parametric engineering
Projects
Figural Studies Workshop 2013
Master of Architecture students at the Knowlton School of Architecture participated in a one week Figural Structures Workshop using karamba3d. Over the course of the workshop, which ran from January 10-16, approximately one-half of the KSA’s second and third year MARCH class learned to use parametric geometric modeling, finite element calculations and optimization algorithms to [...]
Digital Design Fabrication 2012
Parametric Envelope Structures The seminar centred upon the investigation of engineering and fabrication methods for the realization of a 1:1 parametric envelope structure – contributing to the ever-expanding catalogue of proto-architectural solutions made possible through digital methods. Furthermore the workshop sought not only to examine the formalization of digital design methods but also respond to [...]
Cinema³
Cinema³ is about developing alternative strategies for screening films, moving towards a more spatial movie experience and away from the classic typology of a single screen with seated audience. A wooden structure, supporting a continuous soft surface, Cinema³ fluidly displays a short prototype film in images from three projectors. The softness and translucency of the [...]
Plateformes – Points de Vue
Three unusual points of view in the city, temporary architectural structures interact with the surrounding urban environment. The aim of the 3 projects is to give unusual sights over the city during a summer cultural event “Voyage à Nantes“ taking place every two years – mostly related to contemporary art. LE VORONOÏ / BOUFFAY NEIGHBOURHOOD – ALLÉE [...]
LIBRA Mobile Justizanstalt Korneuburg
The mobile, in lightweight construction, will be installed in the covered indoor hall of the Justice Center Korneuburg, aims to visible the invisible thermals in the area caused by the air movements of the building and the people in it. The principle of Mobile, in which all elements balance with eachother in equilibrium, mirrors [...]
VertiCity Chicago/Hong Kong
The combination of diverse and quite contradictory boundary conditions is not limited to architectural and structural design. In the VertiCity project, four functional and architectural objectives were defined in addition to load-bearing capacity, as a prototype for utilising vertical public space to improve super dense residential areas. As the generation process used yielded not just [...]
Multiple Natures – Taiwan Tower
The Taiwan Tower will become an innovative landmark people will identify with in present as well as in future times. Therefore the tower should not state a fixed meaning or image, but trigger people to invent and create their own interpretations of the tower’s meaning. To evoke multiply and diverse images the tower has to [...]
Looking Up (Exhibition at the MAK Gallery)
The installation at the MAK operates at the interface between the model context and reality: a large, diagrammatic configuration of structure studies becomes a three-dimensional intervention into the space of the MAK Gallery itself and at the same time serves as both base and display unit for the models and animations of the exhibitions. [...]
Infobox Vienna Central Station
This study was carried out for the design of an information box for the construction site of Vienna Central Station. The structure was to be raised 22 meters above ground level. Options for load transfer to the ground were severely limited by underground sewers, a parking lot and a bus terminal. Although the steel structure [...]
Marxer Active Energy Building
The Marxer Active Energy Building in Vaduz introduces a novel system of efficient and economic, yet architecturally intriguing bearing structures for housing units. Instead of a traditional approach based on a regular grid of straight columns, inclined columns were introduced that drive through the buildings volume, constituting a symbiosis of functional and architectural [...]
Skylink
Between the „the square“ building at the Frankfurt Airport and a 300m-distant carpark a new “skylink” bridge is being built. On this bridge a cable car will transport pedestrians from and to the carpark. The bridge is above the street which is the main access road to terminal 1 of the Frankfurt Airport and furthermore [...]
Music Pavilion – Salzburg Biennale 2011
The primary design intent for the art pavilion was to create a recognizable presence for contemporary productions in Salzburg, a city that is predominantly known for classical music. The main user of the pavilion is the Salzburg Biennale, a festival for contemporary music. The architectural concept is based on a theme that is self-evident in [...]
