The Fragment: Paludiculture Prototype at The Great Repair © David von Becker
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The Fragment: Paludiculture Prototype at The Great Repair
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27/10/2023
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We are pleased to announce that our “Fragment”, a Bauhaus Earth paludiculture prototype, is currently on display at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin! This experimental prototype was designed by our first Bauhaus Erde Fellow (BE-FELLOW), Material Cultures, as part of the ‘Constructive Land Berlin/Brandenburg’ project. It is being shown in the exhibition The Great Repair alongside 40 other pieces embracing repair as a new design paradigm.
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The Fragment demonstrates the use of paludi-based materials such as reed, cattail (Typha), wetland grass, willow, and alder in construction © David von Becker
The Fragment: Paludiculture Prototype © David von Becker
The Prototype
The two-part prototype was built in the Bauhaus Earth Lab using various paludiculture-based materials such as reed, cattail (Typha), wetland grass, willow, and alder. By tangibly demonstrating the use of carbon-negative materials cultivated on rewetted peatlands, it aims to promote peatland carbon capture and support a regional, bio-based building industry.
Bauhaus Earth would like to thank Büro Happold, Weichert Dachbau, Eileen Dorer Li, Michael Reindel, Gramitherm Insulation, Hiss Reet, LehmBauWerk, Stadtforst Prenzlau, and Holzindustrie Templin for their partnership in this project.
The Fragment is funded by Experimental Foundation as part of the BE-FELLOW programme.
The Exhibition
The Great Repair is a project by ARCH+ gGmbH in cooperation with Akademie der Künste, the ETH Zurich Department of Architecture, and the University of Luxembourg Faculté des Sciences Humaines. The group exhibition discusses contradictions between growth and ecology through the material culture of architecture and explores new strategies to reduce resource consumption and repair what already exists.
The exhibition will run until January 14, 2024. For more information about the potential of wetlands to supply the Berlin-Brandenburg region with carbon-negative construction materials, please download our Paludiculture Report.
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