Fiandre renews its commitment to a sustainable design culture, accompanying wertschau, a new stage in Patina’s exhibition season at auau – Raum für Architektur in Hamburg. The initiative came from the partnership between K+E – Department of Construction and Design (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), NBL – Natural Building Lab (Technische Universität Berlin) and ZRS Architekten Ingenieure, which all share the same mission: to build within planetary boundaries.
Within this network, which combines building practices with academic research, wertschau offers a path in which design, planning and implementation are developed within a mutual, interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary framework, often using the “laboratories of the real world” formula. The exhibition invites us to think about how the respect for and enhancement of all that exists can lead to new architectural perspectives. The projects presented offer no universal answers or abstract visions, but rather tell of concrete buildings, people and stories in a narration built around direct experience.
Visitors are invited to experiment the value of materials through touch, sight and thought, in a sensory dialogue that upturns the idea of consumption in favour of a construction practice that respects, maintains and re-interprets resources. wertschau thus shows how new forms of architecture can emerge from an attitude of care for all that already exists, paving the way for a more aware and regenerative future.
With wertschau, Fiandre confirms its vocation of promoting aware, responsible architecture that focuses on the regeneration of materials and the reduction of environmental impacts. The company continues to support auau and the Patina cultural programme, fostering the international dissemination of discussions on sustainability, construction innovation and the intrinsic value of matter.
