Building Construction

The Building Construction courses are open for registration on the base. Join us for the summer semester!

Biodesign: https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2024S/S04800/

Circular Strategies: https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2024S/S05049/

Building Construction B: https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2024S/S01983/

Building Construction C: https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2024S/S04301/

Building Construction Integration: https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2024S/S04798/
https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2024S/S01985/

Building Construction Practice: https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2024S/S04298/

CIRCULAR STRATEGIES
4th edition titled "Architecture and the Biosphere" is online!✨

day 1 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gy2S3q32W4

day 2 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW5pG2fEcac

How can the integration of the biosphere into the technosphere of architecture or the city contribute to overcoming the climate crisis and creating an environment worth living in? We want to shed light on three aspects, material, ecosystems, and transformation, each addressed in a lecture block with a subsequent panel discussion.

You can have access to the recordings of the previous years through our Youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcbAu8TbMBqIVtyPftvnDQVeCIl9gG5nq

see you thursday dec 7 2023, 7pm
IoA, Institute of Architecture - University of Applied Arts Vienna
oskar kokoschka platz 2, 1010 vienna
https://ioa.angewandte.at/lectures/petra-gruber

join us tomorrow in venice!

Meet the team!
Franz Sam, Camille Breuil, Petra Gruber, Clemens Preisinger, Anja Jonkhans

Save the date for CIRCULAR STRATEGIES SYMPOSIUM 4
ARCHITECTURE and BIOSPHERE

October 13 + 14, 2023
Die Angewandte VZA 7, Auditorium
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, 1030 Vienna

Organized and curated by Karin Raith and Lukas Allner, I oA Dpt. Building Construction

How can the integration of the biosphere into the technosphere of architecture or the city contribute to overcoming the climate crisis and creating an environment worth living in? We want to shed light on three aspects, material, ecosystems, and transformation, each addressed in a lecture block with a subsequent panel discussion.

More info: https://buildingconstruction.at/event/circular-strategies-symposium-4/

We are pleased to announce that Rector Gerald Bast has appointed Petra Gruber as head of the I oA Department of Building Construction at the University of Applied Arts Vienna as of October 2023, succeeding Karin Raith.

Petra Gruber is a researcher and educator in architecture and biodesign and holds a PhD in biomimetics in architecture from the Vienna University of Technology. Gruber works internationally in inter- and transdisciplinary design, research and education, at the intersection of biology, architecture and art. From 2000 to 2008, she was an assistant professor at the Institute of Design and Building Construction at the Vienna University of Technology, where she taught studio design, building construction, biomimetics, and vernacular architecture. At the University of Applied Sciences in Villach, she co-designed and taught in the Bionics and Biomimetics in Energy Systems program. She was a research fellow at the Center for Biomimetics at the University of Reading, UK.

In her own office, transarch, Gruber leads research projects in traditional architecture and on spatial and functional aspects of biological structures for biomimetic innovation in architecture and the built environment. With her longtime project partner, Barbara Imhof, and together with an international team, she co-led the arts-based research projects, "Biornametics" and "Growing as Building," at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

From 2012 to 2015, she held a long-term visiting professorship at the Ethiopian Institute for Architecture, Building Construction and City Development EiABC in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Gruber served as the Chair of Architectural Design, and designed and implemented the first masters program in architecture in the country. From 2016 to 2021, she was Associate Professor for Biodesign at the Biomimicry Research and Innovation Center at the University of Akron, US, where she founded the BiodesignLab and supervised PhD students in Integrated Biosciences.

Since her return to Austria in 2021, she has been a senior researcher at Hochschule Rhein-Waal in Germany and the University of Applied Arts Vienna with the project "Biocool" on self-cooling biomimetic building facades. In December 2021, she joined the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) as a program expert.

Her work has been widely published in books, journals, exhibitions and documentary films. She holds lectures and workshops worldwide and acts as a reviewer for scientific journals and funding organizations. In October 2023, she will join the I oA at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna as a professor and head of the Department of Building Construction. “I am excited to join the I oA’s Department of Building Construction, and look forward to the opportunity to share experience, curiosity, and the courage to experiment.”

At the I oA, Petra will further explore building construction at the intersection of biology and building: How do processes in nature shape future conditions while, at the same time, deliver blueprints for a new living architecture? Building construction is at the core of implementing high-quality solutions in the built environment and needs to meet and drive innovation. Experimental design and research-based teaching, together with the integration of traditional building construction and advanced technologies, shall extend the capacity to shape perspectives for future challenges.

This semester, in the Circular Strategies Seminar, students are working with the transformation of an existing building in Vienna, Floridsdorf.
Kindly supported by Andrea Kessler and the materialnomaden

Finally available online!
Video recordings of the Circular Strategies Symposium 3, October 2021

Circular Strategies Symposium 3 7 October 2022, 10:30-17:30Auditorium of the University of Applied Arts ViennaVordere Zollamtsstraße 7, 1030 Vienna00:00 Introduction - Doris Österreicher00:...

Circular Strategies Symposium 3
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Auditorium of the University of Applied Arts Vienna Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, 1030 Vienna
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Timetable and more information now on our website:
https://buildingconstruction.at/event/circular-strategies-symposium-3/
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Programme:



10:00 Admission



10:30 Intro

Welcome Address: Gerald Bast, Rector of the University of Applied Arts Vienna

Introduction: Karin Raith and Lukas Allner, Institute of Architecture, University of Applied Arts Vienna



11:00–11:50 Urgent action!

