We offer five Building Construction seminars for students of architecture. They are taught integratively, i.e. associated with “Architectural Design”. After the lecture part students deepen their knowledge by applying their acquirements to their own studio project.
Building Construction A
The lecture covers the interaction of building components in construction, emphasizing the use of selected materials. It focuses on “monomateriality,” where a single material is used for the entire structure, including its volume, load-bearing elements, and exterior. Additionally, it addresses the stresses affecting the building and the relevant building physics requirements.
Building Construction B
The seminar focuses on facade connections designed for resource optimization and sustainability. It showcases notable architectural examples of both solid and lightweight constructions.
Building Construction C
This seminar explores current construction systems and techniques in the building industry, including their properties, liabilities, and applications in assembling large-scale structures. It discusses and contextualizes typical structural problems using examples from existing buildings.
Building Construction Practice
The seminar offers practical knowledge on processing materials and technologies in workshops and construction sites. It includes basic lectures to prepare students for short seminars with selected companies, where they gain hands-on experience.
Building Construction Integration
The course supports Architectural Design 5 (the pre-diploma project), allowing students to choose a construction topic that aligns with their interests and complements the studio’s design brief. It integrates technical considerations into the architectural design. Students are encouraged to take experimental approaches, starting with standard building methods and exploring unconventional constructions.
Circular Strategies
The Seminar addresses issues of sustainable building with a focus on concepts of circular economy / circular design.
The demand for reuse can also be understood as an advantage and potential for design experimentation.
The field of circularity comprises two areas, one is concerned with (re)using what’s already there, the other with the planning of new structures designed to adapt to change.
Biodesign
The course combines an introduction into biodesign/biomimicry/biomimetics with a design project, using nature as a model for creating innovative solutions.
The course may focus on a specific aspect that is aligned with a current research project. Activities include lectures, guest lectures, video presentations, discussions, visits, basic scientific research activities, lab and studio work, reviews, and presentations.
Research Methods in Architecture and Design
The course introduces Master’s and PhD students to research logic in the built environment, covering various methods and perspectives on architectural research.
Plandarstellung
„Raum & Konstruktion“ and „Plandarstellung“ are primarily intended for students of Industrial Design. We strongly recommend combining them, because the small architectural objects which are designed in two full-day workshops of „Raum & Konstruktion“ are the basis for the exercise part of „Plandarstellung“.
Kolloquium für Master- und Doktoratsstudierende
The colloquium serves to provide support and practical assistance to Master’s and Doctoral students who want to deal more intensively with questions of Building Construction. Appointments by arrangement.
Consultation Hours / Sprechstunden
Open office on Thursdays from 9:00 to 10:30 o’clock.