"Tour" through architecture, urban planning and landscape planning

ASL students traditionally end their semester with an exhibition of their project work. As is usual in later practice, they show analyses and processes, present ideas, designs and concepts and deal with questions from fellow students, specialist representatives and the public. Numerous projects developed during the semester and presented during the tour also have a connection to Kassel and address current architectural, urban and landscape planning issues in the city.

Some examples: In the architecture project "Bottom-up: adding a storey to a high-rise garage for a youth and meeting center in Kassel" (Prof. Brigitte Häntsch, Benjamin Zweig and Lukas Kasten, Department of Design and Building Construction), students designed a youth and meeting center for the Kongress Palais multi-storey parking lot in Kassel. In doing so, they take into account the inner-city densification potential, sustainability and the added value of the location for urban society as well as the target group and its needs.

In the introductory project from urban planning "Co-working spaces as third spaces - impulses for district development in Kassel through new places of work?" (Prof. Dr. Anna Growe, Department of Economics of Urban and Regional Development), students from the second semester looked at possible interactions between co-working spaces and urban districts in Kassel as well as between co-working spaces and medium-sized towns in the surrounding area of Kassel. In their presentations, the students highlight the potential and networking opportunities offered by co-working spaces.

The experimental field of the introductory project from landscape architecture "StadtFreiRaum Platz_da!" (Prof. Ariane Röntz and Laura Siebken, Department of Landscape Architecture | Design) is the Samuel-Beckett-Anlage in Kassel. The students from the second semester dealt with the basic questions of landscape architectural design: What requirements should this square meet and what atmosphere characterizes it? How do you design a public space? How does the precise design contribute to its optimal functioning? The resulting concepts show further developments of the Samuel Beckett complex.

The R:28 tour in the summer semester 2023 is organized by academic and student staff from the Departments of Design and Building Construction (Prof. Brigitte Häntsch) and Design in Existing Contexts (Prof. Claus Anderhalten).

On the evenings, lectures and discussion rounds invite you to exchange ideas. On Tuesday, July 11 (7 p.m.), Prof. Dr. habil. Harald Kegler (Department of Urban Regeneration and Planning Theory) will give his farewell lecture. The FUSIONS lecture on Wednesday, July 12 (7 p.m.) will address one of the main topics in the Faculty of ASL and the tour: Circular Planning and Building.

The exhibition is open Tue - Thu 10 am - 6 pm, during this time the final presentations of the projects will also take place in the respective exhibition rooms. Detailed information on the projects and the program can be found on the R:ein website: https://r-ein.de/

Contact:

Kathrin Meckbach
University of Kassel
FB 06 Architecture - Urban Planning - Landscape Planning
Communication, Press and Public Relations
Universitätsplatz 9, 34127 Kassel
E-mail: presse[at]asl.uni-kassel[dot]de
Tel.: 0561 804-7374