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  • Univ. Prof. Arch. Matthias Karch
  • Max Justus Hoven
  • Mohammad Reza Abdollahi Bidhendi
  • Nicole Nickel
  • Dr. Philipp Reinfeld
  • Łukasz Lendziński
  • Wolfgang Zurborn

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• 2024
  • AD +10 Meter _Into The Open_01 
  • AD +10 Meter _Into The Open_02 
  • AD +10 Meter _Into The Open_03 
  • FT F60 bridge Brandenburg
  • FT Cologne Deutz harbor
  • AD Grossmarkthalle Cologne_01
  • AD Grossmarkthalle Cologne_02
  • AD Grossmarkthalle Cologne_03
  • AD Grossmarkthalle Cologne_04
  • AD Grossmarkthalle Cologne_05
  • AD Marine Research Center Stavanger
  • AD Fun Palace ICC Berlin
  • FT Fun Palace ICC Berlin
  • RO Architectural Narratives 
  • MD Tegel-Süd 
• 2023
  • AD Data Center A 100
  • AD LIB 686 Cologne_01
  • AD LIB 686 Cologne_02
  • AD LIB 686 Cologne_03
  • VR Dark Tourism
  • MD The Block: Narrative Models
  • MD City of Consumption
  • MD Sensitive Volume
  • MD Celluloid
• 2022
  • EX | GREY BOX TESTING _Workshop
  • EX | GREY BOX TESTING _ALMERIA
  • EX | GREY BOX TESTING _KOLWEZI
  • EX | GREY BOX TESTING _SILICON
  • EX | GREY BOX TESTING _AUTONOM
  • AD In Limbus
  • AD Atlantikwall
  • AD Zentrum für Fotografie_01
  • AD Zentrum für Fotografie_02
  • AD Zentrum für Fotografie_03
  • AD Zentrum für Fotografie_04
  • AD Immigrants hotspot Calais
  • AD Spreepark Berlin
  • AD EXPO2021 Transformation
  • AD Calais
  • RO Cooling Clay
  • RO Projective Fabrications
  • MD Dover
  • MD Blind Spot
  • MD Power of Spaces
  • MD Flickwerk
  • MD Scaffolds
• 2021
  • AD Gasometer Schoeneberg_01
  • AD Gasometer Schoeneberg_02
  • AD Gasometer Schoeneberg_03
  • AD Gasometer Schoeneberg_04
  • AD Perception as Reality
  • AD Ebertplatz Koeln_01
  • AD Ebertplatz Koeln_02
  • AD Ebertplatz Koeln_03
  • AD Rural Taxonomy - Rheinland
  • VR Agora Virtuell
  • MD Weaving Worlds
  • MD Behind the Scenes
  • MD Borders Crossing Borders
  • MD Perspektivwechsel
  • MD Ghosts of Beirut
  • MD Codifying Embodied Practices
  • MD Flux-House
  • MD Peripherie BS
• 2020
  • EX NEUXKÖLLN
  • CO VR Symposium, Hannover
  • FT Schnöggersburg
  • EX VR-Präsentation TU Berlin
  • AD Assemble - DisAssemble_01
  • AD Assemble - DisAssemble_02
  • AD Assemble - DisAssemble_03
  • AD Rural Taxonomy - Lausitz
  • AD Virtual Reality Center
  • AD Allotment Garden Berlin
  • AD Cinematheque for Berlin
  • AD Neft Dashlari
  • VR Unbefugte Nutzung
  • MD Rural Taxonomy - Almeria
  • MD Interrail Travel Guide
  • MD Interrail Speculative Narrations
  • MD Mapping MySpace
• 2019
  • EX Kino der Moderne
  • AD Yellow Tower Hildesheim
  • AD Silk Road Duisburg
  • AD Ein ZKM für Berlin_01
  • AD Ein ZKM für Berlin_02
  • AD European Hub Inden
  • AD ÖKOstrie 4.0_BioDigital
  • AD Reverse Architecture Chemnitz
  • FT Chemnitz
  • VR Zeichnen virtueller Raumbilder
  • VR Entwerfen in der Virtuellen Realität
  • VR Being a Drone
  • VR Raumzeichnen 1
  • RO Intrinsic Acoustics
  • MD Digital Stereotomy
• 2018
  • EX Roboramics _FUTURIUM
  • AD Avus North Curve Berlin
  • AD Wuppertal Reloaded
  • AD Neues Sehen
  • AD Benno Ohnesorg
  • RO Endless Space
  • RO Roboramics
  • AR Spatial Information
  • AR Augmented Realities
  • VR Fieldstation Berlin Teufelsberg_2
  • VR Fieldstation Berlin Teufelsberg
  • MD Bending Bamboo
  • MD Skins
  • MD flow fly fold
  • MD From Idea to Design
  • MD Digitale Fabrikation
  • MD Spatial Informa(p)tions
  • MD Information Space 2
• 2017
  • CO With eyes wide shut
  • EX Photo-Based Architecture
  • AD In.Form the Void
  • AD Info.Tecture
  • AD Transforming Tegel
  • AD The space could also be different
  • VR Mit weit geschlossenen Augen
