Tour: exhibition of projects from architecture, urban planning and landscape planning

ASL students traditionally end their semester with an exhibition of their project work. "With more than 40 projects as well as further contributions from seminars, this year's touring exhibition offers a tremendous variety of concepts, planning ideas and designs in the context of city, open space and landscape", says Prof. Andreas Mengel from the Department of Landscape Development | Environmental and Planning Law, who organizes the final exhibition for the winter semester with his team of scientific and student staff.

Numerous projects take up central current topics, which can be outlined with the terms 'climate change - biodiversity - sustainable land use'. For example, the project "Circular City" (supervised by Prof. Stefan Rettich, Department of Urban Planning, and Prof. Ariane Röntz, Department of Landscape Architecture | Design) deals with the question of how the development of large European cities can be directed inwards so that no new areas are "consumed". Prof. Britta Jänicke (Department of Environmental Meteorology) worked with students on the project "Back to the future climate" to investigate Kassel's urban climate over time.

Also using an example from Kassel, the project "Less: Heat - C³ City Climate Canopies" (Prof. Julian Lienhardt, Department of Structural Design) accompanies a structural design for a changeable roof against the background of global warming, while the project "Laboratory for Building Research" (Prof. Frank Kasprusch, Department of Design and Sustainable Building) explores potentials for sustainable, circular and climate-active building methods on the roof of the Max Eyth School in Kassel. Finally, the project "Waters and Floodplains in the Frankfurt-Rhine-Main Region" (Prof. Andreas Mengel, Department of Landscape Development | Environment and Planning Law) deals with various aspects of nature conservation as well as with the problems of drought and increasing heavy rainfall events, which are exacerbated by climate change. 

The tour of the winter semester 2022/23 is also marked by the department anniversary "50 years of architecture - urban planning - landscape planning at the University of Kassel". Following on from a series of ten anniversary exhibitions that the department will be showing in the anniversary year 2023, an evening event of the tour will take a look at the "Kassel Model Today". Two roundtable discussions will address the origins and future of the department, as well as look at (dis)continuities.

The exhibition is open Tues 10am-6pm, Wed 9am-5pm, and Thurs 9am-6pm, during which time the final presentations of the projects will also take place in the respective exhibition spaces. In the evenings, from about 6 pm onwards, lectures and discussion groups invite visitors to share their experiences. All information on the program at:https://r-ein.de/

Wednesday, February 8, 2023, 6:30 p.m., ASL New Building, 1st floor.

The Kassel Model Today? (Dis)continuities

With Prof. Philipp Eversmann, Sarah John von Zydowitz, Prof. Stefan Rettich, Björn Simon and Prof. Alla Vronskaya, moderated by Prof. Philipp Oswalt.