Study trips
Exkursionen
Study trips are organized to carry out
field work and work- shops in connection with teaching and research
projects
of the Habitat Unit.
They are arranged in
collaboration with
counterpart institutions
abroad and involve
academics, local
architects, planners
and NGOs.
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 October 29 – November 8, 2010: Student Competition and Workshop in Muscat, Oman
The German University of Technologyin Oman has invited the Habitat Unit to a workshop and design competition which is partly funded by DAAD. The workshop will focus on two case study areas in Muscat’s periphery. The students will develop scenarios and concepts for sustainable settlement development. The study trip is part of a semester project.
Contact: Dr. Astrid Ley
May 02-12, 2008: Student Competition and Workshop in Damascus, Syria
Damascus is this year’s cultural capital of the Arabic world. For this reason Damascus University has invited the Habitat Unit to a workshop and design competition which is partly funded by DAAD. The workshop will focus on urban visions, scenarios and concepts for Damascus in the year 2025. The study trip is part of a semester project. There are few places still available for participation. New application deadline is the 9th of April 2008.
Contact: Astrid Ley
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April 01- 15, 2008:
Workshop in Leh, Ladakh, India
This workshop is organized in cooperation with the L.O.T.I.
(Leh Old Town Intiative). The work will focus on the analysis of
traditional building construction and settlement patterns. This
study trip is part of a 2-semester project.Organization and supervision:
André Alexander (THF) and Prof. Herrle.
March 01- 31, 2008: Workshop on Experimental Building Construction:
"A Baked-insitu Mud House in Pondicherry, India". This
prototyp house follows a technology poineered by Ray Meeker to bake
life-sized mud houses insitu. Houses are stabilized by converting
them to ceramic, thereby making them water restistant and lasting.
Organization and supervision: Anumapa
Kundoo
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October 2007: DAAD-funded field trip to Santiago, Chile. 10-day
workshop at the PUC, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile as
the first part of a 2-semester project on building with wood.
Contact: Paola Alfaro d'Alencon.
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March 03 - April 14, 2007: Summer School at the UNAM in Mexico
City. Contact: Alexander Jachnow.
August 2006: Study trip to South Africa in connection with the
seminar on housing and urban development in summer 2006. Organized
by Dipl.-Ing. Astrid Ley in cooperation with Witwatersrand University,
Johannesburg.
March 2006: Study trip to Mumbai, India, research abolut
pavement dwellers and relocation projects of SPARC as part of a two
semester project on "Housing Solutions for Mumbai", in cooperation
with SPARC, Organized by Prof. Peter Herrle and Dipl.-Ing. Alexander
Jachnow.
March 2006: Study trip to Jhabua, India as part of a two
semester project on a school building with hostel for 750 children, led by
Dipl.-Ing. Francis Kéré.
February 2006: Study trip to Istanbul. Research and workshop on
the redevelopment of the Galata Port together with students from
Istanbul and from Budapest. The trip is part of a two semester
project on "Traffic Space" and has been co-organized by the Halic
University and Dipl.-Ing. Paola Alfaro d'Alencon from the Habitat
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