SUMMER 21
MOVING PEOPLE AND AIR
The studio’s mission is the mobility of people without recourse to cabins, shaft ways, cores, or corridors, and the equitable and maximum mobility of fresh air from outside into and through buildings. The Studio’s vision is to remediate the consequences to public health of the global pandemic using design principles and concepts that optimize fresh air access in constructive dialogue with real-world local and regional climate challenges.
SUMMER 20
PHONE FOOD
Phone Food is an investigation into the contemporary situation of how we sustain ourselves as citizens and consumers. Feeding ourselves and our families is both a biological and social necessity. More and more, we are accustomed to interacting with a screen in our hand to find out what to eat, to order prepared food for delivery and pick-up, to order from a menu in a restaurant and to then photograph and share the actual food on the plate and occasionally images and videos of the experience. In some cases food is prepared in ghost or cloud kitchens entirely for delivery. Architecture is not involved in this equation or experience in any way. Without rejecting online ordering, delivery, pick-up or dining we want to see where architecture can add to the civic experience of dining. There still are people preparing, serving, delivering and consuming just in a different manner with the introduction of small screens, GPS, cloud computing of data, new forms of mobility and a gig worker economy. The site is adjacent to Hauptbahnhof, Vienna. Areas for program elements have been replaced with speeds, distance and throughput. Real-time simulation tools are used for the designs to engage flow instead of static volumes.
WINTER 19/20
NEW MARKETS
With the delivery of more and more products comes a loss of citizenry and discovery associated with the market. Rather than resist the logistical flow of goods the studio will embrace new forms of warehousing, sorting, chaotic storing, picking, packaging, loading and distribution. The studio will cross an Amazon fulfillment center with an 19th century market hall. New ideas of market will be explored by integrating mobile systems into the building. The entrance of lightweight intelligent electric mobility into architecture should provoke a similar transformation that the elevator and escalator provoked a century ago.
SUMMER 19
MODULARITY
People are moving more and more, their family relationships are more and more fluid and people are sharing their living space both through communal unit types as well as hoteling like AirBnB.
The studio is an exploration of vertical unit organization and neighbourhood relationships in 3D across the site with thinking about vertical clusters, sky parks and lobbies, courtyards, and identity of communities both residential and mixed use.
WINTER 18/19
SHELL DELIGHT
Continuing the investigation at the intersection of physical materiality and digital simulation, the studio worked on translating a massive archetype into a light weight shell structure.
SUMMER 18
LONG SPAN STRUCTURES
This term the studio worked on a structural spanning enclosure using means and techniques derived from the Paper Cave semester.
WINTER 17/18
PAPER CAVE
The reconstruction of prehistoric caves dates back to a long history of showcasing these precious spatial artefacts to a wider public. It not only brings in questions of design methodology but also spatial architectural problems relating to notational systems, data representation, geometry, ornament, structure and assembly logic
Working with new technologies for assessing information (LIDAR scan), processing (high density point clouds) and sorting information (simulation tools) the ideas was not to literally reproduce, but through a series of constraints work with information at the intersection between digital and physical. And finally to spatialize those investigations and turn them into physical form, using Augmented Reality in the context of construction.
SUMMER 17
In Conversation with K. F. Schinkel
This term the studio engaged with the work of one architect in focus to understand what the strength of concept and language is across programs and problems.
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WINTER 16/17
The Archive
How does space promote contemporary culture and discourse? Occupancy is a very neutral and banal term to describe sociality, community, interaction, humanity, citizenry and other forms of relations between people. This can be facilitated by technology but should be in the service of forming new types and reinforcing old types of interaction between people in space.
SUMMER - 16
Studio Lynn continued to research on the evolving theme of Machine Vision in light of recent technological advancements and new ideas of vision, automation, navigation, augmented and virtual realities. This research was applied within the studio to speculate on the future of education.
Students were developing new concepts for dieAngewandte, based on a new metrics for challenging what a school today is in terms of technology (Mixed Relity).
