Built Heritage & Upcycling

Sammlung Baumaterial zur Wiederverwendung

The "Built Heritage & Upcycling" unit examines the material and immaterial resources of our built environment as well as strategies for their preservation, reuse and transfer to a circular economy.

Our work centres on the formulation of a moral question as an architectural and economic question, one that considers the architectural potential of preservation strategies and the sustainability of circular principles. → more

 

 

Team    Teaching    Research     Publications

 

Veranstaltungsankündigung

HOW TO TEACH UPCYCLING? 
vai online talk 

19.02.2024
V. Konrad & D. Stockhammer

Fenstersammlung

THE LSA THANKS THE VAI! 
Exhibition «Refuse, Reduce, Re-use, Recycle, Rot»

Vorarlberger Architektur Institut / Dornbirn
with contributions from the Built Heritage & Upcycling unit 
29.9.2023 - 24.02.2024

Plakat eines Symposiums über Upcycling in Darmstadt 2024

THE NEW BUILDING CULTURE OF REUSE
Symposium // TU Darmstadt

t-lab Campus Diemerstein
31.1.-2.2.2024 // D. Stockhammer & G. Dimitrova

 

Ausstellung Biennale in Venedig

EWASTE – BURDEN AND TREASURE
8. International Architecture Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia, 2023

Exhibition, Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi, 7.10.–14.10.2023
A.Alessi, Katrin Milanzi, Mikel Martinez, initiated with G. Dimitrova

Plakat eines Symposiums zur Bauwende in Kaiserslautern 2023

WEGE ZUR BAUWENDE
Architektur klima- und ressourcenschonend konstruiert

Conference  // RPTU Kaiserslautern
20.-21.09.2023 // D. Stockhammer

Library of Reuse Logo

OPENING: LIBRARY OF REUSE
The LSA says thx!

With B. Buser, C. De Wolf, A. Buser
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg
30.06.2023 // D. Stockhammer

Plakat einer Veranstaltung im Bregenzerwald 2021

UNIkumm // ANDELSBUCH
Das Neue Neu. Nachhaltigkeit in der Architektur

October 2021
Presentations by C. Faisst & D. Stockhammer

ZERO WASTE ARCHITECTURE 
The Building as Material Bank and Knowledge Repository 

Mini-Symposium // 17.3.2021
University of Liechtenstein, Advanced Studio Upcycling
C. Faisst & D. Stockhammer

Gruppenbild Energielounge 2021

CIRCULAR BUILDING 
Symposium: Energy Lounge

Vorarlberg Museum, Bregenz
17.11.2021 // D. Stockhammer

Abriss in Liechtenstein

THIS COULD BE
17th International Architecture Exhibition

La Biennale di Venezia
Exhibition, Workshop & Dialogues
October 2021
A. Alessi & A. L. Capaul

Plakat eines Symposiums über ReUse und Upcycling 2019

REUSE: UPCYCLING AS A DESIGN PRINCIPLE IN ARCHITECTURE
Symposium, University of Liechtenstein

Institute of Architecture and Planning
7.3.2019 // D. Stockhammer

Plakat eines Symposiums über Reuse und Upcycling 2018

REUSE & UPCYCLING AS A DESIGN PRINCIPLE IN ARCHITECTURE
Symposium, University of Liechtenstein 

Institute of Architecture and Planning
8.11.2018 // D. Stockhammer

Plakat Veranstaltung

BORROWED FROM OUR CHILDREN
From a throaway society to a circular economy

ORTE-Sustainability symposium 
ORTE Architekturnetzwerk Lower Austria 
19.11.2020 // D. Stockhammer

Team 

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Architect
Alberto Alessi


Senior Lecturer

Dr. sc. ETH
Britta Hentschel


Senior Lecturer 

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Dipl. Ing. Arch. (TU)
Gabriela Dimitrova
MAS gta ETH

Research Assistant  / PhD Candidate

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Anna Lohs
MSc Arch

Research Assistant / PhD Candidate

M.Sc. Arch. ARB IARP SIA
Piotr Piotrowski

PhD Candidate

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Prof. Dr.
Daniel Stockhammer


Head of Unit 

Dipl. Arch. SIA 
Csaba Tarsoly


Lecturer

Dr. Ing. 
Clemens Voigts


Lecturer

Teaching

Holz

UPEND
Upcycling, Upscaling, Upvaluing

SS 2024
Advanced Studio Upcycling (EN)
D. Stockhammer & C. Tarsoly

Bad in historischem Gebäude

A WAY OF LIVING
Surveying while Inhabiting old Structures

SS 2024
Seminar Week (EN)
D.Stockhammer & C. Tarsoly

Gebäude von Frank Lloyd Wright

HISTORY & THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE

Lecture Series 
B. Hentschel 

Bild von der Stadt Florenz

HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE, ART AND URBAN PLANNING

Essential 
B. Hentschel 

Holz

ENTREPÔT BUILDING
Repair, Reuse & Relocate

WS 2023/24
Advanced Studio Upcycling (EN)
D.Stockhammer & C. Tarsoly

 

