Adrien Verschuere BAUKUNST
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About: Studies in Architecture at ISA St-Luc Tournai, Belgium and at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (diploma with Prof. E. Zenghelis in 1999). He was a design architect at the office of Herzog & de Meuron, Basel, between 2000 and 2003 and collaborated with the Office for Metropolitan Architecture - Rem Koolhaas, Rotterdam until 2001. Adrien Verschuere is the co-founder of the architecture firm Made In, Geneva, Switzerland. From 2003 until 2006, he has taught at the EPFL, Switzerland. In 2008, he established BAUKUNST in Brussels. Besides his current teaching position at the Université Catholique Louvain, studio tutor Master degree, Adrien Verschuere is regularly invited as guest critic or lecturer in various institutions, among others : the FAUP Porto, the Berlage Institute Rotterdam, the USI Accademia di Architettura Mendrisio, the ETH Zürich and the EPF Lausanne.
Adrien Verschuere (BAUKUNST) Jonas Wolf Leonie Achin Mara Atomei Cornelius Braam Thierno Diallo Niklas Erlewein Manuel Frey Jacob Hoeppner Felix Hof Patricia Omiciuc Tina Pal Semih Polat Sibylle Schmitt Johannes Wigand
TECHNIC AS SPACE. Technologies are ever more influencing our way of living. They had always been associated with architectural practice and the continued construction of the city. Our workshop proposes a reflection on the impact of these technologies on the architectural conception during this evolution. How do these invisible concepts, which nevertheless determine the architectural and urban project, engage the ways of living, exploiting and being in the city? How can we question the idea of progress in architecture and its “share of invention”? „Technic as space“ (technology and mechanics as part of the urban space) wants to be a laboratory, which articulates contemporary issues , with a particular context and a higher level of technology in this space. The project is based on given architectonical typologies and the invention of technologies recognized as relevant in their disciplines. It also consists of discovering existing, inhabited tools as in understanding particular technologies trying to guarantee and optimize their habitability. The project is not meant to be an end in itself. It strives to be a factory of knowledge, to discover different cultures and practices which are shaping the world of today. The students will explore hypothesies of projects starting from archetypes stemming from the history of forms and ideas and they will test them by creating new prototypes through actual technological processes. Starting from this point in the project, and a critical reflection about technology as a fact, it is about having a clear idea about the ways of living as a result of Cedric Price’s question « Technology is the answer, but what was the Question? ».
Technic as space
automatic high bay warehouse
Aldo Rossi, San Cataldo Cemetery, Modena, 1971 | Franz FĂźeg, St. Oius Church, Meggen, 1966
Automatic high bay warehouse and Absolute structure / Cemetery and Church
Infrastructure as space
Cornel Braam, Felix Hof and Johannes Wigand
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The Archeology of movement
The Archeology of movement
Escalator / Cave
The Archeology of Movement
Mara Atomei and Patricia Omiciuc
Greeting
18
Slope
19
Fall
20
Crossing
21
Inbetween Space / 2001: A Space Odyssee
ENTDECKEN
Selina Ahmann and Jacob Hoeppner
6
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Devices of control
Manuel Frey and Semih Polat
Entrance
28
Entrance Hall
29
Passport Control
30
X-Ray Scan
31
Gates
32
Boarding
33
winding tower / Haussmann apartment
URban ELevator
Niklas Erlewein und Sybille Schmitt
Collage Haussmann vs. Junkspace
36
Intervention
37
Technical Section
38
Montage
39
inside views
inside views
Centre Pompidou / Villa Tugendhat
TECH-LIBRE
Leonie Achin, Thierno Diallo and Tina Pal
technology
42
floor plan
43
inside view variations
44