Regenerative Building LAB (reLAB)

The re(generative building)LAB is a global alliance of researchers and experimenters committed to the systemic transformation of the materials, means, and methods of the contemporary built environment.

With the shared goal to‍

• stabilize our climate,
• restore natural ecosystems
• ensure human health, safety, and well-being,

reLAB imagines and implements regionally specific building pilots and experimental testbeds conducted as

• demonstrations to the public,
• recommendations to policy makers,
• guidance for current practitioners,
• inspiration for future change-makers.

reLAB brings together builders, engineers, social scientists, designers and artists, to respond to the urgent need for proven alternatives to the status quo. It seeks to enable a radical change from destructive practices of design, extraction, consumption, and waste in the building sector by collectively answering questions such as:

• What is the potential of a transition to a biobased construction sector?
• How should conservation and construction work together?
• How can a biobased building sector create the basis for a large-scale reinvestment in our biosphere?
• What are the economic, social and environmental risks that will accompany such radical changes and how can they be addressed?

Steering group

Bauhaus Earth
(Alan Organschi; Lily Teitelbaum; Prof. Dr.Philipp Misselwitz)

InnoRenew CoE
(Prof. Andreja Kutnar)

Aalto University
(Prof. Pekka Heikinnen; Prof. Dr. Matti Kuittinen)

Design Academy Eindhoven
(Moritz Maria Karl; Lukas Wegwerth)

Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
(Dr. Daniel Ibañez)

Centre for Natural Material Innovation, Department of Architecture, Cambridge University
(Prof. Michael Ramage)