Hessen:ISU High Impact Environments
- Explore the design of low-carbon districts and buildings, with a focus on transforming post-industrial landscapes and structures for new, ecologically restorative uses
- Course offered in a block format and may include sessions in the morning, afternoon, and/or evening
The course explores design of low-carbon districts and buildings, focusing on adapting post-industrial landscapes and buildings to new ecologically restorative uses. The course will examine the adaptive reuse of both listed industrial monuments and other non-listed structures. We will consider various strategies for intervention at both the landscape scale and the building scale.
By completing this course, students will be able to better understand and design energy and stormwater systems for large brownfield sites and buildings. We will produce a polished document that captures the work of the class design exercise and associated research.
The course will be a design charrette involving both students from UW Milwaukee travelling to Frankfurt and graduate students in the FRA-UAS Advanced Architecture program. The design challenge will involve a brownfield industrial site in or near Frankfurt, featuring a listed industrial monument or otherwise challenging structure. Informing the charrette, the course will offer lectures by FRA-UAS and UWM faculty on topics relating to environmental performance, historic preservation and adaptive reuse. We will visit both projects and offices in and around Frankfurt. Both before and after the summer university, class sessions conducted on zoom will examine precedents and work to assemble documentation of the experience.
The course schedule will be made available soon.
Students studying architecture or related fields, such as landscape architecture, urban planning, and construction, are welcome to apply. The course has a maximum capacity of 20 participants, as international students will be integrated into a regular semester module within the Advanced Architecture (M.Sc.) program at Frankfurt UAS.
This course is offered through Hessen:ISU (International Summer Universities), and students from the Hessen:Queensland, Hessen:Massachusetts, and Hessen:Wisconsin exchange programs are especially encouraged to apply.
Students can earn a total of 6 ECTS points for the completion of the course.
Green Building in Germany has a total of 75 in-class contact hours during the on-campus summer program. A single ECTS point is defined as the equivalent of 25-30 hours of student workload, which includes class hours, readings, preparation for class activities, as well as an assessment measure.
Costs
The program fee is 680€.
What is included in the program fee?
- 2 weeks of academic courses
- Course materials
- Public transportation within Frankfurt for the duration of the program
- Opening and Closing Events
Accommodation is not included in the program fee. Costs and information can be found under Housing.
Registration
Students under the Hessen:Queensland, Hessen:Massachusetts, and Hessen:Wisconsin Exchange Programs should apply directly through the International Office at their home university.
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