Venice Architecture Biennale 2018

Thoughts Form Matter - Spatial Installation Austrian Pavilion

The Austrian contribution Thoughts Form Matter is a plea for the power of architecture as an intellectual analysis of the world and for the freedom to design spaces that are not subject to functional and economic constraints. LAAC, Henke Schreieck and Sagmeister & Walsh are creating a conceptually and materially complex spatial installation which draws together inside and outside, vertical and horizontal, the historic pavilion and the language of contemporary architecture and design.

Thoughts Form Matter is giving rise to spaces which will enable us to perceive those qualities that the architects and designers are seeking to produce in their work. In their contributions the teams understand “free space” as both a spatial and spiritual construct, as a complex dynamic system and as a versatile realm which is shaped by coexistence. Concepts such as “deviation”, “atmosphere” and “beauty” become tangible in a three-part, converging spatial installation.

LAAC  “Sphere 1:50.000” 
Installation, 2018 

The Austrian Pavilion is principally perceived as a strictly symmetrical building. It was built in 1934 to a design by Josef Hoffmann and Robert Kramreiter. Twenty years later Hoffmann added a curved garden wall in the rear courtyard. The spatial installation interprets this gesture as one of deviation, as a revolutionising of one´s own design. Sphere 1:50.000 is a poetic mise-en-scene, a spatial deviation.

Food and landscape

At MPREIS Weer a food market is woven into the surrounding landscape as a way of focussing on the origins and the quality of the produce. The local context and landscape features such as fields, trees and grass are translated into surface and space with the help of both natural and man-made techniques.

Residential building with gorge and birches

On a plot south of the Dorfgasse in Hötting a residential complex will be constructed with nine apartments. The architecture could be described as structured terrace typology. The building emphasises the qualities of the hillside as well as it fits with the surrounding buildings.

Competition 2nd prize

Invited architectural competition for a headquater of an Austrian insurance company

Slow Food - but quickly - super thanks!
The motto expresses the young zeitgeist, in which a fast urban lifestyle is lived and an awareness for regional, genuine and high quality products are praised.

The goal of the intervention at Eduard-Wallnöfer-Platz (Landhausplatz) was to create a contemporary urban public space that negotiates between the various contradictory conditions and constraints of the site and establishes a stage for a new mélange of urban activities characterized by a wide diversity. The realized project consists of a 9.000 square meter concrete floor sculpture.

Architektur im Kontrast zwischen natürlichen Bedingungen und kulturtechnischen Reaktionen

Das Projekt Naturpark Ötztal basiert auf dem Konzept einer Architektur, welche im Kontrast zwischen natürlichen Bedingungen und kulturtechnischen Reaktionen steht. Der Geograph Kenneth Hewitt schreibt dazu treffend: "Most natural disasters are characteristic rather than accidental features of the places and societies where they occur.“ Durch das Konzept einer geomorphologischen Annäherung wird ein Gleichgewicht zwischen dem Design und der Diversität der Landschaft gesucht.

Ein Objekt versus Haus

Im Kontext der städtischen Umgebung verfolgt der Entwurf den Gedanken, kein weiteres Gebäude hinzuzufügen, sondern den Pavillon als Objekt in den homogenisierten Stadtraum zu integrieren.

The missing head for the existing body

The structure of the existing Training Centre proves a disoriented, scalable architecture wherein the function cannot be expressed. The extension will change this and modernize the building in its entirety, without changing the existing building. The new building is located at the western end of the gym, the entrance is on the south, running parallel to the Inn promenade.

Die Sanierung des Widum Vent ist ein wichtiger Bestandteil um den Ort und seine Authentizität zu unterstreichen.
Im Bewusstsein dem Ursprünglichen Respekt zu zollen, hat man sich gegen den Abriss und für die Sanierung des historischen Widums entschieden. Im zentralen Blickfeld der Sanierung des denkmalgeschützten Widums der Pfarre Vent steht die (Wieder-)Herstellung eines charakteristischen Gebäudes in der Gemeinde.

An alpine Hyprid is a multifunctional building. It is the aim of this applied research to develop suitable combinations of function, conceive utilization concepts specially designed for the Alpine area and implement a reference plant.

The Nature of Things

Das Gleichgewicht zwischen Architektur und Natur war Ziel der Gartenkunst vieler historischer Epochen. Betrachtet man einen idealen Renaissancegarten, so sieht man einen Raum, in dem Architektur, Kunst, Natur und Landschaft ein harmonisches Ganzes bilden, um dem Menschen den idealen Raum für seine Entfaltung zu geben. Leitmotiv des Entwurfs ist die Wechselbeziehung zwischen dem Künstlichen und dem Natürlichen. Diese Wechselbeziehung wird vorrangig bestimmt durch die Geometrie – das Maß der Erde, the Nature of Thing.

