Mission

The construction industry is growing steadily worldwide. As a result, humanity today consumes 1.75 times the resources provided by natural ecosystems. This global trend has been increasing almost unchecked since the 1970s. A radical rethinking in politics and the construction industry is long overdue! The aim must be to close ecological and technical cycles in the construction industry and to focus on the cultivation rather than the extraction of building materials. The newly appointed professorship "Circular timber construction" is exploring the potential of wood as a renewable raw material. Through close involvement in research, students will not only learn new construction methods, but also their impact on the design process. The prevailing understanding of service phases in architecture will be fundamentally questioned. New joining techniques will require detailed decisions to be made at an early stage and building with secondary raw materials will evoke the "design by availability" approach.