Lectures

Means and Ends of Architecture

Datum: February 4th, 2022

Event series: BUILD Porto – from high to low tech

Organizer: HAS hinterland architecture studio

Excerpt: „Architects love the idea of low-tech buildings:
Simple, self-sufficient structure, that requires little in terms
of technology or explanation. The discipline cultivates the myth of simplicity and identity between design and construction.“

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Are you still living? Perspectives for living, working and living

Date: April 1, 2021

Event series: City as a space of possibility. Mannheim after the crisis.

Organizer: M O F A Mannheim’s place for architecture

Excerpt: “Mobile working gained importance even before the crisis. In living with the pandemic, it has now become the norm for many. Other functions that are separated from one another in classic urban planning have also found their way into our private four walls. In this situation it became all too clear that our traditional apartments are not designed for simultaneous living, working, homeschooling, sports and leisure activities. ”

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Sufficient planning and building with low resource consumption

Date: March 3, 2021

Event series: Symposium “Closing cycles – building in a resource-saving and recycling-friendly way”

Organizer: Academy for Nature and Environmental Protection Baden-Wuerttemberg of the Ministry for Environment, Climate and Energy Sector Baden-Wuerttemberg

Human-building interaction - research support

Date: 15th January 2021

Series: „Perspektiven für das Bauen im Wandel“

Organizer: BAU2021

Excerpt: „Urban planning, urban development and housing policy face many challenges. The development of residential complexes must provide solutions for a heterogeneous society with the most varied of needs through the building typology, the density, the number of apartments, the floor plans and the living environment.

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Space miracle downtown

Date: November 17, 2020

Organizer: IBA Thuringia

Space miracle downtown

Date: September 22, 2020

Organizer: Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) in Frankfurt am Main

Model project for Vario apartments of the BBSR / Collegiuim Academicum

Date: February 18, 2020

Event series: Bauen von Morgen at Bautec

Organizer: Stand of the Federal Ministry of the Interior / BBSR Forschungsinitiative ZukunftBau

Interactive Housing. Adaptable building systems for residential construction

Date: November 25, 2019

Event series: Symposium Neues Wohnen Denken

Organizer: Stiftung Baukultur Thüringen

Excerpt: “Housing is a basic need that is still not or only insufficiently met for many people in all regions of the world. Architecture and urban planning can make a contribution to finding new solutions to secure the availability of living space for everyone. The challenge of affordable housing is to put the costs and the resulting housing value in an optimal relationship. The way there is not mapped out, but depends on many local parameters and cultural influences. ”

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Architectural-sociological evaluation of the model project Vario apartments

Date: November 4, 2019

Event series: Network meeting Vario

Organizer: BBSR EvaVario

Interactive Housing: Models for the Production of Housing and City

Date: October 24, 2019

Event series: IBA’27 forum

Organizer: Internationale Bauausstellung 2027 StadtRegion Stuttgart

Affordable good living

Date: October 17, 2019

Event series: Symposium on living in old age

Organizer: Advita care and living

Energy, Construction and Social Responsibility

Date: September 5, 2019

Event series: Efficient Buildings

Organizer: Zebau for the BBSR

Apartments, Architecture, Coexistence and Affordability

Date: July 23, 2019

Event series: Munich: Good life and sustainable cities

Organizer: BMW Foundation Thinking Room

Interactive Housing – community living as a component of a sufficiency strategy

Date: January 13, 2019

Event series: BBSR BAU trade fair

Organizer: Stand of the Federal Ministry of the Interior / BBSR Forschungsinitiative ZukunftBau

My home is my castle

Date: 28th/29th Novembre 2018

Series: “Welcome home – Co-Living 2020” in Munich

Organizer: UnternehmerTUM, MINI LIVING and DETAIL

Excerpt: „How will we live in 10 or even 50 years’ time? What will be different about future living? As a launch pad in a new city or the expression of a global, urban lifestyle, co-living will establish itself for certain life situations. What kind of spaces will this in turn require? What role models and thought leaders already exist for the upcoming living models and prototypes, and what needs to be developed? In the PechaKucha format, 10 lateral thinkers and visionaries give their insight into the living worlds of the future.“

