Advanced Wooden Joints – Japenese Joinery with a focus on rotation. The Japanese tradition of wood-to-wood joints makes it possible to create complex knots without additional metal elements. Such…
Hinged Connections – Multilayered Mechanisms Actuating mechanisms to fabricate spatial configurations is a widely used strategy for a material efficient fabrication. Multilayering offers in this context the extension of…
E2 Bachelor Design Course Trails of Formation – An Atlas of Alpine Science Hubs Being part of the vertical studio at the i.SD and its overarching theme of…
E2 Bachelor Design Course Atlas of Alpine Ambiguities The E2 Design Studio focusses on the Tyrolean Alpine region around Kühtai (Sellrain and Ötztal) and explores its socio-ecological complexity and…
The lecture series for undergraduates gives an overview of the materials used in construction processes and their properties as well as related technologies. It discusses the interplay of creative,…
STRUCTURAL CELLULOSE In architecture, there is an urgent need for research and the use of sustainable materials. Although wood is often seen as a solution, only around 50% of…
EM1 Design Studio TECHNOSOPHICAL INTERFACES – Science Centre Innsbruck This semester, students will be asked to speculate on the urban, architectural, educational, economic and socio-cultural potential of a new…
E3 Bachelor Design Studio – Volumetric Typologies for Encounters between Science and the Public In the coming year, we will design a “House of Science” that focuses on the…
From imaginary formations to performative aggregations Formation is a way of spatially organising individual parts. Aggregation is a fundamental method of construction. In his essay ‘From Material to Architecture’,…
E1 Bachelor Design Course TRANS FORMATIONS: An Urban Archipelago for Science in Innsbruck As part of the i.sd and its overarching theme of a new „House of Science“ in…
