How can contemporary architecture support local, cultural contexts?
Did you ever get the impression that many new buildings look the same? And do you ever wonder why some materials travel across the world, when materials can be harvested on site? Join us in the search for a new vernacular architecture
Vernacular architectural typologies, traditional construction methods, and local building materials make up a diversity of building cultures across the world. But these past decades the architecture has become more and more similar: Reintroducing the careful consideration of local context, identity, and heritage is more important than ever. It is time to build culturally sensitive, aesthetically pleasing, and enduring buildings. Homes across the world should include contemporary and innovative approaches to traditional building designs, materials, and crafts so people can identify and feel at home. So materials do not have to cross oceans, or country borders, and so the way we construct, suits our different climates and landscapes. It is a good time now to re-apply materials, technologies, and solutions proven valuable to fit specific sites. Shaping homes with solutions from local building and climatic traditions, is the foundation of successful design and a key to the long-term acceptance of a building with regards to the local community and context it has become a part of. At the Build for Life Conference 2021 we will ask these questions in the search for locally anchored architecture:
How can we design for adaptive reuse? How to design for environmental architecture?
Welcome to a double keynote and discussion with both Philipp Buxbaum, SmartVoll Architekten and Stifter & Bachmann Architects. SmartVoll Architekten is a small group of architects and thinkers who are known to bond over exploring the unknown. I a conversation about adaptive reuse, environmental and local architecture Philip will meet Helmut Stifter and Angelika Bachmann. One of the projects their studio is known for, is a mountain hut. It was publicly accused of breaking a tradition that was newer there - and architecturally acknowledged for integrating perfectly with the one and only local playmaker: The mountain.
How to reprogram rural homes?
Bridging tradition and contemporary design, the Copenhagen-based architecture studio NORRØN reprograms and reinvents rural homes in a way that makes many consider moving to the otherwise somewhat abandoned danish countryside. In this session partner and architect Poul Høilund will tell us how the studio breathes new life to the abandon, yet unforgettable building mass that historically served an agricultural purpose and yet today remains uninhabited. Although almost all Danes still identify with the architecture.
How to ensure healthy sustainable buildings by using local materials
In this session architect and founder of Hasscookzemmrich Studio 2050, Martin Haas, will introduce us to a large local loam structure: The Alnatura campus. It is actually Europe’s largest office building with a rammed-earth façade. For this wholesome house the team developed a construction system of large loam blocks that were prefabricated in a field factory. Thereby they gave a whole new meaning to using local building materials. Please join us for a tour in this wonderful house.
The Build for Life Conference 2021
Join us from November 15 - 17 as we bring together architects, housebuilders, researchers, engineers, activists and other industry professionals to discuss how to leverage buildings to benefit the environment and improve the quality of life for people everywhere.
Free and open to all, the Build for Life Conference 2021 is a fully digital event that will feature more than 90 expert speakers from around the world, presenting from two main stages in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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At the Build for Life Conference 2021 hasscookzemmrich STUDIO 2050, Martin Haas, will introduce us to a large local loam structure: The Alnatura campus. Photo: hasscookzemmrich STUDIO 2050.
Join the Build for Life Conference 2021 to experience how NORRØN reprograms and reinvents rural homes in a way that makes many consider moving to the otherwise somewhat abandoned danish countryside.