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Technical University of Munich

Qiguan Shu, M.A.

Professorship
Green Technologies in Landscape Architecture

Department
Architecture

Contact Details
Business card at TUMonline

EDUCATION

Master of Arts
2017 - 2019   Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Bachelor of Engineering
2012 - 2017   Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

ACADEMIC CAREER AND RESEARCH AREAS

Qiguan Shu has his educational background originally in landscape architecture. During his master study, he developed his skills in computational design, living architecture design and programming. He participated in the design and fabrication of Urban Microclimate Canopy. His master thesis "Photogrammetric Point Cloud Skeleton Abstraction for Living Architecture" extracts topological polylines out of jointed aerial root structures by voxel thinning method. It is a sub-task under the research project Living Root Bridges. Afterwards, he kept working interdisciplinarily in the field of digital tools for urban green system, functional-structural plant models. He was one of the project leaders of the design, manufacture and installation of Arbor Kitchen.

Qiguan Shu is now carrying the research project Urban Green System 4.0 funded by DFG for his PhD study at GTLA and affiliated PhD candicate in the research project Urban Green Infrustructure.

2025

  • Shu, Qiguan; Boey, Kai Zhe; Ludwig, Ferdinand: Reinforcement learning-driven decision support for target-oriented branch pruning on urban trees. Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, 2025 more…
  • Shu, Qiguan; Rötzer, Thomas; Yazdi, Hadi; Reischl, Astrid; Ludwig, Ferdinand: A comparative study of voxel-based leaf area density estimation from quantitative structure models of trees. Science of Remote Sensing 12, 2025, 100246 more…

2024

  • Ludwig, Ferdinand; Hensel, Michael; Rötzer, Thomas; Ahmeti, Albin; Chen, Xi; Erdal, Halil Ibrahim; Reischel, Astrid; Shu, Qiguan; Tyc, Jakub Marcin; Yazdi, Hadi: JoDLA – Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture (Ed.): Digital Workflow for Novel Urban Green System Design Derived from a Historical Role Model. Volume 9-2024. Wichmann Verlag, 2024 more…
  • Shu, Qiguan; Yazdi, Hadi; Rötzer, Thomas; Ludwig, Ferdinand: Predicting resprouting of Platanus × hispanica following branch pruning by means of machine learning. Frontiers in Plant Science 15, 2024 more…
  • Yazdi, Hadi; Shu, Qiguan; Chen, Xi; Rötzer, Thomas; Ludwig, Ferdinand: GroTree – A Novel Toolbox for Simulating and Managing Urban Tree Canopy Growth. Wichmann Verlag, 2024 more…
  • Yazdi, Hadi; Boey, Kai Zhe; Rötzer, Thomas; Petzold, Frank; Shu, Qiguan; Ludwig, Ferdinand: Automated classification of tree species using graph structure data and neural networks. Ecological Informatics 84, 2024, 102874 more…
  • Yazdi, Hadi; Shu, Qiguan; Rötzer, Thomas; Petzold, Frank; Ludwig, Ferdinand: A multilayered urban tree dataset of point clouds, quantitative structure and graph models. Scientific Data 11 (1), 2024 more…
  • Yazdi, Hadi; Shu, Qiguan; Rötzer, Thomas; Petzold, Frank; Ludwig, Ferdinand: TreeML-Data; a multidisciplinary and multilayer urban tree dataset. , 2024 more…

2023

  • Mylo, Max D.; Ludwig, Ferdinand; Rahman, Mohammad A.; Shu, Qiguan; Fleckenstein, Christoph; Speck, Thomas; Speck, Olga: Conjoining Trees for the Provision of Living Architecture in Future Cities: A Long-Term Inosculation Study. Plants 12 (6), 2023, 1385 more…
  • Shu, Qiguan; Ludwig, Ferdinand: A circuit analogy based girth growth model for living architecture design. Journal of the Royal Society Interface (20(202)), 2023 more…
  • Yazdi, Hadi; Shu, Qiguan; Ludwig, Ferdinand: A Target-driven Tree Planting and Maintenance Approach for Next Generation Urban Green Infrastructure (UGI). JoDLA – Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture (8-2023), 2023, 178-185 more…

2022

  • Middleton, Wilfrid; Shu, Qiguan; Ludwig, Ferdinand: Representing living architecture through skeleton reconstruction from point clouds. Scientific Reports 12 (1), 2022 more…
  • Shu, Qiguan: Reality to Virtuality to Reality – Building a Baubotanik Pavilion. , Ed.: nodium #14: Alumni-Club Landschaft TUM e.V., 2022, more…
  • Shu, Qiguan; Rötzer, Thomas; Detter, Andreas; Ludwig, Ferdinand: Tree Information Modeling: A Data Exchange Platform for Tree Design and Management. Forests 13 (11), 2022, 1955 more…

2021

  • Shu, Qiguan: Designing and Managing Urban Green Systems – an iterative srvey-simulation-manipulation procedure. , Ed.: nodium #13: Alumni-Club Landschaft TUM e.V., Weihenstephaner Forum 2021, 2021, more…
  • Shu, Qiguan; Middleton, Wilfrid; Ludwig, Ferdinand: Teaching Computational Approaches in Baubotanik: Developing a design-and-build workflow for a living architecture pavilion. Responsive Cities Symposium 2021: Design with Nature, 2021 more…

2020

  • Shu, Qiguan; Middleton, Wilfrid; Dörstelmann, Moritz; Santucci, Daniele; Ludwig, Ferdinand: Urban Microclimate Canopy: Design, Manufacture, Installation, and Growth Simulation of a Living Architecture Prototype. Sustainability 12 (15), 2020, 6004 more…

2019

  • Middleton, Wilfrid; Shu, Qiguan; Ludwig, Ferdinand: Photogrammetry as A Tool for Living Architecture. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XLII-2/W17, 2019, 20196th International Workshop LowCost 3D – Sensors, Algorithms, Applications more…
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