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A blended urban design workshop for international students from European schools of architecture.

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A blended urban design workshop for international students from European schools of architecture.

REANIMATE THE DINOSAUR

5-6 Dec 2020

Bauhaus Universität Weimar
Riga Technical University
Université de Liège

19-21 Nov 2021

Bauhaus Universität Weimar
Aarhus School of Architecture
Estonian Academy of Arts 
ENSAP Bordeaux

19-21 Nov 2021

Bauhaus Universität Weimar
Polytechnic University of Catalonia
University of Belgrade
Porto University  

10-18 Mar 2022

Bauhaus Universität Weimar
Polytechnic University of Catalonia
University of Belgrade
Porto University  

The Urban Design Hackathon is a 24h online workshop for international students from European architecture schools. 

Over its past three editions, we tested and successfully established a new format of digital teaching and international collaboration – despite the pandemic and without environmentally harmful air miles. Supported by technically advanced tools, the virtual room became a common ground for learning and intercultural exchange for students and academics from ten institutions across Europe. 

Following the motto ‘Reanimate the dinosaur’, students are invited to develop future scenarios for obsolete structures in the urban environment. It is a novel approach, where the ugly and outdated buildings are not simply erased but valued for their grey energy and embraced as catalysts of a resilient and sustainable further development of our cities.  

The object of the first Hackathon was the soon-to-be-closed Karstadt department store building in the lively district of Wedding, Berlin. In the second edition, students were asked to propose an urban transformation for Charité’s former animal testing laboratory, also known as Mäusebunker.” Closing the Berlin trilogy, our third dinosaur was the parking garage of the now at a standstill world-famous International Congress Center – ICC Berlin.

The Urban Design Hackathon is an ongoing experimental project: as the zeitgeist changes, so does the format. After two years of online teaching, on its third edition, the Hackathon went hybrid, testing the contrast of a successive form, an online phase followed by a presential workshop in March 2022, the Bauhaus Spring School

Impressions #1 Hackathon Karstadt Wedding

Impressions #2 Hackathon Mäusebunker Berlin

Impressions #3 Hackathon International Congress Center

Input Lectures

Architect Ludwig Heimbach and Photographer and Architect Kay Fingerle are active figures in the conservation campaign for the Mäusebunker and shared their knowledge and impressions of the building.

Ludwig Heimbach

Exhibition Mäusebunker & Hygieneinstitut: Experimental Setup Berlin

Kay Fingerle

Mousebunker Berlin: out of homestories

  • Located in the Westend locality of the Berlin borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
  • It is 313 metres long, 89 metres wide and 40 metres high
  • One of the largest Congress Centers in the world
  • Landmark of post-war German architecture
  • Building’s aluminum facade in the style of high-tech architecture
  • It is serviced by S-Bahn station Berlin Messe Nord/ICC
  • ICC Berlin opened in 1979 
  • Designed by  Ralf Schüler and Ursulina Schüler-Witte
  • It cost more than 924 million marks (adjusted for purchasing power in today’s currency: around 1,073 million euros), making it the most expensive building in West Berlin
  • In April 2014 it was closed in order to remove asbestos contamination, and remains closed as of 2021 (it is unclear who is paying for renovation costs and there are no concepts on future usage)
  • Since 2019 the building complex is listed as heritage
  • The ICC is probably the building with the most nicknames in the Berlin daily language. The spectrum ranges from “spaceship”, “Noah’s Ark” to “Battleship Charlottenburg” and “aluminum monster”.

Impression: S-Bahnhof Messe Nord / ICC

Impression: Underground Messedamm

Impression: West Facade

Impression: Car Passage West – East

Impression: Pedestrian Passage

Impression: Parking Building

Impression: Messedamm

Impression: Pedestrian Bridge Messedamm

Impression: Messedamm / Neue Kantstraße

The Urban Design Hackathon is organized by the “Chair of Urban Design” of the Bauhaus University Weimar. It started as part of the “International Virtual Academic Collaboration” (IVAC) program of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). It is now funded by “Stifftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre“.

CONTACT

Chair of Urban Design 
Steffen de Rudder | Martina Jacobi |
Pola R. Koch | Stefan Signer

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 6
2. OG, Raum 202
99423 Weimar Germany

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The Bauwelt Magazine about the the second edition of the Urban Design Hackathon in the issue 10.2021.

The newspaper “Berliner Tagesspiegel” on the Karstadt Hackathon and the demise of city centers (17.4.2021)

The Bauwelt Magazine about the Urban Design Hackathon in the issue “Die handelnde Stadt”.

