CURRI CULUM V I TA E EDUCATION 2016 - 2017 2014 - 2016
2010 - 2014
2005 - 2009
Tongji University, Shanghai Architecture, graduated Master of Science Technical University, Vienna Architecture, gratuated (2017) Master of Science passed with distinction Technical University, Vienna Architecture, graduated Bachelor of Science (BSc), passed with distinction University of Vienna Journalism and Communication Studies, graduated Bachelor of Science (bakk.phil.)
WORK 2018 current 2017 - 2017
2016 - 2016 2012 - 2016 2017 - 2018 2009 - 2011
2007 - 2016
AWARDS Heatherwick Studio, London Studio for architecture • Concept design • Developed design Lukstudio, Shanghai Studio for architecture • Concept design • Construction drawings • Graphic design Alexa Zahn Architects, Vienna Office for architecture • Architecture competitions Schreiner, Kastler, Vienna Office for communication • Architecture visualisations • Graphic design Sabotage Filmproduktion, Vienna Commercial film production • Assistance in film productions • Exhibition and event management University of Vienna Event Management, • Development of floor-plan archieve • University-events management
isover 2014 Students Contest
2nd prize national stage Austria
grant for outstanding awarded 2012, 2013, 2015 by TU Vienna study achievments Karl Kupsky Preis laudable mention, published in architecture 2012 journal wettbewerbe
SKILLS Languages
German (mother tongue) English (very good) French (basic) Chinese (basic)
Software expert Adobe Creative Suite, ArchiCAD, Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, Cinema4d V-ray advanced AutoCAD, Unity, Unreal Engine, FinalCutPro basic Revit
PROJECTS
CONTENT
BUILDING PERFORMANCE EVALUATION TOOL
2017
MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE
2016
UP AND DOWN
2015
RE - SOLUTION
2015
STAIRPLAY
2014
DIFUSO
2013
PAVILLON AUSTRIA APERTO 2013 URBAN INVADERS
2013
SCHÖNBRUNN HUB
2012
LEVEL 20
2012
BITTERSWEET
2017
BPET BUILDING PERFORMANCE EVALUATION TOOL
Genre | optimization tool Year | 2017 Topic | tool development (master thesis) Mode | individual work Saving resources is one of the key obligations of contemporary architecture. Using algorithmic support in the design process can contribute to minimize resource consumption within a building’s life cycle and to increase general sustainability in architecture. Nevertheless, using the help of algorithmic optimization in the architectural design practice is still an exception, as most optimization approaches do not manage to produce output that respects the special demands of architectural design. The aim of the BPET approach is to include algorithmic optimization in the design process without losing the original design qualities. A symbiosis of increased performance and the beauty of architectural design!
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An algorithm can only deal with numerical input, which is why only aspects that can be expressed in numbers and figures can be optimized. Architectural design consists of such numerical, measurable aspects but also of unmeasurable, abstract aspects such as aesthetics e.g. For that reason it is impossible to generate holistic architectural design only with a computer, which is why the optimization process should always start with a human designer,
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who creates a design concept that incorporates all the important unmeasurable aspects. In the next step an algorithm can generate design alternatives, which still respect the essential components set by the human designer. These alternatives are analysed for their performance in solar radiation, light incidence, shaded areas or view sheds. As not all of these criteria might have equal importance for the design, the user is able to weight
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visual evaluation tools solar radiation
light incidence
shaded areas
view sheds
statistical information
kWh during test period on test surface
binary indicator if sufficient daylight is povided
shaded areas on test day
accumulated lenghts of view lines
visual representation for each option’s performance
shaded areas for one hour
view lines for one window position
shaded areas for the whole day
view lines for all window positions
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In order to assure good practical applicability, the whole tool is rooted in the grasshopper software environment accompanied by the ladybug plugin, which provides physical simulation data.
