MIAD exihibition at Kunsthalle Bielefeld

MIAD exihibition at Kunsthalle Bielefeld

„The preparations for the MIAD P2 exihibition at Kunsthalle Bielefeld are well under way by now. The posters have been been sent to the Kunsthalle for framing and the catalogue is being printed and will be ready for the opening on Wednesday, December 13th at 5 p.m. All are invited!“    

Facade researcher asks for new thinking in problem solving

Facade researcher asks for new thinking in problem solving

Torrential rains, storms, flooding: as climate change and globalization all take their toll, they also increasingly impact on the way we build. This holds especially true for the way we build facades.  Reasons enough for “façade2017” with the topic ‘Resilience’ to have focused on the durability and resilience of buildings.  The specialist conference, featuring international […]

ClipHUT

ClipHUT

The development process of the ‚Common Hut‘ is based on a circular metamorphosis of digital design and fabrication techniques according to the principal – „design through making“. The design development will be basically driven by constructive principals including material properties, its behaviour but also an optimized interchange between digital and analogue -crafting inspired- fabrication techniques. […]

Membrane structures workshop

Membrane structures workshop

On Thursday and Friday, November 15-16th, Summum Engineering gave a workshop on the topic of membrane structures and their form finding to the students of the Master of Integrated Architectural Design at the Detmold School of Architecture and Interior Architecture, at the Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe, Campus Detmold, in Detmold, Germany. The workshop was given at the kind invitation of participant […]

Lecture ‘Virtual Wildness’ at Chair BiG at the RWTH Aachen

Lecture ‘Virtual Wildness’ at Chair BiG at the RWTH Aachen

Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Hans Sachs of CAAD at the Detmold School of Architecture and Interior Architecture hold a lecture at the Chair BiG at the faculty of architecture of the RWTH Aachen on Nov. 9th 2017.

Detmold Conference Week 2017

Detmold Conference Week 2017

Detmold Conference Week 2017 focuses on the topic of ‘Resilience’ ‘Resilience’ describes the function and ability of buildings and their facades to recover from or adjust easily to change. ‘Resilience’ addresses the impacts of climate change and globalisation and of safety and security requirements on the building envelope. The first edition of the Detmold Conference Week […]

Kick-Off-Workshop “Cultural Otherness and Architecture”

Kick-Off-Workshop “Cultural Otherness and Architecture”

We would like to invite our new MIAD and MID students to the Kick-Off-Workshop “Cultural Otherness and Architecture” from October 2nd – 6th 2017 as the official start of the semester.

MIAD P2 FINAL PRESENTATION

MIAD P2 FINAL PRESENTATION

On July 26th, the P2 Integrated Project BIE ART EXT final presentation took place. Dr Friedrich Meschede, Director of Kunsthalle Bielefeld and thus our client, was invited as critic. A lively discussion about architecture and Bielefeld planning specifics evolved. Our guest was impressed by the wide array of different solutions on offer. A selection of […]

MID Computational Design Students realize architectural art installation at ‘Burning Man 2017’

MID Computational Design Students realize architectural art installation at ‘Burning Man 2017’

At the end of August, 13 students from three faculties of  University of Applied Sciences (HS OWL) will travel to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, USA. What are they doing? Art! For the festival “Burning Man” the team builds a four meter high art object called “Desert Eyes”. They are the only German team […]

MIAD Integrated Project Midterm

MIAD Integrated Project Midterm

The MIAD P2 Integrated Project Midterm Presentation took place on June 7th. Prof. André Habermann of HSD Architects / Bochum University of Applied Sciences was our guest critic. In a lively discussion between him, the presenters, Tillmann Wagner and Jasper Jochimsen, the projects were elvaluated and recommendations for their further development given. Prof. Habermann was […]