The Chairs of Timber Construction and Building Design, Building Technology and Climate-Friendly Construction, and Solid Construction jointly offered a project week on the topic of ‘Brick Hybrid’ in 2024. The research project ‘Brick Hybrid 4.0’, which is also being jointly conducted by the chairs and which investigates resource-efficient combinations of bricks, wood and clay with regard to the combined structural design in prefabricated components, forms the basis of the ‘Brick Hybrid’ project week in the Design Factory 1:1 on the main campus of TUM.
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Five groups of students had the task of designing and planning innovative, resource-efficient, easily deconstructable and prefabricated components made of brick, wood and clay, realising them on a 1:1 scale and assembling them into a common space. The theoretical principles were developed by the students themselves and made available to all participants in short presentations. In addition, after assessing and evaluating the finished constructions, the focus was on the simplest possible dismantling that would allow the individual materials to be reused.
The focus of the project week was on ‘getting to grips’, the technical realisation of the creative ideas and plans and the associated challenges of a real construction project with interdisciplinary collaboration in all its facets. The project was supported by the Bundesverband der Deutschen Ziegelindustrie e.V. and Sherpa Connection Systems GmbH, among others.
