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.

As part of the Printsugi research project lead by DDU, we are showcasing the Rubble Tiling and Rock Tower prototypes at the the TU Delft Library, as part of the SHE Robots: Ecologies of Care exhibition, curated by Dr Dagmar Reinhardt, Dr Lian Loke & Dr Deborah Turnbull-Tillman (University of Sydney), from the 12th of February to the 30th of May 2024.

Spolien und Asservatien in der Architektur der Gegenwart

Oliver Tessmann and Max Eschenbachwill together with Christoph Kuhn and Anne Wagner will present their project Precast Concrete Components 2.0 at the Symposium Die neue Baukultur des Wiederverwendens Spolien und Asservatien in der Architektur der Gegenwart. More information on programme and registration can be found here

Visit the BE-AM Exhibition from Nov 7. to 10. at Formnext 2023, Frankfurt/Main, and join us for the BE-AM Symposium on Nov 16 on site or digitally via livestream.

02. – 10. Nov. 2023

Our LOEWE research focus “Architectures of Ordering” celebrates its conclusion with a finissage consisting of an exhibition, workshops, lectures, panel discussions, book and film screenings. The kick-off is next Thursday, November 2 at 6:00 pm, in our building with the vernissage of the finissage on the first gallery in our building. DDU presents two contributions:

Oliver Tessman will give a lecture on “Multi-sites modular constructions”.

Nadja Gaudillière-Jami will taking part at the 2023 Society of Architectural Historian Conference

DDU team member Nadja Gaudillière-Jami will be talking at the 2023 Society of Architectural Historians Conference, as part of the virtual session Implicit Choices and Appropriations: Architectural Software Histories on Wednesday the 20th at 09:00pm. The presentated paper is entitled Processing for Architecture – Open-Source, Learning, Struggles, and shines light on how technical and economical considerations have shaped the software landscape in architectural design of the past few decades, using the Processing programming environment as case duty.

Print it out! Architecture from the 3D printer

In the latest episode of the ArchitekturFunk Podcast Kerstin Kuhnekath discusses novel ideas on 3d printing in architecture such as Scan – Print – Assemble in which printed pieces serve as new connections between existing and reused elements.