Fusion Lab WS2024-25

Fusion Lab WS2024-25 focused on the controversial high-rise development around Munich’s Paketposthalle and used it as a real-world testbed for digital planning tools and participatory urban design. The main scope of the project was to combine BIM, GIS, point cloud processing, and web-based visualization to better understand and communicate the impacts of different design variants - especially high-rises - on the cityscape, environment, and urban structure. Students investigated the broader debate around high-rises in Munich and the specific case of the Paketpostareal, then developed and analyzed own architectural BIM models and alternative urban design concepts for the area, including the high-rises, residential building blocks, the hall itself, and public spaces.

To achieve this, students worked through a set of technical and analytical tasks: processing airborneand self-collected mobile laser scanning point clouds, computing indicators such as Sky View Factor, and setting up a 3D web client and geoservices to visualize an as-built 3D city model enriched with cadastral, transport, soil and other geodata. They created BIM models of existing and alternative design variants, defined semantic requirements, and performed environmental analyses (noise, shadow, visibility, traffic, early-stage sustainability), uncertainty assessments for multi-source data, and basic structural analyses including wind effects. Finally, they fused BIM and GIS data in a web-based model viewer, designed UI and visualization concepts for analysis results, and documented their software architecture, data management strategy, and workflows in a final report.

 

 

Professors / Chairs

• André Borrmann – Chair of Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (former Chair of Computational Modeling and Simulation), TUM Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Frank Petzold – Chair of Architectural Informatics, TUM Department of Architecture
• Thomas H. Kolbe – Chair of Geoinformatics, TUM Department of Aerospace and Geodesy
• Christoph Holst – Chair of Engineering Geodesy, TUM Department of Aerospace and Geodesy

Teaching Staff

• Chair of Computing in Civil and Building Engineering: Agata Dalach, Sebastian Esser, Maikel Brinkhoff
• Chair of Architectural Informatics: Ilayda Memis, Nick Förster
• Chair of Geoinformatics: Felix Olbrich, Ihab Hijazi
• Chair of Engineering Geodesy: Ziyang Xu