Compulsory elective subject | Students Bachelor's and Master's degree course in Architecture and Master's degree course in Urban Planning | winter semester 2024/25
How do we build circularly and digitally with wood? What can we learn from the tradition of timber construction? Students from the Faculty of Architecture and Design at Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences explored these questions.
In the 2024 summer semester, students in the compulsory elective subject "WoodJoints Reloaded" familiarised themselves with the basics of traditional timber connections and transferred them to the current context of sustainable and networked planning and construction. Under the guidance of Sascha Bauer and Daniel Pauli, they first acquired basic knowledge of traditional timber joints and produced a selection in the HFT workshops. The aim was to gain insights and methods for contemporary use and production. Joining principles were then transferred to today's standards using digital methods and tools and discussed. What new possibilities arise for the architecture and which old and proven principles can we take up? Taking the aspects of reusability and material sufficiency into account, the students further developed the wood-wood connections in order to realize and test them in a pavilion.
The construction basis for the pavilion was the impromptu winning design from the previous semester. The students developed the complete design based on the new production techniques they had learned, including functional files for production. Over the summer, the pavilion was manufactured, bound, assembled and documented. In this way, the students also tested the topics of data management and dismantling.
The pavilion was erected in the inner courtyard between Building 1 and Building 3 - the HFT.Space experimental room - and creates a space for working and learning outdoors. In addition to its functional and aesthetic quality, the wooden pavilion also focuses on aspects of reusability and resource conservation.
The course was carried out and financed as part of the HFT.Lab project.
The pavilion is located in the university's inner courtyard and welcomes curious and interested visitors!
The project was supervised by Sascha Bauer and Daniel Pauli.
