“Timber construction is the future”
“Timber construction is the future”
Minister President Kretschmann visits the research Building Demonstrators being created by the Cluster of Excellence IntCDC at the Landesgartenschau (State Flower Show) in Wangen.
[Image: © IntCDC University of Stuttgart/Moritz Metzger]
The University of Stuttgart has achieved notable success in the EIC Pathfinder Challenge
The University of Stuttgart has achieved notable success in the EIC Pathfinder Challenge
Bringing architecture, construction, and digitalization together for greater sustainability in the construction industry
[Image: © ICD/ITKE/IntCDC University of Stuttgart]
IntCDC Building
IntCDC Building
The University of Stuttgart is building a new research centre, the IntCDC Building, for the Cluster of Excellence IntCDC on the Vaihingen campus. The new building will bring together the researchers from seven faculties of the university and house the necessary research infrastructure.
[Image: © IntCDC Planungs GmbH]
Wangen Tower
Wangen Tower
Set in the scenic landscape of the western Allgäu, the Wangen Tower is an architectural landmark and pioneering timber structure for the Landesgartenschau 2024. Based on research conducted at IntCDC, the tower is the very first multi-level, walkable building to use self-shaped, structural timber components.
[Image: © ICD/ITKE/IntCDC University of Stuttgart]
Hybrid Flax Pavilion
Hybrid Flax Pavilion
With the central pavilion for the Landesgartenschau 2024 in Wangen, the IntCDC Cluster of Excellence has for the first time realised a wood-natural fibre hybrid construction as an alternative to conventional building methods. It combines slender cross-laminated timber with robotically wound flax fibre bodies in a novel, resource-saving load-bearing system made from regional, bio-based building materials with a local tradition.
[Image: © ICD/ITKE/IntCDC University of Stuttgart]
livMatS Biomimetic Shell
livMatS Biomimetic Shell
The distinctive livMatS Biomimetic Shell at the FIT Freiburg, with its resource-efficient, fully demountable and reusable segmented timber shell construction, is a joint project of the Clusters of Excellence IntCDC and livMatS at the University of Freiburg. The design of the building envelope is based on the morphological principles of the plate skeleton of sea urchins.
[Image: © ICD/ITKE/IntCDC University of Stuttgart]
AAG Conference
AAG Conference
From 4 to 7 October 2023, IntCDC hosted the Advances of Architectural Geometry 2023 conference, which was an overwhelming success. Welcoming nearly 450 conference attendees and 160 workshop participants from all over the world to explore new perspectives and emerging topics in architectural geometry was truly inspiring.
[Image: © IntCDC University of Stuttgart]
livMatS Pavilion
livMatS Pavilion
The livMatS Pavilion in the Botanical Garden of the University of Freiburg is the result of a successful collaboration between the Clusters of Excellence IntCDC and livMatS and offers a resource-saving alternative to conventional construction methods. It is the first building with a load-bearing structure made entirely of robotically wound flax fibres, a material that is naturally renewable, biodegradable and regionally available in Central Europe.
[Image: © ICD/ITKE/IntCDC University of Stuttgart]
Maison Fibre
Maison Fibre
With Maison Fibre, exhibited at the 17th Venice Biennale of Architecture 2021, the Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) and the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE), both part of the IntCDC, presented a full-scale inhabitable installation made entirely of robotically produced, fibrous building elements, constituting the very first multi-storey structure of its kind.
[Image: © ICD/ITKE/IntCDC University of Stuttgart]
Instrumentation Platforms
Instrumentation Platforms
Three interlinked instrumentation platforms provide the central hardware for our research into behaviour-based, sensor-driven, cyber-physical construction at IntCDC: the Off-Site Prefabrication Instrumentation Platform, the On-Site Construction Instrumentation Platform and the On-Site Fabrication, Fitting and Finishing Instrumentation Platform.
[Image: © ICD/ITKE/IntCDC University of Stuttgart]

The Cluster of Excellence IntCDC - Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture (First Funding Period 2019-2025) harnesses the full potential of digital technologies in order to rethink design, fabrication and construction based on integration and interdisciplinarity, with the goal of enabling game-changing innovation in the building sector as it can only occur through highly integrative fundamental research in an interdisciplinary, large-scale research undertaking.

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Open Position – Research Associate (ICD)

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Diversity as a strength: Interview with Prof. Dr. Thomas Wortmann

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Integratives Computerbasiertes Planen und Bauen

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Zukunftsfähige Architektur – Integratives Planen und Bauen

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German Design Award 2025 - Winner

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German Design Award 2025 - Gold

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Visiting IntCDC Institutes (ViNe) – Institute of Industrial Manufacturing and Management (IFF)

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Prof. Peter Varkonyi

Lecture Series Adaptivity as Utopia – Shape Optimization of Columns and Arches through Load-induced Curvature Adaptation

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Visiting IntCDC Institutes (ViNe) – Institute for Control Engineering of Machine Tools and Manufacturing Units (ISW)

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IntCDC Senior Researcher Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kepa Iturralde

Inaugural Lecture – Kepa Iturralde

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Hackathon Digital Prefabrication Challenge

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AnnaLisa Meyboom

IntCDC Constructive Conversations // Speculative Design Futures in Construction

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