When implementing their diploma thesis, Patrick Ernst and Robert Sterzing had to slip into a variety of roles. At the end stood the prototype of an emergency shelter made of cardboard.
Two architecture students from TU Graz developed a 23-m2-large mobile space made of cardboard. They reveal in the interview the doubts they faced about developing the prototype for refugee accommodation. Patrick Ernst and Robert Sterzing came to Graz from Dresden to do a master's programme in architecture (Link). For their diploma thesis, they made a dwelling out of commercial corrugated cardboard which works like a huge assembly kit. Neither aid organisations nor business enterprises had any enthusiasm for their humanitarian idea and at first even colleagues didn't take it seriously. Though disconcerted, they didn't despair. The experiences they went through from the idea to the prototype and what makes their project unique you can find out in the interview as Patrick and Robert share their reflections just before the completion of "arcCard shelter2.0".
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