Træværk

Frederiksen, Jonas Birger Bech ; Weihrauch, Anna Deleuran

4. term

Architecture, Master

2024

2024-09-02

176 pages

Træværk is a project concerning an artisan school for artisans working with wood. The basis idea was to create a more sustainable future for the building industry. This influenced the placement of the project as the closeness to the engineering department of Aalborg university as the hope is for the educations to be able to work together and gain a civil understanding of one another’s profession. It is hoped that this would lead to future projects where the different practitioners have a greater understanding of the different phases in the realization of a project. Furthermore, the hope is that by exposing the engineers to the carpenter and woodworker education, they may be more inclined to think wood into the projects they are working on both during the education and later in life. This could later evolve the use of more wood in Danish construction work. For the social aspect of sustainability, the focus has been on creating a space that allows for a study life, more in the line of what is experienced elsewhere. This is seen as the students at an artisan school often must grow up much faster as their education is generally shorter when compared to university educations. Meanwhile the youth are leaning to the longer educations which hurts the artisan educations and, in the long run, the Danish workforce. Here the artisans are slowly coming in higher demand as the amount of educated artisans are falling. The solution seems to be to offer more study life and atmosphere giving an appropriate experience of youth and allowing a prolonged youth free from responsibility. This will be tried by adapting the study experience of other educations into the artesian education while still celebrating the strength and necessity they are for the society.

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