Circular Architecture

Workshop Circular Architecture at the Institute Contemporary Design Practices (ICDP)

Key data

ECTS points: 2 ECTS
Next start: 29 January 2024
Duration: 1 Week
Final application date: Mon, 1.1.2024
Teaching language: German / Englisch
Place: Basel
Price: CHF 900.– (view fees)
Study mode: Full-time

Switzerland has set itself the goal of becoming climate-neutral by 2050. An important approach to reducing CO2 emissions in the sense of this net zero target is provided by building in the circular economy. Approximately 40% of global CO2 emissions are caused by the construction industry, which is influenced to a large extent by architectural concepts and designs. The implementation of the principles of the circular economy is therefore one of the most important building blocks of sustainable action and will lead to a paradigm shift in conceptual and design thinking in architecture. In this context, the workshop leaders follow an attitude of consistent climate- and resource-friendly use of materials under the motto "Form Follows Material". In the workshop, they focus on design in the context of this attitude and its connectivity to the guiding conditions (life cycle assessments and standards) of sustainable construction.

In the first part, exemplary projects from Switzerland and Germany will be used to discuss the handling of life cycle assessments and their significance for sustainable building. The participants learn in a practice-oriented way how target-oriented and far-reaching circular strategies are in dealing with CO2-relevant resources.

In the second part, the participants gather and document experience with circular concepts on the basis of practical design. Architectural design, methodology, and work on physical models will be the practice facility. Based on these exercises, resource-saving strategies will be developed, which will significantly influence the forms. At the end of the workshop, the leaders together with the participants will evaluate the results in the context of resource-efficient building.

Registration

Circular Architecture Event start: Dreispitz, HGK Basel, 29.1.2024 Online Application

Boris Brunner Dipl. Arch. FH / BSA / SIA / AKB
Boris Brunner was born in 1968 and comes from Zug. He trained as a structural draftsman from 1983-1987 and worked at the architectural firm of Landert und Olbrecht Architekten in Frauenfeld until 1991 and at Santiago Calatrava y Valls SA in Zurich until 1992. He then studied architecture at the Fachhochschule beider Basel in Muttenz until 1997 and completed an exchange year at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. Before founding a joint architectural practice with Roger Weber in 1999, he worked for the Basel architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron. Finally in 2008 weberbrunner architekten AG was founded in Zurich and in 2016 weberbrunner berlin Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH was founded in Berlin.

Roger Weber Dipl. Arch. FH / BSA / SIA / AKB
Roger Weber was born in 1972 in Zurich, where he grew up. From 1989-1993 he trained as a structural draftsman and then studied architecture at the University of Applied Sciences of Basel in Muttenz until 1997. During his studies he spent an exchange year at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. After a stay abroad, he founded a joint architectural practice with Boris Brunner and weberbrunner AG in Zurich in 2008 and weberbrunner berlin Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH in 2016.

Elise Pischetsrieder, Dipl.-Ing. Architect AKB / SIA / BDA
Elise Pischetsrieder was born in Berlin in 1983 and studied architecture at the Bauhaus University in Weimar from 2002 - 2007. During her studies she spent an exchange year at the Lunds Tekniska Högskola in Sweden and worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Spatial Planning and Spatial Research at the Bauhaus University. In 2006, she joined weberbrunner architekten AG as an intern and later managed various complex projects in Switzerland at the weberbrunner architekten AG office. From 2016, she was involved in the foundation of weberbrunner berlin Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH in Berlin and has been managing the business there ever since.

weberbrunner architects have realized a large number of complex architectural projects with their two main offices and have sufficient proven experience in the context of resource-saving construction. Information about their catalog of works can be found at https://weberbrunner.eu/werkverzeichnis

Institute Contemporary Design Practices (ICDP)

The Institute of Contemporary Design Practices (ICDP) works at the intersection of education, research, knowledge production, and design mediation. It encompasses three fields of study: Fashion Design, Industrial Design, and Interior Design & Scenography and offers students, researchers and staff from various disciplines a lively, creative environment to explore and mediate contemporary, reflective design practices.

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