It's that time again! At the end of the summer semester, the Department of Architecture at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology cordially invites you to the annual exhibition.
On Wednesday, July 16, 2025, the professorships, facilities and studios will open their doors and present works and projects from the past academic year. They will provide an insight into the diversity of teaching and research at the department.

The program includes presentations, short lectures, guided tours, the farewell ceremony for Bachelor's graduates, the exhibition of Bachelor's theses and the presentation of the Heinrich Hübsch Awards.
It's worth taking a look!

Department of Architecture
South Campus / Building 20.40
Englerstraße 7
76131 Karlsruhe

Further information on the program will follow shortly.

(Status: 25.06.2025)

First floor:

Information stand of the faculty

Foyer

Here you will receive
- the program booklet of the annual exhibition
- Information material about studying at the faculty

This is also the starting point for the house tours at 5:15 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Ceremonial farewell of the Bachelor graduates and presentation of the Heinrich Hübsch Prizes

Fritz Haller lecture hall, 18:00 to approx. 19:30

Architecture bar of the architecture student council

Right inner courtyard

1ST FLOOR

Presentation of the bachelor theses

Borderline(s) Investigations #01 The Unusual Living - HOW TO LIVE? questions norms, standards and habits of living. Despite regulated planning, cities often appear disorganized - a potential to challenge the status quo. Can we learn from this resilience? The work examines how new forms of living can emerge when we actively shape density, push boundaries and inhabit the unusual.
Published by the Chair of Building Theory (Prof. Stéfanie Bru and team).

Corridor in front of room 110-115

Sustainable building

Novel resources and economic models, alternative energy generation as well as the recognition and use of urban mines, cultivated and circular building materials: The Chair of Sustainable Building teaches and researches in the conviction that the academic environment has a central role to play in these issues and that it must sensitize and inspire future generations to the immense tasks involved. Ecological, economic, socio-ethical and aesthetic issues all play a decisive role in terms of sustainable appreciation.

Green Grotto (Room 104)

Urban district planning

My street, my neighborhood, my block - residential scenarios for Freiburg Dietenbach
In order to meet the housing pressure, the city of Freiburg is developing a new district for over 16,000 inhabitants. The project is currently at the interface between urban planning and architecture. For this reason, we have dealt intensively with the underlying framework plan. Taking into account the guidelines laid down there, 6 groups each experimented with different approaches within a block.
Model photo of the framework plan and its further development in the design project (source: STQP)

Foyer 1st floor

International urban development

The edible invisible
What does it mean to live in an edible city? How can we make hidden places visible? In cooperation with Junge Architektur Karlsruhe and Urbane Gärten, students developed design concepts for selected spaces in Karlsruhe that often escape our attention during the seminar week. These were analyzed and then transformed into experimental spaces for the "Edible City".

Foyer 1st floor

Material library

Variety of materials
The material library houses a comprehensive collection of building materials from all material classes. On Look Inside Day, materials and initial results from the ongoing research seminar will be presented. In the seminar "Seaweed, hemp or autumn leaves - sustainable insulating materials for the construction industry", students will be looking at new and/or rediscovered building materials that can be circulated as endlessly as possible for a thermally optimized building envelope. What are the advantages and disadvantages of compostable and renewable insulation materials compared to mineral and fossil-based insulation materials?

Room 141.1

Photo: Sandra Böhm

Digital Design and Fabrication

RAPIDLY RENEWABLE - Digital construction technologies for rapidly renewable resources
The Chair of Digital Design and Fabrication (DDF) researches recyclable material systems and low-emission digital construction processes as a socially relevant contribution to the digital transformation of the construction industry. The professorship combines the expertise of currently 10 interdisciplinary researchers from the fields of architecture, mechanical engineering, fine arts, automation and control engineering and operates a 900m² digital construction laboratory for researching digital construction technologies on a 1:1 scale and tests them in application-oriented demonstration projects.

Corridor in front of room 131

Photo: DDF

Art history

ROAMING.COM printed - How do you make a book?
ROAMING.COM printed (2025) is a printed version of an interactive computer game, which in turn embodies an academic book. It deals with the internet artwork Wrongbrowser .com (2001) by JODI. We move through four rooms and get to know a different argumentation and a different method of investigation in each. These different perspectives enable us to get to the bottom of the artwork, which is a functional web browser.

Foyer 1st floor

"Coded Secrets" / Jiawen Yao: The Cyan Room of "ROAMING.COM printed", 2025.

2ND FLOOR

Presentation of the bachelor theses

Chair of Space and Design
Blue Banana 010
The subject of this Bachelor's thesis is Rotterdam, the city with the largest port in Europe. After the reconstruction after the Second World War, the city grew under the motto "first the port, then the city". Today, automation means that former port areas are lying fallow. In view of the growing housing shortage and new forms of production, there is interest in mixed use. The students' work examines current urban development and the re-appropriation of unused port areas as places for living and production.
Edited by Prof. Marc Frohn and team.

Foyer 2nd floor

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Chair of Building Construction
Case Study Center for Modular Construction
Modular construction offers sustainable solutions for resource-saving architecture. The work deals with scalable systems such as those by Fritz Haller and their influence on contemporary construction methods. In Münsingen, a research center for modular construction is being built next to the USM headquarters - simultaneously a laboratory, exhibition and entrance to the district. It promotes exchange between research, architecture and industry.
Edited by Prof. Ludwig Wappner and team.

Corridor 2nd floor

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Chair of Building Planning and Design
The public library: more than just a quiet reading room
The library is perhaps the last truly public interior space - free of consumerism and fixed purpose. Today, libraries are polyvalent spaces that mediate between city and retreat. The bachelor thesis "Soundscape" explores the architectural potential of such spaces where one is alone among many - with a focus on acoustic diversity. It examines the Dreispitz site in Basel, a former bonded warehouse in transition, where culture, science and living come together.
Published by the Chair of Building Planning and Design (Prof. Simon Hartmann and team).

Corridor 2nd floor

Architectural theory

Theory as practice
Theory is not just a collection of ideas: It is also something we do - in discussions, in texts, in books, in exhibitions, but also in practice and in buildings. Theory reflects on the world as it is, analyzes and criticizes it and also proposes new approaches - in other words: it (hopefully) changes things and we will use concrete examples to show how.

Program item:
5 pm: Meet and greet at the Chair of Architectural Theory with Teresa Fankhänel and Sina Brückner-Amin

Room 254

Seminar week: Visit to the SAAI archive. Photo: Teresa Fankhänel

Building Science

Examples from teaching and research
Two videos give an insight into the work of the Chair of Building Science and Technology. The first video shows work from the seminar 'Planning and Building with Light' and the seminar 'Performance Analysis for Buildings', while the second video highlights comfort research in the LOBSTER indoor climate test stand and presents the RoofKIT project. Posters in the corridor also provide information about current and completed research projects of the professorship.

Corridor in front of room 235

Photo: LOBSTER indoor climate test stand

Department of Fine Arts

Field of vision
The exhibition of the Department of Fine Arts provides an insight into work processes and results from this year's seminars. It shows the diversity of the courses on offer - from classical artistic methods and conceptual approaches to politically motivated topics. Examples of work will be shown that deal with perception strategies, drawing techniques and the topics of aesthetics and sustainability.

Room 204 (drawing room)