Rudolf Doernach

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rudolf Doernach, 1975
Rudolf Doernach, 2000

Rudolf Doernach (born August 17, 1929 in Stuttgart ; † May 15, 2016 in Wildberg) was a German architect, bio-architect and farmer in Wildberg (Black Forest) .

Life

After studying architecture at the Technical University in Stuttgart, he studied biotecture in the USA as a Fulbright scholar. He then worked in the USA, with lightweight shell constructions and floating plastic houses, also as a project partner of Buckminster Fuller . Twenty years of freelance work followed, specializing in research and development work on building materials and building systems. From 1960 to 1963 he taught at the Ulm School of Design.

After returning to Germany in 1974 he was in research contact with Frei Otto and the Institute for Lightweight Structures IL in Stuttgart, there especially in the research project SFB 230 "Natural Constructions" since 1988. At the same time, as Biotekt, he founded the Bioversity as a research institute and adult education center in Wildberg / Black Forest. Since then he no longer plans the buildings, but "lets them grow". Both in the figurative sense that they are regularly added and converted due to new ideas and needs, as well as by allowing the buildings to grow out of willows, for example, or greening them with climbing plants as living wall protection or through grass roofs . Several prototypes of geodesic domes and lattice shells with plant skin have been erected there since 1975.

He held numerous lectures and seminars with Hans A. Pestalozzi and Friedensreich Hundertwasser . Doernach worked for several years on the advisory board for building research in Bonn.

Performance, work

Bioversity in Validlingen
Geodesic dome

He created the notion of biotecture , which has not yet been included in technical vocabulary, as building with living building materials, plants as supporting structures and bioclimatic skin, at the same time as walls, roofs, energy generation and insulation. Since 1975 several prototypes of geodesic domes and lattice shells with plant skin have been realized in his research institute Bioversität . The term bionics was supposedly developed in the interdisciplinary research project SFB 230 Natural Constructions .

Dörnach became known to a broad audience from the eco-scene in 1983 with the double volume “ Handbuch für Better Zeiten ”. The practical descriptions and instructions for old craft techniques from the areas of building and living, clothing, home improvement, water, food, animals and energy have been implemented in many alternative housing projects in the city and in the country. Other topics include clay building , permaculture , wetland , domestic and green roofs .

For the state horticultural show in Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, in 1986 he created a large, self-supporting evergreen “city arbor”, which grew together with a natural garden, wetland biotope, natural house and garden house to form an eco-station .

Publications

  • Rudolf Doernach: Plant facades, plant climate, biotecture. In: Ökojournal. No. 4, Bächli Verlag, Hemberg / Switzerland 1978.
  • Rudolf Doernach: Building Climatology Biotecture. In: db. No. 12 1974, Deutsche Bauzeitung Verlag, Leinfelden 1974, ISSN  0721-1902 .
  • Rudolf Doernach: Organic house for village and city. Living community between plants, animals, etc. Human. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 1981, ISBN 3-596-24055-7 . (Alternative fischer series)
  • Rudolf Doernach: South German farmhouses. Umschau Verlag, Frankfurt 1986, ISBN 3-524-63038-3 .
  • Rudolf Doernach: Handbook for Better Times. Klett Verlag, Stuttgart 1983.
  • Rudolf Doernach: Archi-Bio: Biosophie-Archaitektur. CF Müller Verlag, Karlsruhe 1985, ISBN 3-7880-7282-2 .
  • Rudolf Doernach: Nature workshop. Wolfgang Krüger Verlag, Frankfurt 1985, ISBN 3-8105-0421-1 .
  • Rudolf Doernach: Biotektur Naturbau. In: Subjective Standpoints. Communications from the Institute for Lightweight Structures IL No. 36, Karl Krämer Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-7828-2036-3 .
  • Rudolf Doernach: Green is Beautiful Biotecture. Biohaus Verlag, Wildberg 1979.
  • Rudolf Doernach: Design Processes in Nature and Architecture. In: Natural Constructions. Concept booklet No. 10 of the SFB 230, University of Stuttgart, 1988.
  • Rudolf Doernach, series of lectures at the Goldegger Dialogues, Goldegg 1985.
  • Rudolf Doernach, article in natural constructions messages of the SFB 230, University of Stuttgart, 1988, ISBN 3-927078-00-X .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Doernach. In: arch INFORM .
  2. ↑ Honored by the Fachverband Schaumkunststoffe und Polyurethane eV (1975)
  3. ↑ Honored by the Fachverband Schaumkunststoffe und Polyurethane eV (1975)
  4. ^ Contributions to the 1st International Symposium of the SFB 230. Natural Constructions - Lightweight Construction in Architecture and Nature. Part 2
  5. ↑ Oekostation Freiburg, at the State Garden Show 1986. Archplus: Issue 92, Page 77-83
personal data
SURNAME Doernach, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, bio-architect, farmer and biotect
DATE OF BIRTH August 17, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 2016
Place of death Wildberg