TROSKA - modular construction game for constrained inventory design
Project information
submitted by
Aaron Leonard Merten
Co-Authors
Charlotte Lüke
Aaron Merten
Mentors
Jun.-Prof. Tim Simon-Meyer
Jun.-Prof. Thomas Pearce
B.A. Philipp Georg Enzmann
Faculty:
Architecture and Urbanism,
Art and Design
Degree programme:
Architecture (Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)),
Product Design (Bachelor of Arts (B.A.))
Type of project presentation
Exhibition
Semester
Summer semester 2024
- Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 7 - Van-de-Velde-Bau
(012)
Ausstellung und Konstruktionsspiel: Do, 11.07 - So, 14.07, generelle Öffnungszeiten; VR-Erlebnis: Fr 10-12:00, Sa 10-12:00, 15-17:00
Project description
The city of Hoyerswerda is located in Lusatia and is exemplary for the structural change in the region. At the time of lignite mining in the GDR, the town grew tenfold. The socialist vision of the modern planned city was built in prefabricated housing estates away from the historic city center. Since the end of lignite mining, the number and age of the population has been falling. The new town is being systematically dismantled, creating new, unused spaces.
Child and youth participation is important in this transformation in order to offer local prospects. Together with adolescents, a recreation area is to be built for the outdoor area of the Ossi youth club. The aim is to use materials from the renovation of the clubhouse.
With TROSKA, we have developed a modular system and a design system specially adapted to the available materials. The old materials, including various chrome chairs, are to be disassembled together with young people and reassembled into larger seating and wall elements.
The aim of the workshop is the participatory design of an open space that can be used by young people in Hoyerswerda in the long term. The workshop is intended to promote creativity, teach manual skills and address the transformative use of historical objects.
Email: aaron.leonard.merten[at]uni-weimar.de