After successful completion of the course, students are able to translate an architectural project from design to built reality in teamwork and to place a special focus on ecological and design stringency in the examination of real framework conditions. The design/build approach enables students to experience and reflect on the concrete effects of their thinking, communication and actions.
LEHMOBIL PHASE 2 - Construction of a mobile earth building workshop
The Clay Network and the Young Earth Builders Association are committed to the development of clay as a recyclable building material for mass production. An important part of this initiative is to make knowledge about the qualities of the building material accessible to a broad population. The best way to do this is through workshops and hands-on experiences. Clay is a material whose special haptic properties can be experienced primarily through simple experiments. This gave rise to the vision of a mobile workshop or mobile clay laboratory - the "Lehmobil". This contains the most important equipment, tools and materials for testing, mixing, shaping, designing and being creative with the clay. At the same time, the clay mobile should be designed in such a way that it acts as an advertising medium for the material and attracts attention. In front of schools, kindergartens, on village squares and in urban areas, it will serve as a framework for events that revolve around sustainable building and living with natural materials.
After 23/24 students worked on the concept and planning of the Lehmobil in the winter semester, our task in the current summer semester is to check a selected design for feasibility, refine it further in a detailed planning phase and finally realize it ourselves.
Task:
Conversion/conversion of a car trailer into a mobile clay workshop:
Evaluation of existing design concepts with regard to feasibility/benefits/etc. together with the future users
Incorporation of feedback and change requests into the design
Detailed planning:
◦ Fine-tuning the design
◦ Ecological optimization
◦ Technical feasibility & time planning
◦ Long-term usability/quality of wood connections/fittings/moisture protection/...
◦ Cost optimization & availability of materials
◦ Graphics
Sponsoring/financing
Communication with suppliers & producers
Construction of 1:1 models & samples for design & technical clarification
Post-calculation & purchasing
Execution planning & work preparation for implementation
Joint construction of the project in two groups in Traunkirchen, Upper Austria (each person is only required to attend one of the two workshop dates in May).
Requirements
Previous practical experience in woodworking, e.g. training/internships/experience in carpentry/joinery/joinery/... is not required but is an advantage and can be taken into account when applying.
"Design/Build" is a project-based, action-oriented working, teaching and research method that is characterized by the independent implementation of a specific planning and construction task. The resulting repeated feedback loops in the transition between thinking and doing and the intensive exchange within the group open up new perspectives for the participating students on their own actions and enable a multi-layered learning process at the interfaces between theoretical, creative and practical engagement with architecture.
Dates
Time: Friday, all day // Start 9h
Location: Seminar room baugeschichte::bauforschung, Gußhausstraße 28, 1st floor
Attention: full-day and continuous attendance at the start workshop & one of the two workshops in May is absolutely necessary!
8.3. 9 - 18h Start workshop
15.3. - 3.5. Fridays from 9am: all-day working sessions
13 - 17.5. implementation workshop #1 in Upper Austria
21 - 25.5. implementation workshop #2 in Upper Austria
June: Final event and debriefing
Costs
The implementation workshop in Upper Austria will cost approx. 300€ per person for accommodation and half board.
