Laboratory of Generative Systems and Sciences in Architecture and Built Environment

Genesis Lab is a research and development laboratory dedicated to advancing Generative Systems and the emerging field of Generative Sciences. The lab investigates how architectural and spatial configurations emerge from constraints, rules, and interactions across multiple scales. Its work integrates mathematical reasoning, discrete geometry, topology, and Spectral Graph Theory to study form, configuration, and system behaviour in both building and urban contexts. Genesis Lab approaches generative systems through three complementary modes of inquiry: 1) Deriving structured designs from functional requirements, using principled modelling, geometric reasoning, and formal logic. 2) Exploring discrete and modular configuration spaces, through combinatorial representations, topological structures, and rule-based generative grammars. 3) Developing generative design game sets, where designers, users, and cyber-physical components co-create spatial configurations within carefully structured multi-agent environments.Together, these modes form a unified framework for understanding how architectural and infrastructural systems can remain adaptable, legible, and rigorously structured over time. Modular building systems and dry-assembly logics serve as experimental testbeds, while the broader research agenda addresses the mathematics of generative spatial systems beyond any single application domain.Genesis Lab’s educational mission emphasizes geometric thinking, discrete representations, graphs, raster, and mesh-based reasoning, and algorithmic modelling as instruments of architectural inquiry. Students are trained to analyse configuration spaces, formalize design logics, and construct their own generative frameworks for reasoning about complex spatial systems. Committed to Open Science and Open Education, Genesis Lab fosters interdisciplinary collaboration and engages with academic and professional partners interested in advancing structured yet open approaches to spatial design.

Expertise

Programming
Programming

C# (Mat.NET, Meta.Numerics, Accord.NET), Python (NumPy, SciPy, NetworkX, Scikit-Learn, TensorFlow, OR-Tools, PyTorch, topoGenesis, COMPAS), MATLAB

Mathematics
Mathematics

Linear Algebra, Spectral Graph Theory, Calculus, Statistics and Probability, Control Theory

MachineLearning
Machine Learning

Shape Recognition, Manifold Learning, Natural Language Processing

CompDesign
Computational Design

Computer Graphics, Computer Aided Design, Computational Topology, Computational Geometry

SystemsModeling
Systems Modelling

Simulation Modelling, Differential Equations, Data Management, Data Modelling, Data Visualization, System Dynamics, Control, Agent-based Modelling

OpenSience
Open Science

Open-Source Development, Version Control, Source Code Management

Contributors

Meet all the contributors who give life to Genesis! See the alumni here

Genesis Wall of Fame

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Aditya Soman

Former MSc Student| Computational Designer @ Ramboll

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Anastasia Florou

Former MSc Student| Junior Software Developer & Computational Designer @ Sustainer Homes

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Anna Kaletkina

Former MSc Student @ TU Delft Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering

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Aradhana Tripathy

Former MSc Student Geoinformation Sciences @ University of Twente, Spatial Designer at Witteveen+Bos

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Baolian Liu

Former MSc Student @ TU Delft Faculty of Architecture, Building Technology

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Berend Vos

Former MSc Student @ TU Delft Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering

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Bezawit Zerayacob Bekele

Former MSc Student| Project Engineer @ White Lioness Technologies

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Dennis Hollanders

Former MSc structural engineering and Design @ TU/e| Artificial Intelligence Engineer @ Zympler

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Jacek Baczkowski

Former MSc Student| Founder @ Play Well

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Leticija Petrova

Former MSc Student| Project Manager and Parametric engineer @ Respace

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Qinglu Chen

Former MSc Student @ TU Delft Faculty of Architecture, Building Technology

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Roy Uijtendaal

Former MSc Student| Computational Design Specialist @ Nieman Consulting Ingenieurs

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Selina Bitting

Former MSc Student| PhD Researcher at ETH Zürich, Block Research Group

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Solkyu Park

Former MSc Student| Computational Design Specialist @ Junglim Architecture

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Tim Schumann

Former MSc Student @ TU Delft Faculty of Architecture, Building Technology

PhD Candidates & Researchers

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Cemre Çubukçuoğlu

Former PhD Candidate at TU Delft Faculty of Architecture|Research Assistant @ Yaşar University

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Iván Cárdenas

PhD candidate at Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente

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Nan Bai

Former PhD Candidate at TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture|Marie Sklodowska-Curie Early Stage Researcher at HERILAND College of Heritage Planning–Post-doctoral researcher at Wageningen University

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Oumayma Fegrouch

PhD candidate at Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente

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Zhuoran Jia

PhD Candidate at TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture

Lab Directors

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Pirouz Nourian

University of Twente

Generative Design Scientist/ Senior Assistant Professor of Digital Twinning

Generative Design, Gamification of Design, Participatory Design, Topology Optimization, Shape Optimization, Masonry Architecture, Numerical Computing, Scientific Computing, Applied Mathematics

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Shervin Azadi

TU/e

PhD Candidate

Generative Design, Collective Intelligence, Participatory Design, Numerical Computing, Swarm Intelligence, Multi Agent Systems

Advisory Board

Members

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Dr. Tom Van Mele

ETH Zurich

Senior Scientist|Co-director @ the Block Research Group (BRG)|Lead developer of COMPAS

Open-source Computational Frameworks, Computational Form-finding and Optimisation, Data Structures, Scientific Programming and Web Technologies

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Dr.ir. Matthijs Langelaar

TU Delft

Associate Professor of Structural Optimization and Mechanics

Computational Engineering Design, Topology Optimization, Evolutionary Fluid-Structural Optimization

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Prof. Elmar Eisemann

TU Delft

Professor of Computer Science|Head of Computer Graphics and Visualization Group

Real-time and Perceptual Rendering, Alternative Representations, Visibility, Image Processing, Vision, Content Creation, Visualization

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