@article{ChwallekFelden2006, author = {Chwallek, Constanze and Felden, Birgit}, title = {Existenzgr{\"u}ndung durch {\"U}bernahme / Felden, Birgit ; Chwallek, Constanze}, series = {Finanz-Betrieb : FB ; Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Unternehmensfinanzierung und Finanzmanagement. 8 (2006), H. 6}, journal = {Finanz-Betrieb : FB ; Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Unternehmensfinanzierung und Finanzmanagement. 8 (2006), H. 6}, isbn = {1437-8981}, pages = {409 -- 418}, year = {2006}, language = {de} } @inproceedings{StapenhorstGessnerWoerd2017, author = {Stapenhorst, Carolin and Geßner, Stephan and Woerd, Jan Dirk van der}, title = {ArchitecTours - a close look on structures around us}, series = {Proceedings of IASS Annual Symposia}, booktitle = {Proceedings of IASS Annual Symposia}, editor = {B{\"o}gle, Annette and Grohmann, Manfred}, publisher = {IASS}, address = {Madrid}, issn = {2518-6582}, pages = {9 Seiten}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Architects and civil engineers work together regularly during their professional days and are irreplaceable for each other. This co-operation is sometimes made more difficult by the differences in their disciplinary languages and approaches. Structures are evaluated by architects on the basis of criteria such as spatial impact and usability, while civil engineers analyze them more closely by their bearing and deformation properties, as well as by constructive aspects. This diversity of assessment criteria and approaches is often continued in both academic disciplines in the view on structures. Within the framework of the Exploratory Teaching Space (ETS), a funding program to improve teaching at RWTH Aachen University and to promote new teaching concepts, a project was carried out jointly by the Junior Professorship of Tool-Culture at the Faculty of Architecture and the Institute of Structural Concrete at the Faculty of Civil Engineering. The aim of the project is to present buildings in such a way that the differences in perception between architects and civil engineers are reduced and the common understanding is promoted. The project develops a database, which contains a collection of striking buildings from Aachen and the surrounding area. The buildings are categorized according to terms that come from both disciplinary areas. The collection can be freely explored or crossed through learning trails. The medium of film plays a special role in presenting the buildings. The buildings are assigned to different categories of load bearing structures as linear, planar and spatial structures, and further to different types of material, functional programs and spatial characteristics. Since the buildings are located in the direct vicinity of Aachen, they can be visited by the students. This makes them more sensitive to their environment. Intrinsic motivation, as well as implicit learning is encouraged. The paper will provide a detailed report of the project, its implementation, the feedback of the students and the plans for further development.}, language = {en} } @masterthesis{Niederschmidt2021, type = {Bachelor Thesis}, author = {Niederschmidt, S{\"o}ren}, title = {Living product: ein Ansatz, lebendige Organismen mit einem Produkt zu vereinen und nutzbar zu machen}, publisher = {FH Aachen}, address = {Aachen}, pages = {57 Seiten}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Diese Arbeit setzt sich mit der Frage auseinander, in welcher Form sich lebendige Organismen - hier insbesondere Pilze - in die Produktwelt integrieren lassen. In welcher Art und Weise beeinflusst ein Organismus das Produkterlebnis? Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit sind vier verschiedene Produkte entstanden, die die St{\"a}rken des Materials Myzelium demonstrieren. Myzelium bezeichnet das sehr dichte Wurzelnetzwerk eines Pilzes. Dieses lebendige Netzwerk kann dazu genutzt werden, um organische Stoffe miteinander zu verwachsen und somit Formen entstehen zu lassen. Die so entstandenen Produkte sind in eine Konzeptumgebung eingebettet, in der der Verbrauchende die Natur durch naturn{\"a}here Produkte (Form, Material und gewachsene Strukturen) neu erlebt. Gezeigt wird ein Packaging f{\"u}r Einmachgl{\"a}ser, ein Kressebeet, ein Wandregal und ein Teelicht.}, language = {de} } @book{Stapenhorst2016, author = {Stapenhorst, Carolin}, title = {Concept : a dialogic instrument in architectural design}, publisher = {Jovis}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-86859-364-8}, pages = {207 Seiten}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Concept - this is a key term in architectural discourse. However, all too often it is used imprecisely or merely for marketing purposes. What is a concept actually? This publication moves between design theory and design practice and follows the history of the definition of concept in architecture, leading to the formulation of a specifically instrumental and operative definition. It bases concept in architecture on its strategic potential in design decision-making processes. In the changing profession of the designing architect, decisions are increasingly made in multidisciplinary groups. Concept can serve as a dialogic instrument in the process, making it possible to process heterogeneous information from a range of spheres of knowledge. The effective presentation of selected information becomes a relevant interface in the design process, which has a significant influence on the quality of the design.