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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
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  • AD Immigrants hotspot Calais
  • AD Spreepark Berlin
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • MD Hybrid Processes 2
• 2016
  • EX March Formations
  • EX Modular spatial installations
  • AD Connecting the Dots
  • FT Connecting the Dots
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  • AD WissensRäume
  • AD Climate Mod Station
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  • MD Totale Inszenierung
  • MD Conduct light - Transform space
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• 2015
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  • AD Checkpoint Charlie theater
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  • RO The Unseen Ornament
  • MD WovenWoodWall
  • MD Bunkerarcheology
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  • MD Floating Concrete Shells
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  • 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
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  • 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 | Masterthesis | Moma Tower_ NYC

Towards Integrative Digital Design Strategies for Highrise Planning

Task:
In this experimental design class a major expansion in the form of a "Mixed-Use Towers" for the New York Museum of Modern Art had to be planned. The MOMA is one of the world's leading institutions for modern and contemporary art, and it is with its exposed location between 5th and 6th Avenue in the heart of the bustling metropolis. The concept of use of the new building, includes not only the expansion of the exhibition space but also the creation of apartments, offices and retail space. In the design course a particularly innovative novel high-rise type was developed, under the the utilization of a contemporary digital process chain that contained simulation and modeling.
The final design is characterized both by its appeal as representative of the MoMA as well as a new landmark for New York.

Backgrounds MoMA Tower:
In a vacant lot between the Financial Times Tower (54th and 6th Ave) and MoMA plan games for a new building to be for quite some time played by different interest groups. As one of the promising candidates for the award of a long time saw the Paris office of Jean Nouvel, with its wedge-shaped "Tower Verre" from. Due to the global financial crisis from 2008 and, in related collapse of the U.S. real estate industry it is owed, the project failed to materialize. As a further reason for the failure of the project resistors within New York's population is mentioned, these were mainly directed against the overall hight and shape of the building due to a resulting competition to the Midtown icons Chrysler Building and Empire State Building. It was recently announced, that the first completed in 2001, west of the MOMA adjacent American Folk Art Museum by Tod Wiliams and Billie Tsien, was aquriert by MoMA in 2011 and will be demolished in 2014. By demolishing the Folk Art Museum a direct connection to the existing MoMA building is now also available from the 54th street. Best chances for the realization of the new building has the New York office Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

New York:
In the years under Mayor Bloomberg New York has excelled as a catalyst for innovative and sustainable projects in the field of urban planning and building design in the United States. In urban planning the High Line Park and the decommissioning of Broadway to traffic between Times Square and Madison Square, and the comprehensive revitalization of the riparian zones along the West Side Highway particularly noteworthy. In the area of contemporary high-rise projects, it is mainly the Hearst Tower (Foster and Partners), due to its sophisticated green building concept (LEAD Platinum status) and the Standard Hotel (Polschek Partnership), which by its timeless elegance and its exposed position above the High Line set standards.

Cooperation ITE:
The design course was created as a cooperation project between IMD and ITE with the goal to acquire new set of skills in the interface area between architecture and structural engineering. The implementation of structural and finite element analysis (FEA) tools, with plug-ins such as KARAMBA in the already familiar software environment of Rhino 3D and Grasshopper now allow for the first time a validated review of structural solutions in the early stages of preliminary design. These digital simulation tools allow early accurate analysis and evaluation of internal and external factors influencing the design process and can now be considered and seamlessly integrated at an early stage in the design process. Both structural and sustainability factors are now available within the Rhino design environment and can be incorporated as a design driver directly in the planning and thus act as a constant source of information within the various design stages. Besides the already mentioned advantages in relation to the design process, this novel fully integrated software solutions enable a more efficient and informed communication between the architect and the engineer.

Technological Input:
The technological focus of the course was on the application of contemporary digital simulation and modeling tools that should be used in the early phases to inform the design process. Therefore, a primary objective of the course was set on the acquisition of extensive knowledge in the field of contemporary digital technologies such as CAAD (Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, and Plug'ins). These digital tools were integrated as an integral part of the design process, and thus promote the communication and exchange with the specialist engineers involved in the project from the ITE.

Cooperation project with: Prof. Dr. Harald Kloft Institute for Structural Design

KARAMBA Workshop with: Clemens Preisinger KARAMBA

Directed by: Prof. Matthias Karch with Daniel Büning