Experimental House
Island of Rügen, DE
2006 - ongoing

* Title: The Experimental House Rügen

* Address: Streu 2, 18528 Bergen auf Rügen, DE

* Year of construction: ongoing since 2006

* Thematic focus: Baltic regionalism, climate-responsiveness, resource-consciousness, experimental architecture

* Project text: The Experimental House is an ongoing research project on the Baltic island of Rügen. It involves a number of 1:1 built experiments focused at climate adaptation, circular and resource-conscious building with local biogenic materials as well as utilizing passive strategies extracted from local vernacular architecture.

01 Why is the project particularly relevant for PIONIRA?

It highlights the meaning and potential of place; it challenges current building practice and explores a 'new vernacular' through the process of experimentation and 'making' architecture

02 What have you learned from the project? What challenges did you encounter, and how did you solve them?

I have learned from the project that current challenges in architecture cannot be solved solely in theory; that the complexitiy of the problem fully unfolds through the process of 'making'...

03 What advice could you provide, based on the project?

Start your own practice as soon as possible and engage in projects that are meaningful to you, and use a good portion of radical imagination…and then start ‘making’…!

04 How would you like to build in the future?

I would like to focus on engaging in projects that create new knowledge, and that explore ‘making architecture’ as scientific method.

*Photos taken by Maja Wirkus

Name: Experimental House Ruegen
Location: Island of Ruegen, Germany
Text and images by: Susanne Brorson/ Maja Wirkus
Type: Places
 
Posted: January 2024
Categories: architect, crafts, localism, raw materials, women, germany, vernacular architecture

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