Zollverein School of Management and Design
/// Zollverein School of Management and Design Location: Essen, Germany Finished: 2006 Owner: Zollverein Essen Company Architect: SANNA Tokio & Heinrich Böll Essen Construction: Bollinger +Grohmann Ingenieure Frankfurt Building services: Transsolar Stuttgart & Winter Ingenieure Düsseldorf Executor company: Schäfer Bauten Ibbenbüren
Zollverein School of Management and Design
/// Zollverein School of Management and Design Location: Essen, Germany Finished: 2006 Owner: Zollverein Essen Company Architect: SANNA Tokio & Heinrich Böll Essen Construction: Bollinger +Grohmann Ingenieure Frankfurt Building services: Transsolar Stuttgart & Winter Ingenieure Düsseldorf Executor company: Schäfer Bauten Ibbenbüren
Kreishaus Wesel
/// Kreishaus Wesel Owner: Kreis Wesel, Zentrales Immobilienmanagment Accomplishment: Façade refurbishment concept Technical consultant: Balck und Partner, Heidelberg Finished: 2009 The starting point of this study was to check a potential the structural risk of the façade of the administration building. Different scenarios had
Kreishaus Wesel
/// Kreishaus Wesel Owner: Kreis Wesel, Zentrales Immobilienmanagment Accomplishment: Façade refurbishment concept Technical consultant: Balck und Partner, Heidelberg Finished: 2009 The starting point of this study was to check a potential the structural risk of the façade of the administration building. Different scenarios had
Chair of mechanics / Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Schneider
/// Chair of mechanics / Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Schneider The institute for materials and mechanics in civil engineering bundles its research and educational activities in the areas materials in civil engineering, statics and mechanics in order to achieve a homogeneous basis
Chair of mechanics / Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Schneider
/// Chair of mechanics / Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Schneider The institute for materials and mechanics in civil engineering bundles its research and educational activities in the areas materials in civil engineering, statics and mechanics in order to achieve a homogeneous basis
Chair climate design / Thomas Auer
/// Chair climate design / Thomas Auer The focus of this chair is on building technology and building services including holistic planning strategies, and innovative planning tools. It covers consultation with construction faculties, Geo Environmental and Mechanical Engineering.
Chair climate design / Thomas Auer
/// Chair climate design / Thomas Auer The focus of this chair is on building technology and building services including holistic planning strategies, and innovative planning tools. It covers consultation with construction faculties, Geo Environmental and Mechanical Engineering.
CAAD / Peter Russell
/// CAAD / Peter Russell Computer Aided Architectural Design, CAAD deals with current and future-oriented techniques done by computer to support architecture in matter of design, visualization, simulation and communication.
CAAD / Peter Russell
/// CAAD / Peter Russell Computer Aided Architectural Design, CAAD deals with current and future-oriented techniques done by computer to support architecture in matter of design, visualization, simulation and communication.
Institute of Concrete and Masonry Structures and Building Materials. Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Carl-Alexander Graubner
/// Institute of Concrete and Masonry Structures and Building Materials. Univ.Prof. Dr.-Ing. Carl-Alexander Graubner The Chair at the Technical University Darmstadt lays an equal focus on thorough education of future engineers and innovative research. Therefore the curriculum and research activities
Institute of Concrete and Masonry Structures and Building Materials. Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Carl-Alexander Graubner
/// Institute of Concrete and Masonry Structures and Building Materials. Univ.Prof. Dr.-Ing. Carl-Alexander Graubner The Chair at the Technical University Darmstadt lays an equal focus on thorough education of future engineers and innovative research. Therefore the curriculum and research activities
Chair structure and construction / Holger Techen
/// Chair structure and construction / Holger Techen The department offers various programs, which focuses on different areas of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geomatics represented in four undergraduate and eight master’s degree programs.
Chair structure and construction / Holger Techen
/// Chair structure and construction / Holger Techen The department offers various programs, which focuses on different areas of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geomatics represented in four undergraduate and eight master’s degree programs.
Cinark / Anne Beim
/// Cinark / Anne Beim CINARK develops, accumulates and co-ordinates research and education activities concerning the production of industrial architecture from a sustainable point of view.
