Ongoing Research Projects
During the last years a wide range of research topics started at the department of architecture. The different topics and the results were developed from different persons and groups, who burn for the field of research.

Design! Build! Grow!
Professorship for Green Technologies in Landscape Architecture; Prof. Ferdinand Ludwig; Wilfrid Middleton M.Eng.; Qiguan Shu M.A.

Social-ecological research: the city, a transformation space
Dr.-Ing. Julia Brasche; Dr. rer. nat. Simone Linke; Prof. Dr. Werner Lang

3D printing with salt
Martino Hutz; Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Florian Musso

Collect / Research / Exhibit: Landschaftsarchitektur als neues kuratorisches Aufgabenfeld
Sina Brückner-Amin; Chair of History of Architecture and Curatorial Practice; Architekturmuseum TU Munich, Prof. Dr. phil. Andres Lepik

Deep Adaptation in Urban Design
Dr. Daniel Zwangsleitner; Elettra Carnelli, MSc; Professorship of Urban Design
Prof. Benedikt Boucsein

Timber-loam hybrid floorslabs
Julian Trummer TT Professorship for Digital Fabrication, Prof. Dr. Kathrin Dörfler

Quantifying spatial wellbeing
Bilge Kobas, M.Sc., Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Auer

Vertical open spaces
Isabel Zintl M.A., Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Ludwig, Kristina Pujkilovic B.Eng.

Opening BIM in a new dimension
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Petzold, Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Schubert, Anirudh Nandavar

Cleanvelope
Dr.-Ing. Claudia Hemmerle, Elisabeth Faßbender, Lea Bogischef, Manuel De Borja Torrejón, Akhila Jambagi

Structural Investigations into Meghalaya’s Living Root Bridges
Prof. Ferdinand Ludwig, Wilfrid Middleton, Qiguan Shu

Agricultural Lighting Design
Prof. Ferdinand Ludwig, Prof. Hannelore Deubzer, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Hausladen, Mariana Yordanova

Urban Climate Canopy
Prof. Ferdinand Ludwig, Lorenz Boigner, Prof. Thomas Auer, Daniele Santucci, Ata Chokhachian

Bamboo Connection Systems
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rainer Barthel, Prof. Dipl. Des. Fritz Frenkler, Jonas Schikore, Tobias Bahne

Simulation-based design planning in an urban context, taking into account aspects of energy and climate
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Petzold, Prof. Thomas Auer, Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Schubert

Experimental Structures: Designing gridshells with asymptotic line networks
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rainer Barthel, Eike Schling, Denis Hitrec

3d envelope
Dipl.-Ing. Univ. Moritz Mungenast

Density + Urban Microclimate: Coupling City Information Modeling
Prof. Thomas Auer, Prof. Mark Michaeli, Prof. Gebhard Wulfhorst, Ata Chokhachian

Big Data based Design : Analysing Regional Economic Development for a Decision Supporting Framework
Prof. Alain Thierstein, Prof. Frank Petzold, Fabian Wenner, Benedict Rechenberg

Impact of Microclimate on People Flows in dense Urban Space
Prof. Thomas Auer, Dipl.- Ing. Arch. Daniele Santucci, M.Sc.