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Reuse & Upcycle - Upcycling as a Design Principle in Architecture

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Symposium

Date

07.03.2019, Do 13.30 - 17.30 Uhr
Auditorium, Universität Liechtenstein

Content

The exploitation and destruction of the environment makes a paradigm change in the consumption of resources imperative: in the future, building 'new' must be separated from the dogma of constructing new buildings. Building stock must be seen as a source of ideas and resources, and its reuse and further use must be understood as architectural potential again.
New approaches in architecture show a trend towards 'upcycling', a term that is frequently used, but theoretically and historically rarely defined. It is often forgotten that the history of building was also always a history of reuse and further use - firstly of building materials and parts of buildings; secondly of building expertise and architectural styles. Understanding building structures again as part of a process in social change challenges our current practices and a modern understanding of the uniqueness, insularity and authorship of architecture.
While the first symposium examined the potential of historical concepts of upcycling, the second meeting focuses on the qualitative reuse of buildings and building components - and contrasts them with new developments in architectural, design and construction practice. The aim of the symposiuma is to open up new levels of understanding and explore the question of how new solutions can be found for the future, so that 'reuse and upcycling' in architecture will no longer be seen as a question of idealism but rather an economic argument and a matter of creative and structural quality. The symposium is held in English.

Information Contact

Prof. Dr. Daniel Stockhammer

Costs

Eintritt frei.

 

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