TIME-TREES-TECTONICS Project
In Baubotanik, trees are an integral part of built structures and the resulting projects are both man-made and grown naturally. They are subject to the time constraints of tree growth and the rationality of technical joining. Designing them means on the one hand constructing on a botanical basis and on the other hand conceiving a process lasting from decades to centuries. The draft Time - Trees - Tectonics moves in this field of tension between concrete baubotanical practice and speculative future prognoses. The designs can represent a wide range of different attitudes: From a technology-oriented approach that welcomes technological developments and conceives speculative, perhaps spectacular designs with the help of possible innovations, to poetic, perhaps melancholic approaches that celebrate the slowness of tree growth in order to counter the constant acceleration and change of our world. Finding a suitable location and a suitable construction project for this conceptual approach is part of the question. Both constructive approaches, such as the design of a living, growing bridge and open space approaches, such as the design of a built botanical cemetery can be considered. One focus of the work was on the convincing presentation of conceptual and constructive solutions in drawing and model construction. Construction approaches developed as part of the draft are to be tested 1:1 in spring 2019 as part of the seminar "Practiced Landscape Architecture Technique" in gtla*'s Dürnast experimental field in Baubotanik. The design started with an excursion to projects and test sites where newly developed and historic techniques of building-botanical integration, most of which have passed out of use, could be reconstructed and time could be experienced as a design factor.
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Teaching team
Prof. Dr. Ing. Ferdinand Ludwig
Dipl. Ing. Lisa Höpfl
Lorenz Boigner, M.A.
Course language
German/English
Type of course
Master project for landscape architecture and architecture students
15 ECTS