CHOREOGRAPHY twist and split

“What can architecture do?”

The project site is situated a traditional, rural, manufacturing town, which is located 80 km southwest of Vienna, named Marktl. The company, Prefa Aluminum, intends to build the Prefa Academy above an existing parking lot bounded by a major highway to and from Vienna and Traisen River that flows east of the site.

The Prefa Aluminum project focuses on exhibiting the wide range of aluminum applications for architecture, cultivating skills of future generations, and staying connected with the manufacturing warehouse through offices and conferences facilities.Prefa Aluminum has a huge demo in environmental sensitivity, eco-consiciousness and customer services on house intervention. The Prefa Aluminum project would challenge us on how to justxpose a project bu this innovative company in this rural town.

It investigates the motion of twisting and slicing and its relationship to the ground and the existing city. Rearranging the sliced chunks can address the programmatic requirements for Prefa Academy with unique interior and exterior qualities. Starting from the site, although we decided to do underground parking, we want it to be as interactive as it should be on the ground. So we punched openings for visual and practical connections.

Collaboration with: Adam Wang

Instructor: Eric Owen Moss