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GRGA BASIC MArch '10 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna MDes '15 Harvard Graduate School of Design
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Mapping and Research Independent 2015 Containment Animated Cartography, Documentary film by Peter Galison and Rob Moss 1 Harvard Graduate School of Design 2013-2015 Fatal Vitality Research Project, Urban Theory Lab 2 Is Beijing Gobi? Research Project, Urban Theory Lab 5 Joules of the Arctic Research Project, Urban Theory Lab 6 Rivers as Weapons Videographic Essay 8 Our Daily Noise Model 9
Studio Work Academy of Fine Arts Vienna 2005 - 2010 Tracing Footsteps: The Dynamic Ecological Footprint Geography, Landscapes, Cities 10 AP Supernatural History, Theory, Critisizm 16 Aluhive Construction, Material,Technology 18 Supernova Geography, Landscapes, Cities 19 Automatic Garden Analogue and Digital Production 21
Professional Work
Atelier Seraji Architectes & AssociÊs 2010-2012 Dazibao d’Architectures Installation, 2012 Hong Kong Shenzen Biennale of Architecture
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Objects
Vienna Biennale 2008 Strange Delight Installation
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CONTAINMENT Animated Cartography (with Warning Office) Documentary film by Rob Moss and Peter Galison 2015 HANFORD COLUMBIA GENERATING STATION
SEABROOK NINE MILE POINT FITZPATRICKKAPL VERMONT YANKEE PILGRIM R.E. GINNA
MONTICELLO PRAIRIE ISLAND
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POINT BEACH
MILLSTONE INDIAN POINT SUSQUEHANNA
WEST VALLEY
LLNL GE VALLECITOS
PALISADES ENRICO FERMI PERRY BYRON DONALD COOK DUANE ARNOLD DAVIS BESSE LIMERICK OYSTER CREEK QUAD CITIESARGONNE BEAVER VALLEY THREE MILE ISLAND DRESDEN FORT CALHOUN BETTIS PEACH BOTTOM LASALLE HOPE CREEK BRAIDWOOD BATTELLE SALEM COOPER CLINTON MOUND CALVERT CLIFFS FERNALD NORTH ANNA MURR CALLAWAY SURRY WOLF CREEK
ROCKY FLATS
NNSS DIABLO CANYON
PADUCAH
ETEC
LANL SNL
SAN ONOFRE
PANTEX
ARKANSAS ONE
PALO VERDE
SHEARON HARRIS Y-12/ORNL MCGUIRE WATTS BAR CATAWBA SEQUOYAH H.B. ROBINSON OCONEE BRUNSWICK VIRGIL C. SUMMER BROWNS FERRY SAVANNAH RIVER SITE VOGTLE
WIPP
HATCH COMANCHE PEAK
GRAND GULF FARLEY RIVER BEND WATERFORD
SOUTH TEXAS
CRYSTAL RIVER ST. LUCIE
TURKEY POINT
All Sites of Radioactive Waste in the U.S.
