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Extending the Cycle in Switzerland
The Swiss architecture office 'baubüro in situ' is awarded the Golden Regional Holcim Award 2020 Europe and the Golden Global Holcim Award 2021 for their building repurposing and extension exemplifying how design processes can be turned upside-down in favor of circular construction. -
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Green Solutions Awards 2020-21
The competition, organised by the international Construction21 platform, rewards outstanding architectural projects that address the challenges of climate protection and sustainability in an innovative way. -
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Building Sense Now Global Award
Building Sense Now is looking for new, innovative design strategies that want to achieve ambitious goals and deal with climate change and sustainability issues. This year, the award goes to to the Indian architect Prof. Dr. Anupama Kundoo who is honoured for her commitment to climate and culture-friendly construction. -
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A4F – (Re) Building Code
In order to convert the building stock in a climate-neutral or climate-positive way, the Architects for Future see an urgent need for change in legal frameworks for building. Therefore, they are calling on the Conference of the Building Ministers to amend the Model Building Code. -
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“Die Maus” special episode
Prof. Dirk E. Hebel and Sandra Böhm from KIT explain the NEST UMAR unit in "Die Sendung mit der Maus". The special episode will be published in August 2021. -
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Closing the loop – 100% circular concrete
Innovative concrete recycling technologies will at the same time enable the concrete chain to be circular and mitigate climate change. -
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Urban Mining and Circular Construction
Dirk E. Hebel, and Felix Heisel (eds.), Fraunhofer IRB Verlag, Stuttgart 2021. Published in May 2021. -
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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. -
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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. -
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Mehr.WERT.Pavillon
The circular pavilion from recycling materials at the Federal Garden Show 2019 in Heilbronn. -
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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. -
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MycoTree
A spatial branching structure made out of load-bearing mycelium components -
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“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. -
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‘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. -
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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 -
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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. -
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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. -
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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. -
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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. -
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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!
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