News

Recent and future activities related to the work of our Group.

Students' project for the Landesbibliothek joins the debate in Berlin

(Berlin, March 14th 2012) The design project realized by the TU students Linh Vu, Katerina Navalova, Sara Fontainhas and the PUC student Camila Urzúa for the Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin in Tempelhofer Feld was presented into the Akademie der Wissenschaften inside the lecture "Urban development in Berlin since the fall of the Wall"

The workshop proposed the creation of a library for the new century in park of the old Tempelhof airport. This type of library is not just about books, it's about a complete multimedia experience in 60.000 square meters.

This project stands out from the others, as it proposes the remodeling of the old airport building as a library. The first level of the library functions as a public and programmatic connection between Platz der Luftbrücke and the Tempelhof Park. The following library levels are within the old hangars, which have a privileged view and lighting.

The Zentral-und Landesbibliothek is a real project promoted by the Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit. The project itself and the future of the airport building are topics of public debate. For these reasons, the project of remodeling the airport as a library was highlighted by the newspaper Tagesspiegel on February 24th.

> Read the story in the Tagesspiegel

TU-Berlin students win the Haiti Ideas Challenge international architecture competition

(Berlin, September 30th 2011) The design project "Reclaiming Heritage" by TUB students Holly Au, Eduardo Barros, Miguel Delso Páez, Federico Rota, Alejandro García Gadea, and Carmen Gómez Maestro, Faculty Sponsors Renato D'Alençon and Luis Beltrán del Río, has won the Housing Category in the Haiti Ideas Challenge, organized by ACSA, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, USAID, United States Agency for International Development, and Howard University's School of Architecture and Design.

The challenge asked students and emerging professionals in the design disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning, among others, to design permanent solutions to rebuild the infrastructure, cities, neighborhoods and structures affected by the 2010 earthquake. As this project continues, the four selected exemplars will be distributed for review and comment by a jury of Haitian government officials, members of the United States State Department and other key groups involved in Haiti's rebuilding efforts.

> See the complete Winning Entry

New Book "Lateinamerikanische Städte im Wandel" presented

(Berlin, June 15th 2011) A new volume entitled "Lateinamerikanische Staedte im Wandel" (Latin American Cities in transformation), edited by researchers Paola Alfaro - d'Alencon, Walter A. Imilan and Lina María Sanchez, was presented in the Habitat-Unit of TU-Berlin. The publication is the product of the Seminar of the same name in November 2008 organized jointly by the Technische Universitaet Berlin and Weimar Bauhaus-Universität. Both the seminar and publication invited young researchers of the German - speaking area (Germany, Switzerland and Austria) to present their works on the phenomenon of urbanization in Latin America.

The volume is a comprehensive record of perspectives and themes that the current discussion open to new approaches to urbanization of the continent. The topics discussed include the increasing vertical integration, socio-spatial segregation phenomena of mobility, governance and management of metropolitan areas, urban impacts of population displacement by violent conflicts, including defining the current process of urbanization regional. The geographic areas are also diverse, ranging from Mexico to Chile, crossing the mega-cities and intermediate cities as areas of analysis. The book contains 25 articles written in Spanish, German or English. It is published by the LIT-Verlag and was supported by DAAD.

> Order the Book from LIT-Verlag

German Architecture and Migration in Chile, 1852-1875

(Berlin, May 23rd 2011) The Exhibition "EINGEWANDERTE BAUMEISTER - Architekturtransfer zwischen Deutschland und Chile 1852-1875. Bauen und Ursprungshäuser", will be open between June 6th and June 24th (10.00 to 17:00) in the Fakultätsforum, Architecture Building of TU-Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 152, 10623 Berlin. The Exhibition explores the architecture of the 19th century German immigrants in Chile, and the influence in it of their original houses in Germany.

The work is the results of the work of a cooperation Team including Faculty Members and Students, lead by Prof. Francisco Prado and Renato D'Alençon, within the framework of the ongoing TU-Berlin / U. Católica Cooperation. The work has been supported by a big number of interested persons and sponsored by FONDART Región de Los Lagos and DAAD, Deutsche Akademischer Austauch Dienst. The Opening will take place on Thursday, June 9th, 19:00 in the Foyer of the Architecture Building, according the following program: Welcome: Prof. Dr. Peter Herrle, Habitat Unit, TU Berlin; Inauguration: S. E. Jorge O'Ryan Schütz, Botschafter der Republik Chile; Introduction: Prof. Francisco Prado, Pontíficia Universidad Católica de Chile; MArch Renato D'Alençon Castrillón, Habitat Unit, TU Berlin.

> View the invitation in PDF format