58 — Landscape
CityTreeHouse II Elective, SS 2013 Dr. Ferdinand Ludwig, IGMA Dipl.-Ing. Daniel Schönle, external
During last semesters seminar “CityTreeHouse I” first approaches have been developed to combine the qualities of city trees with aspects of tree houses and dense urban building typologies. Based on the methods of Baubotanik, these CityTreeHouses are designed as artificially constructed yet living plant structures, appearing in the dimension of a fully grown tree right after construction. Nonetheless they show a growth- and developmental process that can take decades: Their outer shape, their spatial expression, their usability and their ecological potential change over time. In the seminar “CityTreeHouse II” design strategies have been developed to deal with these processes and to interweave them with the development of cities and urban landscapes. The seminar was divided into a theoretical and a designing part: In the first part specific aspects of ecosystems and cities have been analysed. Therefore a wide range of knowledge reaching from urban sociology to system theories and forestry sciences had to be
acquired. In the second part these findings have been applied to small design projects during workshops. The focus of these designs was not the final object but the development of a method to design processes. The seminarwas a collaboration between the diploma and bachelor courses in architecture and the international Master program Integrated Urbanism and Sustainable Design (IUSD). •