Likhinya Kvs, M.Sc.

Likhinya KVS is an architect and researcher focused on material-driven design. Her work lies at the intersection of bio-based construction, digital fabrication, and emerging technologies in architecture. She explores how traditional building knowledge can be reinterpreted through robotic fabrication and computational design.

She received her bachelor’s degree from CEPT University, India, in 2021, with a bachelor’s thesis titled “Initiating Additive Manufacturing of Mud Houses in India: Reviving the Vernacular Cob Houses in Kutch”, which investigated the integration of earthen construction with 3D printing technologies. In 2025, she completed her Master’s degree at ITECH (Integrative Technologies and Architectural Design Research), University of Stuttgart, with a thesis titled “Fib[Earth]Slab: A Bioregional Design-to-Fabrication System for Multi-Spanning Earthen Slabs using Fiber-Reinforced Textile Formworks”. The project was developed in part through the Autodesk Research Residency Program in Boston, USA. She is currently pursuing her PhD as part of TUM GNI, where her research focuses on the fabrication of self-supporting vaulted structures through AI-driven human–robot collaboration.