ICD Stuttgart
The Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) is dedicated to the teaching and research of computational design and computer-aided manufacturing processes in architecture.
The ICD’s goal is to prepare students for the continuing advancement of computational processes in architecture, as they merge the fields of design, engineering, planning and construction. The interrelation of such topics is exposed as both a technical and intellectual venture of formal, spatial, constructional and ecological potentials. Through teaching, the ICD establishes a practical foundation in the fundamentals of parametric and algorithmic design strategies. This provides a platform for further exploration into the integrative use of computational processes in architectural design, with a particular focus on integrative methods for the generation, simulation and evaluation of comprehensive information-based and performance-oriented models.
UniversalTimberSlab – Project Goals
Cluster of Excellence IntCDC Receives Funding for a Further Seven Years
01 - bhOWL Toolkit Demo/Tutorial
02 - bhOWL Toolkit Installation Guide
ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2011
Solar Gate – Bioinspired Weather-Responsive Adaptive Shading
Multi-scalar robotic fabrication system for on-site press gluing in multi-storey timber buildings
ITECH Research Pavilion 2024, Stuttgart, Germany
ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2012
Prompt-to-Production: Aeonian Artefact Automation for Circular Timber Assemblies
Hybrid Flax Pavilion, Landesgartenschau Wangen im Allgäu, 2024, Germany
Wangen Tower, Landesgartenschau Wangen im Allgäu, 2024, Germany
Learning and Generating Spatial Concepts of Modern Architecture via Graph Machine Learning
Opossum Tutorial 01: Single- and Multi-Objective Optimization
Opossum Tutorial 02: Performance Explorer
ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2014-2015
Maison Fibre 2021 - 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
Urbach Tower - Remstal Gartenschau 2019
HygroShell ITECH Research Pavilion, Chicago Architecture Biennial 2023
BUGA Wood Pavilion, Bundesgartenschau Heilbronn 2019
HygroScope - Centre Pompidou Paris 2012
livMatS Biomimetic Shell