BETWEEN SPATIALITY AND THEORETICAL REFLECTION

22 tectonics and sustainaBility
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terri Peters
the tectonic potential of concrete
– now and in the future
– an investigation of current
opportunities and Barriers
Concrete is the material most frequently used in
modern building today. Its constructional strength
and its weather resistance makes it an inexpensive
building material that is suitable for many types of
architectonic application. There has been criticism
of concrete buildings in recent years, however, to
the effect that they are characterised by repetitiveness
and fail to enter into a dialogue with the
locations they are built in, thus blurring local and
regional qualities. At the same time, it is a problem
that manufacturing concrete elements produces
large quantities of waste products.
With the focus on tectonics, I want to develop new
methods of casting individual concrete elements.
By this I mean methods through which the logic of
the materials and technologies used points to the
form produced. The methods must be sustainable
and use as little concrete as possible by utilising
the constructional and form-related potential of
concrete to the optimum and also by conserving
the resources and materials used to make formwork.
ole egholm Pedersen
PhD fellow, Ma (architecture)
Department of architecture
e: oleegholm.Pedersen@aarch.dk
strategies in sustainaBle Building
transformation - architectural
approaches for the adaptation
and energy efficient renovation of
housing Built after 1945
While new housing must meet environmental
performance criteria in the face of a global climate
crisis, these regulations do not apply in the same
way to renovations. Architects, legislators and users
are at odds as to what to do with the “problem”
of Modern housing. How do we decide how and
when to renovate to improve modern housing for
environmental sustainability?
The project seeks to develop a design methodol-
ogy to research the complex architectural issue of
adapting modern housing. It will involve research
into appropriate new technologies to enable
transformation, the use of innovative materials and
the use of other architectural strategies to create
a general view of the complex issue. The project
relates to a wider Nordic research collaboration
investigating other aspects of sustainability. The
aim is to develop an insightful, researched and
tested general view of the issue and disseminate
this new knowledge to contribute to research in
this area and benefit architectural practice.
terri Peters
PhD-fellow, Ba, Dipl. architecture
Department of architecture
e: terri.peters@aarch.dk