Research Programs

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.

Since January 2017, fourteen institutes at the University of Stuttgart have been working in close interdisciplinary collaboration on the question of how, in light of the growing world population and depleting resources, future built environments can be created using minimal resources and reducing carbon emissions. The aim of CRC 1244 is to find answers to the pressing ecological and social questions of our time for the construction sector. The objective is to significantly reduce the use of resources through new design strategies and technologies, which enable structures and envelopes to be adaptive against loading and environmental actions.