Um die Aufenthaltsqualität auf dem Platz zu verbessern und damit auch die Innenstadt Ost attraktiv weiterzuentwickeln, war es ein Anliegen des KIT und der Stadt Karlsruhe, den entsprechenden Bedarf an Möblierung und Beschattung durch einen kreativen und innovativen Ansatz im Rahmen eines Forschungsprojekts am KIT zu lösen. Als Resultat entstand komorebi.

The ReSidence research demonstrator introduces a hybrid structural system that promotes a circular local bio-economy. By establishing closed material loops, the project addresses key challenges in the construction sector, reducing waste while extending the use of renewable materials.

Happy to have our colleague David Andersson Largueche present our most recent paper on our project The ReGrow Timber Canopy at the Design Modelling Symposium in Kassel.

At "Play! Indoors”, a design task will be developed in collaboration with students of the faculty of Civil Engineering. The designs tasks will be developed in mixed groups. The aim of this course is to train students from both disciplines on an interdisciplinary spectrum.

The Building & Structure seminar examines the functional and effective modes of structural design in more detail. Therefore, the use and the limitations of materials like timber, steel, concrete and clay will be analysed in detail.

In the seminar "Form and Structure” special topics within structural design, such as form finding, optimization and complex geometries will be treated.

The basic and general principles of the behaviour of building materials and the load carrying behaviour are taught to which buildings are exposed and which they must withstand. Basic knowledge of mathematics and physics is applied to the recording and description of load transfer in building structures.