M.F. (Max) Salzberger
M.F. (Max) Salzberger
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Max Salzberger is a member of the research staff at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, where he teaches digital planning and construction. He has specialised in digital production from early in his professional life, dating back to his apprenticeship as a woodworker. Max also teaches digital manufacturing at the chamber of crafts in Cologne. He has put numerous projects into practice, from experimental structures to interiors and residential architecture. He is currently a PhD Student at the Department of Architectural Engineering and Technology at TU Delft. In his research, he investigates the transfer of craft-based techniques utilising the material properties of timber for the design, manufacturing and assembly of timber joints from hand- into information-tool-technology
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Publications
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2024
Moisture-induced timber joining
Utilizing the hygroscopicity and shape-memory effect of wood resulting in dimensional change in a prefabricated wood-only, self-built, sawn timber system for affordable housing in Colombia
Max Salzberger / Juan Sebastian Cruz Rojas / Gilbert Koskamp -
2024
Shape-Changing Wood Joints in Crafts and Industry and Their Potential for Building Construction and Wood Culture
State-of-the-Art of Utilizing the Hygrocopicity and Resulting Dimensional Change of Wood for the Moisture-Induced Joining of Wooden Elements
Max Salzberger -
2023
:metabolon
A prototypical approach towards sustainable housing
Marco Hemmerling / Max Salzberger -
2022
InterACT
Laboratory for Architecture, Crafts, Technology
M.F. Salzberger / Marco Hemmerling -
2018
SimpliciDIY
Do-it-yourself wood building system
M.F. Salzberger / Michael Lautwein -
Prizes
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2024
Green BIM Award
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2024
Züblin Sonderpreis - AufItgebaut
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2019
Fellowship for digital Innovation in University teaching
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2019
Lehrpreis TH Köln
TransDigital - A cooperative educational project between architecture and crafts
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2019
VDI Förderpreis
SimpliciDIY – Do-it-yourself wood building system