For the Seminarweek HS24 the Raplab assisted the Chair of Construction Heritage and Preservation of Prof. Langenberg in the design and build part of the project at Schatzalp.

“The Innovedum Project “Maintanence and Repair ON SITE” integrates the teaching of preservation, construction, and sustainability with architectural design. The elective course “Repair: Keep in Place” is aligned with a design studio on building within the existing context and an on-site design-build seminar week, to offer a semester focusing on repair and maintenance in architecture.

Difficult to maintain constructions and industrial manufacturing processes decrease the lifespan of objects not only in product design but also in architecture. Repairability is becoming less of a concern – replacement seems to be the norm. We need to rethink the way we build, starting already with the planning phase.

In this course, we combine traditional topics of preservation with concepts of repair to raise awareness for sustainable thinking and action. Students will learn both traditional and digital methods as well as the basic building and material criteria for repair. The objective is not only the hands-on repair within the built environment but especially to learn about the concepts of heritage preservation.

For the current semester, the repair concepts from the elective course are being carried out on site as part of the Design–Build seminar week at the Schatzalp in Davos.”