OPEN DAYS RUNDGANG 23–26 JANUARY 2020
Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien Institut für Kunst und Architektur Augasse 2–6, 1090 Wien www.akbild.ac.at/ika
INSTITUTE FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE
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ADP ANALOGUE DIGITAL PRODUCTION CMT CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY ESC ECOLOGY SUSTAINABILITY CULTURAL HERITAGE HTC HISTORY THEORY CRITICISM GLC GEOGRAPHY LANDSCAPES CITIES
HITZE TAKES COMMAND is the annual project 2019/2020 of the IKA, Institute for Art and Architec ture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Using the tools of the architect we looked closely, investigating and reconstructing its behaviour in the forest and in the city.
HITZE TAKES COMMAND is an attempt to under stand a phenomenon that was previously an ex ceptional situation and has since become the new normal, with unlimited potential for escalation.
In a conscious effort of calibration between conjec ture and activism, we embarked upon the step by step construction of soil using traceable and low impact production processes. Together with a collier family we selectively felled trees, cut, split and stacked wood, covered it with evergreen branches, charcoal dust and earth, carried flames up to activate the process of pyrolysis and transform wood into charcoal. We created a new home for worms and microorganisms in a composter which we maintained and nurtured in the studio. Together, charcoal and compost made the enriched soil which is the primor dial tool for next semester’s undertaking.
HITZE TAKES COMMAND is a reaction to increas ing climate shifts, the contours of which became vis ible in the past century and are now extremely critical. HITZE TAKES COMMAND is a reaction to the pub lication “Urban Heat Islands – Strategy Plan Vienna”. The IKA wants to juxtapose this strategy plan with projects from an architectural and artistic perspective, both in a supportive and a productively critical sense.
RAUMPARKS initially follow HITZE. The conception of such structures will inevitably expose dichotomies between the consequences of a rapidly growing population’s need for more living space and the im portance of understanding human beings as an inte gral part of a larger ecosphere. RAUMPARKS have the potential to thoroughly challenge the ecological function of architecture in densified urban areas. 1 Bruno Latour, Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime, John Wiley & Sons 2017. 2 Hannes Stiefel & Brian Tabolt, Faux Terrains, Vienna 2011, published in: Positions – Unfolding Architectural Endeavors, IoA Institute of Architecture, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Edition Angewandte, Birkhäuser Verlag, Berlin 2020.
Studying Joseph Beuys’ political art project 7000 Eichen – Stadtverwaldung statt Stadtverwaltung conceptually helped to interpret the forest as an artistic laboratory for the radical transformation of urban space. This and other artworks dealing with phenom ena and conditions of nature added critical dimensions to the question whether planting an urban forest could actually mitigate increasing HITZE in the city. 1 Silvie Romanowski, ‘Humboldt’s Pictorial Science: An Analysis of the Tableau physique des Andes et pays voisins’. In Essay on the Geography of Plants, Alexander von Humboldt and Aimée Bonpland, ed. Stephen T. Jackson, trans. Sylvie Romanowski, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2009.
Michael Staudinger: Climate and Climate Changes Christoph Dellago: Thermodynamics Ruth Kutalek: Humans, heat and vulnerability Jürgen Preiss: Urban Heat Islands Strategy Vienna Steffen Robbi: Sustainable Strategies for Refrigera tion Supply Katharina Rogenhofer: Sind wir noch zu retten
HITZE TAKES COMMAND is the result of an indepth debate. Structurally, the title alludes to Sigfried Giedion’s book “Mechanization Takes Command”. The title is ambiguous. On the one hand, it means that heat has taken the helm. On the other hand, it means that heat requires control.
