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
Unparking Potential
Lara Sophie Emser (2026)
ReWood
Fabienne Migga (2026)
Interlocking Structures : reverse engineering nature
Jan Kaltenbach (2026)
Church in Progress
Eva Veronique Stirbu (2026)
Reversible Circular Structural Timber
Nele Hülsmann (2026)
Architecture as Bricolage and The Aesthetics of Reassembly
Antonia Auer (2026)
Reclaimed AI-Timber
Markus Gras (2026)
Structural Cascades: performance-based design with reclaimed in situ timber
Patrick Huber (2026)
completed
From Simplicity to Complexity
Micha Schneider (2024)
KnitEuler
Moria D. Schwarz (2023)
Material Informed Structures and Architecture
Faezeh Sadegi (2022)
Architectural Design from Upcycled Formwork Wood
Gabrielle Nicolas (2022)
STELVIO
Martin Ebensperger (2022)
Cell, Parasitism, and Proliferation
Hsin-Yun Lai (2022)
Non-rectangular Concrete Beams Produced from Bent Planar Molds
James Roney (2018)
PhD Theses
Heuristic Lightweight Crafting
Mohammad Hassan Saleh Tabari (ongoing)
Bent and Twisted Spatial Structures
Fereshteh Khojastehmehr (ongoing)
Nodeless Nodes
Hasan Hadi Abdulameer (2024)
Torsion as a design driver for structures and architecture
Serenay Elmas (2024)
Timber-only Structures
Gengmu Ruan (2024)
Architectural Democracy
Pedro Aibéo (2023)
SToW, Sustainable Thermoception of Wood
Sepehr Hosseini (2023)