As regards our energy supplies, we have now reached a crucial turning point. For quite some time, industry across the globe has been showing a strong tendency towards renewable forms of energy to replace fossile engergy sources and nuclear power.
The advantages of renewable energy being widely known, large parts of the population strongly support its promotion. While in non-Alpine areas, it is relatively easy to plan and build such plants, the integration of renewable sources of energy in a sensitive and environmentally-friendly manner following environmental design ideas presents a great challenge in the Alpine zone.

2nd prize competition

The form of the new multipurpose hall is a long building ascending southward. The ensemble of buildings, primary school, kindergarten and the multipurpose hall define the structure of the village. The orientation towards the road is significant in so far as it provides the school building and its surroundings with an introverted sense. The roof of the building is intensively planted and lies between the school and the kindergarten. It cuts into the topography and by varying across one storey, forms a gentle slope and walk-on roof, resembling a toboggan run. 

Der Entwurf ist ein räumlich-archäologisches Konzept welches Kunst, Kultur und Naturwissenschaften mit dem Umfeld vereinen kann.

Excerpt of the competition jury: The proposal is characterised by an ”aerodynamic” design, where all the elements fit together in a unified, plastic form of great elegance. In design terms the proposal appears as the competitions most successful. It appears as a refined, highly developed design where the knoll building and the inrun flow into each other in one unified form.The result is a monumental ski arena that grows out of the landscape. The adopted architectural language is consistent and includes the design as a whole, from public flows, commentators boxes, judges towers and stands...

All social and political dynamics are reflected in public space. Therefore public squares show the significant social, political and historic processes of change in our society. They contain the factors which form the city and its identity. Public spaces are, as well as social and communal platforms, stages of interpersonal and personal attention. Today, too, the square serves the public as a display of local foci, unanswered questions and developmental processes of society. The social function of the place is undisputed, its self-understanding is a prerequisite of democratic place. The gestalt of architecture generated the possibility for the square to meet this demand.

The splineTEX®TEST SPACE is an object taking the form of a pavilion, meant to test innovative solutions utilizing splinetex technology.

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The bridge adheres to the tradition of space framework bridges characteristic of the site. The structural system is an irregular steel truss with members optimized in orientation and cross section, while the top and bottom chord run the length of the bridge. The bridge is to be assembled using partial, prefabricated sections, simplifying fabrication and installation. The Elastomer-abutments are only stressed vertically, therefore allowing the concrete foundation to be minimal. The truss is tensioning over the river, allowing for a column-free span, maintaining a clear floodplain and avoiding the collection of debris.

FACADE
The facade acts as the signature of the hotel.
It acts to communication the hotel's symbolic identity, the hotel as a context for art.

Authenticity is a principle of originality.

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DECUMANUS MAXIMUS

Orientation System and Site Markers for Archaeological Park, Aguntum

SITE DEMARCATION:

The Decumanus called the East-West axis,  was used as a line of sight created through the observation of celestial motion. The Decumanus divided the sky , half into day and half into the night.

The challenge of this exhibition design is to combine arts, culture and literature together in order to concisely explore what is meant by 'Inside the White Cube': The concept of the design for the cultural history exhibit is based on several variations of the display cases, which are designed to compress and even neutralize traditional values, hinting to this sense only through the use of velvet as a finish material.

This project contains four different ski jumps:
The  K75- and the K64-Jump and the small Hills - K35 and K15.
All jumps start from the same hillside facing to the northwest. Each jump has its own approach ramp, take-off table and landing track.

The stand creates a window to the construction site. It demonstrates the complex procedures and situations that make the process of building possible. The stand serves only as a framework: a clear, smooth body, with the raw sub-structure, consisting of a scaffolding, not hidden, but part of the design.

In Innsbruck's industrial park, on the rooftop of an existing office building, a landscape with exclusive apartment/offices will be built. The individual units are to be made of lightweight wood and surrounded by spacious terraces. Around an atrium, the offices are arranged in a ring, in order to create an atrium space.

Thetis' lodge exists as a crack in the rock, a point to relax with views of the Wilder Kaiser. On the southwest of the plateau is a flat rock acting as the 'Copyright of the Landscape' [Natural logo] on the stone slab.

The structure appears as the result of a slightly raised ground floor, a compact bar on the gentle, meandering landscape. A trail network consisting of mowed ways leading from a fixed main road, and many unpaved side roads (sometimes only marked with the lawn mower in the meadow fields), divide and characterize the landscape.

The throughway shapes building typology, in a line moving through the entire planning area. The urban design concept is guided by a comb-like arrangement of lines that run along a north-south oriented green space, with the dwellings arranged in an east-west orientation to ensure the best possible daylight access. A slight distortion of the overall axis creates a positive effect on the perception of the overall system.

The peculiarity of the topographic conditions and the uniqueness of its usage are what make the Bergisel a sporting and cultural hotspot. A reponse sympathetic to the traditional - historical burden of the place is the focus of this proposal.