Build Different

Our mantra “Build Different” has innumerable touchpoints: circular economies, the common good, climate crises, the rise of the digital, almost all domains of architecture are being redefined. We will have to build differently. But what does “different” architecture look like? Which production models does it follow and how do we make them common practice?

Do you speak Architecture?
We are surrounded by architecture – constantly.

How can we extend the conversation? The way we communicate is changing. Which role can we play?

Our mantra “Build Different” has innumerable touchpoints: circular economy, the common good, climate crises, the rise of the digital, almost all domains of architecture are being redefined. We will have to build differently. But what does “different” architecture look like? Which models does it follow and how can we spread it?

Programme

Two days full of architecture

How to get there?

Programme

Two days full of architecture
before the opening of Documenta XV

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Thursday

16 June

10—18 hours

Thursday

16 June

10—18 hours

Economics
Add, transform, reuse
Excessive requirements for profitability and regulatory limits lead to a construction industry which focuses on quantitative issues, while spatial quality and thus quality of life fall by the wayside. However architecture is predestined to create space and lay the foundation for positive economic developments. How can it be enabled?

Jean-Philippe Vassal (Lacaton & Vassal), Andreas Hofer (IBA Stuttgart), Andreas Krüger (Belius), Laura Weißmüller (Süddeutsche Zeitung), Cristina Gamboa (Lacol, Arquitectura Cooperativa)

Economics
Add, transform, reuse
Excessive requirements for profitability and regulatory limits lead to a construction industry which focuses on quantitative issues, while spatial quality and thus quality of life fall by the wayside. However architecture is predestined to create space and lay the foundation for positive economic developments. How can it be enabled?

Jean-Philippe Vassal (Lacaton & Vassal), Andreas Hofer (IBA Stuttgart), Laura Weißmüller (Süddeutsche Zeitung), Andreas Krüger (Belius), Cristina Gamboa (Lacol, Arquitectura Cooperativa)

Materials
More can must become less
The climate footprint of the construction industry is devastating. In view of the increasing demand for new living space, construction is in a quandary. More construction means more pollution. Can circular building really be the answer? And how do we deal with the existing?

Belinda Tato (Ecosistema Urbano), Philipp Misselwitz (Bauhaus Earth)

Materials
More can must become less
The climate footprint of the construction industry is devastating. In view of the increasing demand for new living space, construction is in a quandary. More construction means more pollution. Can circular building really be the answer? And how do we deal with the existing?

Philipp Misselwitz (Bauhaus der Erde), Belinda Tato (Ecosistema Urbano)

Dissemination
Do you speak Architecture?
Institutions in the twenty-first century
Architecture institutions are changing. To address the public today they need new tools, new narratives and sometimes also new buildings. Very different institutions have to deal with these manifold challenges and thus shape the future of the architectural discourse.

Pirjo Sanaksenaho (New Museum of Architecture and Design, Finland), Pippo Ciorra (MAXXI, Rome), Martien de Vletter (CCA, Montreal)

Eat different

19 hours

Eat Different

19 hours

Thursday Evening
We are all cooking together on the campus of the university accompanied by stories about architecture.

Niklas Maak (Frankfurter Allgemeine), Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius (raumlabor berlin)

Thursday Evening
We are all cooking together on the campus of the university accompanied by stories about architecture.

Nilkas Maak (Frankfurter Allgemeine), Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius (raumlabor berlin), Marie and Julian Lienhard (Art & Engineering)

Friday

17 June

10—18 hours

Friday

17 June

10—18 hours

Public space
Can we come in?
How we live together is defined by encounters in public space. The accessibility and openness of spaces that enable such encounters must be ensured on a broad level. This happens when spatial, social and content-related elements of spatial formation are negotiated together and intertwine in the long term.

Silvia Casoran Martos (Barcelona City Council), Stefano Ragazzo (AMAT)

Campaigns
Built utopias want to be lived
If we want to build differently, we need instruments to convey our ideas, we need to inform about the potential that architecture holds in order to convince and involve the public. When the value of spatial creation is not brought to the front, it risks to cease to exist.

Silke Neumann (Bureau N), Davide Tommaso Ferrando, Daniel Munteanu (Unfolding Pavilion), Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius (raumlabor berlin)

City and countryside
Inner city country outings
City centres are becoming hotter and hotter as a result of climate change. Cooling, if at all possible, is associated with great costs. There is no alternative to gradual unsealing and intensive greening. Due to new transport infrastructures and changed working conditions, life in the countryside could experience a new purpose.

Gudrun Sack (Tegel Projekt GmbH), Ferdinand Ludwig (Technische Universität München), Sébastien Marot

Commission and use
On behalf of use
The use of built and open spaces is at the centre of spatial creation. How use can develop in interaction with planning and which commissioning, organisational and operating models are necessary to harmonise architecture and use is increasingly the subject of new forms of architectural planning.

Elena Schütz (Something Fantastic), Gideon Boie (BAVO), Ahmed Belkhodja (Atelier Fala), Andreas Foidl (Belius)

After

19 hours

Danach

19 hours

Friday Evening
First Aid + Infraturm
We meet for an after event at the Documenta XV opening of the exhibition First Aid. at Hugenottenhaus in the city centre. The Infraturm, a tower built by students of University Kassel in the garden of the venus will be presented to the public for the first time.

First Aid (Silvia and Lutz Freyer) and Infraturm (FG Entwerfen + Gebäudelehre, Prof. Marie-Therese Harnoncourt-Fuchs) at Hugenottenhaus, Friedrichsstraße 25, 34117 Kassel

Friday evening
First Aid + Infraturm
The use of built and open spaces is at We meet for an after event at the Documenta XV opening of the exhibition First Aid. at Hugenottenhaus in the city centre. The Infraturm, a tower built by students of University Kassel in the garden of the venus will be presented to the public for the first time.

First Aid (Silvia and Lutz Freyer) and Infraturm (FG Entwerfen + Gebäudelehre, Prof. Marie-Therese Harnoncourt-Fuchs) at Hugenottenhaus, Friedrichsstraße 25, 34117 Kassel

Online

Digital space
Immaterial: The future of space
We inhabit three spaces, the physical, the mental and the digital. We jump into and out of these three, constantly making one percolate through to the next. Boundaries become blurry. Neural networks gain physical agency. We explore these new realms digitally – with a web app whose innovative interface has already won it a Grimme Award.

Leonardo Dellanoce (Digital Earth), Leo Stuckardt (MVRDV)

Link to the Web-App

Digital space
Immaterial: The future of space
We inhabit three spaces, the physical, the mental and the digital. We jump into and out of these three, constantly making one percolate through to the next. Boundaries become blurry. Neural networks gain physical agency. We explore these new realms digitally – with a web app whose innovative interface has already won it a Grimme Award.

Leonardo Dellanoce (Digital Earth), Leo Stuckardt (MVRDV)

Link to the Web-App

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