integrated Project

Short description

The analysis of the industrial development and its prognoses for the next 30 years shows that new interdisciplinary technologies and manufacturing processes will change the sector of architecture and civil engineering fundamentally. The IAARC courses seize these developments and approaches them with an orientation towards a distinctly practice-related paradigm: The concrete applied approach goes hand in hand with faculty-comprehensive contents and with the focus on creativity-enhancing strategies as a precondition for a succeeding synthesis of analytically purchased knowledge.


Content

The project seminars iP1 and iP2 deal with the development of specific buildings, innovative building types, construction systems, construction system typologies, unitized finishing and installation systems, infrastructure systems, manufacturing processes, and assistive, flexible high-tech life surroundings and residential concepts. In a first step we analyze case studies and advanced application scenarios of construction automation and robotics, and as a second step the specific use of advanced technologies in construction, material and technology. The reference framework is task specific and can range from the urban large-scale context to the personal, individual scale. For this elaboration of the solution within the scope of the project seminar the participants are supposed to find a thematic priority during the iP1 and – more advanced – to consider the thematic coherences, complementarities and synergies from the compulsory subjects in iP2. With this, iP2 requires even more than iP1 the integration of different aspects into a conclusive overall concept. The elaboration happens according to the task in terms of planning approaches, descriptions, drawings and models. The project task will be oriented towards the solution of present architectural, social, and technological issues.