5th Holcim Forum “Infrastructure Space”

The notion of performance was explored in its technological as well as its social, political, constructive, and aesthetic dimensions, in different geographical and temporal contexts, through discussion of concrete examples of buildings and their components.

Infrastructure was thought of as a site of collective design engagement for the urban and its permutations that requires an expanded repertoire of tools; from entry points, like the sites of interface between systems and scales, to representations that could enable ways to generate alternative infrastructural forms.

When infrastructure is conceived and constructed at the territorial scale its systems and logics cross boundaries and jurisdictions, territorializing regional geographies. This workshop focused on interdependent, overlapping infrastructures through three dominant themes: water, energy and risk.

This workshop took several case studies from across the globe to explore the consequences of the supposedly non-urban realm now being engulfed within the variegated patterns and pathways of a planetary formation of urbanization.

Posters by students from 12 of the world’s leading technical universities were displayed at the 5th International Holcim Forum 2016.

The posters encouraged stimulating discussions on approaches to sustainable construction. All Forum participants were eligible to vote in the Student Poster Competition.