  • VR This is real
  • VR Designing Virtual Realities
  • LE Image-based Architecture
  • RO Hello Robot
  • RO Robot wire bender
  • MD Cyber Space Modulators
  • MD Ghost towns
  • MD Motion - Space - Object
  • MD Dynamic Surfaces
  • MD Spatial modular systems
  • MD Foams
  • MD Tomorrow land
  • MD Information Space
  • MD Hybrid Processes 2
• 2016
  • EX March Formations
  • EX Modular spatial installations
  • AD Connecting the Dots
  • FT Connecting the Dots
  • AD Kultur.Raum Amsterdam
  • AD WissensRäume
  • AD Climate Mod Station
  • RO In-Space
  • RO Spatial Composition
  • MD Totale Inszenierung
  • MD Conduct light - Transform space
  • MD Hybrid Processes
• 2015
  • EX Bigger than life
  • AD Checkpoint Charlie theater
  • AD Honecker Bunker Prenden
  • FT Honecker Bunker Prenden
  • RO The Unseen Ornament
  • MD WovenWoodWall
  • MD Bunkerarcheology
  • MD Upside down
  • MD Floating Concrete Shells
  • MD One to One
  • MD Foldable Surfaces
  • MD Image Based Architecture
  • MD Linear Constructions
  • MD Reconstructing Tschernichow
  • MD Cut Fold Turn
  • MD Metabolism Printing
  • MD Enter the Void
• 2014
  • EX Smart modular systems
  • AD Nuremberg transscription
  • AD Avus north curve
  • AD Time out zones
  • FT Time out zones1
  • FT Time out zones2
  • AD Hacking Berlin Teufelsberg
  • FT Hacking Berlin Teufelsberg
  • AD Moma Tower
  • AD Highrise Topology
  • MD The Continuity of Space
  • MD Continuum Structures
  • MD Dissolving Funnel
  • MD Photopology 1
  • MD Cut to fit
  • MD Parametric tiling
• 2013
  • EX Out of Control
  • AD The sky over Berlin
  • FT The sky over Berlin
  • MD Wolfsburg Westhagen
  • MD Neighborhoods Westhagen
  • MD PanOrama: Alles sehen
  • MD Drawing machines
  • MD perForm
  • MD Scheme and system
  • MD Blowup
  • MD Follow the line
  • MD Micro Pneumatic Structures
• 2012
  • EX inForm
  • EX ConStructs
  • AD Bauhaus Museum
  • FT Bauhaus Weimar
  • AD Ernst Reuter Platz Berlin
  • MI nCloths
  • MD Raumparallaxe
  • MD Ambiguous composing
  • MD Mapping
  • MD Wooden Textiles
  • MD OnLine
  • MD Never trust a surface
  • MD Outskirt Phenomena
  • MD Aural Architectures
• 2011
  • EX SpaceInversions
  • AD Spree Space Bridge
  • AD Rhoen Flight
  • MD Space on the drawing
  • MD Exhilarated with the depth
  • MD Stop motion space
  • MD Urban-image-spacing
  • MD Bit-mapping space
  • MD Photo stitching reality
• 2010
  • EX Explosee
  • EX Video reprojections
  • EX Tape Deck
  • AD Sustainable Center Afsluitdijk
  • AD Hangar J 1000
  • FT Junkers+Bauhaus Dessau
  • MI Hangar J 1000
  • MD Medial design processes
  • MD Responsive_wall
  • MD The flow of things
  • MD PhotoStitching Reality
  • MD Space projections
  • MD Urban_bit_map
  • MD Google's street view
  • MD Structural constellations
  • MD Intersection space
  • MD Parts of space
  • MD The section maker
• 2009
  • EX Towers in CNC milling
  • AD Frankfurt high-rise
  • MD Complex capacities
  • MD Production from Reality
  • MD Medial design processes
  • MD The parallel city
  • MD The reality of the medial image
  • MD Sequential movie objects
  • MD Street View _Locative Virtuality
  • MD Soundscapes
  • MD Space modulator
  • MD Paper cuts
• 2008
  • EX Mediaturen
  • AD Home game
  • MD Smart surfaces
  • MD The imPerfect form
  • MD On growth and form
  • MD From image plane to depth
  • MD Projection drawings
  • MD Sight in movement
  • MD Walk the Line
• 2007
  • EX Towers in color
  • PE 2' 11'' Soundscapes
  • MD The imPerfect form
  • MD Rather than plan
  • MD Programme.System.Coincidence
• 2006
  • AD Berlin Vertical
  • AD Beijing Space
  • FT Visiting China
• 2005
  • PE Mediaturen
  • EX Raum:Ge:Bild:e

