In July 2015 the first batch of the new master program Master in Advanced Architectural Design MAAD at EiABC traveled to Germany for an architecture excursion.The travel was conceptualised by the Chair of Architecture and Building Science and was funded and organised by the German DAAD. Under the guidance of MArch Dawit Benti, the DAAD tourguide and accompanied by program manager Dr. Petra Gruber and visiting lecturer DI Solweig Kieser ten architecture students experienced three cities, Berlin, Weimar and Stuttgart, and two German universities, Bauhaus and Stuttgart University for 12 days.

In Weimar, workshops and presentations were held with the Bauhaus universitie's INFAR institute as final event of the joint design program on the development of the city of Bahir Dar, that was carried out in the second term in the academic year 2014/15. Bauhaus and EiABC student projects were exhibited in the yearly "Summaery" event held for the public. In Stuttgart, presentations were given by the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design ITKE and the Institute for Computational Design ICD. Together, and in cooperation with numerous other institutes and companies the institutes carry out research in the fields of computational design and advanced materials processing. The group visited the institute's facilities, the robolab and the current experimental pavilion, that was designed following the biological role model of a water spider. The pavilion was produced out of a carbon fibre composite material by an industry robot using a pneumatic balloon as scaffolding.

http://infar.architektur.uni-weimar.de

http://www.itke.uni-stuttgart.de

http://icd.uni-stuttgart.de/