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Building Better – Less – Different
Hebel, Dirk E., Felix Heisel and Ken Webster (eds.), Birkhäuser, Basel 2022. Published in Oktober 2022. -
Urban Mining and Circular Construction
Dirk E. Hebel, and Felix Heisel (eds.), Fraunhofer IRB Verlag, Stuttgart 2021. Published in May 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. -
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. -
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. -
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! -
“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. -
archlab.docs
latest archlab.docs about research-oriented seminars at the KIT faculty of architecture -
Architekturschaufenster Karlsruhe: The new KIT material library
The design of the KIT material library is published in the ASF Journal 2020, the magazine of the "Architekturschaufenster" in Karlsruhe. -
From breeding, cultivation, seeding and harvesting of biological building materials
"Deutsche Bauzeitschrift": A detailed report about the research of some of the speakers of the symposium grow.build.repeat. -
Two ideas that will take us forward
KIT Professor Dirk E. Hebel (Professorship of Sustainable Construction) wants to replace conventional building materials with renewable raw materials. -
Design through and with Material Science and Understanding
An interview with dean Dirk E. Hebel and seminar leader Sandra Böhm about their design stategies and the compatibility of design theory and materials science in the architectural education. -
Zukunft Bauen – Does the recycling economy have a chance in the construction industry?
Prof. Dirk E. Hebel and Dr. Lamia Messari-Becker in discussion about a rising circular building economy. -
Mechanical Properties of Bamboo
Bamboo fibers with high mechanical properties can be a sustainable alternative to synthetic fibers for application in fiber reinforced polymer composites. -
Mycelium-bound composites
Mycelium-bound composites are promising materials for sustainable packaging, insulation, fashion, and architecture. -
‘Der Architekt: Material der Stadt’ (The Architect: Material of the city)
This edition of 'Der Architekt' (The Architect) examines the question of what it means on an iconographic level to reuse materials from buildings for new architecture. Dirk E. Hebel, Professor of Sustainable Construction at KIT Karlsruhe, talks about 'Ungeheure Möglichkeiten' (Tremendous possibilities) in this edition of the journal. -
Architecture of mushroom and bamboo: Dirk E. Hebel builds sustainably
Marie-Dominique Wetzel, cultural correspondent from SWR2, talks with KIT professor Dirk E. Hebel about his vision of sustainable architecture as a part of the movement against climate change and the destruction of the environment. -
Atlas Recycling
In 2018, the Atlas Recycling by Annette Hillebrandt, Petra Riegler-Floors, Anja Rosen and Johanna-Katharina Seggewies was published, which provides a collection and catalogue of buildings and construction components that have been designed under aspects of a circular economy in the building sector. -
UMAR and ‘Bau auf! (Build up!) in BAUART
In January 2020 BAUART reported on the Urban Mining and Recycling (UMAR) and Research Seminar 'Bau auf! (Build up!). The magazine focuses on regional building culture, recently also through its online presence, which complements the haptic magazine. -
Pioneering Construction Materials through Prototypological Research
The article at hand follows the understanding that future cities cannot be built the same way as existing ones, inducing a radical paradigm shift in how we produce and use materials for the construction of our habitat in the 21st century.
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