Workshops

Identifying causalities and “carbon hotspots” during early design remains complex. LCA tools act as a retrospective check rather than a generative design driver. Introducing data analysis methodologies applied on a real-world dataset of projects handled by Bollinger+Grohmann, this session gives insights into detecting Global Warming Potential..…

A point cloud of a reclaimed beam is not the beam. Neither is the tidy cuboid your BIM model swapped it for. Both are notations, and notations are never innocent. They decide, quietly and in advance, which questions you can ask and what operations you can perform...

Industrial materials are calibrated to demand, reused ones are not. In reuse we start with a limited stock of tiles with rough dimensions and properties. We can have a rough idea of how many tiles of each type to expect, but no exact numbers. How do we as designers describe tiling patterns without precisely knowing what we will be able to build...

Building component and material reuse is still largely organized around individual projects, where information about existing buildings and materials is collected case by case. Scaling reuse from individual projects to building stocks, cities, and regions requires a better understanding of the existing built environment at a much larger scale...

While timber is seen as a crucial pathway to decarbonization in the built environment, the balance between manufacturing emissions and sequestration is often overlooked, and the consequences of digitizing the timber value chain unknown...