case study 1 info project | up and down architects | Ivan Matas, Fabian Hßbner status | unbuilt size | 42.000 m² location
Vienna, Austria
climate
top 30 of 1400 generated design options
impressions
case study 2 info project | slim city architects | ppag architects status | completed 2014 size | 15.900 m² location
Vienna, Austria
climate
top 30 of 700 generated design options
impressions
case study 3 info project | the interlace architects | OMA, Ole Scheeren status | completed 2013 size | 170.000 m² location
Singapore
climate
top 30 of 500 generated design options
impressions
message in a bottle Genre | pavilion Year | 2016 Topic | EXPO pavilion Austria 2017 Mode | teamwork, with Ivan Matas “Future Energy� is the superordinate topic of Astana EXPO 2017. Obviously, technology will play a big role in that matter. But will it be enough to lean back and rely solely on technology? In our opinion, facing an increasing world population with an increasing thirst for energy, political issues will be a much greater challenge than technological progress. How do we make sure, not only rich people can afford energy in future? How do we create a consciousness for sustainable and reasonable use of energy. How can we pass a globe worth living on to the next generations? Our design proposal for the Austrian pavilion wants to deal with those questions by addressing the most important factor in solving future energy problems: The human.
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100% The water (collected rain water as well as local tap water) is purified by low tech treatment, a water filter imitating Austrian soil layers will help creating the good and specific taste of Austrian water. The visitor will experience, that this simple method, that everybody easily understands, can improve the water quality a lot and save energy and money at the same time compared to high tech treatment. It symbolizes the high potential of low-tech methods, as they are easily accessible and affordable.
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The main goal of the design is to create high involvement of the visitor in the pavilion’s development. This means, a bottle of purified, drinkable water is provided to every visitor of the pavilion, which he is supposed to return after use. If he does so, he is helping the limited bottle stock to sustain and being available for later visitors - if he doesn’t, the pavilion will run out of bottles eventually and later user won’t benefit from it anymore.
meeting room bottle replenishment message in a bottle
facade consisting of
metal grid for bottles
bottle replenishment
bottle taking bottle filling
water treatment
water tasting resting
exhibition space
staff room
concept explanation documentation
exit entrance
exhibition space
bottle taking bottle filling water treatment
water tasting resting
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concept explanation
low-tech water treatment staff room
documentation
hologram
exhibition
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The visitor starts his tour at the exhibition space, where pictograms as well as a hologram tell him about the concept of the pavilion and the role he plays in it. He continues via a ramp passing the water treatment and getting into the heart peace of the pavilion, the bottle room, where he can taste the water, take a bottle a rest for some time. Now he takes the helix like stairways embracing the water filter up to level +2. Here he has the opportunity to refill empty bottles into the stock and contribute actively to make the bottle stock available for later visitors, too. Moreover, he is free to leave a message in a bottle.
suspended from framework
bend-proof ring
laminated timber 320x700 mm
steel bolt connector
guiding rails steel sidearm
beam U-profile
cleaned, empty glass-bottles
stiffening steelstrap
wooden floorboards with counter battens
U-profile ring revolving
prefabricated concrete element, partially perforated
prefabricated concrete element - waterdrain
concrete beam
In order to avoid the glass-bottles speed up to much when running down the grid and eventually brake when hitting the next bottle, a zig-zag-pattern was developed that slows them down on every turning point. Also the chamfered corners of the pavilion follow the logic of bottles smoothly running down the grid. That zig-zag-pattern, derived from pure function, was continued as design element also in the socket, where precast concrete elements pick up the same aesthetic language.
up and down Genre | hybrid building Year | 2015 Topic | superhybrid Mode | teamwork, with Ivan Matas Density seems to been a good answer to constantly growing cities and increasingly limited urban space. The so far extensively used site, located in a Viennese working class district, is supposed to provide new, affordable living space. By taking advantage of a hybrid way of building, the different functions are spatially organized in a way that allows to satisfy all the specific needs despite a very dense development. A symbiotic relation of different functions is generated. Our design is dealing with density very offensively by not trying to hide it, but openly presenting it as a kind of urban quality. The advantages of the suburban garden house combined with the city’s liveliness: hybrid not only functional, but also qualitative.
