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ESC SUSTAINABILITY I
ESC
Project Lecture BArch4 Franz Sam
AU_1.15A Wed bi-weekly 17.15–20.15
The course Sustainability I is set up in a holistic way. It starts with aspects of materials and technology, and leads to questions of social behaviour and its impact on the sustainable development of structures and construction. It provides an overview of aspects of and motives for sustainable behaviour by looking at projects concerned with recycling and upcycling. This will help students understand interactions and processes of negotiating between social, functional and structural requirements. Developing sustainable solutions under specific, social and technical conditions encourages flexibility and creativity in making use of formal possibilities, materials and technologies.
Project Lecture BArch4 Thomas Matthias Romm
AU_1.15 Wed bi-weekly 17.00–20.00
ECOLOGIES II Sufficiency, efficiency and resilience are those aspects of sustainability that we will rethink in terms of architecture in this course: cogitamus. Sufficiency – what is essential? Can we, for instance, build a house from the resources we can find in a 20 mile radius? What are the basic needs behind the task, and what are its adequate means of construction? Efficiency – optimizing input and output: Highly industrialized production is providing food and energy for more and more people, and a circular economy
is based on ever more intelligent technologies for continued growth. Are we headed for a civilization of efficiency (such as Japan) with artificial intelligence as its final point? Resilience – climate change is putting existing structures under stress. The importance of various regions and cities is shifting, even vanishing. Millions of people’s lives are affected by this change. A oneworld architecture needs parameters enabling us to act so as to affect the universal setting of our collective existence (Bruno Latour).
ESC
Lecture BArch 6 Golmar Kempinger-Khatibi
AU_1.15 Thu 13.00–14.30
CULTURAL HERITAGE II
Forever Young?
It discusses sustainable retrofitting and also looks at management issues.
“Buildings and towns enable us to structure, understand, and remember the shapeless flow of reality and, ultimately, to recognize and remember who we are. Architecture enables us to place ourselves in the continuum of culture”. Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin (1996)
The lecture courses Conservation I & II deal with theoretical and practical aspects of modern conservation. They explain the meaning and importance of cultural and natural heritage today, the fields they cover, and the values and definitions they relate to. The courses will provide an overview of the field’s history, its significant movements and international guidelines and institutions. The practical part looks at the interaction between the building systems, materials, their surroundings and causes of deterioration.
The application of theory in practice will be shown by analysing case studies, short excursions and visiting exhibitions. Occasional guest lectures will round out the program.
Model of Vienna. CMT ESC Studio Raumpark, Winter 2019. Photo: Lisa Penz
IKA S2020
