Transhuman Territory / Melanie Hofmeister & Maxime Victor
„I still think, that within a few generations it will be possible to transform the substrate of our humanity.“ Nick Bostrom Humans have always striven for something higher. Whether it is overcoming death or attaining a state of omniscience. This ambition has driven humans for thousands of years and has brought many new discoveries and […]
Nachhaltigkeit als Stil / Matthias Schmidt & Christin Schönberger
Within the framework of the design studio, we dealt with the theme of the dream of nature. As a starting point we used the term Hypnerotomachia Naturae, which comes from the novel “Hypnerotomachia Poliphili” by the Italian writer Francesco Colonna. At the beginning of the semester we dealt with texts and films about architecture and […]
Hypnerotomachia 2120 – Ein Architekt auf Reisen / Ines Beikircher & Moritz Bommer
The relationship to nature has a long tradition in architecture. This is reflected not only in built architecture, but also in architectural theory. Motifs such as ornamental decorations, floral decoration of capitals, but also mythical figures – such as nymphs and animal figures – are an important part of what we understand as a symbiosis […]
BoxInnBox / Diana Tschenett & Christopher Schneeweiß
The world is constantly changing, shifting and developing. Sometimes those events are happening so fast, that there is almost no time to adopt to a recent development. Passing through spaces and places at a high pace, certain situations are not even recognized by the individual. By looking closer at random spots you can find objects, […]
Car:Lessness – A desire Named No Streetcar / Stephanie Topf & Leo Schleith
“Any I that responds to the Anthropocene—that intercepts the Anthropocene as address— responds to and within a broad, uncomfortable, and for most of the human population frankly unfair we. More than a conceptual tool for altering our relationship to the earth—as a particularly potent enthymeme in climate activist discourse—the Anthropocene is a material interruption that […]
Nature as a source for Architectural Innovation / Larissa Gross, Marina Niedeleitner, Alexandra Rohner
Early in our existence, we stayed very close to nature, we coexisted with nature. Time passed and humans grew in number and knowledge. Their attitudes changed to their surroundings, learning to protect themselves from weather and enemies. To restore a balanced relationship with nature and reduce the strains on natural resources we need to reintegrate […]
Stories from the Age of the Incarnate Ark / Teresa Auderer & Mirjam Miller
In the present study, three parts (Part I, Part II and Part III), ranging from research and reflections to fictional stories as part of a graphic novel, deal with the hypothetical development of modern society towards a hybrid society in the near and distant future. The final result of this work is a self-written and […]
22 + 1 Meta Stories / Maya Christodoulaki
The Haus Rucker Co collective was asking in 1986 for “An amnesty for built reality”. Since then we have moved past what is right or wrong and we are serving neither the people nor the built reality. All that exists around us is in a state of paroxysm, it is reproduced, replicated, conditioned and restated, […]
Deus Ex Ma(s)china / Chloe Stiefer & Lorenz Foth
lat. Deus ex Machina English ‘god from the machine’) is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem in a story is suddenly and abruptly resolved by an unexpected and unlikely occurrence.Its function can be to resolve an otherwise irresolvable plot situation, to surprise the audience, to bring the tale to a happy ending, or […]
A technobiophilic city: Exploring Compressor / Bogdan Časovskij & Valeria Kirejenko
Our bachelor research was created as an opportunity to develop the idea of “taking the nature with us,‘‘ inspired by Sue Thomas, aiming to look into the co-evolution of physical and digital nature, both of which are being constantly replicated by humans. Wherever we go we always think of the natural world, in metaphors, as […]
Heterotopia – The Hidden Gem / Maria Bär and Manuel Abart
The term heterotopy comes from the Greek. It is formed from the words „hetero“ for “different“ and „topos“ for „place“. The concept was first used by Michel Foucault in his philosophy in 1967. It thus designates spaces or places and their systemic significance, which have only partially or not completely implemented the norms given at […]
Of Episodes and Scenarios – The Potpourri Project / Harald Jöchl
A speculative project about how urbanism in future should be practiced. At the same time a critical project about the current state of the art and the current practice of architecture and urbanism. This book is situated exactly at the starting point of the production of architecture. At the beginning of every political or planning […]