BUILDING BEYOND BORDERS
LEARNING FOR, FROM AND WITH THE WORLD
Building Beyond Borders is a cross-border learning platform to enhance knowledge and push action towards regenerative and distributive design and building processes
With its postgraduate certificate, hands-on workshops, bi-annual symposium, Global Perspectives master design studio, research and internships, Building Beyond Borders offers a wide variety of learning moments to students, professionals and other interested alike.
International collaboration to exchange skills and visions is key to this platform. Focus is on responsible ways of building, within a context of scarce resources and a low-tech approach, aiming for a positive environmental impact and high social return.
With its unique pedagogical approach and civic ambition, Hasselt University's Faculty of Architecture and Arts makes the perfect home for Building Beyond Borders.
NEWS
With the baseline 'The Power of Reciprocity', we will reflect on the potential of regenerative architecture and educational practices to generate positive impact, in the upcoming symposium.
Hybrid event, 06-07 February 2025
Hasselt, Belgium
Finalist
Global Perspectives is one of the five finalists of the EAAE pedagogy award. The winner will be announced at the Münster School of Architecture during the EAAE Annual Conference on Thursday 29 August 2024, 4.30 pm CET . The Awards Ceremony will be live streamed and the link will appear on the conference programme and the EAAE website
Pavilion launch and Pizza oven firing
'After months of intensively designing, planning, and building with the assistance of many local hands and the support of the enthusiastic community of Helchteren, the pavilion is finished and the oven is ready to be fired... we celebrate this milestone with a summer evening garden party open to all! '
Nena Aru, Anna Breuer, Maria Belén Cumbal Portilla, Louise Daussy, Rani De Becker, Lavina de Carolis, Nils Fischer, Artemis Korovesi, Ramses Parijs, Irina Prooth, Saumya Saishree, Sharon Delevi, Sadia Siddiqui, Olga Srejic, Lilla Starkbauer, Eva Van Geldorp
Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Website
July 5, 2024
Helchteren, Belgium
the UH master students present their projects for Cape Town's District Six and Brussels' Canal NE to an international jury
June 3-4, 2024
Hasselt, Belgium
presentation of the CPUT Global Perspectives master projects and exploration of new sites for the next edition of the parallel studio
May 23-29, 2024
Cape Town, South Africa
BuildingBeyondPastorie Festival
BBB students organise a 3-week collaborative building festival open to the community and all interested in learning about bio, geobased materials and reuse
Full programme on the students' wearebuildingbeyondborders website
April 29-May 05, 2024
Helchteren, Belgium
we've started!
the preparations for the pavilion of the postgraduate certificate 2023-2024 have started...
March 29, 2024