GOAT-LAB Summer School

GOAT-LAB: fatuk and t-lab invite architecture students to take part in an open competition to design an innovative climbing tower for goats – sustainable, reversible, and built from regional timber. The winning design will be realised during a one-week Design-Build Summer School in the Diemerstein Valley. 

fatuk, the Department of Architecture at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau is dedicated to the future-oriented education of architects and sees the combination of theory, research and practice as a central component of teaching.
The t-lab, a research-oriented initiative at fatuk, investigates new ways of building with wood – with a focus on reversible connections, digital production and regional material cycles.
The aim is to actively shape change in construction: ecological, circular, resource-conserving.

Students from all European architecture faculties are invited to take part!

In the Diemerstein Valley, goats and two donkeys are helping to make the valley more open and brighter. The goats eat bushes and young trees and clear old gardens. The donkeys live together with them and protect the herd. The grazing project is organised by citizens from Frankenstein and the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau.

As part of the realisation competition with subsequent design-build project in the Palatinate Forest, a climbing tower for the goats is to be designed in the remote, natural location adjacent to the new t-lab research hall, which offers ideal conditions for planning, prefabrication and realisation: A wooden structure is to be built that functions as a climbing tower for goats. Particular attention will be paid to the sustainability, reversibility and innovative nature of the timber connections.


For further information visit our webseite: fatuk.de/goat-lab