Seminar for Master students
Time: Friday, 9:45 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Room: 10.08, 10th floor. Keplerstr. 11
The seminar focuses on the investigation, abstraction and transfer of biological strategies into technical applications. Students will work in interdisciplinary teams to investigate biological role models within a bottom up process and will be searching for solution strategies towards specific aspects by exploring biological role models within a top down process. Computational simulation and analysis tools are used to find model representations for biologic processes and investigate functional principles.
Evolutionary processes in nature generated manifold solutions in respond to environmental and performative demands, where various functional and form generative aspects have to be integrated in a coherent system. While a number of those aspects can be easily transferred to architectural aspects, natural organisms are working radically different from today’s construction and planning practice. While nature evolved highly energy and material efficient solutions, based on geometrical and material diff erentiation, today’s construction industry and design processes are mostly based on the standardization of elements and the addition of mono functional subsystems. Recent developments of computaional design and digital fabrication processes have initiated a fundamental paradigm shift from industrial
production of standardized elements towards an integrated design processes. This development opens up the possibilities to create architectural systems which are characterized by multifunctional geometrically differentiated structures, which can match the capacity of nature’s performative morphologies, and thereby enables us to transfer functional principles of natural organisms into architectural applications.
Contact: Dr. Axel Körner
Lectures in German
Zeit: Dienstag, 9.45 – 11.15 Uhr
Ort: Tiefenhörsaal 17.02, Keplerstr. 17
Beginn: 04.11.2025
Anmeldung auf Campus und Ilias erforderlich
Übungen
Dienstag 11.30 – 13.00 Uhr in den Arbeitsräumen des ersten Semesters, Keplerstr. 11
Anmeldung auf Campus und Ilias erforderlich
Die nächste schriftliche Prüfung im Modul Tragkonstruktionen 1 findet am Mittwoch, den 10. September 2025 um 16 Uhr statt.
Wo? 2.00, 2.01, 2.02, Breitscheidstr. 2A
Außer nicht programmierbarem Taschenrechner und Zeichenwerkzeug sind keine Hilfsmittel zugelassen (kein Vorlesungsmitschrieb oder Tabellenbücher etc.).
Die notwendigen Tabellen werden Ihnen zusammen mit den Aufgaben ausgehändigt.
Der Rücktritt von dieser Prüfung ist bis zu 7* Tage vor dem Prüfungstermin ohne Angabe von Gründen möglich.
Zur Vorbereitung auf die Prüfung finden Sie Übungen und Lösungen und alte Prüfungen auf ILIAS.
* Beachten Sie dazu die aktuellen Erklärungen des Prüfungsamts.
Kontakt: Dr. Axel Körner, Akademischer Rat
Lectures in German
Zeit: Donnerstag, 9:45 - 11:15 Uhr
Ort: M2.01, Breitscheidstr. 2A
Pflichtfach mit 3 Leistungspunkten (WS + SS)
Vorlesungen und Hausübungen
Die Downloads enthalten nicht den vollständigen Inhalt der Vorlesungen, sondern nur Arbeitshilfen und Berechnungstabellen. Der Bezug zur Architektur wird in der Vorlesung mit zahlreichen Anwendungsbeispielen, Arbeitsmodellen und weiteren Zahlenbeispielen hergestellt.
Kontakt: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jan Knippers
Block Course only in summer semester
For ITECH students only
In this course we visit different leading companies of building and other key industries, ground-breaking buildings, interesting building sites, and world heritage spots in Baden Württemberg or bavaria,
Program on Ilias.
Seminar for Master students
Time: Thursday, 9:45 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Room: 6.05, 6th floor, Keplerstr. 11
The seminar focuses on the interplay between geometry and structural behaviour of different structural types categorised with respect to the load bearing mechanism. In particular on form-active and surface-active structures. Beginning with an introduction from ancient to the newest form-finding approaches a holistic overview is provided.
First experimental approaches are used to determine
the shape with respect to a certain initially wanted structural state. Followed by the detailed introduction of the latest numerical form-finding methods. With the aid of digital modelling software and scripting tools. An overview of the mathematical background is provided to enable the participants to understand and evaluate of the applicability and limits of each method.
The state-of-the-art form-finding methods are put to use on practical examples where form and structural states are investigated and manipulated. The detailing and the realization of the designed systems are discussed.
Prerequisites
Rhinoceros skills. The seminar is taught in English. The students should be familiar with the architectural possibilities of membrane and shell structures in order to use them in their design projects.
Literature
Construction manual for polymers and membrane; J. Knippers, J. Lienhard, M. Gabler, J. Cremers; Detail Munich; ISBN: 978-3-0346-0726-1
Shell structures for architecture; S. Adriaenssens, P. Block, D. Veenendaal, C. Williams; Routledge New York; ISBN: 978-0-415-84059-0
Contact: Tzu-Ying CHEN
Design Studio for Bachelor and Master students (in German)
Time: Tuesday, 2 - 6 p.m.
Room: studio, Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 24, 6th floor
Ein Paradigmenwechsel in der Bauindustrie, hin zu einer echten Kreislaufwirtschaft ist unerlässlich. Gebäude müssen nicht nur typologisch robust, sondern auch strukturell und stofflich kreislauffähig sein. Für den Holzbau bedeutet das, die Lebensdauer jedes Bauteils zu maximieren, Ressourcen effizient einzusetzen und den Rückbau bereits in der Planung mitzudenken.
Entwurfsaufgabe
Im Rahmen eines begrenzten „Emissionsbudgets“ wird ein dichtes, zukunftsfähiges Mehrgenerationenhaus entworfen, das einerseits den sich wandelnden Ansprüchen unserer Gesellschaft durch Offenheit gegenüber zukünftigen Nutzungsanpassungen gerecht wird, und andererseits seine vollständige kreislaufgerechte Rückbaubarkeit von Anfang an in den Fokus rückt. Dabei wird ausgelotet, welche architektonischen Potentiale in der konsequenten Anwendung kreislaufgerechter, konstruktiver Prinzipien liegen. Städtebaulicher Kontext ist eine dringend notwendige, räumlich wirksame Nachverdichtung entgegen der Zersiedlung des ländlichen Raums.
Der Entwurf wird in 2er-Teams bearbeitet. Auf einer Tagesexkursion (Oktober), lernen wir die verschiedenen Stationen der Wertschöpfungskette Holz kennen.
Das Projekt ist in die Forschungsgruppe „Innovationen im Holzbau“ der Gastprofessuren an den Instituten IBK und ITKE eingebunden.
Contact: Visiting professor Jana Nowak
Seminar for Master students
Time: Tuesday, 10:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Room: 6.05, 6th floor, Keplerstr. 11
The seminar is intended to substantially prepare students for the appropriate, efficient, and low-emission application of construction materials in structures.
Understanding the properties, load-bearing behaviour, and performance of structural materials such as concrete, steel, and timber, as well as composite materials, masonry, glass, and bio- or geo-based materials such as natural stone and clay, enables their intentional and effective use in architectural and structural design.
Manufacturing processes will be examined to understand the embodied carbon (GWP) of each material, and the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) method will be introduced to quantify the whole-life carbon of materials and structures. Principles of lightweight construction are studied to design components such as slabs and columns, as well as long-span structures like trusses and shells, with minimal material use, low emissions, and high structural performance.
Through practical design exercises, students develop structural solutions combining low material and resource consumption with high load-bearing capacity. Timber is examined in depth, with a particular focus on the material, resource, and emission efficiency of various engineered wood products. To use timber in an ecologically beneficial way, it is essential to understand the resource and emission flow along the lifecycle of wood.