Students, researchers and professors of KIT Karlsruhe, together with the architects’ office 2hs, realized a circular pavilion from recycling materials at the Federal Garden Show 2019 in Heilbronn.

The pavilion and garden explore the question of how we and the generations after us can live well and how we can develop our economy positively while the natural resources of our planet become scarcer. The pavilion was designed and built by students of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in collaboration with the professorships for Sustainable Construction (Dirk E. Hebel, Felix Heisel and Karsten Schlesier), Structural Design (Matthias Pfeifer) and Building Technology (Rosemarie Wagner) as well as the office 2hs with Lisa Krämer and Simon Sommer. "It was important to us that sustainable architecture must be attractive and relevant. Especially within the construction sector a rethinking is possible, because we are able already today to build according to the principles of a circular economy–we just have to decide to do it," says Dirk E. Hebel, Professor for Sustainable Construction at KIT about the project.