MAY
2024
29

Seminar Week Zumthor et al.

An exciting Whitsun week lies behind us: We traveled to the foothills of the Alps to experience Peter Zumthor’s buildings and his approach to space, light and material. Yet the region, rich in diverse architecture, also offered us a variety of additional projects. The aim of our four-day field trip was to develop an understanding of the regional materials, the sites and the associated construction techniques. We got to know a broad spectrum of industrial and residential architecture, but also visited museums and, last but not least, sacred buildings. We also took the opportunity to get to know the people100

Rammed earth garden house near Freiburg

Loam is produced by the natural weathering of rocks. It can be found almost everywhere and is considered a local building material – even on the Upper Rhine. It consists of different rock or particle sizes, from sand to silt to clay. If dried loam is combined with sufficient water, it becomes plastic again and can be brought into a new form. In a joint seminar of the KIT Professorships of Sustainable Construction and Building Technology, a small rammed earth garden house is currently being built near Freiburg. After the material has been tested and suitable formwork has been built,100

JAN
2012
01

ETH Zurich Seminar Weeks Prof. Dirk E. Hebel

Fall Semester 2016 Reporting from the Front: Venedig _ Geschichte und Zukunft Dates: Monday 24th October to Friday 28th October 2016 Cost Category: C We travel to Venice to get a selected view on the Venice Biennale and to visit one of the most impressive and unique urban structures in the world.       Spring Semester 2016 Zukunft des Bauens – eine Rundreise Dates: Monday 14th March to Friday 18th March 2016 Cost Category: B We travel to Switzerland and southern Germany, in search of groundbreaking approaches in the production of buildings. It is the goal to understand technical frameworks and to experience100