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN | Frankfurt high-rise

The project deals with the building type of the building as a social, formal and constructive phenomenon. In experimental ways, strategies for the vertical shape, concepts of spatial and functional compression, and ideas of the "Auto Monuments" and the "city within a city" are to be investigated. Basis of the discussion is the idea of changing, adapting to the needs of users of the city and programmatic compression in very large buildings, which the Netherland architect Rem Koolhaas formulated in his early theoretical work "Delirious New York. A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan" in 1978. With the concept of "Culture of Congestion" he describes the phenomenon of simultaneity and spatial superposition of different programs, functions, concepts and ideologies as well as the help of modern technologies in generating directed artificial worlds.

To be tested will be the concept of the unpredictable and unstable combination of simultaneous activities in a high-rise design for Frankfurt am Main. Amidst the financial crisis, the City of Frankfurt continues the planning for the construction of additional high-rise buildings. More than 20 new towers are possible with the new skyscraper development, which the City Council decided at the end of 2008. The task of the project is to design a 210 meters high skyscraper, which will emerge on a previously undeveloped property south of the main station in Frankfurt am Main. Here are all the major traffic connections from city public transport to regional and long-distance high-speed trains. The plan is for a spatial and functional connection between the tower, station, tracks and a new bus station.

The skyscraper is a building that allows unaccustomed perception forms of space. Spatial categories such as top and bottom, inside and outside, near and far receive a far greater scale in a high-rise. The enlargement of the horizon with increasing altitude is just as characteristic as the change from the view of the building to the oversight of the urban surroundings. These specific forms of perception and spatial effects on the viewer will be discussed in relation to the specific planned location of the high-rise.

The project is in cooperation with the Institute of Steel Construction, Technical University of Brunswick and the laboratory for processing technology, HAWK Hildesheim. As design and materialization media, a 2D laser cutting machine, a 3D printer, CNC Styroschneidemaschine and a CNC 5-axis milling cutter will be used.

Directed by: Carolin Höfler, Prof. Matthias Karch