Urszula Koźmińska

Urszula Koźmińska

MSc. Eng.Arch., PhD

  • Exners Plads 7

    8000 Aarhus

    Denmark

20132024

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Urszula Koźmińska is an Associate Professor at the Aarhus School of Architecture. In her design practice, research and teaching, she focuses on post-extractive architectural approaches and life-cycle design strategies, adaptive and material reuse, repair and maintenance, and reversibility. She explores those topics with the ecological awareness of the broader eco-systemic and trans-scalar entanglements of the design process.

Research areas:

_ecosystemic, ecological and lifecycle approach

_circular architecture (adaptive and material reuse, design for disassembly and future reuse, reversibility, regenerative approaches), circular design process and construction (concepts, building systems, materials)

_circular urban planning (urban metabolism, material flows, materials’ sourcing)

_ lifecycle strategies in architecture (reuse, maintenance and repair, end-of-life scenarios)

_socially oriented architecture (co-design, participation, designing for shared economy, commoning)

Research area

  • Architecture
  • Circular Economy
  • Reused materials
  • Design for Disassembly
  • ecologicale architecture
  • Recycling
  • Waste
  • Reuse
  • Cradle-to-cradle
  • reversibility
  • ecological thinking
  • ecosystemic approach
  • repair
  • maintenance
  • lifecycle design strategies
  • lifecycle thinking
  • material reuse
  • adaptive reuse
  • post-extractive material practice
  • regenerative approaches
  • material ecologies
  • circularity
  • social sustainability
  • shared economies
  • ecological design process
  • research in practice

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