The aim was to design a modern townhouse as part of the block border, which is always aware of its responsibility to the context. Its presence is characterized by the reinterpretation of the Gründerzeit-style perforated facades. An architecture that relates the place, the form and the materiality and which takes equal account of both private and public interests.

HYPO Tirol Kufstein

Completion of construction phase 1.

In autumn 2018, the first construction phase of the Copa Cagrana was made accessible to the residents. The other phases are already being planned and should be completed by 2019/2020.

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.

The open space design project ‘Stadtnaht Dornbirn’ exploits the urban potential of a topographical feature and transforms a periphery into a spatial urban joint.  

The project integrates and expands the existing public realm in central Dornbirn. The concept pursues the idea of a joint that provides a functional and solid connection between two elements while also generating new urban quality in both spatial and architectural terms.

Concept Store with Bar & Shop

In december Hitt und Söhne opened with drinks and skis its doors on the Hungerburg in Innsbruck. In the context between city and mountain five young Munich's realized with an innovative concept something completely new. In the format of a concept store one can admire not only brand new ski models but also a Cafe'- Bar.

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 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. 

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.

Competition Arena Vienna

The leitmotif of the present master plan results from the lively interplay between open field and geometric volume. The adjacent sports facilities and green spaces show how building typologies and open spaces are determined and how they relate to each other in a playful way. As large-scale as these buildings may be, they create a special atmosphere by promising and delivering exciting experiences and joy in joint playful activities. The project tries to translate these qualities into the structure of a residential quarter. Accordingly, the playing field in particular and the green space in general form the design basis of the design. This intention is achieved through a composition of different volumes, which are placed in such a way that a multi-layered public outdoor space is created that flows through the entire area and extends the accompanying park.

Urban Structure

A present study with approx. 80,000 m² GFA living shows evenly distributed cubatures of different heights. A basically justifiable density. Scattering and fragmentation is a possible approach. The schematism of construction sites and road network in the study should be resolved by appropriate programming, orientation high points and focal points are also allowed. The aim is not to create a monofunctional residential area, but rather a contemporary, lively area.

In the end, the diversity creates more stable residents. Above all, this means built diversity for different users. Special forms of housing such as cluster housing, assisted living, student housing or student housing and senior housing mixed etc. are to be offered, micro-housing and housing for large families, in different sizes and types. In this quarter you will also be able to live on the ground floor, for this there must be structural proposals (maisonettes, plinths, etc.) and usage (living and working options). The immissions from the north and south traffic belts and the Tivoli sports complex must be taken into account.

Form-Piece is Fitting-Piece

In contrast to the existing building, the new building will be designed as a complete structure, the facade of which will, however, be formulated in a differentiated manner so that it can of course be integrated into the surrounding block perimeter development in the neighborhood. The design tries to negotiate both the architecture of the Wilhelminian era and that of contemporary buildings such as the Chamber of Commerce, BTV and Hypo Tirol Bank.

The design attempts to spatialize the demanding task of a new district center, consisting of a children's house, a gymnasium and an event house, by means of contextually coherent yet heterogeneous structures on a multi-layered topography.

The new district center is completed by a square and a trapezoidal structure with sloping green roofs, which take up and continue the topographical theme of the surrounding plaza.

Design Concept

The design tries to give space to the demanding task of a multi-purpose center, consisting of a crèche, a kindergarten, a parent-child center, rooms for clubs and a group practice for doctors, using the concept of a multi-layered rural typology.

Acknowledgment - Competition bottom station Schafbergbahn

The Schafbergbahn is equally an attraction in the context of a unique landscape, as well as historical heritage. It is the steepest railway line in Austria and its nostalgic gear steam locomotives are among the oldest in the world. The design concept tries to emphasize these peculiarities by turning the valley station into a place of contemplation - the PLATFORM SCHAFBERGBAHN.

Design railway station Mayrhofen

The planned cubic content of three interconnected volumes seems to overwhelm the scale of Mayrhofen. Therefore, the contribution tries to form an ensemble for the railway station. Several structures should, not least physically linked by the tracks, despite functional differences, create a structured unit and fit into the environment of the village. Consequently, the big challenge is to develop an architecture that is as independent as it is self-evident in the region, as well as regionally self-evident architecture.

Competition 2nd prize

Invited architectural competition for a headquater of an Austrian insurance company

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.

Honorable Mention

Der Entwurf sieht eine hoch verdichtete Blockrandbebauung mit großzügigem Innenhof und Stöckl Gebäude vor, welche auf die unmittelbare Umgebung der Typologie Wiltens reagiert. Trotz seiner Analogie zum gründerzeitlichen Blockrand bekennt sich das Projekt zu einer modernen Urbanität und zeitgenössischen Gestalt. Höhenentwicklung und Volumetrie orientieren sich an den Fluchten der angrenzenden Bauwerke.

Der Entwurf versucht der Bauaufgabe einer Seilbahnstation, als besonders spezifischen Fall eines Ensembles gerecht, zu werden. Fast tausend Höhenmeter voneinander entfernt, nicht zuletzt physisch verbunden durch das Seil, soll trotzfunktionaler Unterschiede eine Einheit entstehen.

Everybody can be a star.
Step into the Hard Rock Cafe Innsbruck and get ready for your performance.
The whole scenery is designed as a setting of a rock stage consisting dressing rooms, hip spaces, frontstage areas and backstage rooms for everybody.
The atmosphere ranges from energizing ( Shop + Bar) to feeling like home (Restaurant).

Basically, the concept pursues an urbanistic approach. In the sense of a bridge offensive, the project attempts to respond to the urban development goals.

3rd price competition http://ausstellung.next-pm.at/austrocontrol/

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.