Courses

EM1 Master Design Studio – PERMEABLE DEVICES: Postfunctional architecture and adaptive reuse Site Lamarr Department Store Building Block, Mariahilferstraße, Wien Current Planning Status and Construction History The “Lamarr” project on Mariahilferstraße…

E2 Bachelor Design Course – SYMBIOTIC PATCHWORK: Structures, Character & Function The former University of Economics (UZA1) in Vienna represents one of the city’s most ambitious megastructures of the…

E1 Bachelor Design Course – CLIMATIC COMMONS: Adaptive Typologies for Living and Production Amidst accelerating climate change, increasing housing scarcity, and shifting socio-ecological conditions, Innsbruck’s Alpine edge becomes a…

Data-Driven Structures in Volumetric Architectural Design This course provides an in-depth engagement with data-driven methods in architectural design, emphasizing the potential of point cloud data and AI-assisted augmentation to…

From imaginary formations to performative aggregations Formation is a way of organising individual parts spatially. Aggregation is a fundamental method of construction. In his essay ‘From Material to Architecture,’…

STRUCTURAL CELLULOSE In architecture, there is an urgent need for research and the implementation of sustainable materials. While wood is often considered a solution, only about 50% of lumber…

EM2 Design Studio ECOLOGIES OF SCIENCE –Science CenterInnsbruck… encore! This design studio is organised as a collaborative studio, based on the idea that participants in this studio will learn…

Point Cloud Tectonics: Data-Driven Wall Structures in Design and Architecture This course offers an exploration of data-driven methodologies in architectural design, emphasizing the potential of point cloud data and…

STRUCTURAL CELLULOSE – Group 0,1,2 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…

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…