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Film portrait of the Saxon Timber Construction Award

The Saxon State Ministry for Infrastructure and Regional Development recently completed and published the final film portraits of the current winners of the Saxon Timber Construction Award. Professors Ansgar and Benedikt Schulz (Chair of Architectural Design and Construction I) were one of three award-winning projects to receive the Saxon Timber Construction Award for their new building project "DBFZ German Biomass Research Center Leipzig". "The Timber Construction Award is an outstanding demonstration of the impressive architectural and structural solutions that are possible with this special and indigenous building material," said State Minister Thomas Schmidt during the award ceremony.
Video link: New DBFZ Technical Center German Biomass Research Center, Leipzig

Design topics summer semester 2025

Diploma

Diploma design | Free topics

Theater Maastricht

Specialization

Advanced design in building construction | Module no.: AD 911
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Sky over Heinersdorf

Constructive Design

Constructive Design | Module no.: AD 510

"Transformations" - Summer School in Buenos Aires

From October 18 to 24, 2022, the Chair of Architectural Design and Construction I organized a summer school at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) with funding from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Prof. Ansgar Schulz and Prof. Benedikt Schulz, together with Research Associate Katharina Benjamin, traveled to Argentina at the invitation of Tristán Dieguez, Professor at the Facultad de Arquitectura Diseno y Urbanismo (FADU). The summer school was planned as a seven-day workshop that would highlight the potential for dealing with architectural heritage, impart specialist knowledge and provide an insight into German teaching and research practices. Lectures on the challenges and opportunities of industrial building culture, current problems in Argentina and outstanding examples of deindustrialization and the sustainable preservation of architectural heritage provided an introduction and input. The focus was on testing the strategies taught on a specific architectural object, a 19th-century building used as a workshop in which sculptures from the urban space are refurbished and restored. The participating FADU students dealt with the existing building and developed architecturally robust concepts that strengthen the site.

This film looks back and gives an insight into the Summer School guest professorship