Seminar Week HS23Repair Schatzalp, Davos In the fall semester 2023, the seminar week will take place in Davos, on the Schatzalp as part of the new teaching project “Maintenance and Repair on Site” in collaboration with Studio Tom Emerson. The project integrates the teaching of heritage conservation, construction and sustainability with architectural design. A design […]
Keep Reading →Elements of High-Tech FS23 Lecture series in the spring semester 2023In Collaboration with the Professorship for the Theory of Architecture, Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder This course focuses on a specific part of the architecture of the 1970s and 1980s, its architectural-theoretical analysis, and its properties and challenges associated with the preservation of such objects. This […]
Keep Reading →SEMINAR WEEK HS22IN:TANGIBLE ISTANBUL, 23. – 29.10.2022 A city is more than the sum of its buildings. As cultural norms, religious beliefs, technological advances prevail over one another, its buildings, its inhabitants, their daily lives and rituals evolve. New infrastructure expedites the city’s growth while fires, floods, earthquakes and pandemics lead to abrupt changes in […]
Keep Reading →HIGH-TECH HERITAGE: (IM)PERMANENCE OF INNOVATION Conference: 14.–16. September 2023, ETH ZurichContact Person: Matthias Brenner, Maria KouvariContact: high-tech@arch.ethz.chLocation: Arch_Tec_Lab, ITA, ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HIB E 52 (Open Space 2) CONFERENCE REGISTRATION A conference collaboratively organized by the Professorship for Construction Heritage and Preservation, ETH Zurich (Prof. Dr. Silke Langenberg) and the Professorship for Heritage Conservation and Architectural […]
Keep Reading →Bridging the gap Research activities of the Chair of Construction Heritage and Preservation focus on a wide variety of building stocks and technologies as well as design and manufacturing processes. Older and younger (as well as very young) objects along with structurally outstanding engineering structures are investigated. Their (potential) value as monuments as well as […]
Keep Reading →Schatzalp Balustrades Kontakt: Fabian KastnerKooperationspartner: Gramazio Kohler Research, Hotel Schatzalp Davos Das Projekt befasst sich mit dem Entwurf, der Planung und der Ausführung von neuen Geländerelementen für das Hotel Schatzalp in Davos, Schweiz. Das Hotel und ehemalige Sanatorium ist eines der ersten grossen Eisenbetonbauten der Schweiz und auch international bekannt. Die bestehenden Holzgeländer sind teilweise in schlechtem Zustand und […]
Keep Reading →Environmental Sustainability and Building Preservation: Exploring Strategies for Interdisciplinary Dissemination in Higher Education and Beyond Doctoral Candidate: Fabian KastnerCo-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Guillaume Habert, Chair of Sustainable Construction, ETH Zurich This research projects investigates the role of dissemination tools, especially educational games, in the context of sustainability strategies for building transformations. The work is developed in […]
Keep Reading →Shadow Territory and Secondary Infrastructures: The Hidden Landscapes of Temporary Labor at the Grande Dixence (1950—1965) Doctoral Candidate: Rune Frandsen Dieses vom SNF geförderte Forschungsprojekt wird federführend vom Institut für Landschaft und Urbane Studien (LUS), Professur Günther Vogt, ETH Zürich geführt. Prof. Dr. Silke Langenberg ist Co-Referentin der Dissertation. In 1945, The National Office for Water […]
Keep Reading →High-Tech for High-Tech: On the Potential of Digital Fabrication for the Repair of Architectural Innovation of the 1980s Doctoral Candidate: Matthias BrennerCo-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dillenburger, Digital Building Technologies, ETH Zurich Due to their relatively young age, buildings of the 1980s are rarely considered objects worth preserving and listed as monuments. Within the architectural heritage […]
Keep Reading →Digital Construction Archive funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Project Proposal and Director: Prof. Dr. Silke Langenberg, Project Proposal: Dr. Tobias BüchiCo-Director and Contact: Dr. Adrian Pöllinger The radical turn from industrial to digital design and production has led to a paradigm shift in architecture, and it impacts the possibilities to preserve the […]
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