Deepika Raghu
Deepika Raghu
Staff of Professorship for Circular Engineering for Architecture
ETH Zürich
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Deepika Raghu's research focus is on digitalisation of existing buildings to enable the reuse of materials. Her research investigates the following question: How can the obsolescence of the existing building stock be prevented using emerging digital technology available today? Deepika Raghu works with open-access, non-proprietary datasets and state-of-the-art vision and language models to analyze existing buildings to arrive at solutions for retaining high-value materials for future use. Her research observes different contextual paradigms in the realm of circularity for the built environment across various cities in both the Global North and South.
Deepika Raghu's interests lie at the intersection of architecture, technology and innovation to help transition towards a circular economy. She studied architecture at Siddaganga Institute of Technology (SIT), after which she obtained a Masters in Advanced Architecture at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC). At the Chair for Circular Engineering for Architecture (CEA) at ETH Zurich, Deepika Raghu is conducting research that can enable the digital transformation of the built environment by exploring approaches to tackle the existing digital deficit in the construction industry and methods to incentivize change.