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FATAL VITALITY Master in Design Thesis Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2015 Advisor: Robert Gerard Pietrusko
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RADIOACTIVITY [BQ]
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50N
NINE MILE POINT FITZPATRICK KAPL R.E. GINNA
PRAIRIE ISLAND POINT BEACH
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SEABROOK VERMONT YANKEE PILGRIM
MONTICELLO
40N
400
UNUSED URANIUM FUEL
0%
COLUMBIA GENERATING STATION
WEST VALLEY
MILLSTONE INDIAN POINT SUSQUEHANNA PALISADES ENRICO FERMI PERRY DONALD COOK DAVIS BESSE LIMERICKOYSTER CREEK ARGONNE BEAVER VALLEY THREE MILE ISLAND QUAD CITIES DRESDEN BETTIS PEACH BOTTOM BRAIDWOOD HOPE CREEK LASALLE SALEM
BYRON DUANE ARNOLD FORT CALHOUN COOPER
0.73%
92 URANIUM-235
0.39%
92 URANIUM-236
0.54%
54 XENON
0.35%
40 ZIRCONIUM
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60 NEODYMIUM
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42 MOLYBDENUM
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58 CERIUM
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55 CESIUM
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CLINTON CALVERT CLIFFS NORTH ANNA CALLAWAY
SURRY
WOLF CREEK DIABLO CANYON PADUCAH SHEARON HARRIS Y-12/ORNL MCGUIRE WATTS BAR CATAWBA SEQUOYAH ROBINSON OCONEE VIRGILH.B. BRUNSWICK C. SUMMER BROWNS FERRY
ARKANSAS ONE
SAN ONOFRE
30N
PALO VERDE
1%
VOGTLE
HATCH
WIPP COMANCHE PEAK
GRAND GULF FARLEY RIVER BEND
65W
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WATERFORD
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CRYSTAL RIVER SOUTH TEXAS
TURKEY POINT
85W
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105W
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115W
ST. LUCIE
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0.11%
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0.65%
OTHER FISSION PRODUCTS
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0.23%
94 PLUTONIUM-240
4%
MONUMENT ROD
5%
TOP NOZZLE SPRING CLIP GRID ASSEMBLY
0.14%
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0.10%
OTHER TRANSURANICS
ACTINIDES
RADIATION DENSITY
CONTROL ROD
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BOTTOM NOZZLE
FUEL 17 X 17 WESTINGHOUSE 3% ENRICHMENT
UNUSED URANIUM
FUEL ROD
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IS BEIJING GOBI?
The Gobi Desert as a Site of Extended Urbanization Urban Theory Lab Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2015
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JOULES OF THE ARCTIC
Urbanization Processes in the New Energy Frontier Urban Theory Lab Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2014
Canada
United States
Greenland (Denmark)
Norway Russian Federation
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71N
The Arctic as both a physical and geopolitical topography is undergoing rapid and detrimental change. Increased accessibility as a result of diminishing sea ice in combination with dynamics of the global oil industry have transformed the region from a frontier of primarily scientific inquiry into a site of contested international politics. In opposition to common conception, the transformations that are taking place are not mere consequences of climate change. Rather, these transformations are direct results of almost 50 years of slow regulatory restructuring and implementation of legal architecture inflicted by the fluctuating price of oil. The natural resources of the region have been the critical component in the energy strategies of the Arctic countries since the early 1970s. Multiple shifts within the global oil market have elevated the Arctic as a critical hydrocarbon province, only to marginalize it later when the oil shocks declined.
PECHORA SEA
In 2008, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) issued a highly publicized (and misreported) hydrocarbon assessment of the Arctic indicating that as much as 13 percent of the world’s undiscovered oil resources and 30 percent of the world’s undiscovered natural gas resources lie in the region. Anxious to secure access to undiscovered hydrocarbon resources, Arctic countries are maintaining a strategic presence in the high north. While it is fair to say that the region is free of military conflict, the stakeholders are showing increasingly aggressive territorial attitudes.
Gazprom Prirazlomnoye 10
Medynskoye-more
70N
Severo-Pomorskoye I Severo-Gulyaevskoye
01
04
Dolginskoye
01
Severo-Pomorskoye II 69N
My project explores the changing conditions of the Arctic region in relation to the crude oil price oscillations and represents cartographic gradual accumulations of the infrastructure associated with this resource extraction. The project zooms into Alaska’s North Slope and into the EEZ off its shores, where the relationship between the dynamics of oil industry and developments of Arctic infrastructure are particularly provocative and evident.
