CAUTION – construction work underway! New venues for the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering during the »summaery2025«
There’s a lot of building work going on at the Coudray campus and in the lecture hall building right now, hence the engineers will show their work elsewhere between 10 and 13 July. There will be a pop-up exhibition on Goetheplatz, a straw bale tower on the outskirts of Weimar, plant walls with sensor technology in the seminar building and an outdoor clothes exchange on the campus. All this and much more awaits visitors to this year’s annual exhibition at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. It’s well worth taking a look at the programme, as some venues will only be open for a short time.
Construction work has been underway at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering for months now. Access to the lecture hall building and the dean’s office is being improved, Coudraystraße 7 is being renovated and a new laboratory building is being built at Coudraystraße 13. In 2026, the Coudray Campus will once again be a lively »Science Mile«, but until then, the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering and affiliated Materials Research and Testing Institute (MFPA) in Weimar are trying something new for the »summaery2025«:
The »Straw Bale Tower LAB« – a two-storey experimental structure made from load-bearing straw bales at a site exposed to the wind and weather on the outskirts of Weimar – will open at Niedergrunstedter Weg 12 for the first time at noon on Friday 11 July. The participating experts will provide fascinating insights here into construction using straw and various measuring techniques. The accompanying exhibition will focus on renewable materials and alternative construction methods. Besides clay, wood and bamboo, energy-optimised façade systems and innovative brick systems will also be presented. According to the motto of »Careful, it’s cracking – the soil shows what it holds«, geotechnical engineers and construction material engineers will explain why heat damages roads and how this can be prevented.
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Various performances are planned in and around the Main Building: At Marienstraße 7, the construction site robot »SPOT« will show how it can avoid obstacles and could therefore be used as a »watchdog«. On Friday during the summaery, students from the master’s programme in environmental engineering will demonstrate in the Mensa courtyard how a 3D-printed Pelton turbine generates electricity using hydropower. And in the open space at x.stahl, summaery guests can relax in hammocks made from recycled clothing. In keeping with the motto of »Reduce, Reuse, Recycle«, clothes can also be exchanged and given a new lease of life here during the summaery. The campaign is part of a cooperation between the interdisciplinary Bauhaus.Module »Tex.Turn« with the Schenke – Umsonstladen Weimar e. V. free store.
The Bauhaus Energy Hub and the vertiKKA test facility at Coudraystraße 10–11 will also open their doors to the public from 2 p.m. on Friday. Scientists will provide exciting insights here into experimental timber construction systems as well as grey water treatment and façade greening as heat protection in towns and cities. Directly next to the experimental building, in the courtyard of Coudraystraße 11, practical work with wood, clay and slate will take place on Friday between 1:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. The »Wood, Wood Preservation and Building Restoration« working group of the Chair of Building Materials will share more about the course as well as the planning and work with ecological and renewable building materials, building restoration and monument preservation. Just a few minutes’ walk away, the pop-up exhibition »100% science | 0% show« at the main post office at Goetheplatz 8 will showcase the research topics the engineers of the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering have been working on. Selected exhibits and videos will explore the future of construction.
Annual show at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
summaery2025 »ACHTUNG«
Thursday 10 July until Sunday 13 July 2025
All venues of the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering at a glance:
Niedergrunstedter Weg 12
LAB Strohballenturm
Forschungsprojekt, 11. Juli, 13 bis 17 Uhr
Forschung zu innovativen Bauweisen – adaptive Fassadensysteme, hybride Holzbrücken und Bauen mit nachwachsenden Rohstoffen
Forschungsprojekt, 11. Juli, 13 bis 17 Uhr
Achtung, es quillt – Der Boden zeigt, was in ihm steckt!
Abschlussarbeit, 11. Juli, 13 bis 17 Uhr
Funktionale Ziegelflächen gegen Überhitzung
Forschungsprojekt, 11. Juli, 13 bis 17 Uhr
ClayX – Forschung und Praxis rund um Lehm
Forschungsprojekt, 11. Juli, 13 bis 17 Uhr
Marienstraße
Green2Smart-Wände
Ausstellung
Towards reliable fatigue life prediction of wind turbines under stochastic wind loads
Ausstellung
Pelton John - ACHTUNG Hochdruck
Präsentation, 11. Juli 13 bis 10 Uhr
Digital Construction – SPOT on!
Performance, 10. Juli, 16 bis 20 Uhr + 11.7. 12 bis 16 Uhr
Coudraystraße
GrayToGreen
Forschungsprojekt, 11. Juli, 14 bis 18 Uhr
Bauwerkserhaltung und moderner Holzbau
Veranstaltung, 11. Juli, 13 bis 19 Uhr
Distributed Wireless Sensor Systems and Applications
student. Projekt (online)
Bauhaus Energy Hub | Ein Experiment in Holz und Energie
11. Juli, 14 bis 18.30 Uhr
Goetheplatz 8
100% SCIENCE | 0% SHOW
Pop-up-Ausstellung
Historische Baukonstruktionen - Einblick in die Denkmalpflege Ausstellung, student. Abschlussarbeiten
Steubenstr. 6 (Bibliothek)
Digital Transport Research Lab
Ausstellung
Geschwister-Scholl-Straße / Haupt-Campus
Stroh-Hybrid-Bauweise
Ausstellung
Radeln nach Zahlen - Knotenpunktwegweisung für den Freizeitradverkehr im Weimar/er Land
Ausstellung
Robotic Tectonics II: Design for Robotic Assembly - Negotiating Computation, Tectonics and Fabrication
Ausstellung, Robotik-Live-Installation
Tex.Turn und Die Schenke e.V.: Second Hand und Textilrecycling
Open-Air-Kleidertauschbörse
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