Topics for Master and PhD Theses
Presently we actively search for students (Master Thesis) interested in ...
- BioShell Timber – Designing Hybrid Structures from Reclaimed Timber and Pistachio Shells (working title)
- Wasteless bending-active structures from single planar sheets
... but we are also open to your proposals. Please come and talk to us and / or visit our teaching for more information.
Current research fields at LSU, Lighweight Structures Unit, include ...
- Steward Gough inspired Architecture
- Non-sequential assemblies
- Bending-active structures and spaces
- Torsion-active structures and spaces
- Reclaimed timber in Architecture
- Twist in architecture and structures
- Tensegrity as Architecture
- Reciprocal Frame Stuctures
- Eulerpath-based Structures
- AI / Maschine Learning in Architecture and Structures (supervised Dr. Morteza Khorsandnikoo)
If you are interested to join, send an email to : lightweightstructures@uibk.ac.at
Master Theses (selected)
ongoing
Structural Cascades: performance-based design with reclaimed in situ timber
Patrick Huber (2026)