Given the critical environmental impacts of construction processes, which of the many approaches, ranging from materials recycling to planning for flexibility, should take precedence?

Keynote lecture: Susanne Kytzia, Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, Rapperswil: “How can future construction reduce our dependence on primary resources and fossil fuels?”

Response: Willi Haas, Institute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU)

Q&A



12:00–13:00 Dialog with the existing

The reactivation of material stocks is an essential task for a future­oriented building culture. With a view to the European context, two positions on architecture enter into a dialog.

Christoph Müller | baubüro in situ / zirkular, Zurich & Basel, Switzerland: “Catch of the day – building with the existing”

Inge Vinck & Jan de Vylder | A JDVIV / IVJDV A + ETC, Ghent, Belgium: “RE-THINKING RE”

Speakers in conversation/Q&A



13:00–14:00 Lunch break



14:00–14:50 Systemic change and individual approaches

Speakers from science and architecture share their views on how established systems could be changed for a better future.

Jeroen van den Bergh, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona & Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: “Agrowth, architecture, circularity, and climate”

DK Osseo-Asare & Ryan Bollom I LowDO, Austin, Texas and Tema, Ghana: “Humanitarian design & material (re)volution”

Søren Nielsen I Vandkunsten, Copenhagen, Denmark: “The new architectural aesthetics of circularity”

Susanne Witzgall I Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, Germany: „One doesn’t fit all. A critical neomaterialist approach to standardization”



15:00–15:50 Panel discussion

When and how do (international) standards help to create changeable environments, and which circumstances require individual proposals?

With Jeroen van den Bergh, DK Osseo-Asare & Ryan Bollom, Søren Nielsen, Susanne Witzgall

Discussion moderated by Lukas Allner

Q&A



16:00–16:50 Accelerated reverse engineering

Why architecture and the building industry – whether global or local – need to think in reverse and what it takes to speed up this process?

Keynote lecture: Hanif Kara, Harvard Graduate School of Design: “Technological obsolescence could be healed by accelerated reverse engineering”

Response: Baerbel Mueller, Institute of Architecture, University of Applied Arts Vienna



17:00–17:30 Wrap up

by Karin Raith, Lukas Allner, Doris Österreicher



Event held in English

Organization and curation: Karin Raith and Lukas Allner, Institute of Architecture, University of Applied Arts Vienna

Moderation: Doris Österreicher, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU)

UPCOMING EVENT – SAVE THE DATE:
7/10/2022, 10:30 - 17:30 (CET)

"Global standards - individual processes"
We will hold our third Circular Strategies Symposium at the Auditorium of the University of Applied Arts Vienna
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, 1030 Vienna
https://buildingconstruction.at/event/circular-strategies-symposium-3/

Ecosystems collapse, resources are becoming scarce and there is urgent need for action to counteract these developments. Architecture plays a vital role in shaping our relationship with the world, bearing a significant responsibility but also offering a promising opportunity for change. But where should we focus our attention and which steps could we take now?
This year the Circular Strategies Symposium discusses the universal and the individual. Are there (new) standards that apply globally, or should universal ideas be overcome altogether in favor of local engagement?

Contributions by:
DK Osseo Assare & Ryan Bollom (LOWDO, Austin, USA and Tema, Ghana) | Jeroen van den Bergh (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona & Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) | Willi Haas (Social Ecology, BOKU Vienna) | Hanif Kara (Harvard Graduate School of Design) | Susanne Kytzia (Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, Rapperswil) | Baerbel Mueller (University of Applied Arts Vienna) | Christoph Mueller (insitu / zirkular, Zurich, Basel) | Søren Nielsen (Vandkunsten, Copenhagen) | Inge Vinck & Jan de Vylder (devyldervinck architects, Gent) | Susanne Witzgall (Academy of Fine Arts Munich).

Organized and curated by:
Karin Raith and Lukas Allner, Department of Building Construction, I oA, University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Moderated by:
Doris Österreicher, BOKU Vienna

30/03/2022, 7:00 PM
Another lecture coming: The Making of
brickwalls

By Roland Bondzio

Hope to see you on Zoom:

https://dieangewandte-at.zoom.us/j/64301396844?pwd=Ty9pMGQrM2VZZm81YXBGSStQU3ZKQT09



According to Gottfried Semper's theory, the origin of the wall lies in the textile and in weaving. The German word “winden” (weave) is etymologically related to "Wand" (wall) as the envelope of space and "Gewand" (garment) as the clothing of the body. This idea was the starting point for the design of the new administration building for the Association of the Northwest German Textile and Clothing Industry in Münster. The client was prepared to accompany the research-based design process of behet bondzio lin architects and so, with the help of digital tools, they succeeded in planning and implementing a design that was simple in its entirety but complex in its details.

Roland Bondzio will talk about the experimental building that has won several awards. Roland studied architecture in Braunschweig and Barcelona and has taught at various German technical colleges and universities. He is the co-founder of behet+bondzio architekten in Münster and Leipzig, Germany. In 2003, the architecture firm expanded to Taichung, Taiwan, together with the third partner, Yu-Han Michael Lin, and since then has mainly realised projects in Germany and Taiwan.

Excited for the upcoming lecture via Zoom today!
The Making of: Earthen Renaissance

ERDEN - Martin Mackowitz & Sami Akkach
24/03/2022, 6:30 PM

Hope to see you there!
https://dieangewandte-at.zoom.us/j/67995183172?pwd=UkJmc045Q3RwY0cvZ2ZJcEx6eXdOUT09