In the seminar Special Topics in Green Technologies – Design Build Grow V, design studies for baubotanical tiny houses are developed on the basis of the findings and results of the previous semesters. The seminar is part of the Design, Build, Grow! teaching series, in which students collaboratively work on experimental structures, linking design, constructive development, ecological questions, and long-term growth processes. This semester focuses on small baubotanical buildings that could be situated on the Freising or Garching campuses, for example as showrooms or experimental demonstration structures.

The seminar begins with an excursion to a tree nursery where comparable approaches are explored. Observations made there are then brought together with the current state of research and practice in baubotany, tree statics, arboriculture, structural design, and landscape architecture. On this basis, students work in groups to develop different

concepts for baubotanical tiny houses. The aim is to produce solutions that are convincing in technical-constructive, design, and ecological terms, while critically assessing the potentials and limitations of different approaches. This includes both the constructive and spatial development of the baubotanical elements and the design of the complementary timber structures.

The seminar is conceived as an interdisciplinary design and research format. It brings together perspectives from landscape architecture, architecture, engineering, structural design, forestry, and ecology, thereby reflecting the broader opening of the teaching format toward additional disciplines. In this way, students are enabled to develop innovative baubotanical concepts at the intersection of design, engineering, and ecology.

The seminar is aimed at students of landscape architecture, architecture, civil engineering, structural design, and forestry.

Seminar

LV-Nr.:  0000003246

Course:

6 ECTS / 4 SWS

Location: 

Freising, U1

Dates:  

Fridays, in block sessions, 

09:00 – 18:00

First date: 

to be announced

Excursion:

14.05.26-16.05.26

Language:

English

Module: 

MA Landscape Arch.

MA Architecture

BSc Landscape Arch.

MSc Civil Engineering

MSc Forest an Wood Science

Teaching team: 

Prof. Ferdinand Ludwig

Lennard Höpfner, M.A.

Christoph Fleckenstein, M.A.

Contact: 

lennard.hoepfner(at)tum.de 

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