ADMISSION€ 15 / € 12 reduced / Free Admission for children and teens under 19 / MoreWhat would it be like if we did not have to turn on the heat, because the building we live in automatically switches to summer, respectively, winter mode, and always maintains a comfortable temperature for us? If the architecture were able to “breath” and could expand or contract around us, depending on the amount of sunlight? Established in early 2013 under the title “Adaptive Strategies,” a new focus of the Energy Design Department at the Vienna University of Applied Arts’ Institute of Architecture has set its sights on developing interactive concepts for sustainable construction. In times of dwindling resources, changing climate conditions, and rapid social developments, new strategies in the architectural field that can immediately react to these transformations have to be found.Five teams of University of Applied Arts students have taken up the challenge in extraordinary, prototypical projects to design the movement and behavior of buildings interactively and adaptively; they will present their results in the scope of an architectural performance as an “ecological ballet.”Projects Ceren Yönetim & Marie Lichtenwagner/Floral Skin, Bart Chompff & Christoph Wunderlich/Kaleidoskin, Rhina Portillo & Matthias Urschler/Breath, Klemens Sitzmann & Daniel Prost/Jelly, Xinyu Wan &Philipp Reinsberg/Dancing with the windsConcept: Bernhard Sommer and Galo MoncayoDJ: Luis MuñizCurator Marlies Wirth 
What would it be like if we did not have to turn on the heat, because the building we live in automatically switches to summer, respectively, winter mode, and always maintains a comfortable temperature for us? If the architecture were able to “breath” and could expand or contract around us, depending on the amount of sunlight? 
Established in early 2013 under the title “Adaptive Strategies,” a new focus of the Energy Design Department at the Vienna University of Applied Arts’ Institute of Architecture has set its sights on developing interactive concepts for sustainable construction. In times of dwindling resources, changing climate conditions, and rapid social developments, new strategies in the architectural field that can immediately react to these transformations have to be found.

Five teams of University of Applied Arts students have taken up the challenge in extraordinary, prototypical projects to design the movement and behavior of buildings interactively and adaptively; they will present their results in the scope of an architectural performance as an “ecological ballet.”

Projects Ceren Yönetim & Marie Lichtenwagner/Floral Skin, Bart Chompff & Christoph Wunderlich/Kaleidoskin, Rhina Portillo & Matthias Urschler/Breath, Klemens Sitzmann & Daniel Prost/Jelly, Xinyu Wan &Philipp Reinsberg/Dancing with the winds

Concept: Bernhard Sommer and Galo Moncayo
DJ: Luis Muñiz

Curator Marlies Wirth



 

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