The climate crisis and scarcity
of resources are forcing us to reduce the ecological footprint of architecture and urban development, but this obligation
also opens up new opportunities for cultural expression. The principles of circular economy play an important role in approaches
to sustainable architecture. The symposium will address this topic on different scales - from building components to the urban
fabric - and under two aspects: How can existing materials, buildings and urban areas be adapted and reused, and how can components,
architectural objects and cities be designed for future reuse and transformation? International experts from the
fields of archi
tecture and social ecology will
present various concepts and discuss them with the audience.Due to the Covid-19 regulations
this symposium will be streamed online via Zoom and Youtube.
PROGRAMM
09:30 – 11:00 CET
INTRO
- Welcome and opening
Gerald
Bast, Rector of the University of Applied Arts Vienna
- Why
Circular Strategies?
Karin Raith, University of Applied Arts Vienna
- Energy Revolutions and Material Cycling in Earth and Human History
Helga Weisz, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany
- The Nature of Building
Harquitectes, Sabadell/Barcelona,
Spain
11:30 – 13:00 CET
SESSION 1 /
Small Scale: Reuse of building components, design of components for reuse
- Re:use, Experimental Approach and Practical Application
Carola
Stabauer, enster, Harvest MAP, TU Wien, Austria
- Form
follows availability – Designing Load-bearing Structures through Component Reuse
Jan Brütting, EPFL,
Lausanne, Switzerland
- Urban Mining Design: Circular
Economy Building Strategy
Annette Hillebrandt, Prof. of Construction | Design | Material, Bergische Universität
Wuppertal, Germany
Panel discussion with
Lukas Allner (University of Applied Arts Vienna), Carola Stabauer, Jan Brütting and Annette Hillebrandt
13:00 – 14:00 CET
Lunch break
14:00 –
15:30 CET
SESSION 2 / Medium Scale: Reuse of Buildings, Design of Buildings for Reuse
- Three Reuse Projects in Pearl River Delta
Ying
Jiang, O-Office Architects, Guongzhou, China
- It’s
Already There – Augmenting Matter and Meaning through Architectural Reuse
Gert Kwekkeboom, Civic Architects,
Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Architectonic Lifecycle
Management
Muck Petzet, München/Berlin, Germany
Panel discussion with Bernhard Sommer (University of Applied Arts Vienna), Ying Jiang, Gert Kwekkeboom
and Muck Petzet
16:00 – 17:30 CET
SESSION
3 / Large Scale: Reuse of Urban Areas, Design of Urban Areas for Reuse
- The Role of Material Stock Patterns for Societies’ Resource Use and Well-Being
Helmut Haberl, Institute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
- Masterplanning the Adaptive City
Sergio Porta,
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
- The
City Territory as a Renewable Resource
Paola Viganò, Milano/Brussels, EPFL Lausanne and IUAV Venice
Panel discussion with Andrea Börner (University
of Applied Arts Vienna), Helmut Haberl, Sergio Porta, and Paola Viganò