We are delighted that Mirko Dutschke has been awarded first place in this year's Heinz-Stillger-Prize for his research work carried out at the DDU department!

Kurt-Ruths-Preis 2024 geht an Dr.-Ing. Andrea Rossi

Der mit 12.000 Euro dotierte Kurt-Ruths-Preis geht in diesem Jahr an den italienischen Architekturforscher Dr.-Ing. Andrea Rossi, der am Fachbereich Architektur der TU Darmstadt promoviert hat. Mit dem Preis wird Rossis Dissertation zu computerbasierten Entwurfsmethoden und Software-Werkzeugen gewürdigt, mit deren Hilfe sich Gebäude bereits von der Planung an nachhaltiger entwerfen lassen.

Our colleague Nadja Gaudillière-Jami will be at the Net Zero Future 2024 conference in Oslo on the 19th of June, the 1st International Conference on Net-Zero Built Environment: Innovations in Materials, Structures, and Management Practice. She will present research performed in collaboration with the Centre for IT and Architecture (Royal Danish Academy) and the University of Naples Federico II: “Material Stories: Assessing Sustainability of Digital Fabrication with Bio-Based Materials through LCA” by Giuliano Gallucio, Martin Tamke, Paul Nicholas, Tom Svilans, Nadja Gaudillière-Jami and Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen introduces LCA as a prescriptive tool for bio-based advanced manufacturing research.

(Circular and sustainable construction) organized by Technologieland Hessen.

The BMBF-funded research project Precast Concrete Components 2.0 (Fertigteil 2.0) explores and demonstrates the reuse of concrete elements for novel structures as well as the necessary real-digital process chains from 3D scanning to matchmaking, robotic fabrication and assembly.

This summer, as part of the UNITE! project, a summer school will once again take place in Wroclaw. Students can expect a digital workshop (08.07.-15.07.) and a design-build workshop on site in Wroclaw (22.07.-31.07.). There will be plenty of opportunities to network with other students, including those from HTW Saar, KTH Stockholm and the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology.

The online infrastructure IDOVIR, which was largely co-developed by the Department of Digital Design at TU Darmstadt and funded by the DFG, will now be funded by the DFG for a further two years.

We are pleased to announce “Print Local!”, a newly published chapter in the book “AM PERSPECTIVES – Research in Additive Manufacturing for Architecture and Construction”, authored by DDU researchers Oliver Tessmann, Nadja Gaudillière-Jami, and Max Benjamin Eschenbach.

DDU is happy and proud to be nominated for the DGNB Sustainability Challenge 2024 in the research category with our project Fertigteil 2.0/Precast 2.0. The BMBF funded research explores and demonstrates the reuse of concrete elements for novel structures as well as the necessary real-digital process chains from 3D scanning to matchmaking, robotic fabrication and assembly.

Art Forum of TU Darmstadt: Christiane Salge and Oliver Tessmann in the new advisory board

A fixed term in the cultural scene of Darmstadt: Since its foundation in 2016, the Art Forum of TU Darmstadt has become a meeting place between the university and the urban community. Starting from February 1st, the Art Forum will now be accompanied by an advisory board. Additionally, the portfolio is expanding. In the future, there will be more exhibitions in the program that artistically address and convey the theme of science.