KISD Open Factory

Together with Marcel Odenbach, Hans Sachs from responsive design studio runs a workshop 2D>3D at the KISD Open Factory at the Köln International School of Design.

The 2-day event with various workshops and panel discussions on Nov 29th and 30th addresses the open scource and maker movement and brings people from different professional fields together to experiment, develop and fabricate. Students can still register for several workshops on the conference's webpage (above).

The CONE at Voodoo Experience New Orleans 2013

Like every year in November, our ConeV2 was part of the Voodoo Experience Music and Art Festival in New Orleans, LA, USA. For more pictures of the event click here..

Beside well known bands like Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails and Kid Rock, the Cone was -again- one of the main attractions on the festival area in New Orleans City Park. The Cone has been installed at the festival every year from 2009.

Spatial Positions 5 - The Land Workshop

From 31.08.2013 - 22.09.2013 the exhibition "Spatial Positions 5 - The Land Workshop" at the SAM  Swiss Architecture Museum displays important steps the collaboration project "The Land", which is located in the north of Thailand near the town Sanpatong, twenty kilometres southwest of the city of Chiang Mai.

"The show itself functions as a workshop anticipating the realisation-phase planned for the year 2014. In addition, London-based graphic designer Zak develops a new alphabet for the Land Workshop that is based on the participatory logic of the "corps exquisite". Thus the concept of the exhibition reflects the different conditions of collaborating, exhibiting and building." (http://www.sam-basel.org - accessed on 13.09.2013)

 

























































Details of pictures 1-5:  Philip Heckhausen / Picture 6: Hans Sachs

Within a workshop with CIAD, Hans Sachs of responsive design studio developed and realized a modular connector system made of laser-cut MDF board that is now installed in Basel until Sept. 22nd.

People:

The Land Workshop Building: Nico Dockx, Nikolaus Hirsch, Christina Koschowsky, Zak Kyes, Philipp Misselwitz, Michel Müller, Sabina Priese, Luisa Roth, Att Poomtangon, Hans Sachs, Emmi Wegener, Benjamin Windhoff

The Bridge: Nico Dockx, Kris Kimpe, Helena Sidiropoulos
The Alphabeth for the Land Workshop: Ed Atkins, Nico Dockx, Jimmie Durham, Joseph Grigely, Nikolaus Hirsch, Hu Fang, Zak Kyes, Maria Lind, Chus Martínez, Michel Müller, Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Radim Pesko, Att Poomtangon, Raqs Media Collective


also published on...

to the exhibition at the SAM on facebook  

domus.it architecture magazine

in the Baunetz

E-Flux 

CurveCube

CurveCube is a very spontaneous proposal for a walk-through, human-scale pavilion made from corrugated cardboard.



The design connected two geometrical forms. Towards the outside it represented a closed cubic shape but merged into an organically appearing surface on the inside.

From the original project description (in german) "Architektonisch entsteht ein Spannungsfeld zwischen der Komplexität der Innenform im Kontrast zur formalen äusseren Kubatur in einem sich gegenseitig beeinflussenden und durchdringenden Formenspiel zwischen Klarheit und Vielschichtigkeit."

"Architekturteilchen" at MAKK, Cologne

First and second day of installing the exhibition architecture (responsive design studio / STUDYO ARCHITECTS) which will guide visitors through the exhibition "architectural particles - modular construction in the digital age" (curatorship by Aysin Ipekci ). The exhibiton will open on upcoming Friday May 11th at 7pm at the MAKK, Cologne, Germany

Eindrücke vom ersten und zweiten Aufbautag der Ausstellungsarchitektur (responsive design studio / STUDYO ARCHITECTS) zur Ausstellung "Architekturteilchen - Modulares Bauen im digitalen Zeitalter" (Kuratorium: Aysin Ipekci ). Die Ausstellung startet am Freitag, den 11. Mai um 19:00 Uhr im MAKK, Köln

Wind!Up - Warming Hut Competition

Our proposal for the 2012 Warming Hut Competition in Winnipeg, Canada. Unfortunately not selected...

SleepBox

SleepBox represents a contemporary furniture, designed for the demands of an increasingly urbanised environment. A human-scale object, which creates a space of comfort and relaxation within airports, offices or other semi public areas. The hard and uniform shell excludes the exterior and at the same time creates a soft and smooth interior. The project was designed by Caspar Lohner and supervised by Manuel Kretzer and Mathias Bernhard at the Chair for Computer Aided Architectural Design, ETH Zürich and realized in collaboration with Kläusler Acrylstein AG.

The free-form shell is made from HI-Macs, an extremely robust solid surface material, which can be thermoformed and visually seamlessly connected. The necessary MDF moulds were produced on a three axis CNC mill at ETH Zürich’s Raplab and the flat HI-Macs sheets then formed into shape using vacuum. After the material cooled down it exhibited the same properties as before deformation and could be further processed similar to wood. The eleven individual pieces were finally glued together to create a single homogeneous object.

Design: Caspar Lohner
Supervision: Mathias Bernhard, Manuel Kretzer
Contribution: Andreas Aeschbacher, Vedren Brasnic, Nathalie Pietrzko, Bastian Schläpfer, Ankita Thaker, Alain Weber, Viviane Weber

Chair for Computer Aided Architectural Design 
Prof. Dr. Ludger Hovestadt