Events

poster gallery DFG priority program SPP2255 construction in cultural heritage and hidden load-bearing structures of highmodern buildings can be explored in 3D Interactive Technoloy

The workshop deals with the current limits of 3D capture and digitalisation of particularly complex and filigree objects. The occasion is the challenge of digitalising a historical wire rope model for the Olympic roof landscape in Munich. This model exemplifies the difficulties and limitations of digital capture and representation. The cross-project exchange is intended to show new possibilities and approaches for the digitisation of these challenging objects.

On the Day of the Open Monument, the renovated GDR-type school gymnasium KT60L of the Freie Waldorfschule Magdeburg e.V. was opened to the public. During guided tours and the hands-on offer “Leonardo-Brücke-Bau”, the construction, the cultural value as well as the sustainability idea of the barrel-shaped supporting structure could be understood and discussed.

The third think tank of the DFG priority program cultural heritage construction is based on the annual theme 2023 of the SPP 2255 “High Modern Age adapt to the loads – cultural concepts and ingenious strategies for a difficult heritage”.

The annual workshop Common Ground for doctoral candidates and postdocs in the SPP 2255 aims at creating common foundations – a common ground – with regard to the fields of history of building technology, engineering sciences and monument theory and to discuss them together.

The third annual meeting was already the last joint event of the DFG priority programme Cultural Heritage Construction in the first funding phase. Lectures, discussion panels and site visits provided ample opportunities to look beyond disciplinary boundaries. This time, the focus of the professional exchange was on the annual theme for 2023: “Upgrading the Highly Modern”.

In high modernism, steel, along with reinforced concrete, was not only a building material whose material properties made it possible to realize architectural visions, structural innovations or infrastructural systems that had previously been considered impossible. In this context, the material was also connoted with a symbolism that made it an integral part of the contemporary promise of progress across all systems.

A two-week exhibition in the architecture pavilion at the TU Braunschweig presents the fields of work of the eleven sub-projects of SPP 2255 to a wider public. In addition to general information, interesting objects and impressions from the respective activities within the framework of the work will also be presented.

Im Rahmen von Gastaufenthalten bei den Teilprojekten B2 und B3 finden im Juni 2023 an der TU Dortmund Vorträge von Prof. Dr. Ir.‐Arch. Els Verstrynge (KU Leuven) und Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andrzej Cwirzen (Luleå University of Technology) statt, die auch online zugänglich sind.

The Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) can look back on a long tradition of taking monument preservation concerns into account in planning practice. Firmly established structures such as the SBB Fachstelle für Denkmalpflege or the SBB Historic Foundation have proven to be very helpful. What can the railway and monument preservation in Germany learn from this?

The GDR produced highly typified load-bearing structures based on standardised building elements, which were in turn combined in type buildings. The workshop will focus on the phenomenon of state-led building typification in East Germany, with a consideration of West German type building for contextualisation. In addition to an insight into materials, constructions and development mechanisms, the constructive side of building in the GDR will be addressed and its worthiness of preservation discussed, away from the classical history of architecture and urban development.

The workshop will take place from 29.-31 3. 2023 at the Bauhaus University Weimar. A one-day excursion on 31. 3. will explore selected type buildings.

The GDR produced highly typified load-bearing structures based on standardised building elements, which were in turn combined in type buildings. The workshop will focus on the phenomenon of state-led building typification in East Germany, with a consideration of West German type building for contextualisation. In addition to an insight into materials, constructions and development mechanisms, the constructive side of building in the GDR will be addressed and its worthiness of preservation discussed, away from the classical history of architecture and urban development.

The workshop will take place from 29.-31 3. 2023 at the Bauhaus University Weimar. A one-day excursion on 31. 3. will explore selected type buildings.

On November 25, 2022, a one-day workshop was held at the Technical University of Munich, which focused on an introduction to actor-network theory and the limits of its applicability in network research in the history of civil engineering. It was open to all SPP members and was jointly organized by the subprojects Plank Trusses (D2), Historic Concrete Repairs (B2) and Physical Models in Civil Engineering (C2).

When dealing with listed railway bridges in the Deutsche Bahn network, there is potential for conflict between the actors at many points in the planning process. Together with representatives of DB Netz AG and the preservation of monuments (VDL and NDL), concrete ways of acting together were discussed on November 11th, 2022 in the Lower Saxony Office for Monument Preservation in Hanover.

The second think tank of the DFG focus program Cultural Heritage Construction addressed the concept of authenticity, a central value standard of monument preservation action, whose efficiency in dealing with the building constructions of the high-modern has hardly been examined up to now. Renowned experts traced the challenges, criteria and processes of concrete handling in this special area. On closer inspection, the ‘guiding star of monument preservation’ turned out to be a fragile and dynamic construction.

The second annual meeting of the DFG priority program Cultural Heritage Construction once again opens up opportunities for intensive professional exchange and networking for the participants. Lectures, discussion rounds and on-site visits offer opportunities to look beyond the boundaries of one’s own disciplines, both with regard to one’s own project work and in relation to the annual theme of 2022 “Authenticity”.

The annual Common Ground workshop for doctoral candidates and postdocs in the SPP 2255 aims to create common foundations – a common ground – with regard to the fields of history of building technology, engineering sciences and monument theory and to discuss them together. The second workshop of the series will take place on 11.10.2022 in Dessau and will deal with the monument values of constructions of high modernity relevant to the history of building technology.

