The research conducted at the Cluster of Excellence IntCDC since 2019 has had a significant impact on both science and practice. The successes achieved can be measured not least by the high-ranking publications in the respective fields and the recognition of our researchers through awards. Further evidence of the IntCDC's impact is the knowledge transfer to partners in science and industry, a large number of collaborations and various networks that the Cluster has co-initiated. With our building demonstrators and exhibitions, we have also been sucessful in making our research visible to the general public.
Publications & Data Sets
Awards
The contributions of IntCDC researchers have been acknowledged through a multitude of awards in recent years. A selection of these awards is presented below.
Science Communication & Outreach
Successful science communication and outreach is essential for the societal understanding of our research and its visibility to the general public. Innovative building demonstrators, an active presence at exhibitions and the organisation of high-impact conferences are therefore important not only from a research point of view, but also serve to bring the discussion of our research and its societal implications into the public domain.
Building Demonstrators
The building demonstrators play a key role for the Cluster in two ways. Not only they form an integral part of the research itself, but they also demonstrate research results as a unique and highly effective means of communicating science. Our nine IntCDC building demonstrators have generated significant impact in the scientific, cultural and public domains and reached 6.4 million visitors since 2019.
IntCDC Building
The IntCDC building will constitute a new model of a research building that spatially fosters interdisciplinary Co-Design and a vibrant scientific environment. It will seamlessly connect in-door and outdoor lab spaces for computational design, cyber-physical fabrication and con-struction research.
Exhibitions
IntCDC research outcome was on show at more than 60 exhibitions at renowned international venues, such as the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the MAXXI Museum in Rome and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo.
Conferences
IntCDC has hosted several international conferences and related workshops at the University of Stuttgart. The Stuttgart Week of Advancing Architecture, Engineering and Construction (SWAA) in 2022 and the Advances in Architectural Geometry (AAG) in 2023 each attracted over 450 attendees from both academia and the building industry. The current state of research was presented at the IntCDC conferences.
Collaborations
Since the start of the Cluster in 2019, we have succeeded in establishing numerous academic collaborations with researchers from renowned institutes, as well as collaborations with leading industry partners. We actively promote knowledge transfer between academia and industry through an advanced ecosystem.
Networks
IntCDC has been an active co-initiator of the global research network AdvanceAEC and plays an engaged role in several other networks aimed at fostering cross-cutting collaboration between different actors in the fields of architecture, engineering and construction.
In the Media
In addition to exhibitions and publicly accessible building demonstrators, the Cluster's presence in high-profile media is an effective means of raising public awareness of our research and emphasising its societal relevance.
[Photos: David Ausserhofer, Roland Halbe, o.A., o.A.]
Research Infrastructure
An effective research infrastructure is a prerequisite for the success of the Cluster. Central to this is our internationally unique, interdisciplinary Large-Scale Construction Robotics Laboratory (LCRL), which reflects the Cluster's research programme.
