Head of
Department: Sen.Sc. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Clemens Preisinger
Performing experiments with
models provides the basis for insights into circumstances in reality. With the ever-increasing capacities of modern computers,
the importance of digital simulations is growing in many fields of knowledge, as the effort required to create computer simulations
is relatively low compared to that required to perform physical experiments. This also gives digital experiments a new significance
in the context of creative processes: similar to thought experiments, they can be used to add the level of what is possible
to reality. Rather than in the execution of the experiment, the difficulty now lies in the generation and parameterization
of the digital model.
The Digital Simulation department of the IoA is dedicated to the discovery
and formulation of computer-based models in the field of architecture. The basis is an interdisciplinary approach that is
aimed at making modelling techniques and methods from other scientific disciplines usable for the architectural design process.
In addition to digital simulations with physical backgrounds, those from the human sciences are also covered. Rather than
the purely quantitative optimization of the properties of individual systems, our main focus is on the search for new qualities
in the field of digital design.
