Student and Research Projects

Our faculty brings together a broad spectrum of topics, perspectives, and approaches. The student and research projects presented here offer insight into current issues and reflect the diversity of the field of architecture. You’ll discover a variety of approaches, subject areas, and ideas that shape our built environment.

Student Projects

Smart Home

03/16/2026 - 06/30/2026

Digitalisierung

Semester Projects: AI, BIM, and Digital Construction Processes

The future of construction begins with digital information

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Industrial robots

03/16/2026 - 06/30/2026

Digitalisierung

Semester Projects: Digital Fabrication + Robotics

Digital designs become a physical reality

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Virtual Reality

03/16/2026 - 06/30/2026

Digitalisierung

Semester Projects: Extended Reality + Immersive Spaces

Experience architecture before it's built

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Green Smart City

03/16/2026 - 06/30/2026

Digitalisierung

Semester Projects: Parametric Urban Planning + Urban Simulation

Digital designs become a physical reality

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Construction worker flies a drone

03/16/2026 - 06/30/2026

Digitalisierung

Semester Projects: Digital Infrastructure + Monitoring

Understanding, Monitoring, and Evaluating Structures

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The Women's Canoe Team ©THA

10/01/2025 - 09/30/2026

Ressourceneffizienz

Concrete Canoe 25 – Women's Canoe

Female students at THA are building a concrete canoe for the 2026 regatta

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10/01/2025 - 03/15/2026

Wasser

Fish Pass at the Upper Outlet

A look behind the scenes of engineering design.

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Transformed Courtyard - Housing for Seniors

10/01/2025 - 03/15/2026

Gesellschaft

HOSPITAL [ITY]

A host for the city of Memmingen

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Illustration of a park with people in it

03/17/2025 - 06/20/2025

Gesellschaft

Creating Retreats

Small-Scale Architecture & Tiny House Studies in the “Representation and Design II + CAX” Module

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03/14/2025 - 09/30/2026

Gesellschaft

The “Living Room” – A New Spot in the Neighborhood

In downtown Augsburg, an empty room in the Barfüßerkirche was transformed into the neighborhood’s “Stube”—an open space for meeting, sharing, and learning together.

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The finished wooden casing for the concrete transformer station

10/01/2024 - 03/14/2025

Gesellschaft

Strom.Linien.Form.

Design-Build - Prototype Substation for the Allgäu Region

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© Mikala Holme Samsøe

03/01/2024 - 09/01/2027

Denkmalschutz

Appreciation and Renovation of Existing Buildings

The appreciation analysis helps highlight the qualities of existing everyday buildings and promotes their sustainable redevelopment rather than demolition.

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The Surf Wave Team

10/01/2022 - 12/31/2023

Gesellschaft

The Surf Wave in Augsburg

Built using recycled carbon concrete with technical expertise from Augsburg University of Applied Sciences

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Aerial view of the forest farm and the guesthouse

03/19/2018 - 06/01/2027

Ressourceneffizienz

Planting Future: Design-Build Project in Uganda

Training Center with Guest Houses and a Forestry Farm

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Research Projects

A man wearing a helmet and carrying a leather shoulder bag is riding a bicycle

07/01/2026 - 06/30/2029

A2W

Active to Work - Active Commuting: Effects on Mental Health and the Role of Urban Environmental Factors

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10/01/2025 - 10/31/2026

Ressourceneffizienz • Wasser

Condition of the Sewer System in Bavaria - Data as of 2024

Current assessment of Bavaria's sewer system, with a focus on the condition of the infrastructure, rehabilitation efforts, and long-term maintenance.

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01/01/2025 - 12/31/2026

Ressourceneffizienz • Wasser

Cost-Effective Upgrades to Wastewater Treatment Plants

Cost-Effective Upgrading of Wastewater Treatment Plants by Improving the Settling Properties of Activated Sludge

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An NDN reactor that has not yet been filled, with a view toward the discharge box, agitators, walkway, and feed line, prior to commissioning in the fall of 2024

12/01/2024 - 10/31/2026

Ressourceneffizienz • Wasser

NareDeni Large-Scale Technology

Research is being conducted into new ways to efficiently remove nitrogen at existing wastewater treatment plants using post-treatment residual denitrification.

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11/01/2024 - 10/30/2026

Digitalisierung

Secure Heterogeneous IoT Systems in Buildings and Neighborhoods

The research project enhances IT security and privacy protection in connected real estate—across the entire lifecycle of IoT and smart-home systems.

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UNIREF Retro Flange

10/01/2024 - 03/31/2026

Wasser

UNIREF

UNIversal Retrofit Flange – Permanent universal retrofit adapter for the temporary shutoff of existing pressurized sewer lines

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Cover photo: DiPukS

08/01/2024 - 06/30/2027

Digitalisierung

DiPukS

Digital Planning Support for Climate-Neutral Urban Development

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11/09/2020 - 04/30/2023

Wasser

NAREDENI

Scientific Monitoring of the Pilot Tests on Post-Treatment Denitrification Using a Fluidized Bed System at the Ingolstadt Central Wastewater Treatment Plant

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06/30/2019 - 07/30/2022

Ressourceneffizienz

Eco-Friendly Timber-Hybrid Construction Methods for Multi-Story Buildings

The Institute for Timber Construction at THA is developing sustainable timber-calcium sulfate hybrid floor systems as an alternative to cement and steel.

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01/01/2019 - 12/31/2022

Wasser

Leak-Tightness of Pressurized Sewer Pipelines

Development of a universal testing method for determining the leak-tightness of pressurized wastewater pipelines in service.

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11/30/2018 - 05/31/2023

Damage Prevention in Geotechnical Engineering - Preventing Slope Slides

The Effect of Temporary Groundwater on the Stability of Road Cutoff Slopes.

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01/01/2018 - 06/30/2023

Recommendations for Sewer System Operators on Managing Stormwater

Research Projects on Managing Drainage Water in the Sewer System

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01/01/2015 - 12/31/2016

Wasser

Sludge Stabilization

The research project examines the future of sludge stabilization at wastewater treatment plants and evaluates alternative treatment and disposal concepts.

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