On 20 March 2025, Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof and Heerlen Mayor Roel Wever visited the New Regional Bauhaus. The picture shows them in conversation with RWTH Students.
Last Monday at the New Regional Bauhaus, Dr. Elma Durmisevic, a pioneer in adaptive building design and circular building, delivered an inspiring lecture on ‘Reversible building design’. Students had the unique opportunity to exchange ideas with her, diving deep into the potential of circular building materials and innovative design approaches.
This semester, international students from RWTH Aachen University are developing visionary spatial concepts for circular construction materials in Europe’s most densely urbanized region—the Eurodelta, aligning with the focus of the research project ASSET. Enrolled in the master’s program Transforming City Regions, students in the Eurodelta Circular Blueprint course explore the entire industrial business chain of brick, steel, concrete, and timber, integrating circular strategies into their production, transportation, usage, and reuse. Their innovative proposals demonstrate how the Eurodelta can become a model for cross-border circularity, showcasing sustainable approaches to construction materials and contributing to a greener, more resilient built environment.
Student Expo
RWTH Aachen | Städtebau | Transforming City Regions
‘EURODELTA Circular Blueprint’
New Regional Bauhaus
24 February – 31 March 2025
Free Entrance
The ‘Laboratory of European Architecture and Urbanism’ (L’EAU) is a research consortium by Städtebau | RWTH Aachen, Maurer United Architects and Reicher Haase Assoziierte. The team works on a continuous agglomeration plan between Meuse and Rhine.
Expo
L’EAU
‘Between Meuse and Rhine’
New Regional Bauhaus
01 May – 01 june 2024
Free Entrance
During the past semester, international students from RWTH Aachen University worked on future visions for a sustainable Southern Dutch Limburg at the ‘New Regional Bauhaus’ in Heerlen, based on principles of circularity. The students, enrolled in the master’s program ‘Transforming City Regions,’ focus on creating regional plans. The future visions for this region will be showcased at the Heerlen ‘dependance’ of RWTH Aachen University throughout the month of February.
Student Expo
RWTH Aachen | Städtebau | Transforming City Regions
‘Superlocal Southern Limburg’
New Regional Bauhaus
01-14 February 2024
Free Entrance
Jan Jongert is a Dutch pioneer in Circular Building. He is visiting professor at TU Delft and founder of Superuse Studios – an international architecture collective for circular and sustainable design. At Superuse Studios, a design is not considered as the beginning of a linear, but part of a circular process: A phase in a continuous cycle of creation and recreation, use and reuse. In his presentation, Jan Jongert will present different strategies for building sustainable architecture with reclaimed materials.
Lecture
Jan Jongert / Superuse Studios
‘Mining, Harvesting, Re-using’
New Regional Bauhaus
30 January 2024, 1800h
Free Entrance
On September 30, 2023, we celebrated the opening of the New Regional Bauhaus with over 120 guests in Heerlen, Promenade 14. In their welcoming speeches, Heerlen’s Mayor Roel Wever, Vice-Rector Prof. Brück-Dürkop and Director of Stadsregio Parkstadt Peter Bertholet emphasized the importance of the New Regional Bauhaus for cross-border cooperation in the field of urban design and regional development.
The New Regional Bauhaus is a place for teaching and research, but also for the transfer of knowledge in the Rhine-Meuse region. In line with the UNESCO Chair, the focus is on cultural heritage and urbanism, but also on issues relating to transformation and structural change on a large scale. The Master’s program Transforming City Regions serves this purpose in particular.