68N
67N
66N
CRUDE OIL PRICE
Lease Sale 193 area
HN025
$150
Onshore Developments
Offshore Developments
Northern Slope
Chukchi Sea & Barents Sea
HN027
HN029
HC028
Navigation Permits
Receding Sea Ice
Extended Urbanization: • Shipping Routes • Ice Breakers
US - Russia prov isional boundary
$100
Statoil
Repsoil HS009
Iona Energy
Shell Conoco Phillips
Eni Petroleum HS001
KF001
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Regulatory Thickening
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Militarization
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Arc Crude Oil Price
Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources Assesment
Ministry of the Interior
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
Oil Concessions
Extended Urbanization: • Offshore Oil Rigs
Spectacled Eider Critical Habitat
ills Footh Slope ea North e Sale Ar Leas
$50
International Oil Companies
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RIVERS AS WEAPONS
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Spheres of Regionalised Control
Videographic Essay (with Chris Bennett and Conner Maher) Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2013 Advisor: Pierre Bélanger
The Nile represents more than the longest river in the world. At 660 kilometers, and spanning ten countries, the watershed is a life source for 437 million people. Until recently, the Nile has been controlled by Egypt and Sudan in colonial era agreements that completely disregarded their upstream counterparts. Since 2010, the political instability in Egypt has granted the opportunity for any country along the Nile River to act independent of the consequences from the previous regional hegemony. The Renaissance Dam, currently under construction in Ethiopia, is beginning to change the dynamics of power along the Nile River Basin. Upon the completion of the Renaissance Dam, Ethiopia will be in a position in to control the Nile’s flow, and ultimately the water resources of their downriver counterparts. Due to the highly controversial nature of this project, the World Bank has declined to provide any direct funding. However, realizing the potential economic benefit, a wide range of various companies and countries have become involved. With its estimated cost of almost $5 billion USD and Ethiopia’s strong reliance on external sources for financial and technical assistance, the influences that can be exerted will have potential to control more than just the construction of the dam.
Dongola
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Alexandria Wadi Halfa
Marowe Khartoum Atbara
L TA I , LY RA T A S T I - A I, S N E I AL ICL S H VE N O I T RUC T S CON
RY INE
Luxor
Aswan
Cairo
Suez
GRAND RENAISSANCE DAM
Addis Ababa
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OUR DAILY NOISE Model (with Chris Bennett) Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2014 Advisor: Robert Pietrusko
Our daily experiences are interwoven with different noise patterns. The aim of our project was to represent the noise level of events mapped by Harvard students on their ideal day, and to make speculations of an urban landscape viewed solely as a noise emitter. All the activities by students are mapped as gradient imprints, classified by the noise level and by the hour of the day. The size of the marks is proportional to the level of noise experienced during the particular activity. In total, over 600 points were categorized for each of the students in the course. Instead of overlaying the noise levels with multiple unrelated data sets, this project sets out to explore the visual potential of noise intensity only. The outcome is a three-dimensional construct, where third dimension – depth – is used to display time.
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50 meters
50 meters P O P U L AT I O N
cca 1,320 // 5.1 ha
TRACING FOOTSTEPS The Dynamic Ecological Footprint
Master Thesis in Geography, Landscapes, Cities Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2010 Advisor: Nasrine Seraji
CO2 EMISSION 14,4 kg daily
FLOW ?
W AT E R
150 l daily
- Winner of the Appreciation Award (Würdigungspreis) 2010 - Selected for the main exhibition of the 5th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, 2012
EXTENT ?
ENERGY
20.2 kwh daily
This research creates a heightened awareness of one’s impact on Earth. Internal dynamics of cities (energy and water consumption, traffic etc.) and environmental systems (global water cycles, carbon cycles etc.) shape a phenomenon of intricate interdependencies in which one continuously informs the other. Inhabiting a city turns into a simultaneous engagement with both specific and sometimes very distant territories.
By representing these urban and natural sites and its dynamics, the project places one’s environmental impact in context and reveals dependencies and interactions between the parameters of natural and urban environment.
SCALE ?
m=???
E 30
E 25
E 20
FOOTPRINT EXTENSION E 15
The elements of everyday infrastructure that most of us take for granted, such as water or electricity supply, are showed in a different light - as actors that link us and our everyday activities to the planet’s natural air flows, water systems etc. The project acquires knowledge of these physical, biological and social processes and identifies them as essential for understanding the contemporary city, especially in terms of so much desired sustainability.
E 10
City is not an enclosed entity operating within its own boundaries, but a complex construct of infrastructural networks and configurations continuously influenced by the natural environment. The project engages with this way of ecological thinking by conducting a seemingly simple and partially empirical inquiry: measuring, tracing and visualizing the geographical extent of the author’s Ecological Footprint.
