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Living Lab Urban:Quarters 4.0 at HLRS

The research focus of Living Lab Urban:Quarters 4.0 (Reallabor Stadt:Quartiere 4.0) lies on the development of digital tools to support citizens, planners, and decision makers with the aim of creating synergies and cooperation across complex and dynamic processes in the context of digital transformation. One of the major challenges is the linking of expectations and … Continue reading →

Filed under cities, city, High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, mobility, networks, post-oil, Projects, regional development planning, Space Syntax, study, Sustainability, Uncategorized, University of Stuttgart, urban development, urban infill development, urban mobility, urban planning, urbanism, walkability · Tagged with 3D virtual realities, air quality, COVISE, decision and planning support, digital transformation, digital twin, Herrenberg, living lab, OpenCover, OpenFOAM, participation, participatory processes, particulate matter, Space Syntax, spatial analysis, SUMO, sustainable gouvernance, urban design, urban planning, virtual city

Clouds and Waves – Premiere in Münster (DE)

“Clouds and Waves” is a sound sculpture functioning as a temporary installation in space and imagination. The sculpture is formed inside the heads of the audience and interprets through the freedom of abstraction. As in life, a continuum is being created: a gentle beginning, a loud rearing up and a fainting dying away – an … Continue reading →

Filed under Architecture, concert, Exhibition, installation art, Music, Projects, Stage · Tagged with concert, installation art, LWL, Münster, mise-en-scène, Muenster, museum, Museum für Kunst und Kultur Münster, Shih, sound sculpture

Search for Truth

Light – Space – Sound Installation 30th Anniversary of the university library building TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology) November 13 – December 09 daily between 17:00 and 23:00 Karlsplatz/Resselpark/Wiedner Hauptstraße Vienna/Austria Truth and science – only in science we have well defined criteria to differentiate truth from lies as well as probability from improbability. … Continue reading →

Filed under Architecture, Artwork, Camouflage, cities, city, Collage, Exhibition, heterotopia, installation art, Mirror, Music, Uncategorized, urbanism, Vienna University of Technology · Tagged with art, heterotopia, installation art, Karlsplatz, libraries, light-space-sound installation, research, Resselpark, Search for Truth, Suche nach Wahrheit, TU Wien, Vienna, Vienna University of Technology

CTY LAB – get the big picture

CTY LAB is a rapid prototyping laboratory in the framework of Fabian Dembski / Studio for Architecture and Urban Design and aims to support participative design processes starting from an early phase across scales. CTY LAB is under constant development depending on our current projects. We are working with 3D models in virtual realities (3D VR) as … Continue reading →

Filed under 3D, Architecture, cities, city, Uncategorized, urban development, urban planning, urbanism · Tagged with 3D virtual realities, 3D-VR, architecture, modelling, rapid prototyping, urbanism, visualization

Grand Paris survey: How walkable is your neighborhood?

We realized a questionnaire in the framework of a scientific study with the focus on life quality and mobility in the surroundings of Paris’ most frequented ring road, the Boulevard Periphérique (between 1.1 and 1.2 million vehicles per day). Are you living in the metropolitan area of Paris? Take part in this online questionnaire and help us … Continue reading →

Filed under cities, city, mobility, networks, Projects, regional development planning, study, Sustainability, Uncategorized, urban development, urban infill development, urban mobility, urban planning, urbanism, Vienna University of Technology, walkability · Tagged with boulevard periphérique, Grand Paris, le périph, Paris, participation, questionnaire, research, research project, survey, urban design, urban mobility, urban planning, walkability

Finland 2017: 100 Years of Independence / Exhibition Concept

Buildings for Democracy: Exhibition Concept for the Embassy of Finland in Vienna Educational buildings in Finland show the strong correlation between education, architecture and democracy. Schools socialize young people and political involvement is one form of socialization (Glaeser, Ponzetto, Shleifer 2006). A positive connection between education and civic engagement is a matter of fact as … Continue reading →

Filed under Architecture, Exhibition, Uncategorized · Tagged with 100 years of independence, Aarne Ervi, Alvar Aalto, Anttinen Oliva Architects Ltd, architecture, architecture and democracy, campus architecture, educational buildings, Embassy of Finland in Vienna, exhibition concept, Finland, Finnish architecture, Helsinki, Helsinki University, Jyväskylä, libraries, Otaniemi, Porthania Building, schools, universities, University of Helsinki

Turbine House

The existing building was designed by the Austrian architect Erich Franz Leischner (1887 – 1970) and erected between 1911 and 1913 to house a turbine. It was part of a water reservoir belonging to the Second Vienna Spring Water Main (II. Wiener Hochquellenwasserleitung) built during the last years of the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy to supply the city with drinking water. … Continue reading →

Filed under Architecture, Projects, Refurbishment, Renovation, Sustainability, Uncategorized · Tagged with architecture, conversion, heritage-protected, monument preservation, renovation, Second Vienna Spring Water Main, single-family home, sustainable architecture, turbine house

Book: SimLab – departure to new worlds

New book release: „departure to new worlds“ is an illustrated book providing an overview about SimLab’s recent scientific activities with the emphasis on planning and complexity, energy and environment, teaching, 3D virtual realities and how to use them to enhance civic engagement in planning processes. It was published in the framework of SimLab at TU Wien. The book is … Continue reading →

Filed under Articles, Artwork, Book, cities, city, SimLab, Uncategorized, urban development, urban planning, urbanism, Vienna University of Technology · Tagged with 3D virtual realities, book, energy and environment, planning and complexity, SimLab, spatial planning, TU Wien, Vienna University of Technology

WRAP Design Study

Within the WRAP design study, innovative and sustainable solutions for the improvement of existing buildings were developed. We took a poorly insulated single family home from the 1970s as an example to show the potential of industrially manufactured panels for thermal insulation in comparison to commonly used products such as expanded polystyrene. Insulation made of polystyrene in conglomerate with other building materials can … Continue reading →

Filed under Architecture, Green Building, low energy consumption housing, low-cost house, Modification, Projects, Refurbishment, Renovation, study, Sustainability, Uncategorized · Tagged with building, building alteration, low-energy house, passive house, sustainable architecture, sustainable building, thermal insulation

Micro Hotel: Il Nido

Il Nido (ital. for „the nest“) is a project for a micro-hotel in a small town situated on the coast of Gulf of Salerno in the region of Campania (Italy). The construction is planned to be an add-on to an existing historical villa, erected during the 19th century close to the seaside. The villa was built … Continue reading →

Filed under Architecture, Green Building, low energy consumption housing, low-cost house, Projects, Uncategorized · Tagged with building ecology, Gulf of Salerno, hotel, local building materials, low-cost house, low-energy house, low-tech house, micro hotel, sustainability