Analytical Laboratory
The analytical laboratory enables material and damage analyses using various methods. The focus is on the objects worked on in the Conservation and Restoration degree programme, including building materials. Interdisciplinary use and commissioned work are possible by arrangement.
Equipment & Use
The analytical laboratory is equipped with analytical devices for the examination of samples of art and cultural objects, building materials and for determining damage processes:
- Incident light microscopy (bright field, dark field, UV excitation)
- Polarisation microscopy (PolMik)
- Wet chemical and microchemical workstations
- Infrared spectroscopy (FTIR)
- Liquid chromatography (HPLC, IC, DC)
- Thermal analysis (TG, DTA, DSC)
- Portabe X-ray fluorescence analysis (pXRF)
- Portable VIS spectroscopy (colour measurement)
- Calcimeter and sieve analysis for building material analyses
In addition, the laboratory has an extensive collection of reference materials for historical and modern materials.
Cooperation with other specialised laboratories expands the analysis possibilities.
Rooms
- Laboratory and workshop building (W)/rooms 109 - 112
Opening hours
- By appointment by e-mail to christine.fuchs@fh-potsdam.de or steffen-laue@fh-potsdam.de
Impressions
Research Projects
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The research and teaching project "Design and Building Workshop Gohrisch - Material, Joining, Landscape" examines the question of how contemporary architecture in rural areas can respond to landscape, climate, community and local building culture. The starting point is the municipality of Gohrisch in Saxon Switzerland - a place characterised by its special topographical location, its cultural…
Berlin, Paris and the Topography of the Metropolises 1937-1945
Franco-German research project on the history of urban planning in Berlin and Paris from 1937 to 1945
