Many Thanks to Jon Mirtschin for his awesome tool geometry gym and to Michael Budig.
The Protective Cast of Cook’s Cottage
The brief asked to design an interpretive center (museum, theater, library, classrooms, restaurant, shop …) for Captain Cook’s Cottage in Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne.
The prime idea behind this project is to provide Cook’s Cottage with a protective cast. This cast had to be a sphere – the most perfect, yet most generic form.
To protect the existing vistas from the cottage into the park, the boundaries of these views are projected onto the shell of the cast to carve out void spaces. Thus, if you look out the windows of the protected and enclosed cottage, you will not notice, that you are inside a multiple-layered cocoon.
Through a superadjacency of contrasting forms, the void spaces of the cutouts become an architectural statement in itself instead of a bland negative space.
To create a multiplicity of centers, buildings in buildings as well as space inbetween walls, diverse spheres and domes are nested inside the cast.
Many Thanks to Neil Masterton and Mark Raggatt
flexible modelling
The flexible cell of chair is inspired by the work of Rinus Roelofs.
Many Thanks to Alexander de Leon and Jane Burry
mutating fibonacci
paramount
Exhibition design for the Museum Ladin in Southtyrol.
This work was done as a freelancer for casati.mop in collaboration with MolingMakers and misign.
eight days berlin
freischwimmer
The brief asked for an international comprehensive school for the UN-City in Vienna.
To meet the specific perception of space of each student‘s level of development the building‘s interior and exterior are developed as three unique, but interconnected parts.
To suit the requirements of the students and their specific age, there is an evolution of the geometry of space-defining elements — from curved to straight, from playful to more rigorous, from rooms to spaces.
Since the building is stretching over a pond it is always corresponding with the element of water. On the upper level you can find a secondary, exterior walkway — providing a view to Vienna‘s city center.
Thanks to Alexander Mühlauer and Astrid Dahmen
interwoven typeface
aufbruch der repetitiven monotonie
It appears that the single reinforced concrete-beam transfers the repetitive, monotone grid-system of columns into a state of dynamic movement.
This phenomenon seems to accelerate the process of deterioration of the abandoned aluminum factory in Mori, Italy. It appears like this single element keeps the process of transformation in a state of time-lapse – the movement seems more to be in an intermediate state, than finished.
In phase one the frozen movement is traced back and divided into single steps through several analyses.
In phase two the analyzed energy of the movement of the reinforced concrete beam is catalyzed and transferred onto the grid-system of the columns of the entire factory hall. Therefor twenty-four attractors are linked in relative position to the same number of vertices of the concrete-beam and its figure of movement.
Through the connection of all grid points in vertical and horizontal direction it creates a dynamic system in which all points influence each other.
After analyzing several different transformation set-ups, the open 3D-system with an additional horizontal shifting appears to be the most successful and is taken into phase three.
In this phase the transformed softspace is extracted out of its original adjacencies, materialized and imbedded into a new context.
Many Thanks to Prof. Stefano de Martino, Alexander Pfanzelt and Jan Willmann
alongalongline
The core concept of this project is based on the perceptional principal of a smooth continuation of a line. This phenomenon describes the »Phenomenal Transparency« (Colin Rowe) already with two lines.
To generate a complex parametric system of intersecting and overlaying lines, the Cinema 4D hair module (dynamic splines) is used. After creating a catalogue of several parametric models, the most successful is transformed into space. Every single hairline is translated into the space-defining bone-structure of a shopping-mall.
Locations in the diagram where several lines accumulate are translated into webs within the bone-structure. All main building elements are formed out of a continuous structure, creating one topological homogeneous space.
In collaboration with Chistian Precht
Many Thanks to Prof. Patrik Schumacher, Robert Neumayr and Michael Budig.
Exhibited in the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Architectural Biennale 2010
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