Impulse meeting for the second funding phase of SPP 2255

The second of the two three-year funding periods of SPP 2255 began at the start of 2024. In the first funding phase, eleven interdisciplinary sub-projects investigated different aspects of cultural heritage construction from 2021 to 2023 and exchanged views on its overarching aspects in numerous workshops. For the second funding phase, eight sub-projects were selected last year to continue their work in SPP 2255. Four of these build on topics from the first funding phase, while the other four sub-projects expand the spectrum and enrich the SPP 2255 with completely new research questions.

An impulse meeting from May 15 to 17, 2024 offered the opportunity to get to know each other and layed the first foundations for future, cross-project undertakings. On May 15, the project staff (doctoral students and post-docs) from the different sub-projects gathered at the central campus of BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg for a workshop that served as a starting point for a continuation of the successful “Common Ground” series from the first funding period. The following day at the Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk was dedicated to the mutual exchange of all participants in SPP 2255 on their respective research projects and information on the possibilities of cross-project initiatives in SPP 2255. Finally, May 17 was dedicated to interdisciplinary exchange and the initiation of joint workshops of various sub-projects. On the site of the former Cottbus-Nord airfield, various discussion formats provided the necessary space for this – alternately in large groups in the former aircraft hangar 3 and in small groups in the former tower building of the INIK planning office.

The aim of the three-day event was to provide the participants in SPP 2255 with a bundle of new impressions and ideas for further work, so that the second funding phase of the priority program 2255 “Cultural Heritage Construction” can also produce rich and stimulating results, both in the sub-project work and at the overall level.

Further Veranstaltung

Workshop Subprojects B2, C2 und D2 – “Network Theories “

Kategorie: Veranstaltung, Workshop
Published on: 15. July 2022

Munich
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).

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WORKSHOP OF THE SUBPROJECTS C3, C4, D1, D2 AND E1 – TYPIFIED GDR STRUCTURES AS HISTORICAL SOURCES OF ENGINEERING DESIGN

Kategorie: Veranstaltung, Workshop
Published on: 10. October 2022

Weimar
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.

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WORKSHOP OF THE SUBPROJECTS C3, C4, D1, D2 AND E1 – TYPIFIED GDR STRUCTURES AS HISTORICAL SOURCES OF ENGINEERING DESIGN

Kategorie: Veranstaltung, Workshop
Published on: 23. May 2023

Weimar
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.

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Workshop Cluster D – „Lightweight Roof Support Structures of the High Modern Age“

Kategorie: Veranstaltung, Workshop
Published on: 5. August 2021

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.

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WORKSHOP CLUSTER C – “BUILDING AT THE LIMIT”

Kategorie: Veranstaltung, Workshop
Published on: 7. January 2022

Braunschweig
On September 09, 2021, the Institute of Building Preservation and Structure and the Institute of Steel Construction at TU Braunschweig invited Cluster C to a one-day workshop. All subprojects, Innovation system of the steel industry (C1), Physical models in civil engineering (C2), Mass Monument Industrial Hall (C3) and lightweight steel and metal structures in the GDR (C4), were represented. In additionAntonia Zöllner M.Sc. participated with her associated project Above-Ground Structures of the Rammelsberg.

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Workshop Cluster A – „Railway bridges“

Kategorie: Veranstaltung, Workshop
Published on: 26. November 2021

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).

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Workshop “History of construction technology and history of technology – cognitive interest, topics and methods in dialog”

Kategorie: Veranstaltung, Workshop
Published on: 5. July 2024

Stuttgart
The history of building technology and the history of technology are sister disciplines. However, there is hardly any exchange. Scientific contacts, joint conferences or even projects are rare exceptions. There is an unmistakable difference in their research interests, topics and methods. But this is precisely where the potential of the encounter lies: the different emphases can also be seen as mutually enriching. There is much to learn from each other!

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SUMUPLAB 2022: AIRCRAFT HANGARS IN COTTBUS

Kategorie: Veranstaltung, Workshop
Published on: 29. August 2022

Cottbus
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.

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SUMUPLAB 2021: THE FORMER BROADCASTING HALL OF RADIO EUROPE 1 IN SAARLAND

Kategorie: Veranstaltung, Workshop
Published on: 29. July 2021

Überherrn, Ortsteil Felsberg
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.

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