r e u s e d
reused is a research and teaching network addressing the complexity of conservation, reconstruction, retrofitting, repair, or restoration of existing buildings. It emerged from the cooperation of the professorships and chairs of the School of Engineering and Design. With its associated and institutional members, it today extends beyond the TUM.
The questions concerning the preservation, conversion, or further use of existing buildings are as diverse as their nature. The spectrum ranges from small-scale urban residential quarters to industrial and commercial buildings to large-scale infrastructure structures. The conservation of individual buildings is just as much a part of our work as the future handling of large post-war building stocks. Despite the great differences between the various types of buildings, there are common desiderata with regard to the recording and evaluation of existing structures and strategies for their preservation, repair, and restoration. The research approaches, which are as complex as they are differentiated, can only lead to sustainable results and generate universally applicable methods in interdisciplinary cooperation. The wide range of activities of the individual institutions is further strengthened by the synergies in research and teaching, so that the profile of the TUM as an innovation-oriented academic facility for architects and engineers is sharpened by the constructive combination of theoretical and practical aspects. The initiative reused.TUM.de provides significant impulses for the highly topical question of how to deal with the existing building stock.