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HDA Graz: Material Loops

The exhibition "Material Loops: The Circular Economy - Bestand als Materialressource" at the HDA presents studies and practical examples of architectures, conversions and system cycles that impress with their high design quality as well as their genesis from reused material resources.

1. June 2021

Urban Mining and Circular Construction

Dirk E. Hebel, and Felix Heisel (eds.), Fraunhofer IRB Verlag, Stuttgart 2021. Published in May 2021.

1. June 2021

DAZ Berlin: Concern about the building stock

In the exhibition, named after the publication “Sorge um den Bestand. Zehn Strategien für die Architektur”, architects and urbanists present their concern for the existing building stock, for grown social structures and for the continuation of the earth.

27. May 2021

Mehr.WERT.Pavillon

The circular pavilion from recycling materials at the Federal Garden Show 2019 in Heilbronn.

25. May 2021

UMAR – Urban Mining and Recycling

The housing and research unit of the Swiss research institute Empa at “NEST” is demonstrating what a paradigm shift in the construction industry might look like.

20. May 2021

MycoTree

A spatial branching structure made out of load-bearing mycelium components

15. May 2021

“The construction industry needs a radical turnaround”

The two architecture master’s students Alisa Schneider and Elena Boerman report in the KIT student magazine clicKIT about their activities in the local group of the nationwide association Architects for Future in Karlsruhe.

1. May 2021

‘On Cities’ Masterclass Series

The Norman Foster Foundation presents the ‘On Cities’ Masterclass Series, a series of thirty-minute-long masterclasses which explores the most pressing and compelling topics related to contemporary cities. Given by twenty leading experts in the fields of architecture, urbanism, economics and mobility, this video series promotes an exchange of knowledge across a range of geographic and disciplinary perspectives.

22. April 2021

RoofKIT – On what the team is addressing, what the goals are and how it intends to achieve them

An article about the Whole Building Design Approach, the House Demonstration Unit Design Approach, the Structural Design and the Solar System Integration of Team RoofKIT at the Solar Decathlon Europe 2021

7. April 2021

UMAR on Instagram @neweuropeanbauhaus

The Urban Mining and Recycling unit (UMAR) in NEST was listed as a showcase project of circular construction by the New European Bauhaus. The project shows how a responsible approach to dealing with our natural resources can also go hand in hand with an appealing architectural form.

6. April 2021

Kindergarten Kambodscha

The Swiss aid organisation "Smiling Gecko", led by Hannes Schmid, aims to help people in Cambodia to build their own sustainable future. A community based on agriculture and education is being built. "Smiling Gecko" has therefore asked the Professorship of Sustainable Construction to plan a kindergarten in the area of the organisation in Cambodia. The master project in summer 2019 was led by Prof. Dirk E. Hebel.

31. March 2021

The trick with the rubble

The current episode of planet e., a documentation series by ZDF, examines the state of sustainability in the German construction industry and shows perspectives for building with recycled concrete and products out of construction waste.

30. March 2021

New European Bauhaus

beautiful | sustainable | together - The New European Bauhaus is an interdisciplinary European movement bringing citizens, experts, businesses and institutions together to imagine, discuss and build a sustainable, inclusive and beautiful future together.

16. March 2021

Xenius: Future building materials

In a new episode of Xeniusby arte, the presenters Dörthe Eickelberg and Pierre Girard set out in search of alternative building materials. Cardboard, mushrooms or popcorn - nothing is impossible!

10. March 2021

“Die Sendung mit der Maus”: How will people live in the future?

In the current 50th anniversary episode of the children's program "Die Sendung mit der Maus", Armin Maiwald, one of the hosts, is looking for how people will live in the future. Therefore he visits the Urban Mining and Recycling Unit (UMAR) created by Werner Sobek with Dirk E. Hebel and Felix Heisel and the Mycelium Research laboratory of the KIT in Karlsruhe.

8. March 2021

DryTile technology

For some years now, cork has been making a comeback as a versatile material. The renewable resource`s natural properties have led to numerous new applications in design and architecture. Cork is impermeable to liquids and gases, elastic, compressible, hypoallergenic, durable and lightweight.

5. March 2021