After successful completion of the course, students are able to understand the architectural and spatial planning relevance of infrastructure planning on different scales. Approaches will be developed on how international, national, regional, urban and local systems must interlock spatially, design-wise and logistically, so that they can function as an overall system.

In this course we deal with territorial transformation processes, especially with phenomena and concrete questions related to infrastructure and mobility planning. On the basis of national and international case studies, the course imparts basic knowledge about the relations between the systems of city and region as well as about the supply of dispersed rural settlement areas. An essential focus is on methods and strategies for the structural, systemic and design integration of these infrastructures into the urban or landscape context. What are proven and successful methods, instruments and work processes that lead to a successful interaction of settlement, open space, mobility as well as infrastructure planning. These integrative systems and the resulting synergy effects form the basis of necessary climate-neutral or CO2 compensating overall solutions on many levels.

lectures, discussions, independent research

within the module Territorial Transformation