Final Review of the Bachelor's and Master's Project Taking the land's side Rural settlements in Haimhausen at the Chair of Urban Design and Housing.
About the project:
The increasing financialization of land and property and the current dominance of economics and the market upon architectural production brings with it an emphasis on growth, large scale production, demolition and consumption. We know that this is an unsustainable position as it relies on the exploitation of finite natural resources and ignores the well-being of fragile ecosystems and ethical values in favour of profit and the economics of numbers. A counter position is to promote an economy that respects ecological limits, seeks circularity and the potential for synergies between processes, recognises craft and meaningful work over profit and material consumption.
This semester we are going to design a rural settlement of buildings to make a community within landscape. We will address ideas of settlement, territorial density, community, appreciating that ‘small is beautiful’. We will be conscious of the borrowed ground in which we build upon, considering a greater equilibrium between building and land, the garden, and the threshold between. We will focus upon the plan and have courage to re-define patterns of use and challenge old hierarchies so that our work is more relevant to today’s domestic needs for work and leisure. We will consider how we make our buildings, new buildings that are layered, easy to construct and resilient for future unknown uses. The location of our work will be the village and surroundings of Haimhausen northeast of Munich.
Guest critic:
Judith Lösing and Julian Lewis
(East architecture, landscape and urban design, London)
When:
Monday, 02.02.26
11:30-18:30
Where:
R 2380 (Gabelsbergerstr./Luisenstr.)
Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Arcisstraße 21
80333 Munich