Curated by Luciano Parodi and Werner Skvara CMT / ESC Hannes Stiefel Luciano Parodi
CMT / ESC Michelle Howard Christian Fröhlich Antonia Autischer Charlotte Beaudon Römer Vincent Behrens Marcella Brunner Sidika Cupuroglu David Degasper Alice Hoffmann Felix Knoll Armin Maierhofer Lorenz Mang Nils Neuböck Lisa Maria Prossegger Normunds Püne Moritz Schafschetzy Helena Schenavsky Julian Andrej Schönborn Sebastian Seib Matias Tapia Johannes Wiener Catherine Zesch
Wildfires have consumed tracts of forest from the Amazon to the Arctic at an unprecedented scale. Our house is burning down and the resulting massive forest clearings have unbridled HITZE. Forest clearings are central to theories about the origins of European architecture where a primitive tribe arrives there to find the trees which have fallen to make the clearing. The parable invariably describes only two possible outcomes, they use the wood to build a shelter or to build a bonfire. This semester we looked at other possibilities and took an unbiased journey through the phenomena of the wildfire.
SOME WALKS AND TALKS TO BEGIN WITH The physical experience of HITZE in some hot and cold places in Vienna, combined with a series of lec tures covering as wide a range of topics as possible, is the starting point of our annual project. We want to understand HITZE – with our minds and with our whole bodies!
HITZE TAKES COMMAND and the curriculum: Are our curricula heat-appropriate? Is our education such that students and teachers develop the knowl edge needed to deal with heat phenomena and climate change?
CONSTRUCTION AND COMBUSTION
Reconstruction of Vienna’s Nature. We believe that our collective work not only reveals aspects of Vienna’s past and its possible future, but also repre sents a way for architects and students to work collectively on their various visions of a future city.
Maximilian Aelfers Olivia Ahn Florian Berrar Daniel Bracher Alexander Czernin Katharina Eder Christina Ehrmann Lucas Fischötter Elisabeth Fölsche Maximilian Gallo Burak Genc Alexander Groiss Christopher Gruber Jakob Jakubowski Ji Yun Lee George Mintas Jonathan Moser Maximilian Pertl Dana Radzhibaeva Ria Roberg Salome Schramm Johanna Syré Julia Wiesiollek
HITZE TAKES COMMAND. HITZE CHALLENGES. HITZE TO BE CHALLENGED. A New Climatic Regime1 came along with problem atic legacies that constitute precarious environmental situations – ubiquitously. One of them is the increas ing overheating of cities. The critical conditions of their ecological systems call for new types of spatial structures and built environments – forms of architec tural interventions that allow the adjustments needed to adapt to climates that alter continuously. They will be characterized by the needs and qualities of urban life and those of nature and wilderness. HITZE challenges the very foundations on which our cities and societies are built. Its impact fundamentally questions our idea of a ground and our relation to it. We no longer design singular buildings. We explore and design processes and structures that reflect, convert, and mediate between the dynamic interplay of those natural and human forces that shape the constructions of the crust of the earth. Such medi ating structures we call Faux Terrains2, and RAUM PARK is a type of these.
HTC / GLC Alessandra Cianchetta Antje Lehn Pia Bauer Veronika Behawetz Annika Böcher Jakob Czinger Martin Eichler Yingpi Gao Paula Hattenkerl Haruka Inari Oana-Alexandra Ionescu Dila Kirmizitoprak Ferdinand Klopfer Katherina Kunzova Valeriia Malysh Mehmet Özkan Lisa Penz Zoe Pianaro Larissa Raith Paul Schurich Roxane Seckauer Stadler Ruben Mona Steinmetzer Vincent Wörndl Luca Emilia Wulf
In any discussion of the ecological and climatic situa tion in Vienna today the forces of glacial movements should be taken into account, as they have shaped the ground conditions, the topography and the forest ecosystems. Around 1800, when European scien tists investigated the concept of the Ice Age and its geological impacts, nature was seen as being in a constant state of becoming. Alexander von Humboldt, who was aware of the limitations to this view of the scientific process, wanted to extend and expand encyclopaedic methods with the ultimate truth of the poetic notion and created the Naturgemälde, as ‘a complex mode of visualizing scientific data’.1 This unusual composition, which navigates between a landscape drawing and a diagram, served as a role model to investigate transformations in five historical forest sites on the periphery of Vienna during the last 150 years, a period of extreme growth of the city. The qualities and contradictions of the different forest types were then projected to five currently vacant or disposable urban sites located near a historic border line of Vienna.
