Building Green

Visit Institute of Architecture and Technology at this year's Building Green. 

Exhibition: Computation For A New Age of Resource Aware Architecture: Waste-Sourced And Fast-Growing Bio-Based Materials

How do we build circularly without creating unnecessary waste? RAW is an international research project developing technologies and design methods to work with variation in bio-based and recycled materials. At the stand, you can experience prototypes and technology demonstrators showing how the natural differences in materials can be used as a resource. At the same time, the project raises the question: What costs are we willing to bear for a real transformation of the construction industry?

October 28th: Green Stage from 14.00-14.50:

Debate: RAW:  Designing Beyond Standardisation — Solutions to navigate Uncertainty with Biogenic and Circular Materials 

This session presents possible solutions to our key challenge: how to work with biogenic and circular materials whose variability does not fit current industrial standards, machines, and design processes. Rather than forcing uniformity, a new paradigm is needed—one that embraces difference, variability, and small-batch production. 

To develop such approaches the RAW project brings together material engineering, architecture, robotics, fabrication, and data science. Working with fast growing fibres, biopolymers, and reclaimed timber, it links novel methods for non-destructive assessment at the level of individual elements or small batches with design and fabrication —turning variability into a controllable design parameter. 

By building on existing workflows and introducing computational and robotic methods, RAW supports: 

• distributed and integrated production, 
• local manufacturing with local materials, 
• and design processes incorporating life cycle assessment and real material performance. 

The session brings together international experts to present emerging methods and solutions, including how RAW shares findings and advances standardisation through global forums. The session highlights uncertainty as a driver for innovation in circular, bio-based construction. 

Participants

• Martin Tamke, Associate Professor, CITA, the Royal Danish Academy - Institute of Architecture and Technology
• Johannes Huber, Business Development Manager, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Luleå Univerrsity of Technology
• Amin Adelzadeh, Doctoral Fellow, CITA,  the Royal Danish Academy - Institute of Architecture and Technology
• Fabian Eidner, Research associate & PhD candidate, Institute of Building Stuctures and Structural Design (ITKE) at the University of Stuttgart
• Yuliya Sinke, PostDoctoral Researcher, CITA, the Royal Danish Academy - Institute of Architecture and Technology
• Carl Eppinger, PhD Research Fellow, CITA, the Royal Danish Academy - Institute of Architecture and Technology
• Eleftheria Gitsouli, PhD Research Fellow, Danish Polymer Centre, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Denmark’s Technical University
• Nadja Gaudillière-Jami, Assistant Professor, CITA, the Royal Danish Academy - Institute of Architecture and Technology

• Kristine Nore, CEO, OMTRE

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October 29th - Central Stage from 14.40-15.20:

Debate: Rebuilding hope through culture and collaboration

The world around us is in a vulnerable state. All over the world, we see people struggling to sustain their lives and livelihoods in the context they inhabit.

When we discuss rebuilding, we tend to focus on the physical and economic efforts needed. But when both built and natural environments are challenged, threatened, or even devastated, social and cultural resources are extremely valuable and must not be underestimated.

This debate discusses how we can work locally to rebuild during crises, what role community, culture and arts can play - and why process is sometimes as important if not more important than the physical product.

The debate presents ongoing work in the context of India, Denmark and Ukraine and is moderated by Ingeborg Hau, co-editor of the book “Rebuilding is not a metaphor”.

 Participants

• Moderator: Ingeborg Hau, the Royal Danish Academy – Institute of Architecture and Technology
• Speaker: Svitlana Pyvovarova, Program manager, Libraries for All: Inclusive Spaces for Socialization and Support for Veterans, Ukraine
• Speaker:  Bhawna Jaimini, founder Centre for Urban Commons, co-editor Rebuilding is not a Metaphor, India
• Speaker: Niels Offenberg, Albertslund Bibliotek, Denmark