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Bauhaus Earth Awards Fellowship to Baukreisel for Deconstruction and Re-Use Case Study
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14/7/2023
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Bauhaus Earth is pleased to announce the award of its new fellowship to Baukreisel!
As part of the second Bauhaus Earth Fellowship Program (BE-FELLOW), Baukreisel will work with Bauhaus Earth on the case of the controlled deconstruction of the former Max Planck Institute high-rise building in Dortmund. Built in the 1950s on the Rheinlanddamm, the building lost its permit due to a long period of vacancy and needs to be partially deconstructed in order to continue to be used as a building. This fellowship is embedded in Baukreisel’s long-term project on the methodology of “Optimal Reuse Cases” (ORC) for demolished buildings.
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“concrete.matters – primary structure laboratory”
This new BE-FELLOW project “concrete.matters – primary structure laboratory” aims to explore the possibilities of re-using the deconstructed primary concrete structure as structural elements in new construction. This will involve theoretical assessments and simulations, as well as the creation of a demonstrator mock-up.
The specific case of the high-rise building in Dortmund will serve as an example to document the history of development and decision-making that led to vacancy, decay, and finally to the threat of demolition. This fellowship will contribute to the current debate about the value of post-war modernist buildings, not only as a store of grey energy and material, but also their role in shaping the identity of the city and its places.
Baukreisel
Baukreisel is an interdisciplinary group of architects, political and social scientists, economists, and lawyers, who – after years of informal activism – founded Baukreisel e.V. as a non-profit organization in Berlin in 2022. The organization is dedicated to maximizing the re-use of building materials through research, teaching, and creative activism – confronting and challenging the material and immaterial damage of current building practices. It advocates a fundamental reorientation of the building industry by re-evaluating and critically questioning existing processes. Baukreisel focuses on research into sustainable and circular construction, environmental protection, especially climate protection, and the development of a critical awareness of the social significance of building culture.
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