R:26| Summer Semester 2022

At the end of the summer semester, the Faculty of Architecture - Urban Planning - Landscape Planning at the University of Kassel once again hosted the semester exhibition Rundgang. From July 12 to 14, students and lecturers provided insights into their semester projects on the ASL campus and in the city.

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Selection of Projects

Kassel ID

What makes Kassel special? What is the city's identity "built" on in the 2020s and in the future? Which spaces and places shape the image of the city, the districts, the neighborhoods and the everyday life of the people living in Kassel as collective points of reference?

The design project and the accompanying seminar "Kassel ID" examined how architecture and open spaces at different scales contribute to the creation of identity and identification with the built space. Themes guided and based on various formats of representation, analysis and interpretation of the urban space such as walks, mapping, interviews, grid safaris, etc., "built identity carriers" were worked out.

As part of the design work, underexposed places in Kassel's urban space were discovered and their talents were projected into the future in a design-oriented and highly inventory-oriented manner. With the findings from the analyses and against the background of various topics of sustainable urban design such as climate adaptation, multicoding, commoning, circularity or sufficiency, designs were developed on a scale ranging from intervention, micro-architecture to building and open space ensembles and their potential for creating identity was presented in drawings, models and images.

Interdisciplinary ASL project for BA + MA

 

Lecturers
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Verena Brehm, M.Sc. Mara Benteler, M.Sc. Katharina Nahser

Students
Hussam Alrai, Abd Alhadi Altaratech, Noel Arnold, Lucas Baumann, Jara Bego-Voeva, Marvin Blank, Jason Chandra, Tobias Damm, David Eguavoen, Theodor Ehmer, Bjarne Eiser, Fiona Gehrken, Finn Hartl, Kenneth Klein, Lena Kroker, Ida Kuschel, Lennart Lindner, Aylin Martin, Ida Neuhann, Elias Petruschke, Josefine Racky, Annika Rest, Mona Rippel, Marc Roggenstein, Philipp Schäfer, Kevin Schmidt, Conny Schwarz, Alexandra Ulner, Maverick Zeischke


Das Ende der Dominanz des Menschen

The End of Human Dominance

Global warming, extinction of species, environmental pollution... We need radical change, a different relationship with nature, an "end to human dominance". But how is this supposed to work? How can we learn to think differently?

During the exhibition week, we invite you to get to know and develop new, controversial and radical ideas for a changed relationship between humans and nature at various stations of an xtopian circuit training. In addition to the general exhibition, the circuit training can be tried out on the ASL forecourt at the following times. The project is being carried out in cooperation with the transformative research project "Urbane Xtopien - Freiräume der Zukunft"(https://xtopien.org).

Example: Play Station Press Tour "Off to the Biocene!"
By Theresa Benz, Lara Eckhardt, Sophia Multhaup and Annika Schönewald

The aim here is to reflect on your own water consumption and consider what you could do without in your everyday life. Story (freely developed from my memory): Humanity lives on another planet. Animals and plants rule the earth and have decided at a conference that the people who manage to stay within a certain limit of water consumption will be allowed to return. So we stand at the "flight terminal" and go through various stations and (in the best case) finally receive the flight ticket back to Earth.

Interdisciplinary ASL project for BA + MA

 

Teaching staff
M.Sc. Margarete Arnold, M.Sc. Franziska Bernstein, Dr. Annette Voigt

Students
Theresa Benz, Lara Eckhardt, Nina Fritsch, Mareike Günther, Theresa Halbe, Selma Harnischmacher, Enrica Hüsing, Franziska Itter, Carolin Kannengiesser, Lea Koot, Pingchuan Ma, Leon Meißner, Sophia Multhaup, Enya Müthek, Ayse Olcay, Janina Ortmann, Alper Pesen, Eva Peter, Kim Peters, Annika Schönewald, Rukan Tükenmez, Christine von Essen


documenta urbana: Eingriff in die Stadt. Jetzt!

documenta urbana: Intervention in the City. Now!

The project deals with two locations from Burckhardt's 1982 project "documenta urbana - making visible": Kassel's Lutherplatz and the surrounding neighborhood in front of the main train station. The project results were exhibited and discussed in the ruruHaus as part of documenta 15.

During the summer semester, students from Kassel, Germany and Europe developed designs as part of a study project and a summer school that enable precise reuse of existing buildings, new networking strategies for existing blocks, green open spaces as connectors and the successive transformation of street spaces. What is required is a city of lively footpaths, public passages, active first floor zones and a variety of uses.

Interdisciplinary ASL project for BA + MA

 

Lecturers
V.-Prof. Mag. Christian Burkhard, DipArch Florian Köhl, M.Sc. Larissa Kaul

Students
Sarah Altenbrand, Lina Arlt, Jara Bego-Voeva, Tobias Damm, Celina Ebbert, Bjarne Eiser, Heidy ElZaker, Paul Fleckenstein, Erik Frank, Finn Hartl, Nermin Hasan, Yasmin Kirsch, Justin Klaus, Oliver Klinkenberg, Michael Korn, Sophia Multhaup, Annabelle Oeste, Dorothée Picht, Philipp Schäfer, Merle Schmidt, Sarah Shakir, Benjamin Josef Steffel