Detached houses are incrementally under transformation: extensions, energetic restoration, addition of stories, plot divisions etc. Students investigate exemplary strategies for future adaptations together with owners of a neighborhood in the city of Münster-Hiltrup.
“Urban by Nature” – the International Architecture Biennale 2014 in Rotterdam looks at the city as a metabolic system. Studio FLOWS investigates natural and urban resources and their identification in the cycle of materials, energy balances and life patterns as a point of departure for a bachelor-thesis. (Abb. M. Jansen)
Since fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, extensive structural changes have taken place in the periphery of Berlin: overdrawn expectations of an emerging capital and an exodus into the surrundings are indicators of a changing history of transregional desires and incremental, local intentions. What is the potential of the whole region? ANCB
Affordable and Sustainable Housing in Shenzhen: International ideas competition in cooperation with the Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen Graduate School of Design and the IUAV | Università Iuav di Venezia
+++ Housing is in short supply in every major city of the world. +++ Housing is unaffordable, beyond the means of a large proportion of the urban population. +++ Housing is static, unresponsive to social, temporal and climatic contexts. +++ Design Project and Excursion to Hong Kong and Shenzhen
Münster has a river. It is called Aa and inherent part at the first pages of any travel guide. Indeed it is hard to find it. The river Aa – a myth? – Students of the msa are exploring the river and its surrounding landscape looking for a mutual relations between city and stream. In cooperation with Prof. Johannes Schilling and Stiftung Freizeit. Funded by the city of Münster.
The urban design project Studio Heiden of the msa | münster school of architecture explores the future of the Westfalian city of Heiden as part of the funding initiative “Regionale 2016”. Watch our photo project: Faces of Places
Exploration of inter dependencies of wind and urban form in relation to an analysis of traditional and contemporary references