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architect · educator
structures of care
repair, preservation + artistic urban interventions
for living infrastructures and more-than-human life

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What happens when the timber of the future is not straight, perfect and standardized?

A look back at Robotics Thinking Assemblies at Angermuseum Erfurt — a project exhibition that did not simply present results, but made an open field of research visible.

At its centre were crooked, slender and irregular timbers: thinning wood that is often considered low-value or difficult to use. In the context of climate-resilient forests and changing regional timber stocks, precisely this material is becoming increasingly relevant.

The exhibition shifts the perspective: away from the idealized building material, towards material with deviations, specific qualities and constructive potential.

On view were models, material samples, work fragments and processes at the intersection of digital construction, robotic fabrication, material research, teaching and public outreach.

The exchange that followed was especially valuable. The conversations made clear that this is not only a technical question, but a shift in architectural practice: How do we design when material is no longer anonymous, standardized and endlessly available?

These questions connect to broader concerns in architectural research today: how existing resources, material cycles, 1:1 prototypes and situated interventions can shape new forms of practice. The exhibition opened a field for further collective research — between forest, workshop, robot, museum, university and construction site.

Many thanks to the Speculative Engineering Institute, Angermuseum Erfurt, Fachhochschule Erfurt and everyone involved for the invitation, the inspiring conversations and the shared work on these questions.

Funded by CZS Forschungsstart and CZS Wissenschaftskommunikation by @carl_zeiss_stiftung

Guest Researchers: Anna Bajanova & Widjaja Martokusumo
Direction: Frank Bauer
Full project credits via @speculativeengineering

#RoboticsThinkingAssemblies #SPENI #DigitalFabrication #CircularDesign #TimberConstruction #DesignResearch #Bauwende #FHEArchitektur taken in Erfurt, Thuringen, Germany by @anna_bajanova

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We are pleased to welcome Anna Bajanova and Widjaja Martokusumo to the opening of »Robotics Thinnings Assemblies« on July 30 17:00 at Angermuseum. The open event includes a brief tour through the exhibition with many of its student authors. Feel free to come and join the discussion!

The exhibition presents thinnings — an underused and underrated resource — as a building material for future construction with emerging technologies. The experimental works ask what instigates when we begin seeing crooked, slender timber not as substandard, but as potential. They bring together robotic fabrication, material research, and engineering. The material, in all its irregularities, is used as a design driver for new structural approaches to building. The work deliberately takes its cues from the changing timber inventory of Thuringia's climate-resilient forests.

On display are models, material samples, and work fragments by a range of student authors, drawn from integrated teaching, research, and public education with partners like @joschinger and @holz21regio. In accompanying formats such as the SPENI Kinder-Uni, even the youngest visitors get a playful introduction to questions of making structures with material knowledge. The exhibition is a satellite to the »Werkschau 2026« @fherfurt_architektur.

The project is funded by CZS Forschungsstart and CZS Wissenschaftskommunikation by @carl_zeiss_stiftung. Thanks for support to the Landeshauptstadt @erfurt_de and KinderUni Erfurt.

Image Credits: @speculativeengineering
Project Credits: For all student authors, please refer to project documentations (Students), Luis Liermann, Martin Täubert, Katja Teich, Johannes Fleischer (Assistants), Anna Bajanova, Widjaja Martokusumo (Guest Researchers), Jannis May (Research Associate), Frank Bauer (Direction)

@#laubhybrid #hybridtimber #leafwood #woodinarchitecture #carlzeiss #circulardesign #digitalfabrication #timberarchitecture #experimentalbuilding #wiehe #designresearch #fabrication #timberconstruction #manufacturing #woodworking #designbuild #fhearchitektur #unbuilding #SPENI @institutteknologibandung @julianlieser @henriettehantel @der_maenz @fherfurt taken in Angermuseum by @anna_bajanova

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2 months ago

STRUCTURES OF CARE — FIELD TEST

Somewhere between scientific fieldwork and an artistic hypothesis:

a full-scale test of how support might meet a living structure — through scale, contact, balance and load.

No final solution yet. The tree has not approved the prototype either.

Research in progress for living infrastructure and more-than-human life.

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#structuresofcare #livinginfrastructure #morethanhuman #artisticresearch #urbannature taken in Planet Earth by @anna_bajanova

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3 months ago

PUBLIC SAFTY BY CHAINSAW IS NO SOLUTION - STRUCTURES OF CARE MAY BE 🫶 #besselpark #baumschutz #hitzeschutz #berlin taken in Besselpark by @anna_bajanova

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Ruin or support?
A structure inside a living tree. At first glance, it is hard to tell whether it was abandoned and taken over by nature — or whether it is still holding the tree.
For Tree Repair, this ambiguity is the point: care does not disappear. It becomes visible. taken in Berlin, Germany by @anna_bajanova

