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Architecture & Metaphor
Project: Architectural Design Project
Institut: Bauhaus Universität Weimar
Date: 2016
What defines a constructural symbol of freedom? What significates freedom? How can one translate inner and outer freedom into a build structure? I pursued these ideas in the design for a community center in the governmental district of Berlin.
This project deals with the translation of symbols and thoughts into an architectural form.
A situationist game of different spatial qualities emerges; a game of outside and inside, from level to level. The dimensions of the building and the heights of the platforms are based on the size of the inner courtyards of the Bundestag. In a figurative sense, one could place the building into one of the courtyards and it would work like a connecting link within it. The material of glass conveys transparency and at the same time confusion due to the visual overlaps.
The Citizen forum should inspire to (self) discovery.
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Campus Vyaapaar
Client: NGO Indienhilfe Deutschland e.V.
Project: College for the Order of the Pilar Farthers in Bhopal, India
Date: 2017-2019
Collab: Hannah Idstein, Bernado Villagra
In cooperation with the Non-Profit Organization Indienhilfe Deutschland e.V. and the Bauhaus University Weimar we developed a concept for further education for the orphans of a Catholic order, the Pilar Fathers, in Bhopal, India. The order takes care of children, which were violated and excluded from the society due to the prevailing Indian Caste system. The order offers them a school education as well as accommodation. As universities and further educational training remains largely private in India, we developed a concept for a University of applied science for up to 1000 Students which can be run by the Fathers themselves in order to guarantee a further education program for the orphans. For integrating the building in the context of Bhopal we work with sustainable construction methods and regional materials. We are currently planning the realization of the building and are awating the application to the German Federal Government to promote the project.
Regional and cliamte contextuality
In summer the region is characterized by high temperatures and extreme droughts, while in the monsoon season high precipitation prevails. A building material well adapted to these extreme climatic conditions is clay. During the day, it stores the sun's heat and releases it again at night. In this way the room is kept cool during the day, and the moisture of the clay contributes as well to a pleasant indoor climate. This effect is supported by natural cross ventilation which we use in order to avoid electrical aids.
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Memory Chamber
Project: Architectural Design Project
Institut: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Date: 2017
„We all have our story.
Everywhere we go, we leave a trace, like a footprint on the ground, a writing on a wall, a glass we have broken which is not yet repaired.
But in the same way we are leaving something,
we also take something with us,
maybe a small souvenir or just a card of a nice café.
Conserving the moment, disconnecting it from time,
only remembering the space, the feeling and the taste of the last sip of cheap wine..“
Everywhere we go, we leave a trace, like a footprint on the ground, a writing on a wall, a glass we have broken which is not yet repaired.
But in the same way we are leaving something,
we also take something with us,
maybe a small souvenir or just a card of a nice café.
Conserving the moment, disconnecting it from time,
only remembering the space, the feeling and the taste of the last sip of cheap wine..“
Memories shape our character, our thinking, our Self-being. They help us to orient ourselves in space and to perceive and reflect our surroundings. How can memories be stored, preservered or even re-lived? What alternatives exist to the conventional archive that stores memories in form of nonspecific neutrality? Nowadays more and more data is accumulated, and the question of how to preserve memories is gaining importance. Using various methodologies and media I approached the concept of memory. I took psychogrammatical drawings of my own memories, so-called minddrawings, as a base to reinterpret and transform them into three-dimensional models. In a second step I translated the resulting models back into drawings and tried to extract shapes and build forms. The transformation of memories using different media and methods was the focus of this project.
„Heterotopias are most often linked to slices in time - which is the to say that they open onto what might be termed,
for the sake of symmetry, heterochronies. The heterotopia begins to function at full capacity when men arrive at a sort of absolute break with their traditional time.“
- Focault
- Focault