The overall quality of an existing building stock can no longer be reproduced as a new version. Therefore, the completion and repair of existing buildings is an important and unavoidable necessity in the urban context and thus preferable to demolition or new construction.
The scale of the project is not relevant here. A broken building element or a damaged scroll wheel on a PC mouse is valuable in terms of continued use. The design of such a repair has a direct influence on the possible conservation of resources and should therefore be regarded as fundamentally important at an early stage. Modern production methods should help to find new solutions here.
In order to familiarise ourselves with the design process and its interweaving and joining with existing structures, we start with studies on a tangible object. Building on existing structures or restoring damaged ones is carried out on an everyday object of our own choice. This basis will then be further developed and visualised.
The seminar deals with the ideal and structural connections between old and new. A viable combination in the form of an addition or repair will be tested and formulated experimentally, and the desirable realisation on the building will also be considered and evaluated.
After getting to know the connections between a necessity, the design and the requirements in practice, it is conceivable to continue and build on the seminar in a subsequent design module.
