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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

In progress Studio Schmidbaur Teaching

SE Hybride Prozesse

DISCONTINUOUS INFLUENCES

Course No.: 848483

Teaching: Gilbert Sommer

Die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Material Vulkanfiber der letzten beiden Semester wird fortgeführt. Wir beschäftigen uns mit der Entwicklung von Bausystemen aus gefügten „prefab“ Elementen aus Vulkanfiber, mit dem Schwerpunkt der Untersuchung des Verhaltens des Materials auf wechselnde Witterungseinflüsse (Feuchtigkeit-Trockenheit).

Mit digitalen und analogen Methoden entwickelte Systeme werden zu prototypisch gebauten 1:1 Modellen aus Vulkanfiber geführt. Das (Verformungs-) Verhalten der Vulkanfiber unter wechselnden Umwelteinflüssen wird ausführlich dokumentiert, um Erkenntnisse für den Einsatz der … more

Vertical Archipelagos 2/2

Final presentations

Bachelor studio: Vertical Archipelagos (848145 PJ Design Studio/Bachelor’s Thesis)

Supervisors: Prof. Marjan Colletti, Andreas Körner, Jade Bailey, Eftychios Efthymiou

 

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 … more

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