Hortitecture 01

HORTITECTURE 01

The HORTITECTURE 01 Symposium on 10. December 2014 was the first of a series of public lecture days, focusing on alternative sustainable building strategies that explore the synergies combining architecture and plant material.

Stefano Boeri
F. Ludwig
D. Schönle
Nicola Moczek
Fuensanta Nieto
Jacob van Rijs
Tomas Saraceno
Vo Trong Nghia
S. Weber
B. Schröder-Esselbach
Dan Wood
Ken Yeang

Nine International and German guests as well as three interdisciplinary Professors from the TU Braunschweig presented and discussed their ideas and experience in the field. During the discussion sessions, we compared and analyzed architectural solutions that are made with, made for or made from vegetative material, asking:
How are plants integrated within the building system?
What kinds of benefits can a new kind of nature-artifact combination offer?
How do the plantings affect the overall environment and architectural design?
What is the maintenance factor and how scalable are these new solutions?
In studying the intersections between architectural, horticultural and technological practices, our goal is to transfer knowledge beyond build-ing design to a larger urban scope, creating better, more sustainable future cities.

Speaker

Stefano Boeri

Stefano Boeri, architect and urban planner, founding partner of Stefano Boeri Architetti, Milan, Italy. Former editor-in-chief of the international magazine Domus. Professor in Urban Planning at Polytechnic University of Milan.

Vo Trong Nghia

Vo Trong Nghia, architect, Founder of Vo Trong Nghia Architects, Ho Chi Minh City. AR House Awards, World Architecture Festival, ARCASIA Award for Architecture (AAA) Gold Medal and “Building of the year” 2014.

Ken Yeang

Ken Yeang, architect and ecologist, Hamzah&Yeang, Kuala Lumpur. Pioneer of ecology-based green design and masterplanning. Projects include Tokyo-Nara Tower, Tokyo, Japan and Solaris, Fusionopolis, Singapore.

Dan Wood

Dan Wood, architect, co-founder of WORKac, New York, NYC, USA. Taught at the Yale School of Architecture and was an adjunct professor at Princeton University’s School of Architecture.

Jacob van Rijs

Jacob van Rijs, architect, urban planner, director at MVRDV, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Visiting Professor at TU Delft and TU Munich, member Dutch Trade Board, Chairman of the International program of the Royal Institute of Dutch Architects.

Fuensanta Nieto

Fuensanta Nieto, architect, founding partner of Nieto Sobejano, Madrid, Spain. Professor at the Universidad Europea de Madrid and former co-director of the architectural journal
ARQUITECTURA.

Ferdinand Ludwig

Ferdinand Ludwig, and Daniel Schönle, architects, urban planners and researchers, Stuttgart, Germany. Ludwig Schönle and Research Group Baubotanik.

Daniel Schönle

Ferdinand Ludwig, and Daniel Schönle, architects, urban planners and researchers, Stuttgart, Germany. Ludwig Schönle and Research Group Baubotanik.

Tomas Saraceno

Tomás Saraceno, Studio Saraceno, Berlin, artist exploring the world of inflatable and airborne biospheres. Since 2014 Professor at Institute for Architecturally Based Art, TU Braunschweig.

Boris Schröder-Esselbach

Boris Schröder-Esselbach – Professor at Department of Environmental Sciences, head of Institute of Geoecology at the Department of Environmental Sciences, TU Braunschweig presented research in urban biodiversity.

Stephan Weber

Stephan Weber, Prof. Dr., Boris Schröder-Esselbach Prof. Dr., both Institute of Geo-ecology at the Department of Environmental Science, TU-Braunschweig. Networking core disciplines of the TU-Braunschweig within the research theme “Healthy Livable Cities”.

Nicola Moczek

Nicola Moczek, psychologist, co-founder and Director of PSY:PLAN, Institute for Environmental and Architectural Psychology, Berlin, Germany, since 1997. Co-editor of the German scientific journal “Umweltpsychologie”.