International course on Digital Methods for the Built Environment conducted successfully

The Chair of Geoinformatics organized a course on Digital Methods for the Built Environment within the Advanced Technology Higher Education Network Socrates (ATHENS) which was jointly conducted by the five Chairs collaborating in the Leonhard Obermeyer Center.

Fifteen selected postgraduate students from nine nations and diverse disciplines came together at TUM for one week in November in order to get a deep insight into topics such as generative and accumulative modelling for Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Topography Information Modeling (TIM) and the related international standards IFC and CityGML, methods for data acquisition on urban objects and phenomena as well as simulations based on 3D building and urban information models.

In addition to the theory behind these methods, the participants learned in hands-on exercises and demonstrations how to create semantic 3D city and building models, how to acquire 3D data by flying an unmanned aerial vehicle, how to program road alignment curves and finally how to transform digital architectural design into touchable models using laser cutting technology.