Cinark / Anne Beim
/// Cinark / Anne Beim CINARK develops, accumulates and co-ordinates research and education activities concerning the production of industrial architecture from a sustainable point of view.
gFT | Mauro Overend
/// gFT | glass and façade research group The Glass & Façade Technology (gFT) Research Group provides solutions to real world challenges in the field of structural glass and facade engineering through fundamental and application-driven research.
gFT | Mauro Overend
/// gFT | glass and façade research group The Glass & Façade Technology (gFT) Research Group provides solutions to real world challenges in the field of structural glass and facade engineering through fundamental and application-driven research.
AfH
/// AfH | Architecture for Humanity Architecture for Humanity, a nongovernmental grand organization focusing on buildings for a more sustainable future through the power of professional design, is supporting the efnMOBIL project by administrating and facilitating the program “emerging envelopes” supported
AfH
/// AfH | Architecture for Humanity Architecture for Humanity, a nongovernmental grand organization focusing on buildings for a more sustainable future through the power of professional design, is supporting the efnMOBIL project by administrating and facilitating the program “emerging envelopes” supported
Punched Façade
/// Punched Façade An Idea based on integrating one of the technologies that had been used in car industry and bring it to façade construction world, by manufacturing a unitised façade element, which is based on the same principles used
Punched Façade
/// Punched Façade An Idea based on integrating one of the technologies that had been used in car industry and bring it to façade construction world, by manufacturing a unitised façade element, which is based on the same principles used
EnBW City
/// EnBW City The building considered as an icon in matter of its transparency and innovative complex design, the main goals were to present modern, innovative, ambitious and efficient building. The complexity of the building acts as a strong and
Debitel Headquarters
/// Debitel Headquarters The headquarters of the telecommunications company Debitel comprises a high-rise building and four oblong low-rise buildings that are connected with the high-rise through a glass corridor 100 m (110 yd) long. The entire complex is grouped around
Debitel Headquarters
/// Debitel Headquarters The headquarters of the telecommunications company Debitel comprises a high-rise building and four oblong low-rise buildings that are connected with the high-rise through a glass corridor 100 m (110 yd) long. The entire complex is grouped around
Light-Noise Quality Façade
/// Light-Noise Quality Façade The idea behind the façade is to improve noise and light quality, by using the evolutionary solver “galapagos” in order to determine the most efficient shape for a solar collecting cone, through this program many iterations of
Light-Noise Quality Façade
/// Light-Noise Quality Façade The idea behind the façade is to improve noise and light quality, by using the evolutionary solver “galapagos” in order to determine the most efficient shape for a solar collecting cone, through this program many iterations of
Willy Brandt Strasse 70
/// Willy Brandt Strasse 70 In a central location along Willy Brand Strasse in Hamburg an existing building is being refurbished and, with extensions, re-purposed as a commercial and office building. Due to the complex urbanism situation of new and old buildings, façade planning needs to be very
Willy Brandt Strasse 70
/// Willy Brandt Strasse 70 In a central location along Willy Brand Strasse in Hamburg an existing building is being refurbished and, with extensions, re-purposed as a commercial and office building. Due to the complex urbanism situation of new and old buildings, façade planning needs to be very
Bucky Lab Sunshade Concept
/// Bucky Lab Sunshade Concept A new concept for sun shading being presented by Bucky Lab, using folded fabrics in a way, which allows it to be used as sufficient sun shading device.
Bucky Lab Sunshade Concept
/// Bucky Lab Sunshade Concept A new concept for sun shading being presented by Bucky Lab, using folded fabrics in a way, which allows it to be used as sufficient sun shading device.
Hyposurface
/// Hyposurface HypoSurface is a new three-dimensional, dynamic, content delivery system, which is the whole surface is physically moves, it is considered as a new media technology, which is able to be linked to information and form by an info-form
Hyposurface
/// Hyposurface HypoSurface is a new three-dimensional, dynamic, content delivery system, which is the whole surface is physically moves, it is considered as a new media technology, which is able to be linked to information and form by an info-form
Generating Energy Façade
/// Generating Energy Façade The main concept is useing wind power in combination with Piezo electric technology to generate energy in form of electricity, The mock-up had been done by group of students from Detmolder Hochschule. The mock-up supposed to
Generating Energy Façade
/// Generating Energy Façade The main concept is useing wind power in combination with Piezo electric technology to generate energy in form of electricity, The mock-up had been done by group of students from Detmolder Hochschule. The mock-up supposed to
Design and Construction Chair in TU Delft
/// Design and Construction Chair in TU Delft The chair Design of Construction engages issues that are related to building constructions. The spectrum goes from the relation between functional and structural aspects, via building technologies specific for a material, to the development of principles for
Design and Construction Chair in TU Delft
/// Design and Construction Chair in TU Delft The chair Design of Construction engages issues that are related to building constructions. The spectrum goes from the relation between functional and structural aspects, via building technologies specific for a material, to the development of principles for
free-D.nl
/// free-D.nl The online documentation platform on non-orthogonal buildings. The motivation and relevance of the free-D project is based on the increasing degree of geometrical variation and complexity in non-orthogonal buildings worldwide.
