Day: September 30, 2024

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SE Weathering Surrogates

Course No.: 848181
Teaching: Andreas Körner

In this technical seminar, students will explore the relationships between digital environmental simulations, digital fabrication, material properties, and weathering as a design factor. The focus lies on the interplay between colour, shape, and thermodynamic parameters. The course aims to develop and apply advanced digital design and fabrication methods that link, program, synchronise, and orchestrate those relationships. The results will be interactive prototypes that act as interfaces between the built and the natural environment and … more

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E1 Hothouse: Layering Thresholds and Prolonging Seasons

Course No.: 848106 – Group 0
Teaching: Andreas Körner & Jade Bailey

In ‘Hothouse’ (1962), British science fiction author Brian Aldiss envisioned a future Earth as a veritable hothouse where plants filled almost all ecological niches. Inspired by this utopia (!), the studio will investigate architectural notions of greenhouses and conservatories. Rather than conceiving them as functional spaces, we will see them as architectural thresholds between the inside and the outside. In Innsbruck, such extensions on building facades often act … more

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E3 Materia Chimera: Smudge and blend – A transcycling studio

Course No.: 848136

Team: Prof. Marjan Colletti | Catalina Tripolt | Peter Massin | Oliver Hamedinger

“The most environmentally benign building is the one that need not be built because it already exists” (Grammenos and Russel, 1997)

“The greenest building… is the one that is already built.” (Elefante, 2007)

Retrofitting, renovation, conversion, modification, alteration, reorganization, upgrading and enhancement of existing buildings are crucial strategies to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in architecture and building construction. However, there are … more

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EM1 SILENT STRUCTURES

Course No.: 848155
Teaching: Marjan Colletti, Mümün Keser,

„Silent Structures“ untersucht die Umwandlung von “verlassenen Räumen”, die oft aufgrund veränderter sozialer, wirtschaftlicher oder technologischer Bedingungen ungenutzt geblieben sind. Diese Räume, wie z. B. Lagerhäuser, historische Ruinen und andere vergessene Orte, werden oft als Relikte der Vergangenheit betrachtet. Durch ihre Aufgabe oder Nichtnutzung haben sie ihre ursprüngliche „Identität“, ihren Zweck, ihren Sinn und ihre kulturelle Bedeutung „verloren“.

Das Ziel des „Reviving“-Prozesses ist es, diesen Strukturen neues Leben einzuhauchen und sie in lebendige, neu gestaltete Umgebungen zu … more