Spittelau @ Night

Our new intern Alex from Mexico who is doing his master studies at Die Angewandte lives in an incredible place. Show me your crib at Spittelau Viaduct by Zaha Hadid Architects.


Street view approaching from the metro station.


Because of the ugly interiors I am showing you this special feature: from the top levels the tenants of the dormitory part of the building complex are able to access the roof terrace. Night view heading towards the city centre of vienna.

The MAK

Next to the University for applied Arts Die Angewandte you can find the the Museum of Applied Arts Vienna. Short MAK.


They are displaying there different expositions from ancient clothing to sculptures and art you can find a wide range of objects of different centuries and countries. Also a small architecture section is included: see the Steinhaus by Günther Domenig.


Study model of the Jewish Museum by Studio Daniel Liebeskind.


Designed by Ron Arad the "Rotator" is a shower and bathtub combination. The magic moment is when the water inside the tub is splashing out through the slow rotation movement.


Anish Kappor is "shooting into the corner"! His huge sculptures made out of red vaseline and wax are transformed permanently by shooting, scratching and smearing of moving structures applied.

Go East

Time passed by quickly and I'm nearly done over here in vienna planning to go back to Leipzig for finishing my diploma there. For us it always has been a must to visit Bratislava!


We arrived the city by bus comfortably in an easy way. On this sunny but icecold sunday we first took the route through the old city centre.


Shot out of the courtyard of the national gallery.


Other buildings around the Danube river.


Kind of a rooftop extension. The bridge connects the old and the new part of the city.


As a reference for you guys a book that its worth to look at.
East-modern: Architecture and Design of the 1960s and 1970s in Slovakia (Paperback)

Nice pieces of modernist architecture with tons of hints in and around Bratislava.

Porsche@Metropolis

Adaptive Grid

Go and check out this winterterm project by Philipp Hornung who is currently studying at Studio Hadid.


His library focuses on a system of a grid for parametric surface studies.

Turbo Boost

Finally the new Porsche Museum by Delugan Meissl Associated Architects opened for public. Enjoy the ride.









Go ahead and see some images here:
Delugan Meissl AA

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Wikipedia
Porsche

Caramel Bonboom

Georg who is working for Caramel Architects invited us to one of thier famous (because excessive) office partys. The pictures show how we survived.


Henry and Georg showing their feelings in public the first time. I kept it.


This is Paul. He is wearing nice glasses.


Party people - Phillip and Roman. Seems to me they tried to dance simultaneously.


Inside the elevator we had to take schnaps tickets and listen to breakdance funk.


Simply dudes in action.


Why do I look a bit tired? Why does Georg looks so bright?!

JDS at TU

So here we go with another interesting office from Denmark - JDS.


As a co-founder of the former office PLOT, Julien de Smedt is running now his own offices in Copenhagen and Brussels.


Right at the beginning of the lecture he showed their fabulous ski jump project in Oslo, Norway.


For research purposes he showed other great projects like this one. Take it easy.


One of their great housing projects together with BIG.


Last but not least one of the latest projects they did in Taiwan.

Die Angewandte Diplomas

Last week the final presentations in architecture took place at Die Angewandte in Vienna. All three studios Lynn, Hadid and Prix showed their work to the jury and public.


Patrik Schumacher and Ali Rahim discussing the endterm projects of studio Hadid.


Diploma project of studio Hadid.


CNC milled model of a studio Prix project.


Show me your pants baby! Grasshopper script definition displayed for a thesis.


STL printed model for a bath on the Danube river.


Nice model of a Cern extension project at studio Lynn.

Website Launch

Time is come for the redesign of the Delugan Meissl website. Guys worked hard and did a great job in record time. Goto www.deluganmeissl.at

Christmas Party Part I

First of all I want to wish you all the very best for the next year 2009. Hopefully you survived the days better than me, still struggeling with illness. Go and get some impressions from christmas partying in vienna.


Intern slavery uniforms: Roman and me starting the evening at the office party.


What the ...?! Suddenly this thing appeared in front of the office. A friend organized the jaga-bus crew to come around and join in. Damn cool vehicle.


Stunning white interiors. The whole bus is equipped with a translucent foil surface with coloured light behind. Different light scenarios are possible via touch panel controls.

L'architecture feminin

Another great architect from France: Manuelle Gautrand speaking at the TU about her works and the responsibility as an architect for our society.

I think the best knowen project of her is the showroom for citroen called C42. Located directly at the world famous Champs Elysees they have created a pure space for (nearly) only cars behind a folded glass fassade showing the abstract company logo of citroen.


And of course she showed some of the awesome towers they did. For example the winning entry for a proposal at La Defence, Paris.

Panelling Tool

So this is what I'm doing right now in my spare time after work. As a plug-in for Rhino the Panelling Tool provides a huge range of possibilities in populating components on a surface. You can choose how to subdivide the sufaces and also create, save and edit your own components. Basically it's a much more primitive form of GC but with an embeded script support a really great thing. Check it here.

On Top

Finally Roman Delugan found time to show us his fantastic House Ray One. No words for that.

Basically the whole thing feels like one continuous space. The stripe of glas below the couch area on the right acts as the structural supporting element.


This cantilevering bed! I nearly jumped onto it honestly.

Not able to believe his eyes: Daniele in heaven.

The kitchen sideboard moving out of the ground: see the included control panel for all lights, devices, screens etc.


This is not living, its pure recreation. Roman W and Daniele enjoying the view above the city.

R(e) bo(o)t

The architectural office R&Sie(n) was set up in 1989 and is lead by Francois Roche (1961, France), Stephanie Lavaux (1966, France) and Jean Navarro (1971, France). The office is based in Paris. The organic, oppositional architectural projects in the practice are concerned with the bond between building, context and human relations.


During the lecture of Francois Roche at Die Angewandte at vienna he explained his strategies and visions in explaining and showing several projects.

This is an image of the project olzweg. A competition they did in 2006.


Also R&Sie(n): The hypnosis room exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris 2005.