Author Archives: alamir mohsen

Glass House Office

/// Glass House Office IMAGINED BY: Ulrich Knaack DATE: 10-08-2010 KEYWORDS: simple structure, simple deconstruction, flying architecture, short term use, climate control This concept delivers the potential to build an office in a glass house. Glass houses are simple and efficient structures

Glass House Office

/// Glass House Office IMAGINED BY: Ulrich Knaack DATE: 10-08-2010 KEYWORDS: simple structure, simple deconstruction, flying architecture, short term use, climate control This concept delivers the potential to build an office in a glass house. Glass houses are simple and efficient structures

Future Envelope 8 ‘Mind the gap’

/// Future Envelope 8 ‘Mind the gap’ Future Envelope 8 Mind the gap Friday 6 June 2014, University of Bath Registration 08.30 for 9.15 start Programme includes: Designing the Gap: Case studies of ZHA projects on site Uli Blum, Zaha Hadid.

Future Envelope 8 ‘Mind the gap’

/// Future Envelope 8 ‘Mind the gap’ Future Envelope 8 Mind the gap Friday 6 June 2014, University of Bath Registration 08.30 for 9.15 start Programme includes: Designing the Gap: Case studies of ZHA projects on site Uli Blum, Zaha Hadid.

THE STRAW HOUSE

/// THE STRAW HOUSE IMAGINED BY: Workshop “I am Energy”, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts – School of Architecture, TU Delft – Faculty of Architecture – Façade Research Group DATE: 09-06-2010 KEYWORDS: self growing material, biomaterial, renewable construction, self active architecture

THE STRAW HOUSE

/// THE STRAW HOUSE IMAGINED BY: Workshop “I am Energy”, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts – School of Architecture, TU Delft – Faculty of Architecture – Façade Research Group DATE: 09-06-2010 KEYWORDS: self growing material, biomaterial, renewable construction, self active architecture

GENERICO CHAIR

/// GENERICO CHAIR DONE BY: Marco Hemmerling and Ulrich Nether Generico is a prototype for a new way of design thinking, developed with a holistic approach using latest technologies. The design is based on the requirements of comfortable sitting and responds to

GENERICO CHAIR

/// GENERICO CHAIR DONE BY: Marco Hemmerling and Ulrich Nether Generico is a prototype for a new way of design thinking, developed with a holistic approach using latest technologies. The design is based on the requirements of comfortable sitting and responds to

MUSH-ROOM

/// MUSH-ROOM IMAGINED BY: Güley Alagöz and Prof. Daniel Dendra / DIA DATE: 04-08-2010 KEYWORDS: organic, living organism, life cycle, interior This concept tries to harvest the often used shower actions in a hotel room. The wasted water contains a lot of

MUSH-ROOM

/// MUSH-ROOM IMAGINED BY: Güley Alagöz and Prof. Daniel Dendra / DIA DATE: 04-08-2010 KEYWORDS: organic, living organism, life cycle, interior This concept tries to harvest the often used shower actions in a hotel room. The wasted water contains a lot of

LOW ENERGY REFURBISHMENT

/// LOW ENERGY REFURBISHMENT  IMAGINED BY: Ulrich Knaack, Marcel Bilow DATE: 08-03-2011 KEYWORDS: refurbishment, low energy, short usage, time, material Do we have to invest a huge amount of energy to do a refurbishment? It all depends on the time period. Imagine

LOW ENERGY REFURBISHMENT

/// LOW ENERGY REFURBISHMENT  IMAGINED BY: Ulrich Knaack, Marcel Bilow DATE: 08-03-2011 KEYWORDS: refurbishment, low energy, short usage, time, material Do we have to invest a huge amount of energy to do a refurbishment? It all depends on the time period. Imagine

KRYMMEL – HAGELSLAG SEASONAL INSULATION

/// KRYMMEL – HAGELSLAG SEASONAL INSULATION IMAGINED BY: Workshop “I am Energy”, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts – School of Architecture, TU Delft – Faculty of Architecture – Façade Research Group DATE: 09-06-2010 KEYWORDS: particles, insulation, temporary, energy saving, enclosure Brainstorming

KRYMMEL – HAGELSLAG SEASONAL INSULATION

/// KRYMMEL – HAGELSLAG SEASONAL INSULATION IMAGINED BY: Workshop “I am Energy”, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts – School of Architecture, TU Delft – Faculty of Architecture – Façade Research Group DATE: 09-06-2010 KEYWORDS: particles, insulation, temporary, energy saving, enclosure Brainstorming

Inspiring Journey

/// Inspiring Journey See the project link here. ‘Inspiring Journey’ exhibition – a design and research project for KOLON in collaboration with SUH Architects / Seoul and transsolar, imagine structures and imagine envelope. Start exhibition will be in Beijing – followed