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By covering almost the whole site with a snake like shape, a high density of 4.06 FSI (floorspace-index) was obtained. Creating peaks and bottoms improves the light incidence and
creating peaks and bottoms
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rotations
develops terraces at the same time. Moreover, rotations of the units, optimized by an algorithm, ensure a good lighting relation and make the resulting yards more dynamic.
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juts create balconies
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dwelling
insertion of hybrid parts
school
media library
health care
office
restaurant
studio
shops
sports
restaurant
workshop
health care school
kindergarten
event supermarket
underground parking
exploded axonometry
algorithmic shape studies
media library
office school
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location within unit The164 dwelling units, sized between 50-140 m², are based on the floor plan prototypes and fit into the building’s shape. All of the units are oriented south and offer private outdoor spaces in
floorplan level 4 the form of either balconies, terraces, or both of them. The roofs alternately can be used as common space terraces or provide solar cells.
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The hybrid part of the building is located mainly in the pedestal, where there are functions that require little or no access to daylight at all, like shops , gym, swimming-pool, event hall and
so on. Nevertheless, vertical recesses in the pedestal enable communication between the dwelling and the hybrid parts and let daylight flow deep down into the pedestal.
The building’s construction consists of cross -laminated timber frames in the dwelling part and reinforced concrete in the pedestal. This separation is also made visible by the facade, the light-weight material wood is sitting on the massive concrete pedestal
RE SOLUTION Genre | refurbishment Year | 2015 Topic | re-thinking tourism, escape Mode | individual work In the same way that visiting strange cultures can make us experience things we never considered possible, this project is trying to make us forget all our expectations, imaginations and experiences about architecture and therefore being open to new thoughts and considerations. Through the refurbishment of a former telegraph office to some kind of hotel in the heart of Vienna, the interpretation of space is up to the individual user, the building - and in the same way our imaginations - are dissolving . Classic elements of architecture like rooms, doors, stairs, floors and so on can’t be found anymore, the whole space is ruled by one of the geometrically most neutral bodies known: The Cube
static support
spatial structure
static elements | concrete core
3-dimensional infrastructure
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With 35cm x 35cm x 35cm, the dimensions of the cubes are always remaining the same, but they can be distinguished by two different functions: static elements, which are immovable and creating some kind of skeletal structure and flexible elements, whose position can be changed by the user and therefore are supplementing the existing structure individually. Both kinds of elements are available in different materials in order to satisfy the users’ individual needs any time.
flexible elements | light construction
other elements
combination of elements
1. existing room
4. configuration of flexible elements
2. manipulation
4. configuration of flexible elements
The user’s interaction is changing space constantly. What is considered as floor, wall, passage, infrastructure, inside, outside or furniture is completely up to the user’s interpretation, their meaning is dissolving
5. materialized configuration
3. static structure
4. configuration of flexible elements
4. configuration of flexible elements
upward view
courtyard
stand-alone structure of immovable elements
the structure’s position within the existing building
floor plan |1st floor
cross section
floor plan | 2nd floor
longitudinal section
STAI R P L AY Genre | school Year | 2014 Topic | school for the municipality of Gaziantep Mode | teamwork, with Yaniv Levy Award | 2nd price national stage isover Students Contest 2014 Gaziantep, a big city in southern Turkey, has the ambitious goal to become a national pioneer in sustainable development, a huge district following that goal is about to be built in Gaziantep’s suburban area. Designing a school for that district was task of isover Students Contest 2014. Besides the challenge of achieving the high energy efficiency demands, it was crucial to us to create architecture respecting the needs and scales of children, to create a place where each pupil feels comfortable in every day and is able to develop his skills individually, to create a building constituting an additional benefit not only for the school itself, but for the whole district.
To avoid the building act as a barrier between to public spaces (1), the school is divided into two parts (2). It is inviting the society and public life to enter the site, visually symbolized by movement lines on the ground, which at the same time work as caution sign towards passing cars (3). For us, building sustainably not only goes for reaching certain performance figures. A sustainable school must not only be used in the morning and be empty in the afternoon and in summer. So the building offers the opportunity to be used for other purposes, too, for example as huge lecture room, arena for theatre, sports center, assembly hall and so on.