N 50
N 50
Vienna MAPS FOUR AND FIVE
CARBON PULSE MAP THREE
POWER GRID: WINTER
VS
PRODUCTIVE AREA
H A B I TAT
1050 WIEN
(cropped by the ecological footprint size) MAP TWO
POWER GRID: SUMMER
CARBON FOOTPRINT
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52.2 % / 2.33 gha Amount of forest land needed to store my carbon emissions
N 45
FOREST LAND 10.3 % / 0.45 gha Amount of forest land necessary to produce wood products
FISHING GROUNDS 0.4 % / 0.02 gha Fishing area needed to support the fish required for the products I consume
CROP LAND 31.3 % / 1.39 gha Area required to grow all crop procucts, including livestock feeds
GRAZING LAND 3.4 % / 0.15 gha Grassland necessary in addition to crop feeds to support livestock
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N 40
MAP ONE
THE DANUBE RIVER BASIN
B U I L T- U P L A N D
P O P U L AT I O N
cca 1,320 // 5.1 ha
50 meters
MAP INDEX
E 30
25,934 // km ²
E 25
DENSITY
E 20
50 meters
E 15
2.4 % / 0.11 gha Area of land covered by human infrastructure
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ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT
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LINEAR CYCLE MAP ONE seasonal fluctuation BRNO
REGENSBURG
water level
RUŽOMBEROK N 49
KOŠICE
discharges
UŽHOROD
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MONTHS
LINZ
AUGSBURG
VIENNA B R AT I S L A V A
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BOTOSANI
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B I S T R I TA
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BUDAPEST
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BAIA MARE E 28
SALZBURG
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S AT U M A R E
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MUNICH
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ULM
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INNSBRUCK IASI
ORADEA
GRAZ N 47
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CLUJ-NAPOCA TA R G U M U R E S BACAU
ARAD LJUBLJANA
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SIBIU
BRASOV
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PLOIESTI
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C R A I O VA
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The Black Sea
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SOFIA 200 kilometers
U P P E R B A S I N ( D AY S 0 - 2 ) 50 kilometers
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The Danube River Basin circumscribes the final extent of the Viennese water supply and sewage disposal system. In other words - it defines the territory of Vienna’s Water Footprint. The River Basin can, based on its gradients, be divided into three sub-regions: the Upper Basin, the Middle Basin, and the Lower Basin (including the Danube Delta). The river currents finally pilot the flow of our waste water towards the Black Sea. This takes approximately a month and cycles in linear fashion.
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L O W E R B A S I N ( D AY S 8 - 2 8 )
110 kilometers
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M I D D L E B A S I N ( D AY S 2 - 8 )
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THE DANUBE RIVER BASIN
D A I LY R E A C H :
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MAP ONE
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D AY 2 7
BACAU BUZAU
D AY 2 4
G A L AT I BOTOSANI
D AY 2 5
IASI
D AY 2 6
PLOIESTI
D AY 2 3
D AY 2 0
PITESTI
D AY 2 1
DANUBE RIVER BASIN FLAG PROPOSAL
BUCHAREST
D AY 2 2
DISCHARGE CHRONICLE
D AY 1 9
RUSE
D AY 1 8
Each day of the water flow is represented with a section of the terrain of the Danube River Basin. The diagram correlates it with the amount and the treatment of waste water being discharged from the cities into the river at the particular day.
