HDA RESEARCH LABORATORY | PART I 2023

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Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. As part of the European funding programme LINA, HDA is organizing a three-year research project with young architectural practises from Europe.

The theme of the international project is the numerous severe weather events that are occurring. The intensity of heat waves, storms and floods is statistically increasing and it is expected that the frequency of severe weather will continue to increase in the future.

This is where the HDA research laboratory comes in. In order to be able to react actively to the extreme weather conditions in terms of construction, new, sustainable building typologies are to be developed that can withstand heavy rain and flooding as well as overheating.

PART I
20 Feb - 12 Mar 2023 | Research laboratory at the HDA in Graz

LOW-TECH AND VISIONARY TRANSDISCIPLINARY CLIMATE-ADAPTED CONSTRUCTION METHODS
Workshop: Research on traditional as well as trend-setting, visionary, new research results on climate-adapted construction

In a first step, successful traditional typologies, construction methods and materials will be collected on the basis of selected examples. Innovative examples from the field of current research are also included. These include, for example, new types of surfaces for solar energy generation, other forms of reinforcement that no longer rust, newly composed material compositions and 3D-printed, robust constructions for material savings, and much more.
Excursions and presentations by invited experts will accompany the programme.

ORGANISER
HDA - House of Architecture, Graz
in co-operation with
TU Graz - Institute for Design in Existing Contexts and Monument Conservation
TU Graz - Chair of Sustainable Building
University of Stuttgart - Institute for Building Construction, Chair 2 for Building Construction, Building Technology and Design
within the framework of
LINA - Learning, Interacting and Networking in Architecture, EU-funded programme

THE RESEARCH TEAMS I LINA FELLOWS

The European network LINA (funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the EU) publishes an annual Open Call for young architects and creative professionals. From more than 200 applicants, the HDA has selected four young architectural practises that will conduct research together at the HDA:

The invited architects will actively participate in the collection of successful building typologies, construction methods and materials from different regions and climatic zones. As architectural practices with different backgrounds they will engage in a professional discussion with all participants during the workshop and lecture events. The aim of the research laboratory is to jointly develop new ideas for intelligent construction methods in response to the challenges posed by the increasing number of severe weather events worldwide.

Participants/LINA Fellows
Ralph Nabil Nasrallah, PAN- PROJECTS, Great Britain | Denmark
Laura Solsona & Eduard Fernàndez, self-office, Spain
Kateřina Krupičková & Martin Zwahlen, Zwahlen Krupičková, Switzerland | Czech Republic
Róisín Cahill, Ireland

MORE ABOUT THE LINA FELLOWS

PAN- PROJECTS, London
was founded by Yuriko Yagi and Kazumasa Takada.
The studio works mutisiplinarily in architecture, installations, product and exhibition design.
Ralph Nabil Nasrallah is a French-English-Lebanese architect and researcher. He studied in London at Central Saint Martins, where his final project explored issues of urban waste and its management in East London. The project was later exhibited at the London Festival for Architecture. Since 2022, he has been working at PAN- PROJECTS on an experimental research project called Architecture of By-products, which explores urban waste as potential architectural materials.

self-office, Barcelona
was founded by Laura Solsona and Eduard Fernández. The office combines architecture and landscape design with scientific research. They seek the architectural discourse of current issues through the use of space, objects, words and images, which they see as research tools.
Laura Solsona is an architect and urban designer. She studied in Barcelona and Berlin. She then worked at the Catalan studio Jornet Llop Pastor Arquitectes, afterwards she worked at Aspect Studios (Australia). She also taught at the University of Technology Sydney.
Eduard Fernández is an architect and educator. He studied in Barcelona and Porto and worked in various architectural practices and cultural institutions in Barcelona and Sydney. He was a research associate at the UPC Department of Urbanism and Regional Planning and a teaching associate at Monash University in Melbourne and the University of Technology Sydney, where he headed several design studios.

Zwahlen Krupičková, Zurich
was founded by Kateřina Krupičková and Martin Zwahlen The young architects work at the junction between architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning. They write for magazines and online blogs.
Kateřina Krupičková is an architect. She studied architecture in Prague and was an exchange student at the ETH in Zurich.
Martin Zwahlen is a landscape architect. He completed his Bachelor's degree in architecture in Lausanne and his Master's degree at ETH Zurich. After graduating, he worked in a landscape office.

Róisín Cahill, Dublin
is an architectural researcher at Henry J Lyons, where she is primarily concerned with the topic of "sustainable building" with a focus on urban development. She has a Bachelor's degree in Architecture, a Master's degree in Urban Design and Planning and is carrying out a diploma in Circular Economy Leadership. Róisín is a member of the Irish Architecture Foundation's Graduate Panel, author of architectural publications, winner of the 2022 Arts Council's Engaging with Architecture Award and co-founder of Unbuilt.ie.