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studio hadid’s research @ 13th venice biennale

0801 — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:20:45 +0000

the results of this year’s research into parametric semiology will be on display at the 13th venice biennale titled “common ground” in the arsenale. the selected models will – together with zaha hadid’s centre piece installation Aurum, her models and research and additional pieces of work of heinz isler, frei otto and philippe bloch – be part of a comprehensive body of research about parametric shell structures, that fills an entire room in the arsenale.

hats off to all our students and special thanks to josip, maya, rhina, indre, matthias, bogdan and daniel for helping out with the installation.

this year’s studio brief “Parametric Semiology II– Olympic Park Rio de Janeiro 2016” called for the research and development of radically innovative spatial models for the sport venues and related auxiliary programmes of the future olympic park in Rio. within the scope of Parametricism this semster’s research focus lies especially on shell structures and their manifold potentials.

students in the studio have been continously researching within the paradigm of Parametric Design for the last few years, testing contemporary design strategies in various scales and within different studio agendas. most recently the semiological capacities of parametrically generated architectural forms were investigated.

following up that research agenda, this semester students will develop urban and architectural prototypes with regard to their semiological readability, based on the urban, spatial, programmatic, or social parameters, that were deducted from the specific programme for Rio’s Olympic Park.

the design of these proto-architectural elemets is based on the thorough research of different shell structures, their formal properties and their multiple potentials for parametric differentiation.

studio hadid’s prototowers @ 12th venice biennale

0801 — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:37:42 +0000

selected student research from the studio’s PROTOTOWER agenda will be shown in the exhibition AUSTRIA UNDER CONSTRUCTION in the austrian pavilion at the 12th architectural biennale in venice.

29. August bis 21. November 2010, 10h – 19h
Pre-Opening 27. August 2010, 17h

the studio continously explores the fundamental issues of architecture, pursues teaching as a research-oriented method. digital modeling and scripting tools are used intensively to push the boundaries of architecture as an ongoing process.
The main focus is to conceive architecture as a system of correlations and differentations, applying parametricism at all levels of design. the various design tasks in the studio investigate the notion of parametricism from large scale urban configuration across the organisation of buildings to the level of tectonic details beyond the classical typological approach.

Prof. Zaha Hadid with Michael Budig, Christian Kronaus, Jens Mehlan, Robert Neumayr, Patrik Schumacher, Jan Tabor, Hannes Traupmann, Marsha Veech.

austrian pavilion / giardini
curator: Eric Owen Moss

29. August bis 21. November 2010, 10h – 19h
Pre-Opening 27. August 2010, 17h

uibk @ 12th venice biennale

0801 — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:10:03 +0000

the department for experimental architecture.hochbau / university innsbruck will be exhibiting selected student workin the exhibition AUSTRIA UNDER CONSTRUCTION in the austrian pavilion at the 12th architectural biennale in venice.

29. August bis 21. November 2010, 10h – 19h
Pre-Opening 27. August 2010, 17h

Prof. Patrik Schumacher with Michael Budig, Josef Glas, Georg Grasser, Markus Malin, Robert Neumayr.

students: Patricia Bachmayer, Dennis Brezina, Christoph Eppacher, Christian Flatscher, Moritz Keitel, Paul Mandler, Simon Oberhammer, Alexander Pfanzelt, Christoph Planer, Christian Precht, Jürgen Prosch, Ekehardt Rainalter, Hubert Schlögl, Wolfgang Theiner.

location: austrian pavilion / giardini
curator: Eric Owen Moss