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The site is situated at a quite steep southern slope. The interior of the school is referencing that specific characteristic by expanding the
exploded axonometry
slope from the outside to the inside in shape of a huge stair compound. That way a unique connection to the site is established.
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The interior of the stair compound is hosting cave-like spaces of very different sizes and scales, far away from any norm referring to an adult human being. That enables children to make their own definition of space and its use, they can withdraw, learn, read, be creative, be independent. At the same time, dissolved pillars - light-fountain like - let light flow from roof windows deep down into the space cross section
longitudinal section
fins south orientation
fins west and east orientation
fins roof
solar cells
heat exchange device
hot water collector
geothermal heat pump
The building is adapted perfectly to local climate, fins Solar cells on the roof, geothermal heat pumps, aligned according to its geographic direction prevent thermal compound activation, warm water collectors, direct light radiation when needed. heat exchange devices and cross ventilation at night make the building self-sufficient in terms of energy.
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OSCAR NIEMEYER MUSEUM
Genre | museum Year | 2013 Topic | Oscar Niemeyer memorial museum Mode | individual work Sculptural reinforced concrete, perfectly shaped curves, breath-taking cantilevers and pioneering bearing structures constantly combined with intellectual debate and political fight. How to commemorate someone who can call all of this his lifework and is deservedly celebrated as an icon of 20th century’s architecture? Cubes intersecting each other and therefore creating exciting views within their chronological sequence, pending above a generous multipurpose space - this constellation is supposed to offer perfect preconditions for curators to communicate and correlate Niemeyer’s impressive life in a proper way
Lobby
bearing structure
general exhibition
Niemeyer exhibition
tickets, cloak room, WC
cafe
library
shop
office
perforated wall
infrastructure
site plan | Karlsplatz, Vienna
Natural light plays a decisive role for the design. Light-cubes in the roof and perforated walls at the edges of the general exhibition space split direct radiation, resulting in just diffuse light arriving in the exhibition space. Hard shadows don’t exist there, a surreal atmosphere is generated, allowing the visitor to create a mental distance to the site and diving into another world - the world of Oscar Niemeyer
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The spatial configuration of the cubes is constantly producing interesting views into neighbouring rooms. The overlapping of spaces, the accessibility of the roofs as well as their position within the outer skin completely blur the perception of what’s inside and outside. The cubes can be seen as solitaires as well as an ensemble, borders loose their sharpness, they are become diffuse
library
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exhibition
exhibition exhibition
projections
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Shop
office
exhibition
exhibition
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entrance
laminated safety glass balustrade 2x10mm
steel RHS 120x120x8mm
envelope of a box
polished reinforced screed 50mm polythene separating layer impact-sound insulation mineral-fibre 15mm oriented-strand board 20mm glued-laminated timber grillage 180mm oriented-strand board 20mm plasterboard 20mm glued-laminated timber 60x40mm mounting for lamp Prediger suspended ceiling plasterboard 20mm
polished reinforced screed 50mm polythene separating layer impact-sound insulation mineral-fibre 15mm oriented-strand board 20mm glued-laminated timber grillage 180mm inbetween: LLUB LED Backlight 200x200 installation layer 20mm methacrylate panel 10mm
structure of a box
plasterboard 2x20mm inbetween metal stud profil CW120 suspension steel CHS Ă˜ 4mm plasterboard 2x20mm
steel RHS 120x120x8mm
PAVILLON AUSTRIA Genre | pavilion Year | 2012 Topic | Austrian pavilion for the Biennale Mode | teamwork, with Yaniv Levy In the beginning of the 20th century, when Josef Hoffmann designed the Austrian pavilion, art indisputably used to be quite different than today. The resulting question was: Is the pavilion still able to satisfy today’s requirements for an exhibition space? The performances of the last couple years, whose main topic mainly was the deconstruction of the pavilion’s strict hermeticism, gave us a distinct answer: No! The pavilion has to disappear, our design is breaking it down, a forest of pillars arises from the waste, the most open version of a construction, meant to symbolise the genesis of art and society in the past century.
