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The E4D summer school 2016 aims to develop an integrated vision to a global challenge of today’s construction industry. The programme revolves around the depleting resource sand and the question of how to develop alternative building materials for future cities. Invited experts from around the world will share their knowledge and give insights in their field of research. In the workshops the acquired knowledge will be tested and applied. The results will be evaluated under the concept of stocks and flows of energy and material to assess their contribution towards sustainable development.
The E4D summer school will be composed of 30 graduate students, coming from ETH Zurich, from academic institutions of the IDEA League and from other academic institutions around the world, particularly in developing countries. They will be joined by faculty members and external experts from fields of expertise related to the summer school topic. The master and doctoral students will come from different disciplines related to the E4D topic. The summer school will take place at TU Delft, The Netherlands. The aim of the E4D summer school is to foster interdisciplinary exchange on sand as a resource being rapidly depleted. During the first week, students will be introduced to the topic through a series of input speeches, lectures and symposia. The second and third week will focus on workshops along three lines of investigation.
The workshops will provide students with hands-on opportunities to work in an interdisciplinary and intercultural team and to assess alternatives to the chosen topic. Full attendance and submission of a presentation for the final idea competition is required.
The E4D Winter School 2016 is organised in collaboration with ETH Global and the TU Delft.
Further information and detailed program can be found here. Applicants please follow this link.
Sustainable Construction. How we are shaping our built environment in a sustainable way.
May 7, 2026
Hebel, Dirk E., and Elena Boerman. “Projektstudie 2 (Schwerpunkt: Materialien): Der Kreislaufbasierte Architekturansatz.” In Zukunftsfähiges Bauen – Wie Wir Unsere Gebaute Umwelt Nachhaltig Gestalten, 64–78. Berlin: DIN Media Innovation, 2026.
Circular! Foundations and principles of a circular construction industry.
March 11, 2026
Hebel, Dirk E., and Annette Hillebrandt, eds. 2026. Zirkulär! Fundamente und Postulate einer kreislaufbasierten Bauwirtschaft. Bauwelt Fundamente. Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH.
A matter of consequence
March 11, 2026
Deutsches Architekt:innen Blatt. 2026. “Eine Frage der Konsequenz.” March.
Circular Construction. Regenerative Building material management.
Wood as a foundation of a sustainable building culture
January 8, 2026
Glanzmann, Jutta. “Holz Als Basis Für Eine Nachhaltige Baukultur.”Lignum Holzbulletin 157/2025, no. Nachhaltig bauen (2025): 4058–59.
MycoTree
January 5, 2026
McLean, Will, Pete Silver, and Dirk Hebel. “MycoTree.” In Sustainable & Regenerative Materials for Architecture – A Source Book. 2025; Laurence King, 2025.
Really Circular – Material Library at KIT
October 29, 2025
Dietzold, Lutz, ed. Iconic Awards 2025 – Spaces Objects Visions. Frankfurt: Rat für Formgebung GmbH, 2025.
Activating the Urban Mine
October 2, 2025
Hebel, Dirk E. “Activating the Urban Mine.“ In Architecture and Technology Volume II: Cities in Climate Crisis. Madrid: Norman Foster Foundation Press, 2025.
The city as a resource
September 18, 2025
Hebel, Dirk E. und Felix Heisel. “Die Stadt als Ressource.” In Für eine nachhaltige Architektur der Stadt. Berlin: Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, 2025.
From a linear to a circular system
September 15, 2025
Hebel, Dirk E. “Vom Linearen Zum Kreislaufsystem.” In Architektur Und Klimawandel. München: Edition DETAIL, 2025.
Interview: “We must finally start measuring CO2 emissions – not just how thick the insulation is”
July 29, 2025
Hebel, Dirk E. Interview: “Wir müssen endlich anfangen, den CO2-Ausstoß zu messen – nicht nur, wie dick die Dämmung ist.” Interview by Christoph Karcher. LooKIT 0225, 2025.
WEtransFORM – On the Future of Building
June 22, 2025
BUNDESKUNSTHALLE, ed. WEtransFORM – Zur Zukunft Des Bauens. Berlin: jovis Verlag, 2025.
Monkenbusch, Helmut. „Bauen für die Welt von morgen.“ Hörzu, 24.1.2025
Funghi – underground networkers
April 24, 2025
Hebel, Dirk E., Tanja Hildbrandt. „ Pilze – Netzwerker im Untergrund“. alverde, dm-Magazin, April 2025.
