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Save the Date: Glass Performance Days 8.-10.06.27 in Darmstadt

///Save the Date: Glass Performance Days 8.-10.06.27 in Darmstadt The Glass Competence Center (GCC) and the Institute of Structural Mechanics and Design (ISMD) at TU Darmstadt are pleased to welcome the international glass community to Glass Performance Days (GPD) 2027,

Save the Date: Glass Performance Days 8.-10.06.27 in Darmstadt

///Save the Date: Glass Performance Days 8.-10.06.27 in Darmstadt The Glass Competence Center (GCC) and the Institute of Structural Mechanics and Design (ISMD) at TU Darmstadt are pleased to welcome the international glass community to Glass Performance Days (GPD) 2027,

FriendlyFrame – More Than Just a Handrail

How can a simple handrail become a place for rest, recognition and social interaction? This challenge, developed together with Woonzorg Nederland, asked Bucky Lab students to rethink the often anonymous corridors of senior housing. While these spaces primarily serve circulation,

FriendlyFrame – More Than Just a Handrail

How can a simple handrail become a place for rest, recognition and social interaction? This challenge, developed together with Woonzorg Nederland, asked Bucky Lab students to rethink the often anonymous corridors of senior housing. While these spaces primarily serve circulation,

Refurbishing Channel 4 in London – its shiny again

We recently visited the Channel 4 headquarters in London to film a new episode for the OpenFace MicroMaster. Cameras in hand, moving around the building, looking for the story – and as always, ending up zooming in on the details,

Refurbishing Channel 4 in London – its shiny again

We recently visited the Channel 4 headquarters in London to film a new episode for the OpenFace MicroMaster. Cameras in hand, moving around the building, looking for the story – and as always, ending up zooming in on the details,

Students Mimic the Facade Professors – A Lovely Compliment

Sometimes the best compliment as a teacher is when your students start to copy you. At TU Darmstadt, in the Civil Engineering course Facade Technology 1, two students — David FlußTarek El-Rashidy – created a short film about their study trip to

Students Mimic the Facade Professors – A Lovely Compliment

Sometimes the best compliment as a teacher is when your students start to copy you. At TU Darmstadt, in the Civil Engineering course Facade Technology 1, two students — David FlußTarek El-Rashidy – created a short film about their study trip to

Characterization of the scratch sensitivity of glasses in civil engineering

/// Characterization of the scratch sensitivity of glasses in civil engineering  Glass is a brittle material, which is more and more used for structural components in civil engineering. According to the current building regulations, today glass is treated as a conventional

Characterization of the scratch sensitivity of glasses in civil engineering

/// Characterization of the scratch sensitivity of glasses in civil engineering  Glass is a brittle material, which is more and more used for structural components in civil engineering. According to the current building regulations, today glass is treated as a conventional

Container Facade

A random picture of stacked containers shows the potentials for fast and easy facade construction out of recycled shipping containers. The container units have been used in multiple examples in architecture with successful and non successful results. It is a

Container Facade

A random picture of stacked containers shows the potentials for fast and easy facade construction out of recycled shipping containers. The container units have been used in multiple examples in architecture with successful and non successful results. It is a