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Märchenwald

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Diploma

Asemic Scapes -Rehabilitation Center Rainberg

Calligraphy is adding an idea of creating variation through artistic expression to a technical matter of communication and is connected to ornamentation which generally uses natural motifs and often rules of natural growth.
The project developes an architecture that uses rules of natural growth and connects both growth and ornament, with a landscape environment, topologically and calligraphically.
The ornament creates a symbiotic relationship with the existing environment by framing existing topographic features and at the same time giving a feedback to the landscape by creating topographical irregularities.
In the landscape the ornament starts to organize the ground by subtle terracing and it creates paths that break the clear definition of an indoor – outdoor boundary by running through the building, widening up to create bigger platforms and shrinking back to paths when leaving the building again.
This ornamented landscape topography develops the roof structure transforming from a plan calligraphy into a complex volumetric condition of overlay and envelope.
Medical treatments have become more and more high tech and computised and human bodies are more reduced to repairable machines, there is a special need for rehabilitation facilities to satisfy the psychological aspects of a healing process.
The environment can fulfill this by integrating the power of subtle transitions and the blending of the landscape into the building to aid the patient’s recovery.

Diploma plans

Diploma - model 1:100

model 1:100

Diploma - model 1:500

model 1:500
milled styrofoam landscape with lasersintered roof structure

Diploma - model 1:2000

model 1:2000

Diploma presentation

this was the presentation of my diploma that i did in Greg Lynn studio at the Angewandte in Vienna

Augmented Ornamented Realities SS07

The focus of this project is to create optical effects and views. In the space station these effects can generate a confusing perception of the different horizons.
The main topic is the visual layering of framed views. Since in space there is a differentiation between the gravitational and the human horizon, views can create a kind of augmented reality where the observer's reality collides with the reality of the scene he watches since there is a horizonal change. Views that cut horizontal through the structure from a point that does not equal the center generate a sequencial view since the horizon within one view gradually changes.
The layers that would be like mountain contours layered behind each other (or layers of Rousseau's paintings) would generate a layered depth and behind these layers that would give the observer an artificial environment within perceiveable distance, the view opens up to the unfathomable vastness of outer space.

Augmented Ornamented Realities - Final Model

photos by Rainer Zettel

Augmented Ornamented Realities - Study models

mein sunny

Seherin

christmascard

bambi kiss

Portrait me

detail orchid

Maja Gasmask

Asian cutie

graphics for la fraise tshirts:

Wroclaw Circuit WS05/06

The project deals with the subject of blurring the borders between building and landscape, between inside and outside.

The building is placed in the middle of the site, visually connecting the two symmetrical historical facades of the opera house and the city hall across the site. With the main entrance facing the city it creates a counterpart to the existing plaza. When approaching the concert hall from the city, the structure frames the centralized entrance hall and creates a scenery for the visitors.

The restaurant and café are facing the riverside and the existing promenade to take advantage of the atmosphere of the water surrounding and to be attractive not only for visitors but also for passers- by.

Another important issue is the process of entering the building, instead of a conventional border of entrance, visitors enter in trough a continuous process of diving in underneath it.

The structure itself consists of two parts: the landscape which leads to the central entrance and out of which the concerthalls (heads) emerge and the structurally articulated envelope (hats) which inhabits all the circulation.

While the landscape is smooth and solid, the envelope has a facetted appearence and gets delaminated at some parts.

http://www.dieangewandte.at/archlynn/stories/storyReader$734

Mici foto

Maskenball

Elfenfeen

Springtime

illustration published in Beliomagazine human/sex issue