Prof. Swen Geiss

2016 // Founding member of the Institute for Process Architecture at the Department of Architecture

2015 // Expansion of the professorship to include the subject area of building theory / building typology

2012 // Registered as an energy consultant for historic buildings [KfW / WTA]

2010-2016 // Member of the Innovation Council of Regionale 2016 “Future Region” – field of building culture

2007 // Professorship in Architecture & Resources, Alanus University of Arts & Social Sciences

2004-2006 // Senior Lecturer for Sustainability, Energy & Environment, School of Architecture & Visual Arts, University of East London

2003-2011 // Teaching assignment, School of Architecture & Construction, University of Greenwich, Design Atelier “Sustainable Housing & Urbanism”

since 2003 // Partner at team51.5°architekten, Wuppertal / London

2001 // Research associate in the field of energy-optimized school construction, D2 postgraduate program in Ecological Building, Prof. Scholl, BUGH Wuppertal

2001-2003 // Project architect at HHS Planer + Architekten AG, Kassel

2001 // Registered with the Chamber of Architects NW Düsseldorf, No.: A33563

2000-2001 // Teaching assignment, lecture series Technical Building Services, winter semester 00/01, RWTH Aachen

1996-2001 // Self-employed and freelance work in various working groups, including architectural working groups Krenzer & Prof. Sieber

1996-2000 // Research associate in the field of low-energy and solar building, Department of Technical Building Services + Design, Prof. Sieber, RWTH Aachen

1996 // NAI Summer School, Netherlands Architecture Institute Rotterdam

1992-1995 // Student assistant, Department of Technical Building Services, Prof. Sieber

1988-1996 // Studied architecture at TH Darmstadt and RWTH Aachen

2017 // WTS Velbert-Langenberg, 1st place, invited selection procedure

2017 // FWS Görlitz at Güterbahnhof Görlitz, 1st place, Europe-wide VgV procedure

2016 // Alte Vogtei and Zehntscheune, Burbach 1st place, invited workshop procedure

2015 // New building for Zentrum Via Adrina and new fire station Arfeld, Bad Berleburg 1st place, realization competition

2013 // Lennépark Dresden 1st place, urban planning workshop procedure

2012 // Faktor X – Resource-efficient Building and Living 2nd place, urban planning competition

2010 // Primary-energy-optimized timber box, Solingen honorable mention, good buildings award 2010 BDA

2010 // Primary-energy-optimized timber box, Solingen 3rd prize – Velux Architects’ Competition 2010

2010 // Primary-energy-optimized timber box, Solingen 5th prize, Kfw Award 2010 – Courage to Leave Gaps

2007 // Workshop building FWS Essen, 1st prize – invited realization competition

2004 // New use for freight halls at Solingen central station, 2nd place, multiple commission by the City of Solingen in cooperation with the Regionale Agency 2006

2002 // Conversion of Buckenberg barracks, Pforzheim, purchase award, urban planning competition in cooperation with Franziska Wagner

2002 // Community center and vicarage Lohfelden, 1st prize, realization competition for HHS Planer + Architekten 

1998 // Integrated planning for high-rise refurbishment Herdecke, 1st prize, realization competition for young architects

1996 // Diploma thesis “New Embassies Berlin” recommendation for the EUREGIO Architecture Prize

2017-2020 // FWS Görlitz at Güterbahnhof Görlitz

2015 – 2016 // trial operation Volkshaus Rotthausen, activation and participation process in cooperation with Dipl. Ing. Miriam Hamel, Aviala Dietrich B.A. and cand. arch. Simon Koolmann on behalf of and in cooperation with the City of Gelsenkirchen, Department of Building Construction and Real Estate

2016 // Citizens’ and community center in Alte Vogtei + Zehntscheune, Burbach, Siegerland

2015-2017 // New building for Zentrum Via Adrina and fire station Arfeld, Bad Berleburg 

2014 – 2017 // Building Culture in Practice, commissioned by the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR), commissioned by the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR), within the framework of the Experimental Housing and Urban Development research program (ExWoSt), in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kluge, Dipl. Ing. Miriam Hamel as well as the Office for Urban Projects, Leipzig and LandLuft – Association for the Promotion of Building Culture in Rural Areas

2014 // work live units – flexible conversion of a workshop building, Bonn

2014 // Townhouse – conversion and energy-efficient refurbishment of a townhouse [KfW-Effizienzhaus Denkmal], Wuppertal

2013-2016 // Klostershof – conversion, extension and energy-efficient refurbishment of a farmhouse into a multigenerational house [KfW-Effizienzhaus Denkmal], Olsberg, Sauerland

2012-2013 // Musiker – Apotheke – conversion and energy-efficient refurbishment of a Wilhelminian-era apartment building [KfW-Effizienzhaus Denkmal], Wuppertal

2011-2012 // Pool house – conversion, energy-efficient refurbishment and extension of a private swimming pool from the 1970s into a retirement residence, Bochum

2008-2009 // Conversion and energy-efficient refurbishment of the all-day school FWS, Essen 

2008-2009 // New workshop building FWS, Essen

2007-2008 // Timber box – age-appropriate residence as a KfW-60 house, Solingen

2006-2007 // Low-budget apartment conversion, Wuppertal

2005-2006 // Extension of Brandlehow Primary School, Putney London

2004 // Upper school center, Ernest Bevin College, Tooting London