34 posts tagged “digital design”

The current Issue of Frame magazine focusses on the issue of color. This edition also features the Austrian Pavilion for the Shanghai Expo 2010 by SPAN & Zeytinoglu.

Here is a description of the Magazines Agenda: 

Frame is the world's barometer of interior design. The magazine shows you what's happening and where to find it. The hottest spaces, the coolest products, spiced up with slices of art and architecture: that's the essence of Frame magazine. We gather the most radical and fashionable work from around the globe and package it to perfection in six hefty issues a year. Loaded with nothing but the best in contemporary design, Frame is an inspiring and indispensable reference for professionals in interior design and other creative pursuits.

Finally, after a Semester of hard work our students presented their results to a distinguished panel of critics at the Dessau Institute of Architecture. The results of this semesters work at the Advanced Architecture Studio where well received by the Jury consisting mainly of members of the Faculty of the Kansas State University and some additional members such as Nina Rappaport. Here are some images of the sudents work:

SPAN & ZEYTINOGLU WIN THE COMPETITION FOR THE AUSTRIAN PAVILION AT THE EXPO SHANGHAI 2010

VIENNA, Austria – March 30th, 2009 – A jury of nine members today announced that SPAN & Zeytinoglu, Vienna, won the architectural competition for the design of the Austrian Pavilion at the EXPO Shanghai 2010

The Topology of Sound

 „ The main driving force behind the design of the Austrian Pavilion for the EXPO in Shanghai 2010 can be described as acoustic forces, or more accurately as music. Music as a concept that reflects continuity in terms of architectural articulation that seamlessly connects the various spaces within the program. The embodiment of the sonic conditions within the space manifest the architecture of the pavilion, which resonates to the rhythm of the Video Jockeys (VJs) performance – the conductor of the atmospheres within the main space. The rich history of Austrian musical tradition makes it possible to create a performance program reaching from Baroque Music, to the classic area to the Modern age to contemporary acts. The space unfurls from within the topological body, from the main space, the audience chamber, to the exterior epidermis. This process creates pockets, pochés that include the rest of the program such as Shop, Restaurant, Office, and the VIP Area. Each one of those programmatic areas includes qualities co notated with the quality of living within Austrian conurbations: Music, Culture, Culinary expertise, urban textures, opulent landscapes and lavish foliages.“ (SPAN)

 

SPAN:

­Vienna based Architecture Firm SPAN, headed by Matias del Campo and Sandra Manninger, is driven by a compulsive desire to speculate about architectural opportunities in the presence of animated matter, organic entities and their underlying geometrical and mathematical presence. Their award winning architecture designs are informed by specific sources within the fields of mathematics, geometry, botany, biology and life sciences. The manifold inspirations are fused into projects applying the most advanced digital design tools and casted into form by computer controlled machinery, making SPAN one of the most innovative architecture practices. Their activities include Architecture Design, exhibitions and lectures as well as teaching in various countries and institutions, such as the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Bauhaus Dessau and the ESARQ in Barcelona.

The jury that selected the winning design was comprised of the following members:

 Prof. Will Alsop – (SMC Alsop),

Dietmar Steiner – Director Architecture Center Vienna (AZ W)

Bettina Götz – architect, Artec, Vienna

Christian Knechtl – architect, Knechtl Studio, Vienna

Dr. Thomas Angyan – Director Wiener Musikverein.

Peter Rantasa – Mica, Vienna

Mag. Gudrun Hager – WKÖ

Prof. Richard Trappl – Confucius Institute, University Vienna

Mag. Gabriele Tschürtz - BMWFJ

customer: BMWFJ und WKO
Management: EXPO Office Austria

For Press images, full project description and further information contact SPAN: press@span-arch.com

It´s about time to mention that the show Housing in Vienna is on show right now in the Ringturm in Vienna. The show was designed by SPAN last year and was first on show in Venice. The second stint of the exhibition was in the Polytecnico Milan, and I´m pretty sure it will be close to your home someday this year, as the tour continues. The design of this show was an important step for us as we could continue our explorations in surface tessellation systems and spatial continuity. Another important aspect for us was to gain further experience in the fabrication processes of complex curved geometries. This explorations are fully integrated in the design of the show.

ACADIA 2008: SILICON + SKIN

Matias del Campo has been assigned as curator of the South American section of the upcoming Architecture Biennale Beijing ABB. Following an invitation by Neil Leach, Matias del Campo will also present SPAN´s body of work at the conference that will take place during the opening reception of the Biennale. The main topic of this Beijing Biennale is (Im)Material Processes - New Digital Techniques for Architecture.

After a seamless setup of the show Sandra and I attended the opening of the exhibition Housing in Vienna at the Palazzo Tron in Venice. The day was filled with activities as also the main venue, the Venice Biennale opened the same day. The show in the Palazzo Tron, dedicated to the history and presence of subsidized living in Vienna was opened with speeches by three persons: the Viennese Stadtrat Ludwig, the director of the Wohnbauforschungsinstitut Dr. Wolfgang Förster and the representative of the UIAV, the University of Architecture Venice, Liliana Padovani. The opening was a huge success. We were lucky with the weather as the reception took place in the wonderful garden of this Baroque palazzo. Just as the reception finished it started raining cats and dogs. 

Based on some of the recent explorations in our practice we designed this semesters task for the Students of the Dessau Institute of Architecture, Bauhaus Dessau: to scrutinize floral entities an their underlying geometric logic to create spatial conditions:

Back again in the Bauhaus we started this Semesters Advanced Design Techniques course. The course deals with two specific issues: Component driven Architectures and advanced fabrication techniques. As a role model for the idea of components we rely on the field of botany and here especially  on flowers. The course started with a presentation of this idea and some key terms the students have to use to develop their ideas: inflorescence, plication, venation and ornament. I´m pretty eager to see what the students are going to conceive based on this design environment and the line of thought emerging out of it. Especially the issue of ornament as spatial phenomenon can generate some polemic ideas, bearing loads of opportunities for architectural arguments, such as enclosure, structure,  spatial differentiation and so on. To develop a project the students were asked to pick up the site of the Gropius House at the Meisterhäuser, close to the Bauhaus, and replace the present postwar reconstruction with a new structure.