UNITY - DesignBuild

Natural disasters cause destruction in underdeveloped regions every year. Reco_Fix was developed to offer the people affected rapid assistance in rebuilding their homes. The house is the first post-earthquake construction solution for earthquake-proof housing. A prototype was built on the grounds of the Paläon research and experience center in Schöningen in Lower Saxony. The house can be temporarily viewed by visitors and school classes at the Paläon Research and Experience Center.

Further information can be obtained directly from the project manager Mr. Warsawa at: jwarsawa@gmail.com

During the semester break of the 2016 summer semester, students had the opportunity to complete a 6-week construction internship (= 6 ECTS) in Tanzania, directly on Mount Kilimanjaro. In the artists' village of Kasirwa (Rombo District), a clay house prototype was built together with a local team of craftsmen. The main aim of the project was to significantly improve the critical and non-valuable opinion of current mud houses among the locals by highlighting the potential and aesthetics of local materials and demonstrating an environmentally conscious alternative to the expensive cement buildings with corrugated zinc roofing that have become the standard.

http://www.uni-terra.org/events/earth-building-workshop-living-on-levels-the-kasirwa-earth-house

In cooperation with NKA Foundation, Ghana

Project management: Marco Grimm, Gwok-Wei Cheung

Rocky Mountain 2 School is located in the north of Thailand on the Burmese border and, like many areas there, is characterized by an increased influx of Burmese refugees. Around 130 pupils (from kindergarten to Year 8) currently attend this school. 41 of them have the opportunity to spend the night in the school's accommodation and others cross the border every day. Due to a lack of financial resources in the region, smaller schools are being closed and merged into large facilities. This leads to unresolved problems, especially for pupils from rural areas. It is therefore worth supporting the preservation of some smaller schools. The plan was to build a new school building for use as a classroom, but also as additional accommodation.
The plan was to build a new school building for use as a classroom, but also as additional accommodation. The building components, including the bricks required, were largely produced on site by the students and residents themselves.

In cooperation with a.gor.a architects / Jan Glasmeier

Project management: Bastian Schöne, Manuel Schroeder

Further information can be obtained directly from the project manager Mr. Schroeder at: schroeder-manu@web.de

During the initial phase of the main "Haiti Project" - see: www.hs-anhalt.de/unity/projekt-haiti-2018.html - the cooperation partner Haiti-Nothilfe received funds allocated specifically to improve the outdoor infrastructure for the orphanage and the school with designated areas for sport activities and a playground. Students of "DIA - Master Architecture" took on this task and developed design proposals based on reclaiming local waste materials (tires, plastic bottles, etc.) as well as low-tech implementation strategies within this 2-semester project. Some of the proposals were realized through workshops with the kids and teens, led by a group of students on-site during four weeks in 2018.

Ressources:
booklet "workbook_all": issuu.com/beekeb/docs/haiti-playground_workbook_all
booklet "Report: issuu.com/beekeb/docs/playground_matters_report

Lead Producer: Dipl.Ing. Beeke Bartelt
With students of DIA (Master Architecture) and their
Team On-Site:
Dylan Deguzman
Reety Lachhman
Prana Shrestha
Rumi Singh Maharjan