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4 months ago

This year I was lucky enough to catch the April Fools’ Day exhibition. As I later discovered — one of the major art events in Bishkek and, arguably, all of Central Asia. But I’m not obsessed with the status. I’m obsessed with the place.
The exhibition was held at the National Museum of Fine Arts named after Gaypara Aitiev — the most important, the most prestigious. But contemporary art couldn’t find a place there in the literal sense. It was put in a ventilation shaft — adjacent to the wall of the main hall, essential but invisible. Foucault would call this a perfect heterotopia: a parallel world through the wall, where the official museum prefers not to look. Contemporary art in Bishkek exists like ventilation — necessary, but pushed out of sight.
My work “Not-So-Young Guard” (немолодая гвардия) ended up there outside the competition, almost by accident. But you couldn’t imagine a more fitting place.
15 graphic sheets — 3D scans of old elm and spruce trees from the Young Guard boulevard, with crutches and supports drawn onto them. The boulevard is dedicated to the guards who defended the homeland in World War II. But the aging trees stand there like veterans too — amputated, crooked, holding on. Fighters for clean air and clear sky. How much time do they have left? Where are their medals?
And these veterans of clean air were hung in a ventilation shaft. For those who don’t know — smog in Bishkek is one of the serious health and environmental problems. Coincidence? I don’t think so. Sometimes accidents are more precise than any intention.
But this is just one detail — you could write about this exhibition forever. It’s like a mountain stream: not deep, but strong. Step in just a little — and it’ll carry you away. #bishkek #contemporaryart #studiomuseum #centralasia @ulanmuseum @malika.u.m taken in Национальный музей искусств имени Гапара Айтиева by @anna_bajanova

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В этом году мне повезло попасть на первоапрельскую выставку. Как выяснилось позже — одно из главных художественных событий Бишкека и, пожалуй, всей ЦА. Но я фанатею не от статуса, а от места.
Выставка проходила в национальном музее изящных искусств имени Гайпара Айтиева — самом главном, самом престижном. Но современному искусству там не нашлось места в буквальном смысле. Его поместили в вентиляционную шахту — смежную со стеной основного зала, необходимую, но невидимую. Фуко назвал бы это идеальной гетеротопией: параллельный мир через стену, куда официальный музей предпочитает не смотреть. Современное искусство в Бишкеке существует как вентиляция — необходимо, но вытеснено из видимости.

Моя работа “Немолодая гвардия” попала туда вне конкурса, почти случайно. Но точнее места не придумаешь.
15 графических листов — 3D-сканы старых карагачей и елей с бульвара Молодая Гвардия, к которым дорисованы костыли и подпорки. Бульвар посвящён гвардейцам, защитникам отечества во Второй мировой. Но и немолодые деревья стоят там как ветераны — ампутированные, покосившиеся, держатся. Борцы за свежий воздух и чистое небо. Сколько им ещё осталось? Где их ордена?
И вот этих ветеранов за чистый воздух повесили в вентиляционную шахту. Кто не знает — смог в Бишкеке одна из серьёзных проблем для здоровья и экологии. Совпадение? Не думаю. Иногда случайности точнее любого замысла.
Но всё это лишь один из нюансов — о выставке можно писать бесконечно. Она как горный ручей: неглубокий, но сильный. Чуть зайдёшь — сразу унесёт.
Many thanks to: @malika.u.m @chagaldak_ @ulanmuseum taken in Национальный музей искусств имени Гапара Айтиева by @anna_bajanova

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Retziproke Stütze @anna_bajanova 💙 by @anna_bajanova

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7 months ago

FIX IT!
Natural Monument – White Mulberry Tree
Planted by the Huguenots around the year 1780 to feed silkworms.
Despite its vitality and historical significance, the tree was once slated for removal.

Through great effort, it has now been preserved – for it is not only built monuments that tell our history.
The living world around us is equally worthy of appreciation and protection.

Thanks to @simonschmitz.lighting @studio____p
@ba_mitte_berlin - Umwelt- und Naturschutzamt Baumgutachten Lux

#houseeurope #designresearch #prosthesis #bauwende #udk taken in Berlin Germany by @anna_bajanova

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9 months ago

#TreeRepair 🏗️🌳 nicht so wichtig wohin du gehst. Wichtig ist, gut begleitet zu sein. mit richtigen Begleitung kann man Bäume versetzen - und retten! ✨ taken in Berlin, Germany by @anna_bajanova

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TreeRepair 🍀🪽
The oldest Tree 'weißes maulbeerbaum' of a Berlin. As almost everything in the city needs to be fixed.
Would you like to live like that when you getting old or rather naturally following apart ? More about coming soon... 🤞 taken in Südkreuz by @anna_bajanova

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The first row of reversible prostheses from the Otto Hetzer truss has now found its place at our outdoor experimental site at @fherfurt_architektur. The topography of this historic roof beam offers space for experimentation, uniting the art of repair with a forward-looking vision for circular practice.

Students from #speni’s architecture programs built a custom timber support frame, enabling safe storage and further study on-site — once again made possible through the generous support of @deutschebahn.

Together with @speculativeengineering and @jenscasper, the Unbuilding Group continues to explore construction not as a static state, but as a layered, circular, and interdependent process.

Heartfelt thanks to all who contributed to this careful relocation, precise Bestandsaufnahme, and the first proposals. The project will continue to grow — a vivid reminder of how many solutions can be imagined for a single structural challenge.

Project Credits: Marian Bötzl, David Fiedler, Ingo Naegle, Jan Reichenhardt, Hannah Riethmueller, Christiane Siebert, Sara Javadi, Masoud Kamalimajd, Julian Lieser, Annalena Sass, Matthias Schott (Students); Lea-Sophie Krueger, Maximilian Malz, Hanna Staebler (Tutors); Joerg Behrens, Moritz Mosch (Documentation); Anna Bajanova, Frank Bauer, Jens Casper, Markus Lager (Direction)

#unbuilding #prosthesis #timberheritage #ottohetzer #glulam #reclaimedtimber #circularbuilding #sustainableconstruction #designresearch #SPENI #fhearchitektur @fherfurt_architektur #timberarchitecture #digitalfabrication #handsontools #bauwende @holz21regio #dbkarriere #wastewood #repairculture #manufacturing taken in Erfurt, Thuringen, Germany by @anna_bajanova

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