14:00-16:00: Compas RRC demo and hands-on session at the Fabtory [read more]

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Kathrin Dörfler as part of the BE-AM Built Environment Additive Manufacturing Symposium. Recordings of all sessions can be found here. BE-AM will be held this year in both physical and digital format. This year's exhibitors and speakers will showcase and discuss work from 11 well-known companies in the industry, 9 universities and 2 research institutions. Highlights include 3D printed habitats on the moon, houses, bridges and street furniture from 3D printers, and printed glass at civil engineering scales. The BE-AM Exhibition will take place between November 16 –… [read more]

On November 15th, the founding ceremony of the TUM School of Engineering and Design (TUM SoED) took place with opening speeches, teaser videos of the new departments, and an exciting panel discussion co-moderated by the new dean Prof. Dr. Christoph Gehlen and Prof. Dr. Kathrin Dörfler. Check out the video recording of the event. [read more]

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Kathrin Dörfler was elected to the Board of Directors of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) in the recent 2021 elections. ACADIA is an international network of digital design researchers and professionals that facilitates critical investigations into the role of computation in architecture, planning, and building science, encouraging innovation in design creativity, sustainability, and education. Congratulations to all elected members and we look forward to working together! [read more]

Between November 2 – 4, our project team and students have been hosted by FIT AG and Additive Tectonics in their facilities at Lupburg, Bavaria. FIT AG is an internationally leading industry partner for the additive manufacturing of components, and Additive Tectonics is a subsidiary of the FIT AG to revolutionize construction through 3D printing. We got the chance to see their production lines, workflows, manufacturing processes, and facilities. We are very grateful for their hospitality and inspirational inputs for our Project MA. Check out FIT AG and Additive Tectonics. [read more]

We are happy to announce that finally our mobile robotic fabrication platform "Fabtory" has arrived at TUM after some intensive months of conceptual and manufacturing outreach. [read more]

Tracking human motion from a potentially moving camera is crucial for many mobile robotics applications in unstructured environments such as buildings sites that involve deployment amongst humans or even cooperation with humans: robots need to understand human actions, and importantly also acquire the ability to forecast future movements in order to safely avoid collisions and/or carry out tasks collaboratively, possibly in physical interaction. [read more]

The research-based design studio Bridge the Gap is carried out as a collaboration between the TT Professorship for Structural Design and the TT Professorship for Digital Fabrication. In the design studio computational tools for structural design and novel robotic fabrication, technologies are used to design and build a lightweight pedestrian bridge at the Deutsche Bundesbank in Munich. [read more]

Kreativquartier München Schwere-Reiter-Straße 2h The Design Factory 1:1 - a research hub of TUM in cooperation with the "Empfangshalle" - extends its existing educational program in the field of architecture and civil engineering through applied studies at TUM. It provides hands-on approaches, implementation and evaluation of innovative concepts and the application of new technologies in the field of building construction and fabrication in one to one scale while cooperating between the faculties within university as well as with external vocational schools, artists and… [read more]