Matrix Façade
/// Matrix Façade IMAGINED BY: Nathan Volkers, guided by T. Klein DATE: 18/05/2009 KEYWORDS: decentralized, modular, ventilating, heating, cooling, adaptive, envelope, aluminum, plastics, membrane, composites PERFORMANCE: integrated functions Interpretation of the grid façade as a media matrix. Future climate integrated façades will be equipped
Matrix Façade
/// Matrix Façade IMAGINED BY: Nathan Volkers, guided by T. Klein DATE: 18/05/2009 KEYWORDS: decentralized, modular, ventilating, heating, cooling, adaptive, envelope, aluminum, plastics, membrane, composites PERFORMANCE: integrated functions Interpretation of the grid façade as a media matrix. Future climate integrated façades will be equipped
M&M’S® Façade
/// M&M’S® Façade IMAGINED BY: Sharon Lighart, guided by M. Bilow and H. Techen DATE: 30/03/2011 KEYWORDS: layered construction, modular, cooling, easy to assemble, envelope PERFORMANCE: integrated functions Typically, concrete consists of aggregates and cement paste. The aggregate has a significant influence on
M&M’S® Façade
/// M&M’S® Façade IMAGINED BY: Sharon Lighart, guided by M. Bilow and H. Techen DATE: 30/03/2011 KEYWORDS: layered construction, modular, cooling, easy to assemble, envelope PERFORMANCE: integrated functions Typically, concrete consists of aggregates and cement paste. The aggregate has a significant influence on
Integral Wall
/// Integral Wall IMAGINED BY: Charlotte Heesbeen, guided by T. Klein DATE: 18/05/2009 KEYWORDS: composite, free-form, ventilating, heating, cooling, load bearing, solid, envelope, unknown material PERFORMANCE: integrated functions This approach can be explained with the example of a tea cup. In the
Integral Wall
/// Integral Wall IMAGINED BY: Charlotte Heesbeen, guided by T. Klein DATE: 18/05/2009 KEYWORDS: composite, free-form, ventilating, heating, cooling, load bearing, solid, envelope, unknown material PERFORMANCE: integrated functions This approach can be explained with the example of a tea cup. In the
Component Façade
/// Component Façade IMAGINED BY: Leonie van Ginkel, guided by T. Klein DATE: 18/05/2009 KEYWORDS: prefabricated, modular, ventilating, heating, cooling, adapting, envelope, aluminium, plastics, composites PERFORMANCE: assembly This scenario is based on the idea that the façade itself does not have an independent load-bearing
Component Façade
/// Component Façade IMAGINED BY: Leonie van Ginkel, guided by T. Klein DATE: 18/05/2009 KEYWORDS: prefabricated, modular, ventilating, heating, cooling, adapting, envelope, aluminium, plastics, composites PERFORMANCE: assembly This scenario is based on the idea that the façade itself does not have an independent load-bearing
Rammed Salt Wall
/// Rammed Salt Wall IMAGINED BY: H. Techen, T. Auer, U. Knaack, T. Klein, M. Bilow and A. Compagno DATE: 27/10/2008 KEYWORDS: salt, material, dehumidification, cooling, façade PERFORMANCE: material Building in humid climates like that of Abu Dhabi requires the exterior
Rammed Salt Wall
/// Rammed Salt Wall IMAGINED BY: H. Techen, T. Auer, U. Knaack, T. Klein, M. Bilow and A. Compagno DATE: 27/10/2008 KEYWORDS: salt, material, dehumidification, cooling, façade PERFORMANCE: material Building in humid climates like that of Abu Dhabi requires the exterior
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