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How to integrate sustainability in the design and planning processes? At the MSA | Münster School of Architecture students developed a wooden structure, reaching high insulation values. 2shelter is called the one-room of Luisa Matz and Jessica Riesmeyer, which emerged and was built during the Sustainable Building Design Studios by Prof. Hans Drexler.

The Zeeheldentuin is an oasis of green in the middle of a grey urban area. In this community garden you can find vegetable gardens, a fruit orchard, an ornamental flower garden with seating areas, and a nature playground for the children.

Vlakbij het Vredespaleis runnen Roelof Toering en zijn vrouw Ditte Koelewijn de succesvolle dagzaak Café Blossom. Na vijf jaar stroomt het ondernemersbloed nog volop door de aderen. De twee zijn in de race voor de invulling van het midgetgolfterrein in het Haagse Westbroekpark. Het idee: horeca in een kas.

One of landscapes architecture's particularities is that it has a varying relationship to scales compared to its fellow disciplines such as urbanism and architecture. To get a grasp on it, we asked teachers from the Chair of Landscape Architecture at TU Delft how they conceive of this relation and where they position themselves.

Our existence is based on time.

When you think of green building, for sure you will not connect to a life in the city. A number of projects, however, shows how to combine city life and ecology to innovative concepts. We introduce them to you.

The urban Library Heidenheim creates with the inclusion of the district media center, a forward-looking redesign of the concept library. The project embodies the spirit of the information technology in which various information media is no longer just a place where knowledge is stored, but serves the citizens of all ages primarily as a place of encounter and exchange. Due to the compact and efficient form, and the positioning of the building on the north end of the property, the design fits into the streets of densely populated Brenzstraße. The resulting, attractive, south facing part of the site allows you to have a new park created, forming a green axis that extends from Station Square on the Georges-Levillain-Anlage to Pauluskirche. The library is based around a dramatic and spacious staircase,wich is located in the heart of the building. She can be used as seating, structural element and as a communicative link between the heterogeneous usage patterns of the library. A woven perforated aluminum façade creates adequate and diffuse illumination of the interior. By the curved, ribbon-like form a sculptural character is conveyed and there are small terraces that spread across the library floors. The inspiration was the history of the textile industry Heidenheim.

A view into the stars is what Daniel Jauslin wanted: onto clouds and the sun. The architect with Swiss roots built a spectacular glass-skylounge into his Rotterdam urban family house. "I want to see the legendary 'Dutch skies'"

By uncovering the ancient staircase became a close post-war building to the airy loft. In the SCHÖNER WOHNEN-Modernization Competition 2012's it was
the special prize, awarded by the BHW.

Flowscapes is the graduation lab of the Master track Landscape Architecture. It is also open to students of other design disciplines and suitable for students with special interest for landscape architecture. Ecologically motivated architects or urbanists can give shape to their interests
within the academic framework, while working in relatively small groups. The core of the graduation lab is a referred design studio, supported by complementary courses (Nijhuis et al., 2012). The design studio is concerned with the spatial design of new topographies by integrating programs into the ‘genius of place’ and – with regard to landscape development – the continuation of spatial quality and cultural identity. These designerly explorations require a multilayered understanding of landscape: its spatial structure, history, context, as well as
the ecological, economic and social processes involved. In this approach visual thinking
and communication are considered to be crucial. Drawings, mappings and models are used to reveal and create relationships, explore and elaborate landscape systems – in
terms of geometry, quantity, velocity, force, trajectory – and for critical reflection. In
this article we introduce the design studio and provide some background regarding the theme.

On mini-space The "Minimum Impact House" is the result of a research and development project for sustainable housing in the city, and shows how creative urban gaps between buildings can be redensified.

Travel-Guide for the city Frankfurt am Main

In Sachenhausen

Minimum Impect House : Sustainable, vertical space development of small-scale available urban space

»Affordable Housing Prototype in Shenzhen« – this was the topic of the international student competition. So 16 architecture students, Professors and tutors went to China for 14 days. A first group of students went already to China in 2012 to analyze the topic  »A Sustainable Urban Prototype for China«.

