Course “Spatial Experiments 2” (spring and autumn term 2016)
Spring course, master programme ‘Architecture’, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
This course is dealing with the potentials of combining digital design and manufacturing with vernacular building knowledge to create climate-sensitive architecture. The location is Morocco representing an arid climate region that is not familiar and invites to explore climatic, social, aesthetic and constructive dimensions. The course also involves transdisciplinary research through biomimetics basics.
Course “Biomimetics and Energy” (2010 – 2015)
Autumn course, master programme ‘Renewable Urban Energy Systems’, UAS Technikum Vienna, Austria
Buoyancy based on Archimedes’ principle
This course deals with the physical principles of energy conversion and energy flow to understand the conditions, dependencies and effects. Through investigation of role models in nature and the creation of functional models, the principles are studied and visualized.