WINTER 15/16
Machine Space
SUMMER 15
Machine Vision
Looking towards emergent technologies within our urban realm like self-driving cars, drones and their motion through urbanism, photgrammetry and new scanning technologies - the studio speculates on a new architectural language and methods of design propelled by these emergent fields. The task asks students to conceptualize the idiosyncrasies of how machines understand form and space on various scales and mediums.
This term will primarily be dedicated to learning to see through a machine in motion and to translate the data from these machines into an urban and formal language.
WINTER 14 / 15Social Condenser
The studio developed a new type of condensed labor/research headquarters on the existing Novartis Campus site in Basel Switzerland. The architectural emphasis was on achieving a miniature city, a micro cosmos - within a compact singular building with distinct functions and work environments. Seeking opportunities of blending the urban environment (streets, park) into the building and develop an introverted building with internalized urban spatial characters. Concepts found in historic examples of Russian constructivist period were further developed and explored within the projects.
Summer 14
Dam
The studio returns to the topic of literal and phenomenal motion with the design of infrastructure and buildings related to water and energy. In proportion to their size, these buildings and structures have few occupants but their presence in civic culture is significant. The formal language of these structures has seen little innovation in the last 50 years as their address to culture has been that of neo-classical monumentality.
How can these engineering structures be rethought through architecture?
Expressing the movement and dynamism of the machines in the massing as well as designing views and passages into the interiors without compromising security is an issue.
VAST SPACE
Vastness is immeasurable, infinite, without edge or limit, difficult to comprehend, out of scale, distant, vague and sublime. It has nothing to do with ‘absolute scale’ but instead vastness is defined by ‘relative scale.’
As Dresden has been a city with two squares you are being asked to add a third which unlike the other two is a covered room. The typology of an outdoor plaza for sporting events, festivals and markets defined by urban walls is being turned inside out where now the perimeter is defined by the ground, roof and vertical structures. The perimeter of the VASTMARKT should be porous with the surrounding streets and instead the interior should be modulated by internal walls, ceiling and floor,...
The VASTMARKT should have different character within a fairly compact enclosure so that it should seem bigger than it is by having areas which are smaller than they should be. Instead of focusing on a design technique that works all over equally well please focus on methods that add contrast and juxtaposition of scale and distance.
Winter 12 / Summer 13
Massive Movement
The task for the winter term will be the design of a vast open long span sports enclosures that is capable of being opened and closed continuously throughout the day by the use of large moving chunks of the building. These chunks can be occupiable elements of the building or they can enclose mechanical systems that assist in the conditioning of the indoor/outdoor space.
The studio is looking for alternatives to surface pattern and brisolei techniques and instead is looking at enormous moving openings and how this can change the interior as well as the façade and urbanism of the building. In order to ventilate and change the condition of the interior environment the design should have giant dynamic openings. The design of these massive urban openings should be informed by two concerns: their spatial and monumental impact on both the surrounding city and the interior environment an environmental systems concept at a vast spatial scale.
In the summer term we will significantly scale down the project and look at the design of a large moving room that can influence and transform its surroundings. We will specifically be looking into retail environments which have changing floor plan and wall configurations, but instead of operable walls there should be an architectural element in the form of a large volume that moves through the space in order to subdivide and reconfigure the overall structure, program and form.
Winter 11 / Summer 12
Floors
The focus this term is designing with floors. The studio began to introduce techniques for creating space using a language of boundaries, edges, slopes, stairs, terraces and furniture-scale elements. The results of this task serve as a basis for the design of a large addition to the Stockholm Public Library designed by Gunnar Asplund. The focus of the design is the alignment and relationship of the different levels as well as their edges and transitions. Special attention should be paid to defining different types of spaces by changes in level, orientation, diagonal views and boundaries that are not walls but can be railings and balustrades. Floors and integrated furniture will be the primary design elements to give regions spatial and volumetric character. Special attention should also be made to the design of the stacks containing books. These should be the only vertical elements seperating spaces
WINTER 21/22
RECONFIGURABLE STREET
The studio’s mission is to design the street as a reconfigurable network of infrastructure, furniture, equipment and energy, for rapid change between civic occupation and transportation.