D I S C H A R G E A M O U N T:
No Treatment Mechanical Treatment Mechanical & Biological Mechanical & Biological Mechanical & Biological Mechanical & Biological
100,000 m 3/day 553,000 m 3/day (VIENNA I)
Treatment Treatment, Nitrogen Removal Treatment, Phosphorus Removal Treatment, Nitrogen & Phosphorus Removal
CRAIOVA
D AY 1 5
D AY 1 4
T R E A T M E N T:
VIENNA
SOFIA I SOFIA II
SIBIU RAMNICU VALCEA
BRASOV
D AY 1 7
D AY 1 6
DANUBE
GRAZ
D AY 1 3
D AY 1 2
D AY 1 1
D AY 1 0
BRNO
BUDAPEST I BUDAPEST II
D AY 4
VIENNA II
VIENNA I
INNSBRUCK
SALZBURG LINZ
MUNICH I MUNICH II
A UGSBURG REGENSBURG
BRNO ULM
RUŽOMBEROK
B R AT I S L A V A
D AY 3
D AY 1
ZAGREB
BUDAPEST
INNSBRUCK LINZ
GRAZ
DANUBE
ULM
D AY 5
D AY 2
MUNICH
LJUBLJANA
SARAJEVO
TIMISOARA
ORADEA
KOŠICE
D AY 6
TA R G U M U R E S ARAD
D AY 7
B I S T R I TA BAIA MARE S AT U M A R E UŽHOROD
D AY 8
CLUJ-NAPOCA
D AY 9
W AT E R M A R K S In the following study, each city is represented by the circle whose diameter and color depend on the amount and treatment of the waste water discharged anually. Each white concentric circle within represents thirty thousand inhabitans. Therefore it is possible to relate the amount of water emission with the population of the city, to read where the emission per capita is higher or lower.
D I S C H A R G E A M O U N T A N D P O P U L AT I O N 20,000 Tm 3 / a
100,000 Tm 3 / a
30,000 people 150,000
270,000
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ORADEA
TA R G U M U R E S
SALZBURG
ARAD
RUŽOMBEROK
S AT U M A R E
UŽHOROD
KOŠICE
AUGSBURG
B I S T R I TA
BAIA MARE
SARAJEVO CLUJ-NAPOCA
ZAGREB REGENSBURG B R AT I S L A V A
LJUBLJANA
R A M N I C U VA L C E A
C R A I O VA
SIBIU
SOFIA
BUCHAREST
PLOIESTI
RUSE BRASOV
PITESTI
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ELECTRIC MILES
S P E E D (of light)
LOSS
≈ 300,000 km/s
- 4,8%
CONSUMPTION 68,37 BILLION KWH
Electricity transmission are transport highways that move electricity from the generation sources (power stations) to where the customer uses it - in this case to Vienna’s 5th District. The transmission systems are unique. They move this energy at the speed of light from the generator to the consumer, but there is no long-term storage capability for electricity. Electricity therefore has to be provided in the right amount exactly when needed. Therefore it is much more difficult to draw the border of the power grid of a city or region at the particular moment.
THERMAL POWER
HYDROELECTRIC POWER
WIND TURBINES
65-86%
9-20%
2%
FOREST BIOMASS POWER
PRODUCTION 66,78 BILLION KWH
ELECTICITY TRAFFIC-AUSTRIA
CCA
4%
C Y C L E W I T H O S C I L L AT I O N demand curve
imports
supply amplitude S
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supply curve
W SEASONS
GREIFENSTEIN
LEOPOLDAU NUSSDORF SPITTELAU SIMMERING 1-2-3
D O N A U S TA D T DONAUINSEL FREUDENAU
UNTERLAA OST - WEST
VIENNA
TRUMAU
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N 48
ZURNDORF PA M A - G O L S
GAMING 1-2
LEVÉL
OPPONITZ
POWER GRID: WINTER
Map Two speculates upon the extent of the power grid used to supply Vienna with electricity in the course of the summer. The water levels of the nearby rivers are lower during the summer months, and so is the electricity production from hydroelectric power stations. As a consequence Austria has to import electricity form neighbor countries throughout the summer, in spite of the generally lower demand during these months. The extent of the power grid is definitely far-reaching, but the precise borders are impossible to draw.
Map Three speculates upon the extent of the power grid used to supply Vienna with electricity in the course of winter. Hydroelectric power plants produce more electricity in the course of winter and Vienna manages its energy demands locally.
