5 posts tagged “die angewandte”
The main qualities for the project formed the mainframe of the topological surface. The software output consisted of an extensive array of subtly varying surface conditions. According to their performative behavior the population of over one hundred individual entities where scrutinized for their fitness according to different criteria, such as the potential to fulfill the program, the performance as structural entity and the affect generated by its appearance. This process reduced potential candidates to a very small number. Finally this candidates ran trough a series of algorithms (various remeshings, subdivisions, optimizing the size of the spatial pockets etc.) which eliminated all candidates but one.
This technique can be described as an evolutionary process driven by a series of intensive forces, such as the specific compartmentisation of the pouches, the loadbearing qualities of curvilinear conditions and the allover sensual experience of the space. The numerous explorations and investigations of SPAN into the nature of topological bodies, throughout the recent years, served as basis for the design process. One of the results of these investigations was a series of models only dedicated to seamless, continuous circulations within architectural bodies and apertures in complex curved geometries. These two fundamental architectural conditions, opening and circulation, are discussed in the project of the Austrian Pavilion for the Shanghai Expo 2010 in an alternative way.
The lecture describes the design process of the Austrian Pavilion for the Shanghai Expo 2010, as well as the construction method. The lecture depicts the advanced fabrication methods involved in the construction of the Project, such as the use of simulation softwares, building information modeling and CNC fabrication.
On invitation by Francois Roche and Marc Fornes, Sandra and I joined in as guestcrits for the midterm review of the Studio of Francois Roche this semester at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, die Angewandte. The range of projects dealing with robotic systems, stochastics and various models of material deposition systems was quite intriguing and the robotic solutions very imaginative. The kinematics of some of the solutions where astounding and much more the material output of the machines, ranging from fuzzy material clouds to fribreous behaviour....
Last Friday, following an Invitation by Wolf D. Prix (Coop Himmelb(l)au) and Reiner Zettl, I joined into the Panel of Critics for the Diploma Presentation of the Density group. The Postgraduate Students of the Angewandte had to present their final Thesis to receive the Master of Science degree. The Panel included Wolf D. Prix, Jeffrey Kippnis, Rainer Pirker, Robert Neumeyer and Brennan Buck (Assistant, Greg Lynn Studio) . The postgraduate course is called Urban Srategies, and that is basically what the students presented.
Last week Nils Johnkans, Assistant in W.D. Prix studio at the di:'AngewAndte and Member of Spacelab UK, gave me a couple of copies of the freshly printed book about the Architecture Institute at the Angewandte.
07/08 Institute of Architecture, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Finally today we met the new Dean of the USC, Quingyun MA, of Shanghai based architecture firm MADA s.p.a.m. Christoph Kapeller, USC Faculty member, was so friendly to introduce us to Quingyun. We had a short chat, he told us that there is kind of an exchange program going on with his office and the Zaha Hadid Studio in Vienna´s Angewandte, as some students of her studio go to China every year to work in the office. I´m really astonished how young the new dean of the USC looks like. I hope we can meet him for a longer conversation in the upcoming weeks.
