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YOUTH CENTER, ST. BENEDIKT, NÜTSCHAU MONASTERY
Foundation work of the longhouse
2024

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"Nicht nur Erd- und Klimawissenschaftler*innen gehen seit langem die Wände hoch. Gesetzlich fixierte Baustandards verhindern den Wandel und werden zum Feind der Architektur. Unsere Umwelt ist von einem mineralischen in einen organischen Lebensraum weiterzuentwickeln. Wir sind immer schon Symbionten gewesen. Genetisch, entwicklungsgeschichtlich, anatomisch, physiologisch, neurologisch, ökologisch“ (Imke Woelk im Interview mit Andreas Grosz, KAP FORUM Köln)

It's not just earth and climate scientists who started climbing the walls a long time ago. Statutory building standards prevent change and are becoming the enemy of architecture. Our environment needs to evolve from a mineral to an organic habitat. We have always been symbionts. Genetically, evolutionarily, anatomically, physiologically, neurologically, ecologically. (Imke Woelk in an interview with Andreas Grosz, KAP FORUM Cologne)

SPATIAL THEORY OF ORANGES, I-III
36.5 x 27.5 cm, Photography, 2023

 

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Erotic Nude, female, almost greek
Bottle, fragment. Reusable, translucent plastic, 200ml, 2006

Imke Woelk recommends reconsidering the nature of human capabilities and equating the products shaped by wind, water, and light with man-made works. She proposes to expand the historiography of art, its temporal, object-related limitation and hierarchization, and to start from a common cultural history that integrates the design processes of biotopes.

In his live broadcast 'Shaping the Future,' Gert Scobel discussed the necessary transformations in culture, society, and politics with Imke Woelk, Stephan Brunnhuber, and Frederic Hanusch. The 3-Sat broadcast is now also available online.

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117 JBN - A LONGHOUSE FOR THE YOUTH, ST. BENEDIKT, NÜTSCHAU MONASTERY
Wood as primary building material. Integration of the structure into the surrounding natural terrain
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GLASING IN: 112 WFS - RESIDENTIAL HOUSE, BERLIN
Lightweight steel and wood construction
2023

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Environments of shared concerns
Lecture at  „1.5°C“ – A Symposium on Climate Change,
AIA Los Angeles, April 2022

Imke Woelk recommends reconsidering the nature of human capabilities
and equating the spaces shaped by wind, water and light with those
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Imke Woelk, Trembling and amazement, ARCHITEKTURGALERIE AM WEISSENHOF
Imke Woelk recommends reconsidering the nature of human capabilities and placing the products shaped by wind, water and light on an equal footing with man-made work. She proposes to overcome the historiography of art, its temporal, object-related limitations and hierarchizations, and to start with a common cultural history that integrates the ecology of the planet.

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Symposium at the German Academy Rome VILLA MASSIMO.
Organizer: Chair for Building Typologies, Prof. Heike Hanada, TU Dortmund
Lecture by IMKE WOELK: Characteristics of a fragmentary space

Further participants: Verena von Beckerath, Emanuel Christ & Christoph Gantenbein, Adria Daraban, Filip Dujardin, Job Floris, Heike Hanada, Simona Malvezzi, Marco Provinciali, Oda Pälmke, Uwe Schröder, Giuseppe Strappa, Andrea Simitch & Val Warke, Rahel Whiteread, Imke Woelk, Peter L. Wilson

24. - 25.02.2022

Rome forms the foundation of a basic understanding of the identity and heritage of European architecture. Its ruinous monumentality* is still more visibly present today for the city, for architecture and art than perhaps in no other metropolis in Europe. As a thematic follow-up to the symposium „monumental_public buildings at the beginning of the 21st century“ 2019 at the Baukunstarchiv NRW, the theme of „fragmental_dissolution of public space“ at the 2022 symposium at the Villa Massimo in Rome examines the ambivalent identity of a monumental and simultaneously romantic understanding of space between the built environment and its dissolution, between architecture and the reconquest of space by nature. At a time when our relationship to the unbuilt, to the „natural“ is being radically questioned and the static role of architecture is beginning to falter, concepts such as dissolution and fragmentation seem to be taking on a new identity forming role in recent architectural development. But how does the relationship between architecture and the city develop? The symposium seeks to take up the concept of the „public“ within recent positions and to critically reflect on its relation to a classical-romantic understanding of architecture.

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112 WFS - RESIDENTIAL HOUSE, BERLIN
Resource register of all materials: Quantity, Reusability and Recyclability

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PRECARIOUS INHABITANTS, 2021
Foil fragment with green-blue print, mud and blue-green algae

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Every animal is more or less human, every mineral is more or less plant, every plant is more or less animal. There is no sharp demarcation in nature – Denis Diderot, ‚D’Alembert’s Dream‘ [written in 1769, published in 1830]

Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie is reopening, August 2021

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE OPEN SPACE
Essay by Imke Woelk on a vital cultural landmark, 2021
7th chapter of her PhD thesis: The Practical Value of the Hall at Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin

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HYBRIDIZATION, Culture of Nature, Part 3
A contribution to the Debate of Life Resources
Video by Imke Woelk, 2021

The ocean covers over 70% of the planet. It is our life source, supporting humanity’s sustenance and that of every other organism on earth. The ocean produces at least 50% of the planet’s oxygen, it is home to most of earth’s biodiversity, and is the main source of protein for more than a billion people around the world. Not to mention, the ocean is key to our economy with an estimated 40 million people being employed by ocean-based industries by 2030. Even though all its benefits, the ocean is now in need of support. United Nations – World Oceans Day, 8 June 2021

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Renovation of Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie complete.
This cultural landmark will be in need again.

THE UNIVERSAL SPACE
The Practical Value of the Pavilion at Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin - Dissertation by Imke Woelk

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112 WFS - RESIDENTIAL HOUSE, BERLIN.
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NEW URBAN STRUCTURES, THESSALONIKI
Semi-outdoor plaza with sloping floor for western periphery of Thessaloniki. Circular openings allow sunlight and rain to enter this multipurpose covered plaza

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117 JBN - YOUTH CENTRE ST. BENEDIKT, NÜTSCHAU MONASTERY
A self-evident place

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INTERVIEW WITH IMKE WOELK
a conversation about climate protection, ecological buildings and her city of the future.
Berliner Zeitung, 16.02.2021

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FUTURE ARCHITECTURE PLATFORM
IMKEWOELK participates in this outstanding European architectural program with her project of an Inner-City Nature Reserve, March - October 2021

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INTERVIEW WITH IMKE WOELK
on her visionary concept for urban growth corridors within natural spaces
taz. die tageszeitung, 23.01.2021

HUMAN SCALE REMEASURED
Exhibition by ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory at AEDES Architecture Forum Berlin about new spatial requirements, societal demands and economic values in architecture

IMKEWOELK will exhibit the project HYPERCITY
Other projects by: Team Stadsvrijheid, Rafi Segal A+U, Rogers Stirk Harbour, Other Architects, INCLS, Alfredo Brillembourg, Experientia, UNStudio, A-01, Anna Heringer, DnA_Design and Architecture, feld72, Sauerbruch Hutton, nonconform
16 January - 13 May 2021

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RESTART!
Residential House, Nauen, 2021

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3 CONFERENCES
Development of Modular Housing Quarters into Regenerative and Socially Sensitive Urban Spaces
Venue: AEDES Architecture Forum Berlin, organised by WBM Wohnungsbaugesellschaft Berlin-Mitte, in cooperation with Wilhelm Klauser (InD)
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