R AT T E N
V O LTA G E 380 kV 220 kV 110 kV
P O W E R S TAT I O N S Transformators
Thermal Power
Wind Power
Hydroelectric Power
Forest Biomass Power
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POWER GRID: SUMMER
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MAP THREE
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MAP TWO
morning MAP FOUR
MAP FIVE
evening carbon accumulation
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Carbon emission sources in Vienna are fossil fuel power plants (point sources), road network (linear sources) and urban fabric (surface source). Maps Four and Five speculate upon the spatial pattern that the emitters would produce at particular hour of the day.
MOBILITY 36.3 %
U R B A N FA B R I C 19.1 %
Point Source
Linear Source
Surface Source
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1000 Tonnes of CO2 - Equivalents
C Y C L E W I T H A C C U M U L AT I O N
ENERGY PRODUCTION 33.8 %
1000 Tonnes of CO2 - Equivalents
The level of CO2 in the atmosphere is determined by a continuous flow among the stores of carbon in the atmosphere, the ocean, the earth’s biological systems, and its geological materials. As long as the amount of carbon flowing into the atmosphere (as CO2) and out (in the form of plant material and dissolved carbon) are in balance, the level of carbon in the atmosphere remains constant. Human activities are causing the level of CO2 in the atmosphere to rise. Actually, emissions are currently faster than the planetary uptake. So CO2 is accumulating in the atmospheric tub. We have sped up the flow of carbon into the atmosphere.
CARBON EMISSION: VIENNA
1000 Tonnes of CO2 - Equivalents
CARBON FOOTPRINT
200
0
100
0
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D AY S
MAP FOUR
MAP FIVE
CARBON PULSE: MORNING
CARBON PULSE: EVENING
Map Four depicts carbon emissions during evening hours when the concentration of CO2 is higher in the lowest layer of air.
Map Five depicts carbon emissions during morning hours when the concentration of CO2 is lower in the lowest layer of air.
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X-RAY S R
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GE RECEPTOR A M I This section is a simulation of an X-ray image. As such, it implies that the landscape is mapped as a body exposed to X-rays and projected onto a film. That makes our section line an image receptor. By simulating X-ray, we are revealing everything that eyes regularly cannot see, therefore giving deeper insight into the landscape, showing both inner and outer beauty. As diagnostic radiography is typically used to capture dislocations and fractures, but also hundreds of processes currently happening in our body, the section also tries to capture more dimensions - simple mass distribution as well as life, history and the unknown.
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Our section line is positioned at the port area furthest away from the city of Rotterdam, at the newest part of the port - the coastal area where state of the art industrial and
port facilities are in immediate proximity to three Natura 2000 protected sites, significant for its bird species and dune formations. The interest for this particular harbour section comes from the historical research of the ship development and its consequences to the appearance and to the architectural and tectonic qualities of the harbour which are most evident particularly there.
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Cutting through the Port of Rotterdam worked on a subject with two focuses: a site and an instrument. The site is the Port of Rotterdam, the largest port of Europe, the instrument is the section, as it has been developed not just in architecture, but also in geology, geography, archaeology, industrial design, anatomy, illustration, cinematography. The aim of this project was to cut critically through a three dimensional object with a two dimensional plane to research and reveal this immensely complex and large landscape, as a political scenery, a geology, an economic valley and an urbanistic field of opportunities. The ruthless cutting through confronts us with unexpected clashes and implications of our often schematic architectural way of looking at the world; there is an interesting random factor in cutting a line through a complex form and seeing the results.
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Cutting Through The Port Of Rotterdam
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Platalea leucorodia
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Egretta garzetta 64m
Aythya fuligula
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Larus canus Chroicocephalus ridibundus Anser anser Chroicocephalus ridibundus
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Podiceps nigricollis Allium zebdanense Orchis anthropophora
Ammophila arenaria
Viola rupestris
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Parnassia palustris
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Thinking in Modules of Aluminum
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The honeycomb structure is put together from lasercut aluminum strips. Modularity in this case does not imply building a structure from hundreds of identical pieces. Instead, my goal was to produce a seemingly complex geometry cosisting of limited number of different modules that can easily be assembled with simple logistics and lowtech tools. By varying the extrusion depth of the honeycomb, this temporary summer pavillion becomes both a screenwall and furniture (lower modules are extruded to enable sitting).
