Porosity Matters: Impulse Lecture Series 2
As part of the Bachelor’s design studio “Porosity Matters”, selected speakers will hold short, impulse seminar lectures in the summer semester 2026.
Organised by Andreas Körner & Charlotte Thorn, four hybrid mini lectures will take place on Wednesdays as part of the studio, hosted by the Department of Experimental Architecture – Studio Prof. Marjan Colletti.
The invited speakers are architects and researchers operating in fields ranging from architecture to digital fabrication, landscape, flows of matter, and material ecologies.
15/4/2026 … more
Porosity Matters: Impulse Lecture Series 1
As part of the Bachelor’s design studio “Porosity Matters”, selected speakers will hold short, impulse seminar lectures in the winter semester 2025/26.
Organised by Andreas Körner & Charlotte Thorn, four hybrid mini lectures will take place on Wednesdays as part of the studio, hosted by the Department of Experimental Architecture – Studio Prof. Marjan Colletti.
The invited speakers are architects and researchers, operating in fields ranging from landscape architecture to future climates, biocentric and digital design, and new forms of … more
E3 POROSITY MATTERS
Course No.: 848136
Teaching: Andreas Körner & Charlotte Thorn
Das Entwerfen untersucht Porosität und Verwitterung als aktive Gestaltungsfaktoren mit dem Ziel, Architektur als reaktionsfähiges hydrologisches System und vertikale Landschaft innerhalb der städtischen Umgebung neu zu konzipieren.
In Anlehnung an die Schwammstadt, ein Konzept, bei dem Städte Regenwasser aufnehmen und steuern ist es Ziel des Entwurfsprojekts, diese horizontale Logik in eine vertikale Typologie zu übertragen, welche Regenwasser aufnimmt, umleitet und reinigt. In einem solchen Szenario entstehen Architekturen mit variablen Wandstärken, Schichtungen … more
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
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
HOPE: Hybrid, Organic, Postplastic Environments
A holistic, ethical, and sustainable approach to home design and living environments
REX|LAB @ Ars Electronica Festival 2024
Team: Marjan Colletti, Kilian Bauer, Catalina Tripolt, Daria Smakhtina, Peter Massin, Andreas Körner, Georg Grasser
Student workers: Simon Hildebrand, Theresa Biesalski, Tobias Niederholzer, Christopher Walch, Anna D´Eredità
‘Postplasticism’ departs from the rigid geometries of Neoplasticism: the austere, geometrical, abstract style labelled by Mondrian one century ago, which focused on strict, geometric forms and primary, applied colours. Postplasticism embraces a more ornate, organic, … more
Final Presentations: Vertical Archipelagos
We cordially invite you to the final review of the course E4 Vertical Archipelago taught by Marjan Colletti, Jade Bailey Andreas Körner and Efthihis Efthimiou on Wednesday the 26th of June in the foyer.
Guests: Leander Adrian, Tom Kovac, Peter Massin, Nuria Widmann, Harry Hinton-Hard, Ruiz Rodriguez, Daria Smakthina and Catalina Tripolt
Vertical Archipelagos 1/2
Final presentations
Bachelor studio: Vertical Archipelagos (848136 PJ Design Studio 3)
Supervisors: Prof. Marjan Colletti, Andreas Körner, Jade Bailey
In 1972, anthropologist John Murra introduced the ‘vertical archipelagos’ hypothesis in his research on Andean cultures. This concept elucidates the emergence of communities within non-adjacent ecological strata. Diverse elevations yield distinct climatic conditions, resulting in advantageous enclaves and isolated pockets within a broader framework. As seasons transition and circumstances fluctuate, intermittent bridges and corridors form, uniting ecologies that would otherwise … more
E3 Vertical Archipelagos: Multi-level Alpine Habitats
Course No.: 848136 – Group 1
Teaching: Andreas Körner & Jade Bailey & Prof. Marjan Colletti
In 1972, anthropologist John Murra introduced the ‘vertical archipelagos’ hypothesis in his research on Andean cultures. This concept elucidates the emergence of communities within non-adjacent ecological strata. Diverse elevations yield distinct climatic conditions, resulting in advantageous enclaves and isolated pockets within a broader framework. As seasons transition and circumstances fluctuate, intermittent bridges and corridors form, uniting ecologies that would otherwise remain apart.
Historically, architectural … more
