Teaching Re-use Strategies for Modernist Buildings.

Els De Vos,Eva Storgaard

doi:10.14195/1647-8681_9_11

Abstract

The joint European+ project Re-use of Modernist Buildings (RMB) started its activities in 2016. It is an educational collaboration between different European universities and organisations. The main objectives of this initiative is on the one hand to enhance student and staff mobility through a shared educational programme on master degree level; on the other hand it is to develop transformation strategies for modernist buildings, mainly from the post-war period. RMB wants to develop an educational approach to this specific architectural heritage based on common definitions, approaches and methodologies. It takes its point of departure in existing research, educational practices and reference projects in the partner countries. This paper discusses the need for appropriate approaches to modernist buildings, definitions of re-use strategies and the position of RMB – as well as how the project’s educational programme is conceived and structured. Additional a more detailed description of the concept and the making of a so-called Case Study Handbook of Modernist Buildings follows, illuminating its asset as an important research and design tool.

Highlights

In 2016 two ambitious objectives came together in the European Erasmus+ project Re-use of Modernist Buildings (RMB). This project is an educational collaboration between universities teaching architectural science, — involving partners from the Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe (DEU), Istanbul Teknik Universitesi, Istanbul (TR), the University of Antwerp (BE), Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra (PT) and the Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon (PT), the architectural organisation DOCOMOMO International and the Energy and Resources Institute TERI (IN)
In the framework of this project, a case study handbook was developed in collaboration with architectural students of the University of Antwerp (Belgium) for future students of the International Master working on the theme of Reuse of Modernist Buildings
Before focusing on the handbook, we introduce the topic of re-use of modernist buildings as a teaching subject, define re-use strategies and shortly describe the RMB programme

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Introduction

In 2016 two ambitious objectives came together in the European Erasmus+ project Re-use of Modernist Buildings (RMB). The main objectives of this initiative are on the one hand, to enhance student and staff mobility through a shared educational programme on master degree level; on the other hand, to develop architectural transformation strategies for modernist buildings, its interiors and its surroundings (neighbourhood, landscape).

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