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Construction, Material, Technology Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2008 Tutor: Hiromi Hosoya
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SUPERNOVA
Roland Rainer’s Vienna: The Remix exit the highway
Geography, Landscapes and Cities (with Jadwiga Pawlik, Simon Metzler and Stefan Wagner) Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2008 Tutor: Wouter Vanstiphout
For the first time in more than hundred years, Vienna is experiencing a rapid population growth. The city planning authority has come up with a potential densification scenario called the baulandcheck to accomodate more people within city limits. Baulandcheck principle is rather banal: filling-up the empty spots all over the city and building more floors on top of the existing buildings as long as the zoning laws allow it. In other words, it adds a bit of density everywhere, without any consideration to infrastructure, economy or any specific characteristics of the Vienese numerous districts. Our approach is diametrically opposed. We reacquainted with large scale planning issues by perfectly inverting the Baulandcheck principles. The research started in the Vienese 10th district, Favoriten. In fact, it started on the roundabout in the center of the district, which became the focus of our investigations. Careful archelogical test dig (using Roland Rainer’s original planning schemes) uncovered a whole series of at least partially realised fragments of Rainer’s
schemes in form of slabs, parks and infrastructures. Coming from its fragmented nature, the area was rich with green spaces which provided a certain looseness and quite high quality of living. Without throwing away the qualities of the district by adding bits of built mass everywhere, we added more density in a single gesture, concentrating it within and around the roundabout - a perfect new urban sub-center. At the same time, we programmatically densified the rest of the district for the future inhabitans and for those that are just passing through the district (the roundabout and the highway underneath it are the busiest in Vienna). We came up with a Supernova urbanity - a simple concept of concentrating physical densification in the center (implosion) and programmatic all around it (explosion). This new planning method for Favoriten leaves the area attractively porous, accessible and dense in urban qualities, not just quantities.
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urbanity leisure sport education nature infrastructure Highway traffic = Income Generator
∑ = 262,000 m2 SUPERNOVA DENSIFICATION EXISTING BUILDINGS CENTER
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AUTOMATIC GARDEN
The old railway bridge over the rivers Drava and Gurk in Carinthia will lose its function when the high speed line gets built and cuts it off.
Analogue and Digital Production (with Johanna Werschnig) Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2006 Tutors: Wolfgang Tschappeller and Stefan Gruber
The soon-to-be abandoned site is dominated by linear movement (railways, pedestrian paths and rivers). These imaginary lines are deviated to generate and cover surface – just like knitting or weaving. Our material are carefully selected plants, which make this „knitted surface“ a garden. Its growth and blossoming rhythms are creating a continuously changing environment.
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Self-regulating mechanisms, such as seeding, watering, fertilizing and cutting, are operating on railway cars – the gardeners.
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The Gardeners According to their task, they wake up and become active whenever there’s work to do... The structure of the bridge enables the accomodation of „resource machines“. The old pedestrian path is transformed into a greenhouse.
Bugleweed Ajuga reptans
Ground Elder Aegopodium podagraria
Comfrey Symphytum officinale
Wood Spurge Euphorbia amygdaloides
Turnip brassica rapa
Herb Robert Geranium robertianum
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Rail Track Network bugleweed
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DAZIBAO D’ARCHITECTURES Paris - Hong Kong
2012 Hong Kong/Shenzen BiCity Biennale of Architecture/Urbanism Atelier Seraji Architectes & Associés Role: Project Architect
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Installation for Vienna Biennale 2008 (with Mirta Bilos)
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STRANGE DELIGHT
In 2008 we were given a chance to participate at the Vienna Biennale of Art. Having been somewhat critical towards architects who think of themselves as artists - and vice-versa - we indulged in guilty pleasure when we kicked off the poject. We were rightfully punished. Our result was nowhere as slick, translucent, and elegant as we conceived it, so virtually no concept we thought off could justify this outcome. But our worries were needless - Viennese art crowd never thought of it as accidentially unsophisticated. They loved our 3D fiberglass painting. It was to this date my only flirtation with art.
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