The Lab Talk presents Danish, German and international concepts and new models for sustainable, social, inclusive and co-produced housing typologies.
Partners: Danish Embassy Berlin; Danish Arts Foundation, Copenhagen; Realdania, Copenhagen
Innen.Stadt.Leben. #1 (Re-)Vitalisierung von Innenstädten
Digitalisation is reshaping retail as we increasingly shop and work from home, and the COVID-19 pandemic highlights the lack of residential presence in city centres, prompting a reflection on the impact of these trends on inner cities, architecture, and urban planning. Partners:caspar., Cologne, Hamburg
Ein eigenständiges Bundesbauministerium für Deutschland?
The need for a dedicated Federal Ministry for Building stems from recent developments in the real estate, retail, and transportation sectors, which highlight the necessity for streamlined construction processes and standardised regulations nationwide. Partners:Falk Jaeger, Berlin
HUMAN SCALE REMEASURED
HUMAN SCALE REMEASURED presents exemplary built projects and outstanding conceptual models by architects and planners from all over the world, offering new visions for a built environment concerned with a better socio-economic coherence.
Partners: Capital Cultural Fund (HKF), Berlin; ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg; Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin; Henrik Frode Obel Foundation, Copenhagen
ACCESS THE FUTURE: Connecting Us to New Habitats
On-demand living spaces hovering inside a building, fluid shared environments and new access opportunities for hybrid living/working spaces are the stunning outcomes of this ANCB Student Applied Innovations Lab.
Partners: Schindler, Ebikon, Leibniz University of Hannover; TU Braunschweig; TU Berlin
Towards a Healthy City. #2 The Building Scale
This second part in a series of interdisciplinary lab talks looks into concepts of health and wellbeing at the building scale. Partners:UNStudio, Amsterdam
Our Urban Living Room
The Danish firm Cobe sees the city as an extended living room, in which private and public spaces can be connected in experimental ways – making liveability a central theme of their work.
Partners:Cobe, Copenhagen
Towards a Healthy City. #1 The Urban Approach
The kick-off event #1 The Urban Approach examines the built environment as a holistic factor for health production and optimisation. Partners:UNStudio, Amsterdam
Urban Densification
The trend towards even more urbanisation is unbroken. The event presents examples from very different areas – and invites all participants to discuss possible developments in our own cities. Partners: The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, CTBUH, Chicago; Werner Sobek AG, Stuttgart
Open Architecture: Migration, Citizenship and the Urban Renewal of Berlin-Kreuzberg by IBA 1984/87
Akcan's book exemplifies inclinations towards an open architecture (or the lack thereof) in the context of the discriminatory housing regulations of IBA's urban renewal development in Berlin’s immigrant neighbourhood Kreuzberg.
Partners: Esra Akcan, Cornell University, Ithaca; University of Melbourne
