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Building Component Reuse in the Master Studio Architecture & Energy – Autumn Semester 2022<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In the autumn semester 2022, the master design studio \u00abArchitecture & Energy\u00bb was led by Annika Seifert together with Axel Humpert from FHNW<\/a>, who participated as an academic guest. The studio addressed the topic of component reuse by taking three architecturally and historically significant pavilion buildings and ficticiously using them as \u00abmaterial source\u00bb in the design projects for a new Student Community House<\/em> on the HSLU Campus Horw.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Re-Sourcing Icons as a collage: Centre Le Corbusier meets B\u00fcrgenstock Bazaar meets Rahm\u2018s Saffa Pavillon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Theme and task<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Built architecture, whether as a whole or broken down into its component parts, represents a precious resource for our architectural practice. As a reference, it has always inspired our design work and serves as an important point of reference in our search for solutions to urban planning and architectural challenges. Against the backdrop of increasingly scarce resources and our growing awareness of ecological and energetic interdependencies, however, the existing fabric is also gaining in importance as a building material to be reused. With this in mind, the studio spent a semester intensively exploring the topic of building component reuse and its possibilities and implications for the design process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three initial buildings \u2013 the Saffa Pavilion (Berta Rahm), the Centre le Corbusier (Le Corbusier) and the B\u00fcrgenstock Bazaar (Auguste Boyer) formed the starting point for the semester’s work. At the beginning of the design process, the students began researching one of the three objects and conducted a comprehensive inventory. The components documented and measured for each pavilion \u2013 on site and in archive research – were compiled in the form of a building component catalog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This material \u2013 and ideal \u2013 resource became the essential guide for creative and constructive design work during the semester. Deconstructed, reused, rejoined, transformed, the underlying architectural icons shape the expression and construction of the newly designed structures. The initial resource thus becomes a constraining factor on the one hand, while on the other hand it puts an existing architectural identity at disposal, charging the design process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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