Explore! Rethinking construction.

How can we transform the construction industry? By combining research, planning and the building trades. This is precisely what Explore! is all about: interdisciplinary projects that break new ground, from the laboratory to the building site.

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DesignBuild PROJECT – TU Wien

Architecture students are transforming a dilapidated wooden barrack in the Lindabrunn Sculpture Park into a functional clubhouse. From design to inauguration, an appealing venue for art was created independently.

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DesignBuild PROJECT

Asiat Park: Meeting point instead of rubble
reuse.practice Spring School 2025 – Students are building a space for young people in Asiat Park near Brussels using demolition materials.

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Educational prospects for young people in the trades and architecture.

If you want to master the future, you have to lay the foundations for it today. In addition to promoting craft and academic training, particular emphasis is placed on personal development and social responsibility.

Support areas of the Sto Foundation

Who is supported?

Our foundation work is aimed at talented young people in the construction industry.

We are particularly active in architecture and construction-related engineering sciences as well as in the painting and plastering trades.

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CRAFT | Supported

We support aspiring painters and plasterers.

ARCHITECTURE | Supported

We support students of architecture and institutions.

Latest news

Sto Foundation Launches New Funding Programme for Research in the Built Environment

How can we build in ways that are resource-efficient, climate-responsive, and economically viable? With its new funding programme, Explore! Advancing the Future of Building, the Sto Foundation supports research projects that seek answers to some of the most pressing challenges facing the built environment today. The…

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November Talks 2025. What Moves Architecture?

The Sto Foundation is organising the November Talks lecture series once again this year, with events taking place at seven selected universities in Ghent, Madrid, Paris, Prague, Stuttgart, Venice and Vienna. During the lectures, renowned and emerging architects will discuss current issues in construction.

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Bestenwettbewerb 2023: Kofferübergabe in der Schweiz

Die Sto-Stifung engagiert sich im Rahmen des Bestenwettbewerbs 2023 auch international. Stiftungsrätin Ingeborg Totzke überreichte vor kurzem Azubis aus der Schweiz die begehrten grünen Werkzeugkoffer.

08/24/2023 TradeCompetition Of The Bests

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