International IMIAD Workshop 2024 - Follow-up report

In contrast to conventional summer schools at architecture faculties, the workshop did not take place in a drawing room or seminar room. All participants had the opportunity to participate in the implementation of a real construction project, as the international workshop in summer 2024 was linked to the research project "Stuttgart 210 - think ahead, build ahead!". A team of architects and engineers from the universities of Constance, Stuttgart and Karlsruhe are working with proHolz Baden-Württemberg to repurpose concrete formwork from the construction site of the new main railway station in Stuttgart and investigate ways of reusing these building materials as part of various real-world laboratories (upcycling).The Ingersheim youth club is the first of four real-world laboratories whose design is characterised by a spectacular interior, which is shaped by the wooden surfaces of the cleaned formwork elements. Formwork elements of the southern tunnel exits made of 8-axis milled, multi-laminated cross laminated timber form the supporting structure and interior. The building is protected from the weather by an oval shell made of spruce boards and battens. This not only preserves the amazing geometry and wooden surface of the high-tech formwork, but also binds the CO² stored in the wood and removes it from the atmosphere.

The workshop was organised by Prof. Andreas Kretzer, partner in the research project, and Dipl.-Des. Melissa Acker in close cooperation with the municipality of Ingersheim. Many thanks to the Association of Friends of the HFT, the Knödler-Decker Foundation, Häfele, Würth and all other project partners, volunteers and participating companies.

Further information can be found at

https://www.hft-stuttgart.com/studies/fields-of-study/architecture-and-design/news/international-imiad-workshop-2024-living-lab-ingersheim
https://www.ingersheim.de/resources/ecics_1640.pdf
https://www.ingersheim.de/website/de/freizeit-wein-kultur/pavillon