The construction sector consumes an enormous amount of energy and raw materials worldwide and at the same time is responsible for a significant proportion of the emissions and waste associated with it. Against the backdrop of a growing world population, increasing scarcity of resources and advancing climate change, this development has serious consequences for the economy, ecology and society. Accordingly, in the sense of the circular economy, there is a need to question current building practices and to increasingly consider recyclable building materials in planning.
Compared to other building materials, clay is available worldwide, is ecologically harmless and also has ideal building-physical properties. Due to its moisture-regulating and heat-storing material properties, air-dried clay promotes a comfortable indoor climate and can also be recycled many times. In terms of structural engineering, clay as a solid building material is also ideally suited to absorbing compressive stresses and offers the possibility of ensuring increased fire resistance through approval in fire material class A1 [non-combustible].
In relation to the 50th anniversary of the Department 06 ASL, the seminar builds on the comprehensive work of Gernot Minke, with the aim of consciously and permanently integrating the topic of earthen construction within teaching at the University of Kassel again, as well as conveying the contents to the students as practically as possible.
On 8 and 9 May, a workshop took place during the compact week as part of the seminar "Serial Earth Building" in cooperation with external experts from the earth building companies "ErdHandwerk" and "CLAYA". Under the direction of Aron Schunn, Philipp von Seeger, Barbara Beetz and Elisa Berker, the students examined their own clay samples in various test procedures for specific properties and possible suitability as building clay. Following on from the seminar, they also implemented modules they had developed themselves using rammed earth construction methods and exhausted the possibilities and limits of the natural building material by gaining direct knowledge in the realisation process.
Beteiligte Studierende
Jona Weißgerber, Björn Simons, Paul Fleckenstein, Cornelius Hottenrott, David Sadowsky, Yannick Herzmansky, Mahmoud Kanaan, Benita Künkler, Milena Milleg, Marie Scheiber, Luca Eckert, Kübra Kocas, Canan Özdemir, Leonhard Trümner, Timon Türk, Lara Bodenhausen, Lilien Kilani, Julia Lambert, Jana Matar, Haya Nakawa Bou Nasser, Salih Begdeda, Olga Giemza, Enrik Just, Angelina Kretzer, Yannik Wald, Nick Lötters, Moritz Röhlen, Adrian Sohl, Ansgar Tollhopf