Holz: form- und kraftschlüssig. Entwicklung eines Skelettbausystems für flexiblen Wohnungsbau

Presentation date: 14th November 2018

Series: “Raumwelten” in Stuttgart

Organizer: Start-up BW

Excerpt: „The developed building system uses imported materials, technologies and processes to enable a broad deployment. We used standardized and cost-effective building materials. The innovation is to use and merge existing methods, technologies and materials in a more intelligent way.“

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Design to disassemble - Entwicklung einer Mono-Material-Konstruktion für den Wohnungsbau

Presentation date: 3rd July 2018

Organizer: DETAIL research & Forschungsinitiative Zukunft Bau

Excerpt: „Building construction is the relevant topic of energy-efficient and sustainable building in the future. Central question here are referring to durability, adaptability, consumption of resources, recyclability and resilience. Moreover also physical presence and coherence of conceptual design and construction are of great importance for sustainable building.“

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Work report Collegium Academicum Heidelberg

Presentation date: 12th July 2018

Series: Symposium “Baustelle Zukunft” in Darmstadt

Organizer: ina Planungsgesellschaft mbH

Excerpt: „What will construction look like in the future? How do planning processes change? and – is that already possible today? These questions occupy everyone involved in planning and construction in their daily work.” Hans Drexler presents the project report on “Collegium Academicum”, a self-managed students’ home in Heidelberg.

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Stadt von übermorgen - Expertenworkshop

Presentation date: 22nd March 2018

Organizer: urbanista+

Excerpt: “Based on the sixteen trend molecules developed in the first project phase, we will now practically review their spatial effects in regional workshops. Therefore, we have initially selected three key areas with particularly strong effects: production and services, health and safety, as well as forms of living and living locations.”

Empirical comparison study of prefabricated construction systems

Presentation date: 13th March 2018

Serie: “IBA Salon” in Erfurt

Organizer: IBA Thüringen GmbH

Excerpt: “Affordable housing is primarily part of an economic discussion and answered with market-regulatory measures. In this study, construction systems with a high degree of prefabrication are to be explored regarding planning, architectural, constructional and technical potentials in order to facilitate and promote affordable housing.”

Housing study. Empirical comparison of joint and indiviudal needs in housing

Presentation date: 6th-7th March 2018

Serie: “8. Projekttage der Bauforschung” in Bonn

Organizer: BBSR (Federal Institute for Building, Urban and Spatial Research)

Excerpt: “Due to increasing individualization, there is high demand for new, diverse forms of living. At the same time, the desire for a sustainable use of resources, rising rents and the shortage of apartments in the metropolitan regions of Germany are provoking new innovative housing projects: community living is being redesigned. The research project investigates which forms of living and architecture reflect social demands and lead to high user satisfaction.”

Development of all-wood construction systems with tight-fitting and force-fitting joints

Presentation date: 6th-7th March 2018

Serie: “8. Projekttage der Bauforschung” in Bonn

Organizer: BBSR (Federal Institute for Building, Urban and Spatial Research)

Excerpt: “The aim of the research project is to develop an innovative wood-skeleton construction system, in which all structural elements are connected by tight-fitting and force-fitting joints made from wood. The systems aims to update the traditional wood carpentry craftsmanship of building without nails using 21st century’s technology. The building system demonstrates that wood-wood joints can be used for all areas of building construction and that they represent a competitive and cost-effective construction method.”

Sufficiency: less is different

Presentation date: 1st March 2018

Serie: “ARCHIKON” in Stuttgart

Organizer: Institut Fortbildung Bau, Architektenkammer BW

Excerpt: “How much is enough? Dr. Hans Drexer and Dr. Michael Kopatz (Wupptertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy) deal with the question of sufficient living in terms of increasing population density and lack of housing.”

Sufficiency and standards

Presentation date: 28th July 2015

Serie: Wohnprojektetag Bayern 2015

Organizer: Bavarian Chamber of Architecture

Excerpt: “Which concepts and framework conditions does economic housing need? Which standards are necessary, which ones to challenge? Are building density and living space the only parameters for cost savings? Do users accept unusual solutions? For this reason, the Wohnprojektetag Bayern 2015 is seeking suggestions and answers, especially in the area of ​​planning, which can help to make living affordable.”

