08.02.2024

Final Critic Tragwerksentwurf WiSe 2023/24

On 8 February 2024, the final presentation of the course „Tragwerksentwurf“ took place in the Design Factory of the Technical University of Munich. Designs for a new roof for the TUM student workshop were presented. Prof. Pierluigi D’Acunto, Frederic Chovghi, Frauke Wilken, Sebastian Hoyer and Klaus Puchta (Design Factory, TUM) were present as critics.

15.02.2023

Lecture "Structural Design Through Computational Graphic Statics" an the AiDA 2023

Prof. Pierluigi D'Acunto was invited by the organisers of the Architecture in the Digital Age (AiDA) 2023 conference to give a lecture on Computational Structural Design. The lecture took place on 15 February 2023 at the Sapienza University in Rome.

09.02.2023

Final Critic Tragwerksentwurf WiSe 2022/23

On 9 February 2023, the final presentation of the course „Tragwerksentwurf“ took place in the Design Factory of the Technical University of Munich. Designs for a new roof for the TUM student workshop were presented. Prof. Pierluigi D’Acunto, Frederic Chovghi, Dr. Ole Ohlbrock (ETH Zürich), Klaus Puchta (Design Factory, TUM) and Dr. Benedikt Philipp were present as critics.

08.02.2023

Final Critic Project BA Constructive Design + Material WiSe 2022/23

On 8 February 2023, Prof. Pierluigi D’Acunto and Wolfgang Rossbauer were invited as critics to the final presentation of the Bachelor's project „Constructive Design + Material“. The project was led by Prof Jeanette Kuo (Professorship of Architecture and Building Construction), in collaboration with Prof Pierluigi D'Acunto and Prof Thomas Auer (Chair of Building Technology and Climate Responsive Design). 

06.02.2023

Colloquium Building Structures 1 WiSe 2022/23

Together with the students of the first Bachelor's semester, a colloquium on the results of the practical exercise of "Building Structures 1" took place on 06 February 2023. The students had constructed models from everyday objects on the topic of equilibrium. The practical exercise was organised in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Anna Keune (Learning Sciences and Educational Design Technologies). 

11.12.2022

Lecture "Computational Structural Design with Graphic Statics" at the IASS WG13 “Next Generation Parametric Design”

Prof. Pierluigi D'Acunto will give a presentation on the use of graphical statics for structural design at the IASS WG13 Study Group workshop ‘Next Generation Parametric Design’. The lecture will take place online on 11 December 2022.

23.11.2022

Lecture "Structural Design with Form and Forces: Vector-based Graphic Statics" at the University of Tokyo

Prof. Pierluigi D'Acunto was invited by Prof Masaaki Miki from the University of Tokyo to give a lecture on the use of graphical statics for structural design. The lecture will take place online on 23 November 2022.

08.11.2022

Opening of the Asymptotic Geodesic Timber Vault

On 8 November 2022, the Asymptotic Geodesic Timber Vault was opened in the Kreativquartier in Munich. The Timber Vault investigates the possibility of producing high-performance shell structures from thin wooden elements with minimal use of materials. The research project is a collaboration between the University of Hong Kong and the TUM Professorship for Structural Design.

Welcoming the first semester students, Building Structures 1 WiSe 2022/23
24.10.2022

In a introduction lecture on 24 October 2022, Prof. Pierluigi D’Acunto warmly welcomed the new freshmen to the TU Munich. We wish them a good start into their studies!

Lecture "Structural Form-Finding Enhanced by Graph Neural Networks" at the Design Modelling Symposium Berlin
26.09.2022

Lazlo Blekerpresented his research on Graph Neural Networks for structural design at the Design Modelling Symposium (DMS) 2022. The lecture took place on 26 September 2022 in Berlin.