Impressum

The Urban Design Hackathon is organized by the “Chair of Urban Design” of the Bauhaus University Weimar. It is part of the “International Virtual Academic Collaboration” (IVAC) program of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Chair of Urban Design

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 6
2. OG
99423 Weimar
Germany
phone: +49 (0) 36 43/58 2601

e-mail: staedtebau1[at]archit.uni-weimar.de 

e-mail: urbandesignhackathon[at]uni-weimar.de

www.uni-weimar.de

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Image Credits

The images on this page are in most cases protected by copyright. The source/copyright of the images is the “Chair of Urban Planning and Design” of the Bauhaus University Weimar, unless otherwise stated below.

Videos: Martina Jacobi

Mice Video by thiago rizardi from Pexels

Site Images: Martina Jacobi, Pola Rebecca Koch, Stefan Siegner, Felix Torkar, Denis Barthel

Images Project Stairway to Chicken: Patrīcija Helēna Dzērve, Noé Misson, Leila Unland, Toms Čudars

Images Project From Mono to Multi: Richard Corsyn, Eliza Anna Zeibote, Maximilian Schmidt, Laura Bertelt

Images Project The Ant(i) Mall: Gaultier Arnould, Laura Svede, Jasmin Min Chu, Corentin Generet

Images Project ShareStadt: Pauline Oldrizzi,Olivier Roulet, Jekabs Ozols, Florian Brettner

Videos Input Lectures: Karel Wuytack, Elisa Baldin, Ludwig Voz, Adam Peterkenne

Dinosaur Icon made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com

Design: Leonardo Hermel

Corona has revealed: an online urban design studio is possible.

Technically advanced online teaching is offering a unique opportunity for international collaboration.

The Urban Design Hackathon is a 24h online workshop for international students from European universities. Following the motto „Reanimate the dinosaur“, students are invited to develop future scenarios for obsolete structures of the urban environment while testing a new format of blended learning and international collaboration – despite the pandemic and without environmentally harmful air miles.

Meet the
Organization Team!

Martina Jacobi | Bauhaus Uni Weimar

Organization | International 24h Urban Design Hackathon

Architect | Reaserch and Teaching Assistant
Chair for Urban Design
Bauhaus University Weimar

Pola R. Koch | Bauhaus Uni Weimar

Organization | 24h Urban Design Hackathon

Architect | Reaserch and Teaching Assistant
Chair for Urban Design
Bauhaus University Weimar

Stefan Signer | Bauhaus Uni Weimar

Organization | 24h Urban Design Hackathon

Architect | Reaserch and Teaching Assistant
Chair for Urban Design
Bauhaus University Weimar

Paula Gotthard | Bauhaus Uni Weimar

Organization | 24h Urban Design Hackathon

BSc Architecture | E-Tutor
Chair for Urban Design
Bauhaus University Weimar

Application

Deadline October 31.2021

Seminar Master and Bachelor final year Arch + Urb
6 ECTS
English

20  Final Years Bachelor and Master Students
4 – 6 from each University 

Please send your application to urbandesignhackathon[at]uni-weimar.de 

As part of the application process, we ask all participants to submit a 40-second self introduction video with the following information:

  • Name
  • University
  • Hometown
  • Current City / Where would you like to live?
  • Why would you like to participate?

Phase 1 ONLINE

Meet and Greet
Fri 12.11.2021

16:00 – 16:15    Welcome / Opening
16:15 – 16:30    Tutorial BBB / Conceptboard
16:30 – 17:10    Micro-lectures
17:10 – 17:20    Break
17:20 – 17:50    Team Definition + Team Discussion
17:50 – 18:20    Team Presentation
18:20 – 18:40    Q&A
18:40 – 19:00    Meet up
* Access to cloud material

Urban Design Hackaton
Fr 
19.11.2021
13:00 – 13:30     Welcome / Opening
13:30 – 14:00     Introduction / Task
14:00 – 15:00     Input Lectures
15:00 – 15:30     Q&A
16:00 – 00:00    Section 1

Sa 20.11.2021
08:00 – 12:00    Section 2
12:00 – 13:00     Feedback with Tutors
13:00 – 00:00    Final Section

Su 21.11.2021
13:00 – 16:00     Final Presentation
16:00 – 18:30     Discussion Round / Closing 

Phase 2 ON SITE

Spring School Bauhaus Uni Weimar
10 – 19.03.2022 

10.03 – 13.03     Weekend of cultural integration activities
14.03 – 15.03     Excursion in Berlin
16.03 – 18.03     Analog workshop in Weimar
19.03.                 Spring school closure activities

* costs covered by the Erasmus Programme