Quantitative and qualitative components of housing demand

Presentation date: 20th July 2015

Serie: Alliance for Living in Hesse

Organizer: Ministry of Environment, Hesse

Excerpt: “The “Alliance for Living in Hesse” launched a process which should lead to a sustainable development of residential areas in the Hessian cities and towns and more affordable housing. Residential construction is a highly complex process and includes the consideration of legal, financial, social and ecological aspects.”

Living different

Presentation date: 25th June 2015

Serie: AIT ArchitekturSalon Symposium

Organizer: Make City Festival Berlin

Excerpt: “This could be different if architecture does not simply fulfill social norms reflexively, but negotiates, modifies and transcends them. In this sense, the lecture program “Living different” brings together six idiosyncratic positions of a contemporary architecture, which defies established standards and formats and experimentally explores new scope for the possible.”

Spatial and strategical parameters for affordable housing

Presentation date: 21st April 2015

Serie: 90 Minutes, lecture serie in Department of Architecture

Organizer: Hochschule Oldenburg

Excerpt: “The challenge for affordable housing is above all to put the costs and the resulting housing value in an optimal relationship. How this is done depends on many local parameters and cultural influences. Apart from presenting theoretical approaches, strategies for the creation of affordable housing are shown using the example of outstanding residential buildings.”

Living sufficiently - building sufficiently?

Presentation date: 23rd March 2015

Speaker: Lars-Arvid Brischke, Hans Drexler, Susanne Hofmann, Arne Steffen, Claudia Thiesen

Organizer: IBA Heidelberg, International Building Exhibition; Collegium Academicum e.V.

Excerpt: “In collaboration with the Collegium Academicum e.V., the International Building Exhibition Heidelberg (IBA) is organizing a workshop on sufficiency. The aim is to clarify theoretical questions as well as discussing living, working and building based on the challenges of a planned housing project in Heidelberg.”

Nachhaltige Architektur entwerfen

Presentation date: 5th November 2014

Serie: Wohnprojektetag Bayern 2014

Organizer: Bavarian Chamber of Architecture

Excerpt: “Realizing innovative concepts for energy-efficient housing was the aim of the model project “e% – energy-efficient housing construction” launched in 2007 by the Supreme Building Authority. Four years after the public presentation of the concepts, the Wohnprojektetag Bayern 2014 now presents the completed pilot measures. Have they fulfilled the claim that they are not just energetic and ecological model projects for future-oriented and affordable living, but that they also meet urban, social and Baukultur standards?”

Kontext und Identität als Indikatoren von Nachhaltigkeit und architektonischer Qualität

Presentation date: 1st/2nd July 2014

Serie: Consense – International Trade Fair and Congress for Sustainable Building, Investment, Operations and Maintenance in Stuttgart

Organizer: German Sustainable Building Council – GeSBC

Excerpt: “The congress offers the opportunity to exchange information and ideas with experts from all over the world and to expand specialist knowledge in plenary sessions, intensive workshops and seminars. On the first day investors and communities are to the fore, while the second day is all about planners and architects.”

Passive house technology as a basis for plus-energy-buildings

Presentation date: 28th November 2012

Serie: 4th Passive House Conference of North Germany in Hamburg

Organizer: Zebau GmbH

Excerpt: “An important approach for the successful implementation of energy-efficient buildings is the integrative approach: the energetic aspects and systems are considered an integral part of design and construction and optimized already in early planning stages. Strategies for plus-energy houses are shwon using five different buildings in different locations with different uses.”

Minimum Impact House - Prototype for sustainable building

Presentation date: 8th March 2009

Speaker: Hans Drexler, Daniel Jauslin

Serie: 4th International Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU)

Organizer: TU Delft

Excerpt: “The planning process itself became part of our scientific study. In a comparative study we compared advantages and disadvantages of a single-family house in the centre versus new building zones. This included qualitative an quantitative comparison over a life cycle of 50 years with construction, running, maintenance, disassembly and location related mobility.”

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