Excursion of the seminar Computational Design and Fabrication SoSe 2022, Technical University of Braunschweig
20. - 22.09.2022

As part of the seminar „Computational Design and Fabrication“, an excursion to the TU Braunschweig took place from 20-22 September 2022. The topic of the seminar was the form-finding and realisation of a pedestrian bridge using textile formwork and 3D printing from concrete. A 1:1 scale model was produced in the Digital Building Fabrication Laboratory at TU Braunschweig.

Excursion to the Olympiapark Munich, Building Structures 2 SoSe 2022
18.07.2022

As part of the Bachelor's course "Building Structures 2", an excursion to the Olympic Park Munich took place on 18 July 2022. The students were given a guided tour of the "Olympiazentrum" and gained an insight into the load-bearing structure of the "Olympiastadion".

Excursion of the seminar Computational Design and Fabrication SoSe 2022, TU-Delft
14. - 16.07.2022

From 14-16 July 2022, an excursion to TU-Delft took place as part of the seminar "Computational Design and Fabrication". The topic of the seminar was the form-finding and realisation of a pedestrian bridge using textile formwork and 3D printing from concrete. At TU-Delft, prototypes of selected designs were produced using a digital knitting machine in collaboration with the Professorship of Parametric Structural Design and Digital Fabrication. 

Lecture "Discovering Reciprocal Tensegrities with Symmetric Connectivity" at the WCCM-APCOM 2022
01.08.2022

Prof. Pierluigi D'Acunto will give a keynote lecture at the 15th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM-APCOM 2022). The talk will present new tensegrity structures designed with Vector-based 3D Graphic Statics (VGS) in collaboration with Prof Andrea Micheletti (University of Rome Tor Vergata). The lecture will take place online on 1 August 2022.

Workshop "Exploring new Structural Forms with Vector-based Graphic Statics" at DigitalFUTURES 2022
27.-29.06.2022

From 27 to 29 June 2022, Prof. Pierluigi D'Acunto, together with Yuchi Shen (Southeast University Nanjing) and Jean-Philippe Jasienski (UCLouvain), will hold a workshop on Exploring new Structural Forms with Vector-based Graphic Statics as part of the DigitalFUTURES Workshops 2022.

Workshop "Vector-based Graphic Statics (VGS) Tool" at Arup
17.05.2022

On 17 May 2022, Prof. Pierluigi D'Acunto together with Dr Yuchi Shen (Southeast University of Nanjing) and Jean-Philippe Jasienski (UCLouvain) will hold an online workshop on "Structural Design using the Vector-based Graphic Statics (VGS) Tool" at the Arup engineering offices in China (Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Shenzhen).

Lecture "Conceptual design of structures at the interface between human and machine intelligence" at ETH Zurich Design++
26.04.2022

Prof. Pierluigi D'Acunto  has been invited by the Center for Augmented Computational Design in Architecture, Engineering and Construction (Design++) at ETH Zurich to give a lecture as part of the Spring 2022 seminar series. The lecture will take place online on 26 April 2022.

University Prize of the "Bayerische Bauindustrie" 2022
10.03.2022

Clemens Lindner and Tao Sun were awarded 2nd place in the "Innovative Materials and Constructions" category of the "Hochschulpreis des Bayerischen Bauindustrieverbandes e. V."  at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) for their bachelor's thesis ‘Convertible Decking Systems’, supervised by the Professorship for Srtuctural Design. Congratulations!

Lecture "Exploring new Structural Forms using Graphic Statics" at Foster+Partners
23.02.2022

Prof. Pierluigi D'Acunto was invited by the Specialist Modelling Group of the architecture firm Foster+Partners to give a lecture on the use of graphical statics for the design of innovative load-bearing structures. The lecture will take place online on 23 February 2022.

Lecture "Structural form-finding through Graphic Statics and Machine Learning" at Bollinger+Grohmann
15.02.2022

Prof. Pierluigi D'Acunto was invited by the civil engineering firm Bollinger+Grohmann to give a lecture on computer-aided tools for structural design. The lecture will take place online on 15 February 2022.