Title: “Press-Fit Timber Building Systems: Developing a Construction System for Flexible Housing Solutions”

Release date: 2019

Authors: Stefan Böhm, Michael Budig, Frauke Bunzel, Simon Deeg, Hans Drexler, Philipp Eversmann, Gerhard Fink, Pekka Heikkinen, Mark Hughes, Robert Jockwer, Heike Klussmann, Ferdinand Ludwig, Wilf Middleton, Kiel Moe, Toni Österlund, Hannes Orelma, Andreas Picker, Olga Popovic Larsen, Martin Self, Steffi Silbermann, Léon Spikker, Philip Tidwell, Heidi Turunen, Ute Vees, Markus Wikar, Marcin Wójcik

Publisher: Birkhäuser

Editor: Markus Hudert, Sven Pfeiffer

Excerpt: “The system was developed in 2015 through various case studies. In 2019, the first two prototype buildings will be completed. During the research, the development of the system (planning and design methodology) was combined with analysis (evaluation and optimization). This has brought to light an essential aspect of explorative applied construction research: Design has both creative and analytical aspects, which interact with each other in iterations and recursions.”

Title: “Wer teilt, bekommt mehr”

Release date: August 2017

Author: Christian Holl

Publisher: Druck- und Verlagshaus Zarbock GmbH & Co.KG Frankfurt am Main

Editor: BDA – Association of German Architects in the State of Hessen

Excerpt: “The aim of the project “Sufficient Communal Living” is to create affordable and suitable housing in a vivid community. The project for a residential group in Frankfurt am Main will be completed in 2018. The realised building should be a prototype for a future-compliant, sustainable building.”

Title: “PreFab Max – The potential of prefabricated construction systems in cost-effective housing construction”

Release date: July 2017

Authors: Jutta Albus, Hans Drexler

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Editors: Barbara Schönig, Justin Kadi, Sebastian Schipper

Project: res015 Paper PreFab – Publication of the study for the IBA Thüringen

Excerpt: “In addition to social, economic and political strategies to achieve affordability in housing, there is number of innovative architectural approaches that can reduce construction costs. Above all is the challenge of keeping construction costs low while at the same time not compromising on the quality of living and thus providing high-quality housing at low cost.”

Paper: “Timber Prototype – High Performance Solid Timber Constructions”

Release date: January 2017

Authors: Achim Menges, Hans Drexler, Oliver Bucklin, Angela Rohr, Oliver David Krieg

Publisher: TU Delft Open; TU Delft / Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment

Excerpt: “The paper presents the development of a building system made from solid timber that fulfils the requirements of modern building skins while expanding the design possibilities through innovation in computational design and digital fabrication. The project proposes more effective supply chains by partnering with industrial partners to rapidly produce standardised building units. It also integrates computational design and fabrication techniques that allow the generation of more complex forms through customisable details.”

Title: “Migration als Impuls für die kooperative Stadt”

Release date: January 2017

Publisher: jovis Verlag GmbH

Editors: Jörg Friedrich, Peter Haslinger, Simon Takasaki, Valentina Forsch

Excerpt: “This project is taking a new approach to the integration of refugees into the construction process. The concept provides a clear structure that ensures that the buildings meet the local technical, urban planning and constructional requirements, and that the external appearance of the buildings is appealing and sustainable.”

Title: “Heimat in der Fremde”

Release date: August 2016

Funding: Senate Department for City Administration and the Environment

Publisher: berlinbaut – future

Nomination in the category residential projects for the project Pre-Fab Max. The project successfully participated in the Berlin Award 2016 and was unanimously awarded a nomination by the jury.

Release date: March 2016

Authors: Deutscher Werkbund Bayern, e.V.

Publisher: Deutscher Werkbund Bayern, e.V.

Editor: Deutscher Werkbund Bayern, e.V.

Excerpt: “The refugee crisis is omnipresent. The refugees, whose asylum application is granted, join the large number of people who are already looking for affordable housing. For this reason, we need a large number of affordable apartments to relieve the housing market. This brochure shows the results of our ideas workshop for mastering the current task. Experts and companies were called upon to submit sustainable exemplary solutions – ground plan concepts, urban planning concepts, building systems and social concepts.”

