Given the accelerated technological advance in all fields, vast knowledge of digital tools becomes mandatory for future interior designers and architects. Thus, experimenting with as many such methods and technologies must become a priority for the teaching process. Noticing a high demand for digitalization during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Polytechnic University of Timisoara has decided to encourage the implementation of digital teaching throughout disciplines, preparing students for their future careers. Photogrammetry as a study method, among others, has the potential to outrank traditional documentation techniques currently applied in architectural education and practice. The presented research was divided into two main phases: an educational, experimental workshop and a project restoration application. After learning, testing, and refining the close-range photogrammetry workflow, the authors and students took the best practices and applied them to an ongoing facade restoration project in Timisoara, scanning original and restored plaster ornaments and finally 3D printing one of the models. The article aims to show that, unlike traditional teaching methods, using photogrammetry as a documentation process creates a coherent link between theoretical education and restoration practice. Consequently, the exercise brings students closer to the applicable side of their careers through a contemporary digital technique.

Contemporary workplace design demands unconstrained planning typologies, based on long-term vision regarding flexibility of space and remodeling, according to occupant activities and necessities. As creative thinking becomes the most powerful human asset, employee wellbeing demands major architectural and technical improvements to be included in office space-planning, reducing detrimental building-related health issues. Isolated or unplanned interventions are proven insufficient to acquire desired wellbeing results; therefore, a series of interrelated actions is needed for the creation of healthy workplaces. Specialty studies have been focusing for several years on developing architectural and technological solutions to enhance productivity, but the present study aims to interweave design and electrical engineering for wellbeing and environmental purposes. Firstly, connection to natural elements based on Biophilic attributes, is seen as restorative and offering balanced response to an increasingly denser built-environment. Secondly, the support of technical systems for indoor climate optimization aim to replicate outdoor environments while allowing local occupant control over individual comfort necessities.

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