Fungi are versatile
February 24, 2025
Merkert-Andreas, Carolin. “Pilze Sind Vielseitig.”Wohnglück, January 2025.
“RoofKIT – Carbon storage and Material storage”
January 9, 2025
Boerman, Elena, and Dirk E. Hebel. “RoofKIT – Kohlenstoffspeicher Und Materiallager.”Architektur.Aktuell, vol. 12.2024, no. Tradition und Innovation, Dezember 2024, pp. 98–109
The many applications of mycelium construtction
December 8, 2024
Grossarth, Jan. „Exkurs: Die vielen Einsatzbereiche von Myzel im Bauwesen“. In Bioökonomie und Zirkulärwirtschaft im Bauwesen, eine Einführung, 174–117. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien, 2024.
Interview: “From a Linear to a Circular System”
November 13, 2024
Hebel, Dirk E. Interview: “Vom linearen zum zirkulären Kreislaufsystem.” Interview by Sandra Hofmeister, DETAIL 11.2024, Nov. 2024.
Building with renewable materials – Nature as a resource depot
October 29, 2024
Hebel, Dirk E., Sandra Böhm, Elena Boerman, Hrsg. Vom Bauen mit erneuerbaren Materialien – Die Natur als Rohstofflager. Stuttgart: Fraunhofer IRB Verlag, 2024.
Guest contribution: ‘Thinking, designing and operating in circular ways.’
June 27, 2024
Hebel, Dirk E. “In Kreisläufen denken, entwerfen und wirtschaften.”MÄG – Mein Häfele Magazin, 2024.
Interview: ‘Mycelium power for the construction industry’
June 10, 2024
Rubel, Maike, and Patricia Leuchtenberger. Interview: “Pilzpower für die Bauindustrie.” competitionline, 7 June 2024, https://www.competitionline.com/de/news/schwerpunkt/pilzpower-fuer-die-bauindustrie-7283.html.
‘Future building materials: mushroom, hemp and algae’ in neubau kompass
May 27, 2024
Müller, Janek. “Baumaterialien der Zukunft: Pilze, Hanf und Algen.”neubau kompass – Neubauprojekte in Deutschland, May 3, 2024. https://www.neubaukompass.de/premium-magazin/.
Interview: ‘We have disposed of valuable materials’
May 7, 2024
Sören, S. Sgries. “Interview: ‘Wir haben wertvolle Materialien weggeworfen.’”Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, April 27, 2024, SÜDWEST I 28 edition, sec. Sinsheimer Nachrichten.
Built on mushroom
April 24, 2024
Schweikle, Johannes. “Auf Pilz gebaut.”Stuttgarter Zeitung, April 23, 2024, sec. Die Reportage.
Organic Architecture – Fungus mycelium and flax as materials for the ecological building transition
February 13, 2024
Klaaßen, Lars. “Organische Architektur – Pilzmyzel und Flachs als Materialien für die ökologische Bauwende.” In Deutsches Architektur Jahrbuch 2024, edited by Peter Cachola Schmal, Yorck Förster, and Christina Gräwe, 198–209. Berlin, Germany: DOM publishers, 2024.
Circular construction – Circulation instead of demolition in “BUND-Jahrbuch 2024”
Redesigned Material Library at KIT in ‘Mitteilungsblatt des VDB-Regionalverbands Südwest’
January 8, 2024
Mönnich, Michael, and Sandra Böhm. “Neu gestaltete Materialbibliothek am KIT.”Südwest-Info: Mitteilungsblatt des VDB-Regionalverbands Südwest Nr. 36 (2023), 2023.
RoofKIT Wuppertal, Germany; Interview with Prof. Dirk Hebel
November 20, 2023
Hebel, Dirk E. “RoofKIT Wuppertal, Germany; Interview with Prof. Dirk Hebel: The aim is clear, we must forge the path ourselves.” In Sustainable Architecture & Design 2023/ 2024, edited by Andrea Herold, Tina Kammerer, and InteriorPark., 46–55. Stuttgart, Germany: av edition GmbH, 2023.
The existing building stock is the future resource
November 16, 2023
Hebel, Dirk E. “Der Bestand ist die künftige Ressource – Den linearen Umgang mit Baumaterialien schnellstmöglich stoppen.”Planerin – Mitgliederfachzeitschrift für Stadt-, Regional- und Landesplanung, Oktober 2023.