The University of Stuttgart has created the world-first self-twisted tower in Germany. The 14-metre-high Urbach Tower sits on a hillside in the valley's centre where it has been created by making use of the natural shrinking process of wood as it loses moisture. The entire structure has been created by predicting how the wood will shrink as it dries out by means of a new, non-energy-intensive process. It was the university’s university's Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) and Institute for Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) that had built the unique tower. The designers exclaimed their work as ‘programming’ wood to take on a specific shape. They believe that this design opens pathways to new architectural possibilities as well. The ICD and ITKE developed their own computational mechanics models for the design in order to explore various radiuses and curvature types.

Here at Sigma College of Architecture, one of the top architectural colleges in Tamil Nadu we help our students broaden their horizons by educating them on projects that think outside the box.