The IBA'27 festival will begin on June 23, 2023, and the University of Stuttgart is contributing with various exciting events: Changeable buildings, underground and unfathomable structures in the city park, guided tours of the adaptive high-rise building, the use of biomass in the construction sector, and sustainable materials for the buildings of the future.
The International Building Exhibition (IBA'27) will be held in and around the city of Stuttgart in 2027. In the run-up to this, the first IBA'27 Festival will be held from June 23 to July 23, 2023, providing insights into IBA themes and projects. The University of Stuttgart will of course be involved in this, presenting its research at the following events:
GroundBreaking Stadtgarten
When: June 23 through July 19, 2023
Where: Stuttgart City Park, inner-city park between the university library, K1, Kriegsbergstraße and Schellingstraße
Despite its central location, Stuttgart's City Park is a little-noticed green space. For the IBA'27 festival, architecture students from the University of Stuttgart have organized a festival within the festival from June 23 to July 19: "GroundBreaking Stadtgarten". The students have developed changeable buildings and events, thus addressing the underground and unfathomable areas of the park in the immediate vicinity of their university. The projects address the socially and ecologically sustainable design of spaces from different perspectives, using unusual media and materials such as light, air, sound, water, and earth excavation.
GroundBreaking Stadtgarten – Launch event
When: Friday June 23, 2023, 2 p.m. through 10 p.m.
At the launch event on Friday, June 23, 2023, students from the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning will be presenting their projects in the city park, starting at 2 pm. The projects focus on a large colonial exhibition with an ethnological exposition that was exhibited there in 1928; on the underground parking lot of the Katharinenhospital, where the escape routes end in trapdoors in the middle of the lawn; public infrastructures and the handling of water in the city; perceived security and over-policing in Stuttgart; demolitions in the context of IBA'27 and much more.
Beginning at 6 p.m. at the fountain in front of the University Library, the project organizers invite all IBA'27 guests to a guided tour of the various projects in and around the city park. This will end at 7 p.m. in the foyer of the University Library with the launch of the project "Next to the Cocoa Field", which focuses on the colonial history of the city park. There will be drinks, music, and conversations about the past, present, and future of the city park until 10 p.m.
GroundBreaking Stadtgarten – further events
- Wednesday events on remembrance culture, public infrastructures, the car friendly city and closing event on June 28, July 5, July 12, and July 19, 2023, always from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.
- Opening event "Demokratische Konstruktionen" on Monday, July 3, 2023 at 6 p.m.
- Performance "No Exit on the Fountain" on Saturday, July 15, 2023, at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. at the fountain in front of the University Library.
- and even more: An overview of all events and venues can be found in the "GroundBreaking Stadtgarten" festival program.
A High-Rise with Muscle: Adaptive Skins and Structures for Tomorrow's Built Environment
When: June 27 and 29, July 4, 6, 11, 13, 18 and 20, 2023, 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: Demonstrator High-Rise (D1244), Campus Vaihingen, Pfaffenwaldring 14, 70569 Stuttgart
The Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Center SFB 1244 "Adaptive Skins and Structures for Tomorrow's Built Environment" at the University of Stuttgart aims to optimize the energy, material and emissions balance of the supporting structure and façade throughout the entire life cycle of a building by using adaptive systems. At the IBA'27 Festival, scientists will offer eight guided tours that take interested parties through an exhibition in the demonstrator high-rise building D1244, the world's first adaptive high-rise building and IBA'27 project and present their latest research results.
The exhibition occupies at least eight of the twelve levels of the D1244, divided into the main areas "Visions of adaptive architecture", which can be experienced interactively, and "Adaptive components for the building industry" with innovative new building element developments.
Biomass as a sustainable raw material for the construction sector
When: Wednesday June 28 2023, 9 a.m.
Where: Fraunhofer IGB, Campus Vaihingen, Nobelstraße 12, 70569 Stuttgart
Event language: English
Please register by contacting Dr. Ludger Eltrop
On June 28, the international conference hosted by the Institute of Energy Economics and Rational Energy Use (IER) at the University of Stuttgart, will discuss opportunities for the bioeconomy in its use of biological materials and principles in the construction industry, as part of the IBA'27 Festival.
As part of the BMBF project BioUrbEcon ("Bioeconomy in the city"), researchers from the University of Stuttgart have been working with partners from Australia and New Zealand to develop and share the potential of biomass for construction in the building industry and other industrial applications. This international cooperation fuses constructional, system-analytical, and economic expertise. In the future, this will hopefully be further developed in the context of the IBA'27 projects.
The initiative builds on the University of Stuttgart's long tradition of implementing "lightweight construction", and the state-wide strategy towards a sustainable "bioeconomy". In this context, the construction industry receives a lot of attention as an important part of the economy in general.
Sustainable materials for the buildings of the future
When: Thursday July 13 and 20, 2023
Where: Material Testing Institute at the University of Stuttgart, Campus Vaihingen, Pfaffenwaldring 2b, 70569 Stuttgart
Registration required (July 13, 2023)
Registration required (July 20, 2023)
The University of Stuttgart is part of two EU projects, which aim to develop sustainable building materials (such as insulating materials made from fungus mycelium, bricks made from recycled materials, bio-concrete and gradient concrete components) for building envelopes and structures: "Exploit4InnoMat - An Open Innovation Ecosystem for exploitation of materials for building envelopes towards zero energy buildings" and "EASI ZERo - Envelope mAterial System with low Impact for Zero Energy buildings and Renovation". The Materials Testing Institute (MPA) at the University of Stuttgart tests whether sustainable materials are suitable for use in real components, for example, based on their thermal conductivity, reaction to fire, strength, and whether they are pollutant free.
On two guided tours during the IBA'27 festival, interested visitors will be able to visit the MPA laboratories and testing facilities, as well as the laboratory for automated production of gradient concrete components of the Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design (ILEK).
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