A central expectation of contemporary architecture today is to develop spaces that can react as flexibly as possible to different requirements and uses. Not "form follows function", but "form allows different functions".

These approaches are not new in architecture, but they are in great demand today - due to social, climatic and spatial change processes. Architecture should be fit for the future, and that means changeable for challenges that are not yet foreseeable today. Architects are therefore constantly discussing modular building systems whose holistic approach makes flexibility and adaptation possible and is therefore sustainable and conserves resources.

The event would like to ask about the significance of flexible building yesterday and today. What does it mean for building owners and users to develop a system that is functionally neutral? How do these systems change architecture

Text: M:AI NRW, Gelsenkirchen

Programme
moderated by Dr. Ursula Kleefisch-Jobst I M:AI NRW, Gelsenkirchen

Welcome
Eckart Kröck I Office for Urban Planning and Housing, City of Bochum

Richard Johann Dietrich I Architect of the Metastase Wulfen
Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Christian Schlüter I Bochum University of Applied Sciences

Panel discussion on the flexibility of modular construction today