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introverted existing pavilion
demolition
rise of an open system
pillars referencing the site of Venice
site plan of Giardini
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2. shaping of waste
3. erection of pillars
4. assembling of grillage
5. installation of floors
6. mounting of infrastructure
7. installation of glass skin and balustrades
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Irreclaimable ground can technically be turned into usable ground via injection. But does this in a metaphorical sense - also work in a social respectively urban way? How to revitalise residual areas? By investigating these questions we discovered a - in terms of public transport - broadly unknown, but highly effective vehicle: The cable car. It’s perfectly suitable for connecting residual areas, its stations serve at the same time as huge residential towers, which are revitalising districts (similar to an injection). The towers’ minimal footprint is leaving enough space at its surroundings for public life to develop freely. A perfect symbiosis!
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Genre | urban development Year | 2012 Topic | 12th district of Vienna, Meidling Mode | teamwork, with Julian Lietzmann + Yaniv Levy
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living shops gastronomy
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tower A+B122m hotel offices
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gastronomy
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market
bike shop
fashion shop
library
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SCHÖN BRUNN
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Genre | public building Year | 2012 Topic | visitors’ center for Schönbrunn castle Mode | individual work A big car park, a gated sports center, classic Viennese residential buildings and busy streets but no castle anywhere. This is what tourists experience when deciding to visit Schönbrunn by subway. By no means an unworthy state for one of Vienna’s most famous sights. Changing that situation is core issue of the design, a direct connection to the subway station as well as two “arms” are supposed to attract arrivals and leading them into the visitors’ center, where they can enjoy gastronomic offers, have a look at temporary exhibitions and presentations, get informed about various issues concerning Schönbrunn, or leave the center on the “arm” directly leading to the castle.
Similar to a hub, the lines of motion are meeting in a single point, the visitor’s center. The “arms” are picking up the tourists at the key points and leading them via visitors’ center on the correct way to the castle, disorientation is avoided.
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subway HĂźtteldorf
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lobby
cafe
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LEVEL 20 Genre | residential Year | 2012 Topic | combination of dwelling and working Mode | individual work Thanks to the internet, homeworking is not a (technical) problem any more. But when doing so, the threshold of the surrounding environment, one is automatically exposed to on its way to work, is disappearing. Separating work and leisure is becoming increasingly difficult. Both houses, connected by a common courtyard, try to compensate the lost threshold in a constructional way. The northern house is managing to do so by split-levels inside the dwelling units. In the southern house a public atrium is dividing different areas of living, which are however connected by private, partly glazed corridors, establishing a relation to the environment within a dwelling unit.
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BITTER SW EE T Genre | coffee shop Year | 2017 Topic | Interior design and graphic identity Mode | professional work (Lukstudio) A confectioner needed a new design for her coffee shop that reflects her love for organic ingredients and her passion for highquality food. Located in Zhuhai in southern China, the client imagined a coffee shop that expresses a tropical atmosphere and invites customers to relax and recover from the busy mall environment. Inspired by art nouveau garden pavilions, the concept for the design incorporates a veranda accommodating tropical plants as well as light, classical furnishing in pastel colours. The design is accompanied by a consistent graphic identity proposal that connects the shop design to the overall appearance of the brand and creates a unique image for the customers.
The steel profile framework, inspired by art nouveaux verandas, represents the heart piece of the design. It connects seating facilities with planters for the tropical flora and serves as light envelope to cover the existing mall structure. The most challenging part for the
zoning was a massive concrete column in close distance to the facade. By wrapping the framework as well as a banquet with planters around that column, it becomes a central element in the design. A critical object was turned into an eye-catcher.
CONTACT
FABIAN HÃœBNER city
London, UK
fabian.huebner@gmx.de
phone
+44 7575 650 384