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In this article we present different ways how digital methods can support the generation and evaluation of urban masterplans.

The kick-off for OpenVREVAL, our project on user centered architectural evaluation through Virtual Reality, began this week!

Join the online disputation of Martin Bielik who presents his work on modeling the interaction between activity allocation, pedestrian movement and configuration of urban form.

After four years of intensive work, the workgroup "Architectural Informatics" released a compendium on digital methods in architecture.

The second seminar of ECL-AA on “Guiding Rapid Urbanization 2.0” was held on the 9th of October 2020, following the first seminar which took place in 2018.

Projects from the winter & summer semester are exhibited the the yearly exhibition of our university.

Our two Master-Thesis students Nour Khwies and Nancy Abdelzaher got awarded for their propsal for the redevelopment of Rödingsmarkt, Herrlichkeit und Alsterfleet in Hamburg.

Despite the current situation, we will be there for you via email or phone. In the meantime we are updating and improving our online teaching materials to provide you with a best possible learning experience in the coming semester!

Our students presented their redesigns of the train station of Neumünster and the results of the corresponding Virtual Reality based User Studies.

Our students from the Master programme Integrated Urban Development and Design (IUDD) win runner up award with a metabolism-based planning proposal.

The Thuringian Ministry of Economics, Science and Digital Society (TMWWGD) supports the development of our open platform for Virtual Reality based Evaluation of building designs.

This week thursday, 9:15 we will start our this years studio "Design by Research", where we develop and apply an evidence-based strategy for the human-centered design of the train station in Neumünster.

We are happy to present our new Website!

Martin Bielik presented the paper "Evolving Configurational Properties - Simulating multiplier effects between land use and movement patterns" at the 12th Space Syntax Symposium in Beijing, China.

From July 5th to July 14th we present the works of our collaboration with the EiABC Addis Abeba in the Exhibition "Selam Bauhaus"

Sven Schneider will be giving a talk at the Wilkhahn Symposium about the challenges digitalisation holds for architectural eduction.

Together with the chair of "Computational Architecture" (Prof. Reinhard König) we launched our new online teaching platform for video-based online learning.

Our paper "Examining Trade-Offs between Social, Psychological and Energy Potential of Urban Form" got selected for the cover story in the International Journal of Geo-Information!

Sven Schneider was interviewed by David Kasparek on the role of the Bauhaus in times of digitalisation.

Together with Deutsche Bahn Station & Service we started a collaborative research project on the application of Virtual Reality in the project development phase of train stations. Thereby we will develop methods to systematically evaluate train stations from the perspective of the user and investigate how this evaluation can be integrated into the very early phases of planning.