Inspiring Journey

/// Inspiring Journey See the project link here. ‘Inspiring Journey’ exhibition – a design and research project for KOLON in collaboration with SUH Architects / Seoul and transsolar, imagine structures and imagine envelope. Start exhibition will be in Beijing – followed

HOUSE OF FUEL

/// HOUSE OF FUEL IMAGINED BY: Ulrich Knaack, Linda Hildebrand, Marcel Bilow DATE: 05-03-2011 KEYWORDS: fuel, building material, energy, reusable, structure Each material already contains an amount of energy. We are able to use a bit of it at the end of

HOUSE OF FUEL

/// HOUSE OF FUEL IMAGINED BY: Ulrich Knaack, Linda Hildebrand, Marcel Bilow DATE: 05-03-2011 KEYWORDS: fuel, building material, energy, reusable, structure Each material already contains an amount of energy. We are able to use a bit of it at the end of

Rotating Sunscreen

/// Rotating Sunscreen  Imagine a sunscreen, which is transparent but blocks off the sun. This is a suggestion of a rotating sunscreen by Marcel Bilow, using the trick known from the cinema film to bluff our eye and by this appearing

Rotating Sunscreen

/// Rotating Sunscreen  Imagine a sunscreen, which is transparent but blocks off the sun. This is a suggestion of a rotating sunscreen by Marcel Bilow, using the trick known from the cinema film to bluff our eye and by this appearing

Heat Balloons

/// Heat Balloons  IMAGINED BY: Maksym Iurovnikov and Prof. Daniel Dendra / DIA DATE: 05-09-2010 KEYWORDS: energy, sunshading, façade, energy harvesting This concept is based on the principle of heat absorbing balloons. Imagine a layer of black balloons covering the whole surface

Heat Balloons

/// Heat Balloons  IMAGINED BY: Maksym Iurovnikov and Prof. Daniel Dendra / DIA DATE: 05-09-2010 KEYWORDS: energy, sunshading, façade, energy harvesting This concept is based on the principle of heat absorbing balloons. Imagine a layer of black balloons covering the whole surface

A Collaboration Of TU München, TU Delft and HS OWL

/// A Collaboration Of TU München, TU Delft and HS OWL See the link Here. To initiate the cooperation between TU München, TU Delft and HS OWL in research and education at the area of the building envelope / climate

A Collaboration Of TU München, TU Delft and HS OWL

/// A Collaboration Of TU München, TU Delft and HS OWL See the link Here. To initiate the cooperation between TU München, TU Delft and HS OWL in research and education at the area of the building envelope / climate

CO2 CONTAINER STRUCTURE

/// CO2 CONTAINER STRUCTURE IMAGINED BY: Till Klein, Marcel Bilow, Linda Hildebrand, Ulrich Knaack DATE: 24-03-2011 KEYWORDS: CO2, waste storage, reuse Let’s think about the potential of storing CO2 – no, we are not trying to hide the CO2 in old mines

CO2 CONTAINER STRUCTURE

/// CO2 CONTAINER STRUCTURE IMAGINED BY: Till Klein, Marcel Bilow, Linda Hildebrand, Ulrich Knaack DATE: 24-03-2011 KEYWORDS: CO2, waste storage, reuse Let’s think about the potential of storing CO2 – no, we are not trying to hide the CO2 in old mines

BOOK WALL

  /// BOOK WALL IMAGINED BY: Workshop “I am Energy”, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts – School of Architecture, TU Delft – Faculty of Architecture – Façade Research Group DATE: 09/06/2010 KEYWORDS: recycling, reuse, embodied energy, books Brainstorming Start: cardboard,

BOOK WALL

  /// BOOK WALL IMAGINED BY: Workshop “I am Energy”, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts – School of Architecture, TU Delft – Faculty of Architecture – Façade Research Group DATE: 09/06/2010 KEYWORDS: recycling, reuse, embodied energy, books Brainstorming Start: cardboard,

BALLOON INSULATION

/// BALLOON INSULATION IMAGINED BY: Workshop “I am Energy”, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts – School of Architecture, TU Delft – Faculty of Architecture – Façade Research Group, renderings by Jens Böke KEYWORDS: pneumatic, electrostatic, flying architecture, adaptivity This concept uses

BALLOON INSULATION

/// BALLOON INSULATION IMAGINED BY: Workshop “I am Energy”, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts – School of Architecture, TU Delft – Faculty of Architecture – Façade Research Group, renderings by Jens Böke KEYWORDS: pneumatic, electrostatic, flying architecture, adaptivity This concept uses

AIR ARCHITECTURE

/// AIR ARCHITECTURE IMAGINED BY Yves Klein “My walls of fire and my walls of water, with the roofs of air, materials for a new architecture. With these three classical elements, fire, air, and water, the city of tomorrow will be constructed; it

AIR ARCHITECTURE

/// AIR ARCHITECTURE IMAGINED BY Yves Klein “My walls of fire and my walls of water, with the roofs of air, materials for a new architecture. With these three classical elements, fire, air, and water, the city of tomorrow will be constructed; it