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Stapenhorst2016, author = {Stapenhorst, Carolin}, title = {Grids. Projektdokumentationen als Denkinstrument}, series = {Manifestationen im Entwurf}, booktitle = {Manifestationen im Entwurf}, editor = {Schmitz, Thomas H. and H{\"a}ußling, Roger and Mareis, Claudia and Groninger, Hannah}, publisher = {Transcript}, address = {Bielefeld}, isbn = {978-3-8394-3160-3}, doi = {10.1515/9783839431603-009}, pages = {185 -- 216}, year = {2016}, language = {de} } @incollection{Stapenhorst2017, author = {Stapenhorst, Carolin}, title = {Robustheit}, series = {Hiatus. Architekturen f{\"u}r die gebrauchte Stadt}, booktitle = {Hiatus. Architekturen f{\"u}r die gebrauchte Stadt}, editor = {Frank, Ute and Lindenmayer, Verena and Loewenberg, Patrick and Rocneanu, Carla}, publisher = {Birkh{\"a}user}, address = {Basel}, isbn = {978-3-0356-1386-5}, pages = {155 -- 164}, year = {2017}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{Stapenhorst2012, author = {Stapenhorst, Carolin}, title = {The concept as an operant instrument within the interdisciplinarity of the architectural design process}, publisher = {Politecnico di Torino}, address = {Turin}, pages = {242 Seiten}, year = {2012}, abstract = {In the introduction to their book "What is philosophy?" Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari deplore the inflationary and trivialised use of the term concept: "Finally, the most shameful moment came when computer science, marketing, design and advertising, all the disciplines of communication, seized hold of the word concept itself and said: 'This is our concern, we are the creative ones, we are the ideas men! We are the friends of the concept, we put in our computers.' " This doctoral thesis shares the concern of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, but still, it is a thesis in architecture and thus collocated within the field of the representatives of the "ideas men". It engages in architectural design theory, and refers in particular to the investigation of methodological approaches within the design process. Therefore, the thesis will not contribute to the philosophical dimension of the term, but intends to overcome its imprecise use within the architectural discourse, in compliance with Eug{\`e}ne Viollet-le-Duc's admonition relative to vague definitions: "Dans les arts, et dans l'architecture en particulier, les d{\´e}finitions vagues ont caus{\´e} bien des erreurs, ont laiss{\´e} germer bien des pr{\´e}jug{\´e}s, enraciner bien des id{\´e}es fausses. On met un mot en avant, chacun y attache un sens diff{\´e}rent." The term concept in architecture is very often used as pure marketing collateral, it serves to sell an idea, a product, a design. Its functional applicability is reduced to a special manner of illustration, produced as one of the various design presentation documents at the end of the design process. In contrast, the original contribution of this thesis aims to give a precise, instrumental dimension to the term concept: the concept is the expression of a specific logic, capable to guide the decisional sequences of the process and thus to improve the quality of the designed projects. The motivation to define a specific instrumentality of the concept is closely connected to the issue of interdisciplinarity in the architects' profession. The interdisciplinary character of the architectural field is widely accepted and discussed as such, but the thesis intends to give a more precise definition of the various kinds of competences involved by classifying them into either the internal or the external group. The traditional notion of interdisciplinarity, predominantly seen as collaboration between architects and technical experts, and, most notably, the historical, sometimes contentious, relationship between architects and engineers is described. Referring to recent developments, the transformation of the architect's role within the professional sphere, marked by an increasing importance of diverse influences and linked to a growing risk of marginalisation, is illustrated. The thesis describes different ways to adapt to this specific kind of interdisciplinarity, which generally requires the architect's ability to connect and to integrate various contents, different points of view and diverse scales. On the other hand, the big potential which is implicit in the interdisciplinary field is exposed: architects can inform their core competence, the design, by extracting contents of different disciplinary competences, pertaining or not pertaining to their own professional field. They have the possibility to cross fields of external competences in a selective way and by doing so they can build up a corpus of knowledge capable to generate