Advanced Manufacturing in Architecture — Final Thesis Presentations

The Advanced Manufacturing thesis cluster brought together students from the Master in Advanced Architecture, including those specialising in robotics and advanced construction, around a shared conviction: that digital fabrication, automation, and robotic processes are not just tools – they are a new language for building.

Across five projects, students tackled some of the most pressing challenges in contemporary construction – from waste reduction and material efficiency to post-disaster housing and large-scale fabrication of complex architectural forms. The work spanned timber, concrete, and reclaimed materials, always with an eye on what construction could look like if we designed it from the ground up: more precise, more adaptable, and more honest about resources.

What united the presentations was not a shared aesthetic but a shared ambition – to close the gap between design intelligence and manufacturing reality, one prototype at a time.