The “strategy and method laboratories” (SuMupLABs) are one of the central event formats to promote interdisciplinary exchange in the SPP 2255. They are explicitly aimed at the processors in the individual sub-projects of the SPP.
The SuMupLAB 2022 takes the participants to the former airfield Cottbus-Nord. The site, which was used by the military from 1933 to 2003, is currently undergoing forced expansion into a commercial location in the context of structural change in Lausitz. This raises crucial questions about the future authenticity of an ensemble of five aircraft hangars that are unique in Germany.

Im Forschungsschwerpunkt SPP 2255 „Kulturerbe Konstruktion“ der DFG befassen sich WissenschaftlerInnen der TU BA Freiberg und TU Braunschweig mit den Konstruktionen des VEB Metalleichtbau-kombinat (MLK). Ein Typenbauwerk des MLKs ist das Sporthalle KT60L.
Die Sporthalle der Freie Waldorfschule Magdeburg e.V. wurde Mitte 1970er Jahre erbaut und in den Jahren 2007 sowie 2010/11 saniert. Sie stellt wegen des innovativen Erhaltungsansatzes ein Vorbild für den allgemeinen und auch denkmalpflegerischen Umgang von Typenbauwerken der DDR dar.

Participants from the projects Mass Phenomenon Commercial Hall (C3), Steel and Metal Lightweight Construction in the GDR (C4), Monument Spatial Framework (D1) and Reallabor Cottbus – Development of Construction Methods in the GDR (D2) met in the city of Erfurt on 27 July 2022 for the workshop “Halls with Steel Structures on Site – Erfurt”.      
Dipl.-Ing. Volker Mund, managing director and civil engineer of the engineering office Bauen GmbH, was available to the participants as an expert on dealing with GDR buildings and as a discussion partner.

Das erste Jahrestreffen des DFG-Schwerpunktprogramms Kulturerbe Konstruktion eröffnet den Mitwirkenden aus den verschiedenen Teilprojekten die Einblicknahme in verwandte Fragestellungen und Untersuchungsmethoden sowie Möglichkeiten zum intensiven fachlichen Austausch und zur Vernetzung. Vorträge, Diskussionsrunden und Vor-Ort-Besichtigungen bieten Gelegenheiten zum Blick über die Grenzen der eigenen Disziplinen sowohl im Hinblick auf die eigene Projektbearbeitung.

The colloquium will report on ongoing research projects on concrete restoration. The focus will be on issues relating to the preservation of historical monuments.

The Sternbrücke in Hamburg-Altona is not only a fascinating example of ultra-modern bridge construction from the 1920s. It is also one of the most prominent railroad bridges in Germany, the replacement or preservation of which has been the subject of intense debate on both sides for years.

The aim of our event is to create a common knowledge base for the work and understanding in the interdisciplinary structured SPP 2255.
Common Ground #1 had as its theme a theoretical and application-oriented consideration of the concept of the history of building technology.
The event took place in Cottbus on 11.12.20121 – and thus on the day after the think tank (Building at the Limit) – so that all the research associates could participate in both events in presence.

The DFG priority program “Cultural Heritage Construction” (SPP 2255), coordinated by the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, has been operating for a year. Despite all the current adversities, the network of 19 research institutions in Germany and Austria, financed with €2.5 million per year, set standards in the first year.

The aim of our event is to create a common knowledge base for the work and understanding in the interdisciplinary structured SPP 2255.
Common Ground #1 had as its theme a theoretical and application-oriented consideration of the concept of the history of building technology.
The event took place in Cottbus on 12.11.2021 – and thus on the day after the Thinking Workshop (Building at the Limit) – so that all the research associates could participate in both events in presence.

In lectures and interdisciplinary discussions, the first think tank of the priority program Cultural Heritage Construction addressed two apparently almost opposite facets of ultra-modern construction, which were put up for discussion with the annual theme 2021 “Building at the Limit”: exploring structural limits at the limit of what was previously conceivable while minimizing the use of materials on the one hand and the confinement of structural thinking in codified limits of what is permissible by a previously unthinkable regulatory apparatus on the other.

Dresden
On October 22, 2021, the Institute of Solid Structures of TU Dresden hosted a hybrid workshop on the topic of dealing with historic railroad bridges. The workshop, which was held with the participation of invited guests on site in Dresden and in the form of a parallel online conference, was aimed at the participants of the thematic cluster A (railroad bridges) of SPP 2255, which is composed of the two subprojects „Monuments in the Network “ (A1) and „Holistic Evaluation of Steel Railway Bridges“ (A2).

Überherrn, Ortsteil Felsberg, 22./23. September 2021
Die „Strategie- und Methodenlabore“ (SuMupLABs) sind eines der zentralen Veranstaltungsformate zur Förderung des interdisziplinären Austauschs im SPP 2255. Sie richten sich explizit an den Bearbeiterinnen und Bearbeiter in den einzelnen Teilprojekten des SPP.
Das erste SuMupLAB 2021 führte die Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer in die ehem. Sendehalle von Radio Europe 1 im Saarland. Das 1954/55 errichtete Bauwerk steht exemplarisch für das erste Jahresthema des SPP 2255 – „Bauen am Limit“. Der lichtdurchflutete Bau wird von einer gut 80 m weit frei spannenden Hängeschale überdacht, in deren spannungsreicher Baugeschichte die Grenzen des technisch Beherrschbaren in dramatischer Weise offenbar wurden.

Weimar – Bad Blankenburg – Erfurt
In Weimar, the members of the subprojects DENKRAUM (D1) and Brett- und Bohlenbinder (D2), which are connected in the cluster D, met for a two-day workshop at the Bauhaus University. In lectures and discussions common questions and topics of the two subprojects were worked out, especially with regard to the current SPP annual topic Building at the Limit. In addition, excursions to interesting roof structures of high modernism in Weimar and the surrounding area were undertaken.