Release date: August 2014

Authors: Sofia Borges, Sven Ehmann, Robert Klanten, Hans Drexler

Publisher: Die Gestalten Verlag GmbH & Co. KG

ISBN: 978-3-89955-512-7

Price: 44 €, English

Excerpt: “In the book, architects and homeowners work together to find unique and aesthetically compelling ways to build more sustainably. Combining client desires with real world pragmatism. These efficient homes present a diverse spectrum of solutions that include everything from state of the art climate control systems to ancient, passive, and renewable building techniques.”

Titel: “Three Strategies for Holistic Housing”

Autoren: Hans Drexler, Sebastian El Khouli

Datum: April 2013

Herausgeber: Gerd Hauser, Thomas Lützkendorf, Natalie Essig

Auszug: “Vast achievements in the field of sustainable building have been made: A variety of targets, aspects and criteria have been identified that constitute important building blocks of a comprehensive understanding of sustainability in the field of architecture. Assessments and evaluation systems have been developed that help to analyse designs and buildings. Still missing are strategies that could be used to integrate the targets in the design process. In a two years empirical research project concepts, strategies and methods for designing sustainable residential buildings have been gathered and analysed.”

Title: “Suffizienz und Standards”

Author: Hans Drexler

Release date: July 2014

Editor: Dr. Ralph Boch, Nicola Bötsch, Johanna Süß

Excerpt: “The recent sustainability discussion has focused on the topic of efficiency. However, efficiency alone is not the solution to closing the gap between rising demand, shrinking resources and increasing environmental degradation. The savings achieved by efficiency gains for the creation and operation of living space are more than offset by the increasing demand of space per person. A rejection of the growth doctrine is incompatible with current economic and social development. Therefore, growth must be decoupled from resource consumption and “qualitative” must be replaced by “quantitative” growth.”

Title: Wohnhaus dgj155 in Bonn

Release date: October 2012

Publisher: Karl Krämer Verlag

Editor: Wüstenrot Foundation

Excerpt: “The multi-family dwelling in Bonn has been redesigned in terms of energy, functionality and design. Protected parts of the building construction, such as the old wooden staircase, were preserved and integrated into the concept. The scope of the project included the conversion and expansion of the main house, the redesign of the courtyard & exterior and the conversion of the existing workshop into an artist’s studio.”

Title: Cadavre Exquis

Release date: April 2012

Authors: Matthew Skjonsberg, Daniel Jauslin e.a.

Publisher: DGJDasGehtJa

Excerpt: “Contemporary architecture is increasingly influenced by the concept of landscape, and this is particularly the case in the Netherlands. As in many places, a new way of thinking appears and transforms the core values ​​of the disciplines of architecture and urbanism with the idea of ​​the organisation of architectural space as a landscape. Through experimentation, methods have been developed to analyse such phenomena in focused studies of specific cases and to understand how architects use landscape not only as a metaphor, but also as a method of designing buildings.

Thirty-two students selected and analysed outstanding construction work by a wide array of architects from four generations of Dutch practitioners. They built models based on their analyses, in which four layers were detachable as a separate unit, playing a game the surrealist would call “Cadavre Exquis”.

The result is a floating olympic village for Rotterdam, which will be exhibited at its location in the historic Docklands RDM at Heijplaat. This book is the catalogue for the exhibition.”

Subtitle: “Ter gelegenheid afscheid Prof. Dr. Clemens Steenbergen”

Release Date: December 2011

Authors: A. Homan, A. Van der Weide, B. Bordes, B. Kwast, D. Van den Heuvel, C. Stegewerns, C. Jongsma, C. Van Ees, C. Wouters, D. Jauslin, D. Wijnen D. Piccinini, E. Dekker, E. Van der Kooij, E. Luiten, E. De Jong, F. Toni, F. Aerts, G. Verschuure-Stuip, H. Stotijn, I. Bakker, I. Bobbink, I. Meulenberg, J. Woltjer, J. Wilbers, J. Niemeijer, J. Lonsdale, J. Wiers, M. Pouderoijen, A. Roos, D. Hellendoorn, K. Visser, M. Storm-Prins, M. Van der Helm, L. De Vos, M. Veldman, M. Hartveld, M. Den Ruijter, N. Verbruggen, N. Rickert, P. De Graaf, P. Van der Ree, R. Aben, R. Buijs, R. Rooij , R. Van der Velde, S. De Wit, S. Nijhuis, S. Holtappels, S. Meeks, S. Van Assen, S. Van Oosten, S. Van den Busken, W. Hermans

