"Rundgang R:29": Exhibition of projects from architecture, urban 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 have a connection to Kassel and address current architectural, urban and landscape planning issues in the city. The Faculty invites you to a Kassel afternoon, where all projects that have dealt with a topic related to Kassel or northern Hesse during the semester will present their results. Guests from the administration, politics, associations and cooperation partners of the individual projects from the city of Kassel are invited (Wednesday 1-5 p.m., foyer of the new ASL building).

In addition, the projects address central social, political and economic issues with regard to climate change, sustainable design and use of space as well as the reuse of building materials.

The R:29 tour in the winter semester 2023/24 is organized by scientific and student employees of the departments "Design in an Urban Context" (Prof. Verena Brehm) and "Design and Sustainable Building" (Prof. Frank Kasprusch).

The exhibition is open Tue - Thu 9am - 6pm, during which time the final presentations of the projects will also take place in the respective exhibition rooms. In the evenings, lectures and discussion rounds invite visitors to exchange ideas. Detailed information on the projects and the program can be found on the following website: https://r-ein.de/

More on selected projects:

In an architecture project, students have explored serial housing production using the example of the former Alliance Healthcare site in Kassel's Schillerviertel (guest Prof. Anna Weber, guest Prof. Peter Tschada, Department of Future Laboratory Housing). The task was to rethink the old prefabricated concrete warehouse and to densify it using serial construction methods. Overall, a sustainable and climate-friendly neighborhood was to be planned, growing out of the existing building. The focus was on the creation of new living space that achieves a high degree of flexibility of use in sustainable housing and space models. Space for community-oriented facilities, including a place for the homeless, was also to be addressed. Additions of storeys and densification should be designed in new approaches to serial building concepts. Serial housing concepts are the topic of a short symposium on Tuesday evening (18:30-21:00 | ASL Neubau, Room 0106).

In the architecture project "Social Economy Berlin" (Prof. Frank Kasprusch, Malee Hildebrand, Department of Design and Sustainable Building), the students' task was to design a social center in a vacant lot in Berlin-Moabit. For this purpose, components from a former factory building (steel construction) that have lost their previous use were to be used in the sense of re-use.

With the Sozialwirtschaft Berlin, a self-managed center for (re)integration into working life and a social meeting place for the neighborhood is to be created. The long-term unemployed, people with disabilities and trainees with learning difficulties will find new work in the catering, social or gardening sectors. Food is the unifying element that brings together all social and cultural classes and creates a space for diverse encounters.

In the introductory studio of urban and regional planning "Wechsel Dich!" (Prof. Stefan Rettich, M. Sc. Marius Freund, Department of Urban Planning), students transformed the vacant warehouse of the Hackländer company and the surrounding area in Kassel's Nordstadt district into a lively, sustainable urban building block. They redesigned the existing building in the most sustainable way possible by creating new offerings and quality spaces that are open to the entire district.

In the urban and regional planning project "Crates, pallets and containers: fresh ideas for the logistics of tomorrow" (M. Sc. Jan Werneke, Department of Urban and Regional Planning), students analyzed the importance of logistics companies and areas for urban and regional development based on the challenges facing the industry. In dialogue with experts and local authorities, they used the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main region as an example to develop transferable concepts for the contemporary further development of districts characterized by logistics.

The experimental field of the introductory landscape architecture studio "StadtFreiRaum" (Prof. Ariane Röntz, Prof. Florian Otto, Landscape Architecture | Design and Landscape Architecture | Technology departments) was Karlsplatz in Kassel. The students experimented, analyzed, researched, sketched, built models, worked abstractly and concretely and thus jointly gathered initial findings that are significant for the (landscape architectural) design. The aim of the studio was to build up an initial repertoire of design tools and methods in an unconventional way in several subtasks, which served as the basis for a small spatial design. The focus was on space and form, location and context, concept and structure.

Accompanying program:

Mon, February 5 | 6 p.m. | Foyer ASL-Neubau | Universitätsplatz 9, 34127 Kassel
Opening of the R:29 tour with performance

Tue, February 6 | 6.30 pm - 2 pm | ASL New Building, Room 106
Short symposium on serial housing production | Department of Future Laboratory Housing

Wed, February 7 | 1-5 pm | ASL New Building, Foyer and Room 106/105
Kassel Afternoon
Final presentations of the Kassel-related projects in the winter semester 2023/24.
Guests from administration, politics, associations and cooperation partners of the individual projects from the city of Kassel are invited to attend.

Wed, February 7 | 5 p.m. | Foyer ASL-Neubau and 1st floor
New Year's reception and book launch

Wed, February 7 | 6:30 pm | ASL-Neubau, 1st floor
Presentation of the Pfeiffer Foundation Prize for Architecture

Thu, February 8 | 4 pm | AKA, Werner-Hilbert-Straße 22, Kassel
Second assembly on vacancy | Department of Architecture City Economy

Thu, February 8 | 10 pm | Kulturzentrum Färberei, University of Kassel
Tour party R:29

Invitation to the press tour

Tuesday, February 6, 2024, 11.45 a.m.
Foyer ASL-Neubau, Universitätsplatz 9, 34127 Kassel

For queries and information about the tour, please contact