grünkern Babenhausen
Primary measures include re-allotment as precondition for privatization as well as enhancement of public spaces for successful marketing.
The strategy of urban inversion is based on two radical premises: rigorous demolition of all existing structures within the limits of the future open space and therefore a complete unsealing of the surfaces on one hand, and maximum preservation of existing structures outside the perimeter with options for re-use, modernization or retrofitting on the other.
Thus, the strategy of urban inversion creates new public spaces with high spatial qualities to live and linger.
convertible house #1
The competition "Simplicity" was initiated in 2006 by ComitŽ de Fantasie and organized in association with CASla within the tradition of experimental housing areas in Almere which has resulted in the widely acclaimed locations De Fantasie and De Realiteit in Almere.
Situated in a unique location on a clearing in the woods the 12 chosen designs will form a new sustainable neighbourhood for individual housing desires and imagination.
With freedom from welfare supervision and only few commitments towards building regulations Simplicity aims to show the potentials of private initiatives on the housing market.
The constantly changing intensity of use in relation to season, weather and number of inhabitants and guests is facilitated by the variability of the inhabitable volume.
This variability is the result of the combination of a fixed and a mobile volume on rails. The fixed volume contains all necessary functions and installations whereas the mobile volume offers flexible space for circulation and living.. Kitchen, bathroom, heating, walking closet and beds are integrated into specially shaped cocoons.
There are 2 different radical modes with each its own delicate relation between inside and outside:
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In wide-open mode the
>>> website eenvoud
O Novo Salão Metropolitano
From harbour to parlour
The geomorphology of the site named the city of Oporto. The city in turn gave its name to its best known trage good - the port wine (Vinho do Porto). With the wine emerged a symbiotic relation between the cities Villa Nova da Gaia and Oporto. Today Oporto represents a metroplitan region,the Grande Area Metropolitana do Porto (G.A.M.P.), which competes in the globalised contest of city regions.
In this regard the Douro Valley is considered as one space to be formulated. The design area contains three zones for interventions. The central zone covers the touristic sites between Alfandega and Ponte Dom Luis on both shores. The areas of Massarelos to the west and Fontainhas to the east are enhanced with small interventions on the scale of the neighbourhoods.
The main focus of creating a new Waterfront is put in the central zone with design proposals for new public spaces and urban program. The Salão, ital. Salone was always regarded as a reception or assembly room. It is a high quality public space furnished with a melange of old and new buildings and well connected with a new bridge to an urban loop for strolling.
London
This Volume combines the contributions of the 5th edition of a series of courses which investigates into the phenomena of the european city or metropole. Based on the conviction that from the intensive investigation of one place a lot can be learned about the overall character and type of european cities.
Park Appartments Aulendorf
With the demolition of the large structured health institutes the development towards a living city gaines a momentum. Living at the edge between Park and city center becomes very attractive.
The construction of 200 housing units is an important contribution to stabilising the number of inhabitants. Thereby existing infrastructure is used to the full capacity and sustainability. Together with the rearrangement of the areas Schlossplatz, Hofgarten, Parkstrasse und Safranmoos this opens up a new perspective for Aulendorf.
A variation in typology, program, new development and retrofit are encouraging city life, social mix and integration. The new edge corresponds to the dense wood structure of the Park. The new development areas will shape the experience of a spacious Park as the central open space in the living city Aulendorf.
Paradise Included
The competition brief challenged contestants to develop a vision regarding the arrangement of a (suburban) landscape in a new type of public green space: the Stadstuinen or Town Gardens in Almere Hout. The Stadstuinen accommodate some 100 archaeological sites. In this set-up, these sites are protected and assigned a (recreational) function.
Beijing Beginner Box
Beijing Case was a Grant Program on Urban Development in Beijing.
It focusses on newcomers and migrants and their way to find an identity stuck between their origins and the inconceivable urban entity of Beijing.
Until now the migrant do not appear in the cityscape. But there are examples of emerging new elements in urban culture.
Most of them are hardly detected at first sight and need special attention to be recognised at all.
But they have the potential to form surprisingly complex strucutures.
>>> Beijing Case
Stuttgart West
The research course at the Universitaet Stuttgart resulted in stimulating visualisations of analyses show various approaches and perspectives on a special area of the city, with the potential to be further developped into architecture, urbanism and landscape.
252andScape
The international ideas competition
Bulb routes are introduced into the existing fabric of infrastructure. Visual coherence is shaping the geometry of the buildings. It is not landscape any more. Its character is oscillating. The new typology for bulb sheds represents urban strategy and visualizes the production processes inside.
>>> geest en grond
Rataweb
The Vienna based architecture office RATAPLAN wanted to give itself a playful internet site thet would reflect their approach on architecture. After a short briefing, this client and budget oriented architecture was transferred within one week into a monopoly based display refelcting the profile, conditions and framework of their work. The website got instant recognition among colleagues and clients and was published as a showcase of viennese spirit in local newspapers
>>> www.rataplan.at
it+ trade fair
Based on a prefab aluminium building system by Burkhart Leitner the design for this stand creates differentiated zones for b2b contacts. Textile banners, mobile furniture and lighting sets support the appearance of the Stuttgart Region as an innovative and creative player within the european network of metropolitan regions.
Concept Never Ends
711andScape
This project starts where theoretical books like "Netzstadt" and "Zwischenstadt" end.
AndScape describes a category of open space that is in transition. It is not landscape any more. Its character is oscillating. Rural and urban - ordinary and unique - ephemeral and enduring - place of production and recreation at the same time.
I was I am I will
I was I am I will be
european is an idea
the T-shirt defines your relation with this idea
Wearing this T-shirt makes you Ambassador of this idea
The embassy is where the T-shirt is
In Washington you can get your T-shirt at the next coffe-shop
In Cairo at the local market
In Beijing at your favourite shrine
europe - just wear it
>>> yourope* website
euromapping
Before talking about europe you have to draw it!
This thought is the starting point for a further research or large scale mind mapping project on individual representations of the coastline of europe.
Haus Raidl
The existing balloon frame building from the 1950s is located in a postwar refugee neighbourhood which has become more and more gentrified.
The new owner who inherited the house from an old lady wanted not only to upgrade the facade to modern standards but also to make a statement towards all the new villas around. We chose to give the house a new bright yellow wooden facade and a new balcony with lake view.
LightSpaceLab
Originating from the intention to experiment on the perception of space in relation to light, this temporary building was conceived and constructed as a laboratory.
With its scaffolding structure, removable wooden panels and a textile cover this cube of approximately 7x7x7m was an attraction during the summer of 1995 to both tourists and students. A documentary on the building process and research has been published on VHS.