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RESEARCH & TEACHING

SHORT LIST

CROSS FACULTY COURSE
'WASTE -DATA, COMMUNITY & URBAN SPACE'

University of Liechtenstein / SS 2023

Course Leading: Gabriela Dimitrova

With the aim of supporting the 2023 Architecture Biennale in Venice, research questions were answered and data collected in Ghana and Liechtenstein through various activities at the University of Liechtenstein. Scientific methods for data collection, analysis, evaluation and visualization of the results were taught.

 

The students learned how to conduct independent research, track down sources of information, analyze and evaluate the collected data. The research results formed an essential part of the exhibition, which focused on the relationship between Liechtenstein and the Agbogbloshie District in Accra, Ghana.

 

Learning outcomes:

Research, methods to collect data, analyze and evaluate results

Organize, compare and present data using the Python programming language

Display and parameterization of 3D information (e.g. urban planning) based on open data using Rhino/Grasshopper

ADVANCED & BASIC STUDIOS 'UPCYCLING'

University of Liechtenstein / 2020-2023

Studio Leading: Stockhammer / Tarsoly

Upcycling expertise: Gabriela Dimitrova

RESAERCH PROJECT
'Circular building with modular bricks. 
On the potential of reusable bricks from patent applications from the mid-19th to mid-20th century.'

University of Liechtenstein / SS 2023-24

Project Leading: Gabriela Dimitrova / Daniel Stockhammer

The brick, as the oldest building product, is one of the most energy-intensive to produce and one of the least re-usable products in the building industry. Nevertheless, it is one of the most common building products - more than 50% of residential buildings are brick buildings. There is accessible information from the past about product ideas and implemented brick products, which can go through one or more life cycles and therefore have enormous potential for the circular economy. These ideas lie often forgotten in company archives, in historical journals or in the countless patent offices around the world.

 

The aim of this research project is the collection of product ideas for reusable bricks in the period from 1850 to 1950, the systematic investigation of their potential to promote a circular construction economy, 

MAS THESES
 «Der Konflikt zwischen älteren und jüngeren Denkmälern im Fall des Lichthofeinbaus von Ernst Gisel im ehemaligen Biologiegebäude der Universität Zürich. Kriterien für die Entscheidung der Schutzwürdigkeit.»

ETH Zurich  gta / 2016-2019

As a project manager in the Building Department Office of Canton Zurich, I was responsible for the feasibility study for the extension of the Zoological Museum in the former «Biologiegebäude» by Karl Moser. After a thorough investigation of the individual construction phases of the building and consultations with various experts, three fundamentally different strategies emerged - from a preservation to a significant size increase of the exhibition rooms to the demolition of Ernst Gisel‘s concrete structure in the atrium. As part of my MAS at gta ETH, I decided to investigate the conflict between the different actors and to make this topic my master‘s thesis.

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The master‘s thesis sets out six decision criteria for the protection of buildings, today serves as an expert opinion for the decision-making processes for dealing with the Gisels In-House and the extension of the Zoological Museum.

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