Green Technologies - LIVING BRIDGES Lecture + Seminar

The lecture "Green Technologies-Living Bridges" first of all teaches fundamental knowledge of green technologies. Green technologies are understood here as techniques in which living plants play a central role. Topics were among other things green architecture / building greening, (blue-) green infrastructure and vegetation technology. These approaches were analysed as (landscape-) architectural concepts in their social and processual dimensions. The interplay between vegetation, soil, water, climate and building structures were conveyed in order to develop an own attitude to traditional as well as innovative examples of green solutions, to independently analyse projects and to develop own concepts in the field of green technologies. The lecture formed the basis and prerequisite for participation in the seminar.

In the seminar "Green Technologies-Living Bridges", we examined in depth an outstanding example of green technologies: the living root bridges in northeast India are functionally grown structures from the aerial roots of the Indian rubber tree (ficus elastica) that connect houses, fields, villages and markets. The Khasi and Jaintia people in southern Meghalaya have developed a variety of techniques to utilise the growth phases of the rubber tree. The accordance between constructive goals and the phenomena of natural growth provides important insights for the successful design with living material. The scope of this semestes output was the respresentation of information from multiple sources in different scales and media. Particular focus was on mapping software (a GIS class was given on the course) and physical models.

 

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Teaching team

Prof. Dr. Ing. Ferdinand Ludwig

Wilfrid Middleton, M.Eng.

 

Course language

English

 

Type of course

Vorlesung und Seminar für die Studiengänge Landschaftsarchitektur und Architektur

3 + 3 ECTS