Circular Finnish Sauna Berlin
Circular DesignBuild Project
2023 – 2024
The Circular Finnish Sauna is a Design-Build project at SPENI, exploring circular construction through iterative, full-scale prototyping. Beginning with this first prototype at the Sauna festival “Echt Heiß” of the Nordic Embassies Berlin, the structure has been repeatedly dismantled, transported, and reassembled across locations, with each iteration adapting the same set of materials. Through hands-on engagement with construction, students develop resource-conscious design strategies that link material reuse, detailing, and spatial transformation. Integrating traditional craftsmanship with experimental processes, the project frames architecture as a dynamic system of material flows, cultural practices, and continuous adaptation.
Image Credits: c Bengt Stiller, SPENI
Project Credits:
Ali Ahmed, Lisa Etzien, David Fiedler, Ezra Kraft, Paula Therese Mainka, Falk Rädlein, Lena Sauerteig, Helene Schneider, Muriel van Wijnsberge, Marie Louise Weil, Vladyslava Yesypovych, Adnan Idlic, Ingo Nägle (Students)
Raphael Beil, Erik Findeisen, Eileen Keller, Mikko Fritze, Sandra Gosh, Thorsten Kober, Andreas Krieninger, Lennart Labarenz, Sascha Lummitsch, Ramona Schwertfeger, Bengt Stiller (Partners)
Frank Bauer, Markus Lager (Direction)