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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.

ECOLOGIES II ESC

Project Lecture BArch4 Thomas Matthias Romm AU_1.15 Wed bi-weekly 17.00–20.00

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).

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CULTURAL HERITAGE II

“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)

Lecture BArch6 Golmar Kempinger-Khatibi AU_1.15 Thu 13.00–14.30

Forever Young?

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. It discusses sustainable retrofitting and also looks at management issues.

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.

SUSTAINABILITY II ESC

Models of Sustainability – Sustainable Urbanism and Architecture between Claims and Reality

WELL-TEMPERED ENVIRONMENTS ESC

Lecture BArch6 Thomas Proksch

“At the beginning of every project there is maybe not writing but a definition in words – a text – a concept, ambition, or theme that is put in words, and only at the moment that it is put in words can we begin to proceed, to think about architecture; the words unleash the design [...].” – Rem Koolhaas

The starting point for the lectures is my experience as a landscape architect and ecologist.

For many years, I have been contributing – as a consultant for landscape design and together with architects – to urban designs and AU_1.16 Wed bi-weekly 17.00–20.00

architectural solutions regarding the site of a project, the specificities of its urban structure, its landscape situation and its socio-spatial conditions.

By means of reference projects, we will discuss whether incorporating the principles of sustainability into the planning process can contribute to improving planning results. The lecture will be conversational, and will be accompanied by excursions and city walks.

Seminar MArch2 Peter Leeb

Countless technological inventions have expanded the field of possibilities for shelter production. For coping with heat and cold, protection from wind and humidity, and regulating sunlight and shade, the new tools have been helpful and have inspired us to push the limits of architectural imagination. Yet economic and ecological considerations of resources, as well as their relationship with thermal comfort and mobility, have raised questions with far-reaching implications for architecture. These questions, relating to the AU_1.16 Thu 16.00–17.30

history, the methods and the scale of providing comfort in buildings, have moved to the centre of our discipline’s attention.

In the course of the seminar, the interdependencies between technology, environment and human expectations of comfort will be portrayed as essentials for architecture, both conceptually and constructively. Historical and contemporary examples will be introduced, and perspectives on future developments will be considered in a critical fashion.