Organisation profile

Create Integrated Architecture conducts interdisciplinary research with a human-centered approach to architecture with the aim to design and operate sustainable built environments for human health and well-being. We regard integrated design thinking as paramount in research, education and practice.

Create Integrated Architecture is an interdisciplinary group of researchers which uses mixed methods in their research designs. Create Integrated Architecture addresses health, resilience and well-being of people in built environments, sustainable architecture and digital architectural design in the face of climate change.

Health, resilience and well-being
The group applies a human-centered approach to architecture with the aim of enhancing health, resilience and quality of life of humans in built environments. The group researches human behavior and psycho-physiological impacts of buildings on humans,  what buildings afford to people and how people perceive and interact with architectural environments,.

Sustainability, sufficiency and adaptation to a changing climate
The group researches climate mitigation and adaptation of built environments, architecture that is ambitious regarding life cycle impact and in healthy indoor environments not only in today's climate but also in a changing climate and less resources. Architecture with sufficient means for healthy and comfortable indoor environments, sustainable human activity, fossil free building operation and circular materiality.

Digital architecture
Digital technologies and experiments enhance the group's research and inform design, production and operation of architecture leading to new aesthetics with reused or recycled materials and atmospheres for new, retrofitted and transformed buildings. 

Research group coordinator: Runa T. Hellwig