Green Building Lab finally completed!

Green Building Lab finally completed!

07.09.24

The idea of planning, setting up and running a dedicated drawing and learning area in the Department of Building and Design came about as a result of feedback from architecture students. They criticized the lack of suitable rooms for group work, experiments and manual learning opportunities. This feedback provided the impetus for an ambitious project: the construction of a building, which would be planned and implemented by the students themselves as part of their curriculum.

Supported by the MA23 call for proposals for quality assurance in teaching, the vision of a lab as a long-term experimental field for sustainable construction was born. The focus is particularly on topics such as renewable raw materials (NaWaRos) and deconstruction. The interdisciplinary project brings together the departments of architecture, engineering and sustainable resource management (NaReMa). The students were actively involved in the entire process, from the planning and construction of the workshop to further work on various objects.

Workshops and excursions were organized to familiarize the students with innovative techniques such as parametric design and prefabricated systems. They worked together to develop designs for the workshop using bio-based building materials and intelligent building elements. The building was constructed using prefabricated modules made from sustainable materials such as spruce plywood and wood fiber insulation. The workshop complies with the passive house standard and can be assembled and dismantled several times.
In the long term, the project will be firmly integrated into teaching in order to pass on the knowledge acquired to future students. In addition to research into alternative insulation materials, new teaching formats such as the “Design-Build Studio” and an international “summer school” will be developed to promote practical, hands-on learning.

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Images: Andrea Rieger-Jandl