Research Areas
Digital Technologies Section is a dynamic powerhouse in computational innovation, leading the charge in reshaping the design, construction, and planning of buildings and environments for a sustainable and performance-oriented future. Our core mission revolves around seamlessly uniting the human and physical aspects, blending structural, thermal, and acoustic factors with cognitive, functional, geo-information, and social elements through cutting-edge computational tools. The fusion of both DI and GIS Technologies drive us to innovate and break new boundaries in areas of research across all scale for the small to the large in various topics such as employing advanced manufacturing techniques, tackling complex design challenges, and promoting cross-disciplinary research collaboration. In this exciting crossroads of informatics, architectural engineering, and spatial computation, Digital Technologies Section foster an environment of interdisciplinary exploration and education, paving the way for the future of sustainable design and digital brilliance.
Key topic areas include:
- Building performance
- geo-information technologies
- Indoor models and navigation
- Digital Twins and decision support
- Vario-scale maps
- Point clouds representations
- Land administration
- Computer-aided manufacturing
- Materials research
- Building performance
- Computational design
VR Lab
Do you want to use virtual reality (VR) for an immersive presentation of your project? Do you need a headset to conduct your research? Are you looking for tips to enhance your 3D workflows? Or are you just interested to learn more about the possibilities of VR and computational design? Students, researchers and professionals in the field of architecture and the built environment are welcome to visit or contact the VR Lab.
Geo-Database Management Center Lab
The Geo-Database Management Centre (GDMC) is the research and development centre for all activities related to the modelling, storage, retrieval, analysis, presentation and distribution of geo-information. Its core users are staff members of the TU Delft Digital Technologies sections. They mainly collaborate with (project) partners and thesis students from the MSc-tracks Geomatics and GIMA.
Lama Lab
LAMA is an additive manufacturing lab which focusses on additive manufacturing applications in Architecture. The lab is research driven and combines integrated multi-disciplinary, optimization and rationalization design techniques and methods with the additive manufacturing process in support of the build of the resulting formal complex optimized and rationalized designs.
MULTICARE
Multi- hazard low-carbon resilient technologies and multi-scale digital services for a future-proof, sustainable & user-centred built environment.
2024 - 2028
DATALESs
Integrating thousands of controllable elements in LESs and green buildings into traditional control or optimization frameworks while still guaranteeing optimal system-level objectives.
September 2022 - September 2026
ND-POINTCLOUDS
A MODEL FOR DEEPLY INTEGRATING SPACE, TIME, AND SCALE. Novel massive multi-dimensional point cloud data sets, time and added information representing space.
2022 - 2025
WOOD WITHOUT TREES RESEARCH PROJECT
The on-going Wood Without Trees project studies a solution to upcycle both components into a fully biobased material for additive manufacturing.
February 2022 - October 2022
3D LAND ADMINISTRATION
The registration of the legal status in complex 3D situations will be investigated under the header of 3D Cadastres.
2018 - 2025
REPRINTING ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE
A pilot study was proposed includes high-definition scanning and 3D printing of a heritage structure at the building scale.
January 2017 - March 2018
TERRA-ink
TERRA-ink aimed at developing a method for layering local soil, by implementing 3D printing technologies.
2017 - 2018
Double Face 2.0
Double Face 2.0 is a novel solar wall, joining a strong design identity and high technical performances.
2016 - 2018
Spong3D
This research investigated the potentials of Additive Manufacturing porous structures for thermal performances, and more specifically thermal insulation and heat storage.
2016 - 2017
ADAM - OPEN TECHNOLOGIEPROGRAMMA NWO
A new cutting-edge acoustic device is proposed that regulates its performance by its geometrical characteristics based on interference principles.
January 2015 - December 2018
Computational Design for Sport Buildings
The project deals with the concept of Multi-objective Multidisciplinary design optimization techniques to support trade-off decisions between multiple conflicting design objectives
2014 - 2016
DOUBLEFACE 4TU LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT
The project designed and prototyped a modular system for adjustable translucent thermal mass, based on an innovative (digital) approach to thermal principles of trombe walls.
July 2014 - Feb. 2015