News – Digital Timber Construction DTC

Seminar Forest Cabin WS2020

17.2.2020, Kaiserslautern: In the winter semester of 2020, DTC students developed innovative concepts for small shelter huts in the palatinate forest, in close collaboration with […]

Final Thesis WS2020

08.02.2021, Kaiserslautern: In the Winter Semester of 2020, DTC supervised several “Final Thesis” projects, which are either a Masters thesis or a Diploma Thesis. Some […]

Circular Systems Symposium

10.12.2020, Eindhoven: Christopher Robeller will be speaking about the role of digital fabrication for sustainable buildings, at the Circular Systems for the Built Environment Symposium […]

Lecture at HTWK Leipzig

25.11.2020, Leipzig: Many thanks to HTWK Leipzig and Prof. Dr. Alexander Stahr from the FLEX.htwk research group for their invitation, it was a pleasure to […]

Jury Member Prêmio IBRAMEM

23.11.2020, São Paulo: Thanks to Núcleo da Madeira São Paulo and the organising committee of the bi-annual timber construction awards of Brazil “Prêmio IBRAMEM de […]

Architecture Studio SS2020

07.07.2020, Johanniskreuz: In the summer semester of 2020, our architecture studio team has been developing concepts to revive the “forest house Schwarzsohl”, a remote hut […]

Seminar Pinjarra SS2020

06.07.2020 Kaiserslautern. This week, students of the DTC seminar “Pinjarra Hills Canopy” – in Cooperation with Dr. Joe Gattas and Kim Baber from the University […]

DTC Architecture Studio, Project Ecolab, WS2019

Architecture Studio WS1920

04.02.2020, Landau: This fall semester, our students of the DTC architecture studio at TU Kaiserslautern developed concepts for the project “Ecolab Eusserthal”, a new building […]

Recycleshell

05.09.2019, Kaiserslautern: Can we use digital technology to make high-tech structures from waste material? The production of modern cross-laminated timber (CLT) walls creates a large […]

HexBox Canopy

16.8.2019, Sydney: Wedge-joints are ideal connectors for wood and have been used in traditional handcrafted woodworking for centuries. The diagonal shape of the wedge allows […]

The DTC group is an interdisciplinary team of architects, structural engineers and computer scientists. We are exploring, researching and teaching innovative architecture and structural systems with wood and engineered wood products, enabled by digital technology and computational methods. A major research aim is to use digital design and production methods for more efficient structures, using less material thanks to smart geometry , as well as innovative rapid assembly for simple, fast and precise construction processes.

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