Structure and Design

i.sd is happy to invite you to our online reviews of our design studios with our valued guests: Ewa Lenart (Purcell Architects, London), Stefano Arrighi (Studio Olafur Eliason), Andrea Rossi (EDEK,…

key words: vagueness, ambiguity, volumetric design, spatial depth, transformative According to the philosopher – Richard Schusterman – artworks are deep; in contrast to real things they have a vivid experiential…

The 2020/21 lecture series on Material and Technology by our guest lecturer Prof. Dr. Manuel Kretzer covers a number of topics ranging from Computational Design, 3D Printing, Biofabrication, Bioplastics…

Solutions to the significant social, ecological and economic opportunities and problems of 21st century architecture and urbanism involves a vast number of variables. These solutions will require the use…

The current situation, forcing all of us to spend more time at home brought forward an issue we have to address once again: the quality of living. The city…

i.sd Pre-Diploma Studio is an intense and inspiring working environment for students to develop their individual master thesis within the research field of i.sd. Possible topics range from architectural proposals…

Within perception theory, the figure-ground organization describes a vital necessity to recognize objects through vision. A figure can be clearly distinguished from its (back-)ground. In architecture, this perceptional phenomenon…

We are proud to announce the opening of three augmented installations which are shown in the exhibition „Forgetting. Fragments of Remembrance“ at the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum (curator: Roland…

The seminar Methods of Materialization is aimed at students of the Bachelor’s degree in the third semester. Strategies of model building and materialization in various scales up to 1: 1…

This academic year, the lecture series Material and Technology is held by Manuel Kretzer, Professor for Material and Technology at the Dessau Department of Design, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences. Manuel…

Cities in particular are already feeling the dramatic consequences of climate change. Vienna in particular will become a hot spot within Europe by 2050. The Urban Heat Islands strategy…

What if we think of a building as a reservoir of temporal state than a fixed entity, what if we design its potentials and abilities rather than its obvious…

i.sd was asked to design structures for the school garden at the University of Innsbruck, Campus West. Here the department of Fachdidaktik pursues the teaching of general methodologies of how…

TEXT – studio brief…

„A bed is a bed, a chair is a chair, and there is no relationship between them so long as each serves only the function it is supposed to…