in progress
If one had to imagine a circus it would have a red and white striped roof. At least in my case. A simple structure in the shape of a ring and seats all around. By that, rather unspectacular, one could say. Seemingly overtrumping the marble walls and the gothic times, tents and the circus were sold as the new, the modern way, introducing the flashy, the unknown, the spectacular. A scenery enhanced with all the components needed to be the main event in town: a parade, the building of the tents, and of course the show itself.
Advertised by one of the first big-scale marketing campaigns, it all fueled the machinery of success for decades. The circus and the red and white stripes of a tent still promise excitement of the unknown and keep this feeling alive as well as possible, maybe even in a modern world.
It may seem like an outdated form of entertainment, but it is nevertheless deeply entwined with childhood memories of the times you could not differentiate reality from the unbelievable and were thrilled to see a tamed elephant. The tent, which was not always a tent, still holds the power to create excitement with a severely simple arrangement of architectural components surrounding it. Behind the walls, if made out of stone or fabric, you are promised a spectacle in the form of space and performance, which you would expect from a sacred place in some sense.
personal project of interest
An upcoming project precisely (with some exceptions) documenting my grandparents home. A simple architects house designed to be lived in by a family. Designed to be put together by two strong dedicated pairs of hands.
drawings for the publication Arch+ 259 Wonders of the Modern World
part of work for Gestaltungslehre and Design TU Vienna
The redrawing of frescos done by Giotto and the architecture drawn in paintings by him ended in a series of models. 3D computer models of the elements used by Giotto are arranged in a completely new order. Resulting in a series of drawings not dedicated to a purpose. By that far away from their original meaning they give place to an unmatched scenery of architectural blocks and more…
deriving from an exercise at Gestaltungslehre and Design TU Vienna – under Agustina LaBarca Gattica and Adam Sherman
Things are being stored all the time. We keep things dear to us. We archive things worth to be seen in the future. The archive of advertising is doing that. New York as maybe the city of ads on big, all-time display, was the reasonable place to have an irrational approach to planning architecture for it. As advertising implies the nature of being seen even an archive has to be seen and not get lost in the endless towers of Manhatten. Despite building the well-seen, central New York part, the massive storage was planned as a counterpart on the Brooklyn sea side by a colleague.
project at Gestaltungslehre and Design TU Vienna – with Elena Perez Y Schneider – under Pier Paolo Tamburelli and Adam Sherman
The Ring in Vienna hosts the majority of the public infrastructure of Vienna. It connects the inner city with the former outer ring divided by the Glacis in older days. Part of the ring is the Karlsplatz, where the technical university is placed and the Karlskirche planned by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach stages as an Instagram and leisure hotspot. The former undefined green space in front of these buildings and the added Wien Museum stretches until the Wiener Secession. All mosques redrawn as a part of the research were not only used for prayer and treated as sacred places but functioned as public spaces enriching the city on another level. The Ring and Vienna as a whole are missing a mosque, despite over ten per cent of the population identifying themselves as Muslim. Karlsplatz, a forever unfinished space in the city fabric of Vienna, was chosen to locate the missing public building.
project at Gestaltungslehre and Design TU Vienna – with Elena Perez Y Schneider – under Pier Paolo Tamburelli and Adam Sherman