A Lab Talk to kick off visions about an Animalesque utopia in cities. Partners: AA Architectural Association Visiting School, London, Fab Lab Berlin, NABU Berlin, TU Berlin
Technische Universität Braunschweig, IDAS & University of Pennsylvania | Productive Berlin
Architecture students from TU Braunschweig worked with their peers from the University of Pennsylvania in this one-week intensive immersion in the field. The workshop was accompanied by lectures, discussions and fieldwork and concluded with a joint presentation of the resarch work and design scenarios envisioned by the students. Partners: Technische Universität Braunschweig, IDAS & University of Pennsylvania
Craftsmanship in the Digital Age #3: Resetting Values for Architecture and the Building Industry
The third discussion explores societal issues impacting architecture practice, with a focus on factors like cost efficiency and energy performance. Digital fabrication presents an opportunity for closer collaboration between manufacturers and architects, allowing for the reintroduction of critical craftsmanship values in building practice. . Partners:Forschungsinitiative Zukunft Bau (BBSR), Bonn; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin; NOWlab@BigRep, Berlin
WOHA: Garden City Mega City
WOHA’s Garden City Mega City is a plea for urgent action to rethink, re-plan and remediate the world’s mega cities for the age of global warming. Using WOHA’s 'Macro-Architecture Micro-Urbanism' approach as a prototype, the book presents a compelling manifesto for densely settled, yet comprehensively green and ultimately self-sufficient cities of the future.
Partners: WOHA, Singapore
BIO BERLIN – Visions for non-anthropocentric cohabitation of humans, flora and fauna
How can we build cities that place the survival of the planet in the center of their becoming? Envisioning the cities of tomorrow from a „non-anthropocentric“ perspective means to bring down man from the pedestal of life and putting him at the same level with other vegetative and animal species that share the same urban realm. Partners: TU Braunschweig and Politecnico di Milano
Politecnico di Milano | Enabling the Edge: Urban Farms in Milan and Berlin
This design studio focused on the wider systems that individual farms and gardening enterprises connect into. Tying in with the Milano Expo, a second emphasis was the farm typology, exploring future uses for abandoned examples located within urban fabric of Milan. Partners: Politecnico di Milano
Rebuild by Design
A symposium on the occasion of the opening of the ANCB exhibition After Hurricane Sandy - REBUILD BY DESIGN - Resilient Planning Through Collaborative Design. Partners: Henk Ovink, Rebuild by Design, New York; United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Washington DC; Schindler, Ebikon; Dutch Embassy in Berlin; Zumtobel, Dornbirn
Lab Talk Series: Retooling the trades
The ANCB series ReTooling the Trades is about equipping the capable urban practitioner with an upgraded set of working methods, approaches, strategies, processes and systems for effective and responsible professional practice.
Partners: Netherlands Embassy in Berlin
ReTooling the Trades. #2 City – Climate – Architecture.
The second part focusses on a rising awareness of climatological issues in the design process with the potential for a more site-specific and contextually relevant architecture in the future. Partners:Dutch Embassy in Berlin; TU Berlin
Yves Bréchet
Yves Bréchet focuses on the field of modelling in physical and mechanical metallurgy. He is interested in phase changes, plasticity, fragility and material sciences in biological systems, as well as materials in nuclear technology and transport systems. Partners:Cluster of Excellence "Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory", Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