Holzhütte

CRAFTED CIRCULARITY
Vernacular Architecture in the Alps

WS 2023/24
Seminar Week (EN)
D.Stockhammer & C. Tarsoly

Stillgelegte Autobahnraststätte

ROAD STATION REFORMED
Re-assembling lost infrastructures

SS 2023
Advanced Studio Upcycling (EN)
D.Stockhammer & C. Tarsoly

CIRCULARITY & THE CITY
Copenhagen & Malmö

SS 2023
Seminar Week (EN)
D.Stockhammer & C. Tarsoly

 

RE IS MORE
Crafted Circularity for Contemporary Housing

WS 2022/23
Advanced Studio Upcycling (EN)
D.Stockhammer & C. Tarsoly

 

Stillgelegte Autobahnraststätte

IN TRANSITION
Save Restaurant Walensee

SS 2022
Advanced Studio Upcycling (EN)
D.Stockhammer & C. Tarsoly

 

Döllgast

DÖLLGAST
Shortage as a Design Principle

Munich
SS 2022
Seminar Week (EN)
D.Stockhammer & C. Tarsoly

Studierende sitzen in einem Theater in Riom in der Schweiz

BODIES OF KNOWLEDGE

SS 2021
Advanced Studio Upcycling (DE)
A. Alessi & A. L. Capaul

Modell von Notre Dame

HI STORY! 
Notre Dame reloaded

WS 2019/20
Advanced Studio Upcycling (EN) 
C. Faisst & D. Stockhammer 

Wand mit Graffiti in Liechtenstein

BUILT IN TRANSLATION

WS 2019/20
Advanced Studio Upcycling (DE)
A. Alessi & A. L. Capaul

Zeichnung vom Schloss Vaduz

THE RECONSTRUCTION OF VADUZ CASTLE

WS 2018/19
Research Semester
D. Jüngling & D. Stockhammer 

3D Druck eines Bunkers

UPCYCYLING BUNKERS
Seminar week

WS 2018/19
D. Stockhammer & C. Faisst

Research

PatentanmeldungenCIRCULAR CONSTRUCTION WITH MODULAR BUILDING BLOCKS
Potentials of reusability of components from patent applications 1877-1960

FFF-funded project
2023 - 24
D. Stockhammer & G. Dimitrova

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CONSTRUCTIVE REUSE 
Reciprocal Structures from Waste

Dissertation
since 2023
A. Lohs

Zeichnung Patenteatlas

PATENT ATLAS OF CIRCULAR BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS

API - funded project
2023 - 2025 
D.  Stockhammer, A. Lohs, G. Dimitrova

Ziegel

THE REUSABLE BRICK
Reconstruction of forgotten alternatives

Dissertation
since September 2021
G. Dimitrova

BUILDINGS AS DIGITAL MATERIAL BANKS
BIM tools for construction material recovery in planning process and building disassembly

Dissertation
since September 2021

BauteileRENEWABLE ARCHITECTURE
The Circular Building as a Material Bank and Repository of Knowledge

API-funded project
2019 - 2022
D. Stockhammer & G. Dimitrova

REUSING & UPCYCLING ARCHITECTURE
Rethinking the way we build things 

FFF-funded project
2018 - 2019
D. Stockhammer

Selected Publications

 

 

Buchcover einer Architekturpublikation über Upcycling

UPCYCLING
Reuse and Recycling as a Design Principle in Architecture

In Liechtenstein, the construction industry is the main driver of material consumption and is responsible for no less than 65 percent of all waste. A rethink is therefore urgently needed. But how can we achieve architecture that is as waste- and pollutant-free as possible? And could the Principality's building stock be of use here?

The Liechtenstein School of Architecture of the University of Liechtenstein responded to this question with the book "Upcycling. Re-use and Reuse as a Design Principle in Architecture". The publication is based on two symposia of the same name, which took place in 2018 and 2019, and also includes student contributions, which were supervised by Daniel Stockhammer and Dieter Jüngling. The authors are Alberto Alessi, Barbara Buser, Jürg Conzett, Elisabteh Crettaz-Stürzel, Anja Diener, Philipp Entner, Hanna Kuzniatsova, Silke Langenberg, Hans Rudolf Meier, Lisa Ochsenbein, Johannes Rederer, Nicholas Ransome, Fetanete Rashiti and Daniel Stockhammer.

Daniel Stockhammer, University of Liechtenstein (eds.), 2020
Triest Verlag

 

Weisses Buchcover mit blauer Schrift

BUILDING ADDITIONS IN STEEL
The Architecture of Vertical Extensions

Since the introduction of steel as a building material in the early twentieth century, its superior performance has challenged conventional wisdom about construction, enabling designs of surprising lightness and span. Steel offered the opportunity to significantly expand buildings vertically and thus emerged as a symbol of the conflict between technological progress and the architectural ideal. More recently, the use of exposed steel elements in modern architecture ushered in a rediscovery of buildings’ metamorphoses.

Daniel Stockhammer, Daniel Meyer, Astrid Staufer (Eds.), 2018, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Park Books