Exhibition of the INGROWBATOR Bachelor and Master projects from Winter Semester 2021/22 at the Chair of Architectural Design and Participation.
The INGROWBATOR project proposes a vocational school and campus with agricultural focus in the outskirts of Balanka. The village of Balanka is located in the eastern part of central Togo on the border with Benin.
Students have developed the projects in close contact with the association Bildung für Balanka e.V.. By providing an education for all ages Bildung für Balanka e.V. gives an incentive for young people to stay in their hometown. In the vocational school students will be trained as professionals with a special focus on agriculture.
A plot of land located northwest of the centre of Balanka is to host the agricultural campus for over 100 students, including the vocational school, teachers‘ accommodation and students‘ accommodation.
The Chair of Architectural Design and Participation is concerned with the design for the community, with participatory building processes, material and spatial studies. Projects develop a sensibility to contextual factors from which invention can arise. Conceptual thinking combines with a hands-on approach for site-specific solutions, acknowledging the importance of local resources and the needs of the community. They explore the social role of architecture and their approach is to get the students to learn how to connect the thinking and the making. On the one hand, they try to bring students to reality. On the other hand, the chair attempts to push them to be visionaries, to be strong in ideas —to go behind the thinking and to foster the thinking.
When:
27.-28.04. + 10.-11.05.2022, 9-12h
Where:
Chair of Architectural Design and Participation
R.3356 3rd Floor
Thierschbau (Goldener Engel)