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Students can accomplish integrative tasks in architectural design and planning. They are able to critically formulate architectural concepts independently, situate them in the architectural discourse and realise them across a variety of scales. Students are familiar with a series of methods and special skills which are required to integrate aesthetic, functional, programmatic, urban, topological, technical and ecological aspects into their designs.

Materia Chimera
Smudge and blend - A transcycling studio

Retrofitting, renovation, conversion, modification, alteration, reorganization, upgrading and enhancement of existing buildings are crucial strategies to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in architecture and building construction. But there are also unconventional strategies to achieve these aims. The studio will investigate assembly strategies for relocatable building parts. These fragments should be taken from various abandoned or soon-destroyed buildings. Edifices inevitably change over time. After a few decades, they often reach the end of their life cycle and lose their purpose. This could be a considerable potential as a resource for new buildings. Transcycling will challenge the conventional approaches of recycling, and upcycling that are criticized for reducing the value of the materials (downcycling). We will try to critically identify conceptual strategies and also the tasks of the potential to work with medium scale building fragments. Therefore, the students are asked to develop their notion of contemporary and sustainable assemblage strategy with the help of digital tools (CAAD, AI, simulation, procedural computing, MR, etc.) and fabrication methods (robotic fabrication, 3D Printing, CNC, etc.).

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(for more information see link), further details are available on 1st of September, 2024.

Course examination according to § 6, statute section on "study-law regulations".