Exhibition: urbainable – stadthaltig

Positions on the European City for the 21st Century

Last year we participated in the exhibition “urbainable – stadthaltig” at the The Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts) in Berlin in collaboration with the studio Annette Gigon / Mike Guyer Architects.

The exhibition examined the role of the European city in a time of global warming, digitalisation, demographic change and the dissolution of traditional social networks, and sought answers to the questions of whether the successful model of the “European city” is outdated or whether it is once again proving its adaptability and innovative power.

Our contribution engaged specifically with questions such as “What should we do about climate and energy? Where to start? How do we decide which materials and technologies are best?” With a group of students at ETH Zurich, we explored what it means to conceive larger residential buildings within an urban environment while examining building conversions and extensions in their potential to save grey energy and to protect urban ensembles with the added aim of a sustainable building culture.

You can have a digital tour of the exhibition with curators Tim Rieniets, Matthias Sauerbruch and Jörn Walter here (Link).