Research areas

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)