Publisher: TU Delft Landscape Architecture

It is almost impossible to describe the working years of Prof. Dr. Clemens Steenbergen at the TU Delft in a short way. This is a personal book by colleagues, employees and students on the occasion of his farewell on 15th December 2011.

Title: “Landscape Aesthetics for Sustainable Architecture”

Release date: November 2011

Author: Daniel Jauslin

Publisher: 010 Publishers

Editor: Sang Lee

Excerpt: “The book opens a new area of scholarship and discourse in the design and production of sustainable architecture, one that is based on aesthetics. The chapters in this book have been compiled from architects and scholars working in diverse research and practice areas in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. While they approach the subject matter from different angles, the chapters of the book help clarify the key principles behind environmental concerns and sustainability in architecture.

At its very core, Aesthetics of Sustainable Architecture underlines the connection that exists between our approach to the environment and sustainability on one hand, and our approach to certain aesthetic propositions and practices on the other.”

Title: “10 Jahre Entwerfen und Energie-effizientes Bauen der Technischen Universität Darmstadt”

Release date: September 2011

Authors: Department of Design and Energy-Efficient Construction of the Technical University Darmstadt

Publisher: Technical University Darmstadt

Editor: Manfred Hegger

Excerpt: “The Project Minimum Impact House is a prototype development for sustainable housing construction in the city. Sustainability and ecology require a holistic optimisation of construction. At the Minihouse, the construction of the building, the operation and mobility were studied. The result was that inner-city densification has a whole range of ecological advantages. Destruction of the landscape is prevented, traffic is reduced, the use of existing infrastructure intensified and the social fabric of the city strengthened. To develop inner-city niches, it is necessary to develop new building typologies and building structures to create sustainable housing in the city.”

Title: “Leben an der Brandwand”

Release date: July 2011

Authors: Univ.-Prof. Roland Burhard et al.

Publisher: Jovis Verlag GmbH

Editors: Univ.-Prof. Roland Burhard et al.

Excerpt: “Due to its small size, the noisy and exposed location on Walter-Kolb-Straße, the plot of the post-war traffic planning was considered to be impossible to use for decades. Creativity was necessary to develop a residential building on the fire wall. Due to the small area, the different usage zones had to be organised vertically.”

Title: “Architecture with Landscape Methods”

Release date: May 2010

Author: Daniel Jauslin

Publisher: TU Delft

Editor: TU Delft Faculty of Architecture, Chair of Landscape Architecture Prof. Steenbergen

“Contemporary architecture has been strongly influenced by the concept of landscape in recent times. A new mindset evolves that changes the core of the architectural discipline: the organisation and composition of architectural space as a landscape. Landscape has been used as a metaphor or conceptual reference for an increasing amount of excellent architectural projects in the last two decades. The scope of this PhD thesis is to investigate and understand architecture that has been designed like a landscape, to give new insights to both disciplines and their mutual relations. In projects of OMA, Peter Eisenman, Foreign Office or SANAA the building inside and landscape outside do not merely interact, but the building is designed as an artificial landscape on its own. Landscape constitutes the inside. The landscape to architecture relation is turned inside-out. To be able to better understand and critically review this substantial innovation in architecture, it is important to better understand the notion of landscape in its application on architectural design.”

Title: “Minimal Impact House in Frankfurt/Main”

Release date: July 2011

Author: Prof. Dr. Rudolf Lückmann

Publisher: WEKA MEDIA GmbH & Co.

Editor: Prof. Dr. Rudolf Lückmann

Excerpt: “The demand for passive houses has increased significantly in recent years. To counter the increasingly expensive oil and electricity prices, many Clients are opting for energy-efficient construction, saving up to 90% on energy costs. This planning manual prepares for this planning task with selected project examples and detailed technical information.”