Future Envelope 8 ‘Mind the Gap’

/// Future Envelope 8 ‘Mind the Gap’ This one-day conference will address gaps in knowledge and process and consider how we can improve the design, specification and construction of building envelopes. The conference is intended for graduate engineers with up to

Future Envelope 8 ‘Mind the Gap’

/// Future Envelope 8 ‘Mind the Gap’ This one-day conference will address gaps in knowledge and process and consider how we can improve the design, specification and construction of building envelopes. The conference is intended for graduate engineers with up to

BMW Sanduhr

/// BMW Sanduhr Client BMW AG München Idea Media Audience Beratung GmbH, Berlin Architecture and Visualization imagine structure, Matthias Michel in collaboration with Max Weber and Felix Nienstätt Plexiglas technology imagine structure, Matthias Michel in collaboration with Röhm, Christian Eckhard Structural

BMW Sanduhr

/// BMW Sanduhr Client BMW AG München Idea Media Audience Beratung GmbH, Berlin Architecture and Visualization imagine structure, Matthias Michel in collaboration with Max Weber and Felix Nienstätt Plexiglas technology imagine structure, Matthias Michel in collaboration with Röhm, Christian Eckhard Structural

Archäologische Vitrine

   /// Archäologische Vitrine Architect kadawittfeldarchitektur, Aachen Structural planning imagine structure Archaeological show case After the Architects won the 1st prize, Imagine structure group are also part of the team for realization of the archaeologic show case in Aachen. The design blends

Archäologische Vitrine

   /// Archäologische Vitrine Architect kadawittfeldarchitektur, Aachen Structural planning imagine structure Archaeological show case After the Architects won the 1st prize, Imagine structure group are also part of the team for realization of the archaeologic show case in Aachen. The design blends

Wintergarten Kloster Beilstein

   /// Wintergarten Kloster Beilstein Client Katholische Kirchengemeinde Sankt Josef, Beilstein Architect Planwerk 590, Koblenz Structural planning imagine structure Completion 2010 Addition to the Beilstein Monastery To the Beilstein Monastery a new winter garden will be added. Imagine structure group are in

Wintergarten Kloster Beilstein

   /// Wintergarten Kloster Beilstein Client Katholische Kirchengemeinde Sankt Josef, Beilstein Architect Planwerk 590, Koblenz Structural planning imagine structure Completion 2010 Addition to the Beilstein Monastery To the Beilstein Monastery a new winter garden will be added. Imagine structure group are in

VITRA – Delivery Centre

/// VITRA – Delivery Centre Client Vitra AG, Birsfelden Architect SANAA, Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa Local Partners Nicole Berganski & Andreas Krawczyk Structural consulting Holger Techen, Matthias Michel Development period 2007 The Curtain Wall Material Research For the new Vitra

VITRA – Delivery Centre

/// VITRA – Delivery Centre Client Vitra AG, Birsfelden Architect SANAA, Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa Local Partners Nicole Berganski & Andreas Krawczyk Structural consulting Holger Techen, Matthias Michel Development period 2007 The Curtain Wall Material Research For the new Vitra

Ketteler Kolleg |Pneumatic roof

  /// Ketteler Kolleg |Pneumatic roof Architect HSK-Architekten, Darmstadt Structural planning imagine structure Energetic design imagine climate / Transsolar Completion 2009 During an energetic cleansing of the Ketteler Kolleg, the concept of the architect establishes a filigree roof construction. Membrane cushions

Ketteler Kolleg |Pneumatic roof

  /// Ketteler Kolleg |Pneumatic roof Architect HSK-Architekten, Darmstadt Structural planning imagine structure Energetic design imagine climate / Transsolar Completion 2009 During an energetic cleansing of the Ketteler Kolleg, the concept of the architect establishes a filigree roof construction. Membrane cushions

House of the future (HOF)

/// House of the future (HOF) The house of the future is designed by Behnisch Architects to be the first fully sustainable building on Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago. The outer envelope for (HOF) provides the required protection

House of the future (HOF)

/// House of the future (HOF) The house of the future is designed by Behnisch Architects to be the first fully sustainable building on Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago. The outer envelope for (HOF) provides the required protection

Frame Work

/// Frame Work The idea is to come up with a new way to build a formwork for concrete in  a way, which is fast and economic. The first attempt was made of cotton connected to a zipper with 8

Frame Work

/// Frame Work The idea is to come up with a new way to build a formwork for concrete in  a way, which is fast and economic. The first attempt was made of cotton connected to a zipper with 8

Textile Form-work

/// Textile Form-work  The aim for this project was to prepare bearing structure node made of concrete, which serves as support element for a table. Three bars should carry the table plate as a legs. The concrete rods placed at

Textile Form-work

/// Textile Form-work  The aim for this project was to prepare bearing structure node made of concrete, which serves as support element for a table. Three bars should carry the table plate as a legs. The concrete rods placed at