Digital Lab
Insights into architecture's digital laboratory
We report on the latest innovations and developments. With presentations on digital processes and tools, from 3D printing and additive manufacturing to building information modelling and building automation.
-
Interview with Mariam Issoufou
„We Have Forgotten the Proper Techniques for Building with Earth”
Mariam Issoufou began early on to make earthen architecture socially acceptable in West African cities. An interview about her experience with natural materials, climate change in Africa, and what she has learned from software engineering for her career as an architect.
-
Coral-red brise-soleil
Office Building in Regensburg by Berschneider + Berschneider
The orange facade cladding of the “Be Orange” office building is an unexpected sight in the immediate vicinity of Regensburg's old town, a Unesco World Heritage Site. A supplier from the automotive industry provided the extremely lightweight shading modules.
-
Venice Architecture Biennale 2025
The Biennale, A Construction Site?
High-tech, low-tech, and AI: The 19th Architecture Biennale doesn’t refuse to showcase architecture – but does it meaningfully engage with the pressing realities its audience faces?
-
When algorithms garden
The Avanade Intelligent Garden by Studio Weave
Studio Weave has teamed up with landscape architect Tom Massey and furniture designer Sebastian Cox to create an intelligent garden. This experimental urban garden uses artificial intelligence to extend the life of city trees.
-
Robot chapel
Housing for a Milling Robot near Barcelona
Students at the Catalan Institute for Advanced Architecture (IAAC) designed an almost sacred-looking shelter for a milling robot on their university campus near Barcelona.
-
Kinetic shading system
Sombra Pavilion in Venice by MVRDV
MVRDV and partners present the Sombra Pavilion – an architectural experiment in the dynamic control of light, heat and ventilation.
-
Kinetic shading system
Sombra Pavilion in Venice by MVRDV
MVRDV and partners present the Sombra Pavilion – an architectural experiment in the dynamic control of light, heat and ventilation.
-
Architecture Biennale 2025 in Venice
Saving the World Out of the 3D Printer?
Material experiments using 3D printers are booming at this year's Architecture Biennale. But what real problems of our world are they supposed to solve – and by when?
-
Digital planning, robotic production
Willow Trees of Steel by Peter Haimerl
Two building-high, computer-generated willows of steel cover the transparent new building by Peter Haimerl and add a bit of shine to the market square of the northern Bavarian basket-weaving city of Lichtenfels.
-
Robotic production
An Innovative Facade Garment for Textile Research
Reutlingen University has moved into Texoversum, the new building devoted to textile research. The robotically produced shell of fibrous composite materials represents a collaborative project by Allmannwappner Architekten, Menges Scheffler Architekten and the structural engineers from Jan Knippers Ingenieure.
Living
-
Regional connections
Semi-Detached Houses in Catalonia by Taller Sau
In Vidrà, a small village in the Catalan foothills of the Pyrenees, Taller Sau have designed two semi-detached houses with a regional connection and a high level of structural efficiency.
-
100 percent natural
BioHome3D from the University of Maine
The University of Maine's BioHome3D is the first house to be 3D-printed out of bio-based materials. It consists of wood fibres and bio-resin and is completely recyclable.
-
Building on a large scale
100 Houses from the 3D Printer by BIG
Robots are constructing the world’s largest 3-D residential community: In the Texan city of Georgetown, the BIG studio is building 100 houses.
Books
Climate & Ressources
-
Interview with Mariam Issoufou
„We Have Forgotten the Proper Techniques for Building with Earth”
Mariam Issoufou began early on to make earthen architecture socially acceptable in West African cities. An interview about her experience with natural materials, climate change in Africa, and what she has learned from software engineering for her career as an architect.
-
Checkerboard facade made of solid limestone
Design College near Paris by SAME
The thick limestone walls protect the design faculty of the University of Cergy-Paris in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. The new building, designed by the architectural practice SAME, is part of a campus that mainly houses technology start-ups.
-
Enveloping wooden roof
Renovation of a Market Hall near Lisbon by REDO Architects
REDO Architects carefully preserved the social and cultural character of the market hall in the Padre Cruz district on the outskirts of Lisbon.