MatGlas Transfer

Project Description

Glazing and glass constructions are among the elements that characterise the style of a façade in a High Modernist secular building (approx. 1880 - 1970). Although these contribute significantly to the appearance and thus the authenticity of a façade, original glass and glass constructions are often replaced in practice. This changes the aesthetic impression of the façade and the original materiality is irretrievably lost as a testimony to the history of building technology when the glazing is replaced.

In order to counter this further loss, there is a need for greater awareness of the value of historical glazing among the relevant stakeholder groups. Building on the basic research project "MatGlas’", this problem is being addressed with a transfer project. The aim is to disseminate the essential findings from the MatGlas project in an intensive and ap-plication-orientated manner. So far, the knowledge is primarily available in text format and is too rigid for practical application. Objective 1 is to convert it into digital formats (wiki project website), to add new formats such as OER self-learning courses and instructional videos, and to transfer it in analogue form at specialist conferences. The aim is to create an app-based knowledge aggregator based on a commercial citizen science platform. This user-friendly tool (mobile app) combines the possibility of capturing components in situ with the provision of specifically retrievable pieces of knowledge from the wiki for labelling and classifying the data obtained. As prototype recognition and mapping software, the app makes a significant contribution to centralised data collection from a variety of information sources (citizen science). The third objective is to recognise and generate new knowledge and open up new fields of research. The growing data pool is analysed with data experts with regard to the development of automatic recognition (e.g., supervised learning) in order to study the stock of glass and glass constructions and their local characteristics, to answer questions relating to building design and restoration science and to quantify the urban glass stock with a view to the future.

In addition to exploring the citizen science possibilities in this context, the aim is to lay the foundations for user-friendly and specialised documentation of structures worthy of preservation. In an interdisciplinary network with research institutions, the preservation authorities in cooperation with relevant industry and planning stakeholders is enabled to correctly recognise the elements that characterise monuments on the building, to classify them chronologically, to evaluate them professionally and to transfer knowledge multilaterally. This results in impulses for new scientific questions in basic research, which contribute to the preservation of the authenticity, the materiality and also the continuity of existing glazing of the era of High Modernism.

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© Franziska Rehde

Professor of Sustainable Building Construction

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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Engelmann

Head of the Institute of Building Construction

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Institute of Building Construction

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