and communicate guidelines and systematic methodologies for their design. At the end, the analysis of these two aspects allows the definition of a more specific professional profile of the architect as specialist of interdisciplinarity. The thesis is concerned with the theories around the design process. The design process is seen as open to inspection and critical evaluation, with major focus on the decisional sequences which characterise it. It concentrates on the process' descriptiveness and the degree of self-conscious approaches applied within it. The importance of regulative, strategic mechanisms is illustrated by testimonies taken from a series of design researches and leads to the functional definition of the figure of the concept as representation of a coherent set of ideas, as generator of a project-specific system of rules and as communicator of decisional strategies. The concept's function is furthermore defined as communicative interface which generates and transmits the system of rules authoritative for all the disciplinary competences involved in the design process, a communicative interface which constitutes a basis of shared convictions capable to increase the efficiency of collaboration. Furthermore, the concept's capacity to explore and elaborate the contents of external disciplines is identified as a possible methodological approach to innovative design thinking. The approach to a specific functional definition of the concept is continued by the description of a series of instruments that are simultaneously generating and communicating it. It is outlined to which degree the concept itself is already the result of an ideational process, collocated within the initial phase of the design proceedings, serving as a guideline to them, but still continuously evolving and adapting in its progression. In addition, it is illustrated how all the diverse instruments of the concept are operational media through which the knowledge transition between different disciplines can occur. The considerations about the concept as operational instrument of design are elaborated with regard to a number of examples of didactical applications that are particularly involved in the development and teaching of specific design methods. These examples illustrate the interrelations between design theory and design education. They are derived from very different schools of architecture and diverse mindsets, but all of them transmit models of conceptual design thinking.}, language = {en} } @masterthesis{Wolf2022, type = {Bachelor Thesis}, author = {Wolf, Nina}, title = {Koexistieren : Die Stufen der Mensch-Tier-Beziehung - Vom Nutztier bis zum Personenrecht}, publisher = {FH Aachen}, address = {Aachen}, pages = {114 Seiten}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Seit 2002 ist der Tierschutz fest im Grundgesetz verankert, jedoch herrscht immer noch ein enormes Ungleichgewicht bei der letztendlichen Durchsetzung gegen{\"u}ber der Tiernutzungsinteressen. Die Nichteinhaltung des Tierschutzes stellt nicht nur aus Tierwohlsicht, sondern auch aus Klimaschutzgr{\"u}nden eine ernst zu nehmende Problematik dar, welche wir nur gemeinsam angehen k{\"o}nnen. Die Gesellschaft sollte sich {\"u}ber das eigene Konsumverhalten bewusst werden, gleichermaßen m{\"u}ssen auch {\"u}berzeugende Alternativen aufgezeigt werden. Thematisch ist die Arbeit in drei Teile gegliedert. Die Geschichte, das Recht der Tiere und die Zukunftsaussichten stehen hier im Fokus. Wichtig ist es, den Istzustand neutral darzustellen, um die Fakten nicht zu harmonisieren. Die Publikation soll nicht abschrecken, vielmehr soll sie die Leser:innen motivieren, Dinge {\"a}ndern zu wollen. Denn nur miteinander k{\"o}nnen wir friedlich „koexistieren".}, language = {de} } @masterthesis{Plevako2024, type = {Bachelor Thesis}, author = {Plevako, Ludmilla}, title = {Ekatharina : Leben in der Trudarmee}, publisher = {FH Aachen}, address = {Aachen}, pages = {59 Seiten}, year = {2024}, abstract = {Harte Arbeit, Hunger, Unterk{\"u}hlung und Ungewissheit - dies war der normale Alltag der Trudarmee im 2. Weltkrieg. Ekatharina, eine deutsche Sowjetb{\"u}rgerin, wurde wie viele andere gegen ihren Willen in diese Armee eingezogen. Die Bachelorarbeit „Ekatharina - Leben in der Trudarmee" behandelt den Lebensabschnitt einer {\"U}berlebenden, der Urgroßmutter der Autorin, in Form eines Graphic Novels. In der Trudarmee, auch Arbeitsarmee genannt, musste sie unter schweren Bedingungen Zwangsarbeit verrichten, wie arbeiten in der Schmiede, B{\"a}ume f{\"a}llen oder St{\"a}mme schleppen. Das Projekt soll nicht nur die Erinnerungen und das kulturelle Gut bewahren, es soll auch die Familiengeschichte erforschen, die Vergangenheit verst{\"a}ndlich gestalten und die beteiligten Personen in Ehren halten.}, language = {de} } @book{StapenhorstMeerbach2019, author = {Stapenhorst, Carolin and Meerbach, Kerstin}, title = {Studie zur forschungsbezogenen Lehre an der Fakult{\"a}t f{\"u}r Architektur der RWTH Aachen}, publisher = {RWTH Aachen}, address = {Aachen}, doi = {10.18154/rWth-2019-06163}, pages = {140 Seiten}, year = {2019}, language = {de} }