HTC / GLC David Gissen Daniela Herold Chiara Desbordes Patricia Griffiths Sara Hozzankova Louise Jannot Martin Kohlberger Diana Konovalova Diana Mudrak Anna-Elina Pieber Severin Prügl Wendelin Schlachter Fabian Schwarz Quera Roman Sost Magdalena Stainer Martin Sturz Marie Teufel Jeanne Thierry Carla Veltman
Our studio explored the ‘architectural reconstruction of urban nature’ as a way of both resurrecting the former landscapes, ecologies and environments of Vienna’s past and reimagining the city’s future. We spent several weeks visiting and researching historic sites in Vienna – rediscovering aspects of the city’s environmental histories. Following this research phase, we created a giant, collective mural, approxi mately seven metres in length – Vienna Builds its Nature. This mural represents over 500 years of different landscapes, buildings and environments from Vienna’s urban and environmental history. Within the various ‘squares’ of this drawing, one can see visual reconstructions of ancient forests, early modern water systems, muddy streets, floods, slum neigh borhoods, and industrial smoke, among other historic conditions. This mural serves as a monument to the city’s endless production of urban nature. Following the creation of this drawing, we developed individual projects that imagine a future interaction between architecture, urban nature and landscapes in the warming city. This latter work ranges from new codes and forms for inhabiting the urban underground to the decommissioning of the city’s automotive infrastruc ture. These latter proposals take on the character of individual architecture projects, but they, too, are collected in another giant mural – The Architectural
LECTURE SERIES WINTER 2019 Philippe Rahm: Recent climatic architectures Ulrike Lohmann: The role of clouds and aerosol parti cles in the current and a warmer climate Philipp Blom: Nature’s Mutiny – Nature and culture in times of climate change Nerea Calvillo: Heated pollution Curated by David Gissen and Hannes Stiefel
OTTO WAGNER LECTURE 2019 SOIL NOT OIL The transfer from the age of fossil fuel for the aware ness of a living Earth EARTH OTHERS A film screening for and with Vandana Shiva exploring routes and roots of ecological entanglements curated by Kelly Ann Gardener and Christina Jauernik.
The HITZE TAKES COMMAND project 2019/2020 is generously supported by IMMOBILIEN PRIVATSTIFTUNG
STADTVERWALDUNG – LEARNING FROM BEUYS?
Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien Institut für Kunst und Architektur Augasse 2–6, 1090 Wien www.akbild.ac.at/ika
HTC / GLC Alessandra Cianchetta Antje Lehn
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Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien Institut für Kunst und Architektur Augasse 2–6, 1090 Wien www.akbild.ac.at/ika
INSTITUTE FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Vienna Builds its Nature. Collective drawing 2019
WINTER 2019
REBUILDING VIENNESE ENVIRONMENTS WITH ARCHITECTURE
HTC / GLC David Gissen Daniela Herold
Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien Institut für Kunst und Architektur Augasse 2–6, 1090 Wien www.akbild.ac.at/ika
INSTITUTE FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE
We carried flames up to activate the process of pyrolysis and transform the wood into charcoal. Photo: Catherine Zesch
WINTER 2019
BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE CONSTRUCTION AND COMBUSTION
CMT / ESC Michelle Howard Christian Fröhlich
reservoir Auhof
RAUMPARK FAUX TERRAIN VIENNA
Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien Institut für Kunst und Architektur Augasse 2–6, 1090 Wien www.akbild.ac.at/ika
CMT / ESC Hannes Stiefel Luciano Parodi
INSTITUTE FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE WINTER 2019
water pressure pipes Wolfersberg
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condensation skin reservoir Auhof
flexible units
groundwater pipes
cold fog environment (CO2/H2O)-> H2
heat island Alianz Arena
404m Hubertuswarte
404m Hubertuswarte
ced Fernkälte rroundings
produced Fernkälte for surroundings
Auhof. Jakob Jakubowski 2019
groundwater pipes
Lainzer Tiergarten
thermal heat
pumps
AUHOF/HÜTTELDORF