He lives and works in a mini house. And he has also designed it.
Hans Drexler is a substitute professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Applied Sciences Munster, the muenster school of architecture. His focus: sustainable building and inclusive design. He has implemented the mini house in Frankfurt - a house that also there has still comfortable living space, other concepts capitulate of space limitations. Drexler wants his students perform the relationships and dependencies of sustainable design in mind - in teaching, in symposia and in a lecture.

With the Minimum Impact House (MIH) new strategies for the development of urban residual areas were developed. The choice of locations Has a positive effect on the environmental performance of the building. In terms of sustainability offers a densification within the city territory require a lot of advantages: The urban sprawl is prevented. This creates congestion and strengthens the social fabric in the cities. Moreover, the reduction of land consumption is an active contribution to the protection of resources.

In modern residential consumption is minimized during operation largely. Therefore, with a lifetime of 50 years, the construction of the building for a large proportion of C02 emissions. MIH when the design was the use of renewable raw materials - optimized - especially wood. By a supporting structure made of timber panel construction and a fire protection system, the MIH was one of the first modern five-storey wooden building erected werden.Um to reduce energy consumption during use, the building was built as a passive house. As an important part of a ventilation system was installed as a compact unit (heat pump) with a degree of recovery heat recovery of 85%. The balance of energy is needed by a solar thermal system and a heat pump covered with 100% certified green.

This paper introduces landscape aesthetics as an innovative design method for sustainable architecture. It is based on the framework of a recent paper where the young and unfamous authors criticized three of the most prominent architects today in regard to sustainable architecture and its aesthetics. Leading architects expressed their skepticism as to whether there is such a thing as aesthetics in sustainable architecture, or for that matter, if architecture can indeed be sustainable at all. Against such a setting, DGJ will illustrate what we believe to be the landscape perspective's inherent relationship to the natural environment, the principles behind it as well as the potentia Is that these landscape perspective holds for sustainable design. After first discussing the kind of professional and political impetuses that have made sustainability one of the most compelling changes to face the profession of architecture, we argue that the mandate for a sustainable environment did not come about by choice of the architects and planners, but rather, that sustainability is imposed on the profession by the necessary, external forces that influence it. To bridge the existing gaps between current practice and sustainability, we will trace some thoughts and principles of landscapes and territories. Our approach views the landscape as a human interface with nature, as a basis for the design of sustainable architecture and a new context for sustainable aesthetics. It will be illustrated with practical work samples from a small but globally operating practice DGJ Architects & Landscapes. They will demonstrate how sustainable design happens in practice, throughout its evolutionary process, with some of our recent projects

No, No and No. Three times No is the answer to the question: is there currently such a thing as aesthetics in sustainable architecture? This answer is drawn from the discussions of three architects who are acclaimed practitioners and thinkers in the field. If we assume that aesthetics is something that all architects pursue in one form or another, it would appear that, currently, sustainability is not an integral part of it.

Italian only: Ridurre l'impatto del consumo di suolo, creando una nuova tipologia di edificio residenziale che recupera aree del centro cittá poco densificate: é questa la proposta di un progetto di ricerca tedesco che ottimizza globalmente l'impatto ecologico, sociale, economico attraverso alloggi di edilizia sociale residenziale in legno.

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Italian only: Completare, non espandere. È la filosofia di quest'opera sperimentale firmata dallo studio DGI architekten. Che pui a riqualificare nicchie, interstizi, spazi di risulta.

The amount of frame houses measured to the total market of one- and two-family houses has been increasing constantly. About 13.000 residential buildings were built in timber-panel -construction and prefabricated timber-construction in Germany in 2009, with tendency to rise. Because of the commercial and technological advantage of the modern timber-construction, there can be expected, that the positive trend will continue during the following years.

The young architects office Drexler Guinand Jauslin designed a small town house on a site of only 29sqm.

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Investigates an acoustic landscape in the city.

Jesse Reisser and Naneko Umemoto of RUR Architects are investigating the relationsship of uses, material, and the structure of space.

Wile E. Coyote - Road Runner is a cartoon about how many ways not to catch a Road Runner. The perpetually ravenous Wile E. Coyote obsessivly pursues the elusive Road Runner.