Regional City – Local Campus in the Metropolitan Fringe

Regional City – Local Campus in the Metropolitan Fringe

ANCB and its partners explore the need for new working approaches and tools to understand and support the future of the Region as City. While urban areas receive significant attention, the periphery is often overlooked despite being home to a large population.
Partners: msa Münster School of Architecture; Leibniz Universität Hannover; HafenCity Universität Hamburg; TU Berlin; KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm; Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung, Erkner

Bogotá – Caracas – São Paulo

Bogotá – Caracas – São Paulo

The Exhibition Talk focuses on bottom-up strategies for urban design addressing the rapid growth of cities in Latin and South America.
Partners:Winka Dubbeldam, New York; Rodrigo Nino, Bogotá; Hubert Klumpner, Zurich; Alfredo Brillembourg, Zurich

Overflowing Potential: The Urban Water Challenge

Overflowing Potential: The Urban Water Challenge

The discussion explores water's role in planning, interior design, resource management, and design implications.
Partners: Partners: AXOR Hansgrohe

SMART CITY: THE NEXT GENERATION

SMART CITY: THE NEXT GENERATION

Four workshops, an exhibition and a conference to present intelligent solutions for environmental, infrastructural, societal, and sustainability challenges in urban contexts. Featuring established and emerging actors from Southeast Asia, aiming to make cities more efficient and livable by rethinking existing infrastructures of dealing with water, energy, and mobility.
Partners:Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin, Goethe Institut

Design as Politics: the next phase #9

Design as Politics: the next phase #9

As part of the series Design and Politics, students from TU Delft investigate urban regions under stress and develop two tools to assist spatial planning at regional scale using Berlin-Brandenburg as a case study.
Partners: The Why Factory, TU Delft; Design as Politics, TU Delft; Netherlands Ministry for Infrastructure and the Environment, The Hague; German Federal Ministry for Transport, Building and Urban Development, Berlin; DutchDFA Programme; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin

MACHEN! #2: Heizen mit Beton, Kühlen mit Lehm: Wie man Materialien in ihrer ganzen Bandbreite nutzen kann

MACHEN! #2: Heizen mit Beton, Kühlen mit Lehm: Wie man Materialien in ihrer ganzen Bandbreite nutzen kann

The second project discussion to show that concrete as a building material can also have sustainable attributes.
Partners:Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction, Zürich

MACHEN! #1: Savoir Vivre: Wie man die Stadt so (um-)baut, dass sie verschiedene Lebensstile ermöglicht

MACHEN! #1: Savoir Vivre: Wie man die Stadt so (um-)baut, dass sie verschiedene Lebensstile ermöglicht

The Flussbad by realities:united takes up the urban bathing culture of Berlin from the early 20th century and shows a recycling possibility of historical spatial qualities for the city of the present.
Partners:Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction, Zürich

Lab Talk Series: MACHEN!

Lab Talk Series: MACHEN!

Ergänzend zur Ausstellung MACHEN! Die deutschen Gewinner der Holcim Awards 2011/2012 im Aedes Architekturforum fanden drei Diskussionsveranstaltungen im ANCB statt, in denen die Preisträger ihre Projekte vorstellten und über deren aktuellen Entwicklungsstand berichteten.
Partners: Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction

REM KOOLHAAS – PETER SLOTERDIJK

REM KOOLHAAS – PETER SLOTERDIJK

Both architecture and philosophy attempt to merge the complexity of the world into an encyclopedic knowledge. Rem Koolhaas and Peter Sloterdijk discuss these overlapping topics moderated by Stephan Trüby.
Partner: Dutch Embassy in Berlin

Design and Politics. #5: Who is Our City?

Design and Politics. #5: Who is Our City?

This debate tackles the question of how increased urbanisation affects politics, urban planning and design and how we can better improve the makeup of our ever changing city structure.
Partners: Henk Ovink, Netherlands Ministry for Infrastructure and Environment, The Hague; Netherlands Architecture Fund, Rotterdam; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin; Heinrich-Böll Stiftung, Berlin; Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, Potsdam