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Originally, clothing was defined as textiles woven from threads of natural materials. Cotton, wool, linen, felt, silk, to name but a few, have different insulation values and are therefore suitable either as cooling or as warming textiles. Tight, transparent, matt, shiny, patterned, coloured, monochrome, rough, soft, stiff, heavy, light or even hairy are their surface qualities. The studio explored which materials could adapt to and resist heat, and which materials garments might be made of in the future.
strategies amounted to the use of imported ready-made technologies, to the idiosyncratic use of recorded structures of city life in the heat, and to understanding social heat as a further field of action, which was also interestingly juxtaposed with cooling as such.
ADP Wolfgang Tschapeller Damjan Minovski Charlotte Beaudon-Römer Lucas Fischötter Maximilian Gallo Jessie Gao Yingqi Christopher Gruber Armin Mayerhofer Jonathan Moser Dana Radzhibaeva Roxane Seckauer Vincent Wörndl
As if it were a game to put HEAT in relation to ICE CORES, and to force the HEAT that melts everything into entropy with the cooling cold of the ICE. If it is a game, then it is not mine, but that of history. Racing against time, researchers began in the last century first to drive holes into the ice, then to dig them and gradually to drill them. 10 metres at first, then 60 metres, and at the turn of the last century even boreholes with a depth of more than 3,600 metres. To dig for what? TIME and the FUTURE is what they were digging for! Because depth at the same time also means years. In the case of the EPICA1 borehole that went 3,200 metres deep, it means 900,000 years – that cover the last eight Ice Age cycles, and with them the knowledge that a sudden increase in greenhouse gases means a sudden rise in temperatures, meaning in heat, and that the average temperature of the Earth could rise by about 4.5 degrees Celsius by the year 2100.2 That may not seem like a lot, but it is, at least in geological terms, since such a temperature was last detected in the early Neogene, i.e. some 10 to 20 million years ago. This leap is so immense that the few thousand years of the history of building, long considered an eternity, could suddenly mutate into a ridiculously short, but potentially massively fatal3 phenomenon up for debate. Was the culture of building a mistake? Should we close architectural history at this point? Should we open a new one? Should our own skin be enough? Moreover, is it enough for our own skin to be enough? 1 European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica 2 The year 2100, when according to RCP 8.5 an estimated increase of approx. 4.5°C average temperature measured against the average temperature of 1960-1990 is one of the likely scenarios (RCP8.2). 3 IPCC WG1 Chapter 9 Buildings: “In 2010, the building sector accounted for […] 32% of global final energy consumption and 19% of energy-related CO2 emissions […]. This energy use and related emissions may double or potentially even triple by mid-century […].” https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5_ chapter9.pdf [28/09/2020]
ADP Aristide Antonas Werner Skvara Olivia Ahn Pia Maria Bauer Christina Ehrmann Alexander Groiss Paula Hattenkerl Felix Knoll Diana Mudrak Maximilian Pertl Anna-Elina Pieber Paul Schurich Ruben Stadler Sophia Stemshorn Marie Teufel
The studio explored ways in which the depressing investigation on climate change could be transformed into an experience that, in certain cases such as that of Vienna, could be combined with the social joys of good weather and a different social life to which it can give priority. The studio explored these questions in many different directions, concluding some of the appropriations of this exchange with a South that was already present in Vienna. Some examples of these
The global social sphere is able to capture city life through a number of protocols that could slowly become part of the urban infrastructure, considered as a set of freer social rules for post-network Vienna. The studio extended its investigation to the possibilities of inscribing various typologies of protocols that could function in a social logic in the streets and courtyards of Vienna. A local transformation of some concepts of sociality would update the regulations and constructions of Viennese streets and the important network of city courtyards, and imagine a different logic of their possible functions when it is warm. Also, some new concepts for changes in legislation were examined in relation to the experience in the streets and courtyards of Vienna.
CMT / ESC Michelle Howard Antje Lehn Antonia Autischer Daniel Bracher Alexander Czernin Jakob Grabher Shrey Gupta Alice Hoffmann Ferdinand Klopfer Lisa Prossegger Normunds Püne Salome Schramm Sebastian Seib Johanna Syré Matias Tapia Fröhlich Johannes Wiener
Burning Down the House II 1 addresses the state of crisis that architects currently find themselves in: should we use our skills to seal the earth with an impenetrable crust of constructions, or could we punch through preconceived ideas and regenerate our profession and our Earth? Architecture is political and we ignore that at our peril. We found an incredibly sad, desolate, loud remnant of unsealed soil in the 9th district of Vienna, arranged a rental contract with the owners, Austrian Railways (ÖBB), and prepared to transform it into a garden using the Terra Preta2 we made in the previous semester. Then Europe went into COVID-19 lockdown and our dark, pungent, humid super soil languished in our deserted studio spaces. Surreptitiously, the students visited the site that, until the lockdown, had been a busy parking lot. This unique opportunity prompted us to perform a permacultural form of site analysis, where our observations, analyses and interactions were recorded in hybrid drawings that incorporated soil layers, plant species, human activities, sounds, weather conditions, hidden and visible water resources, using collage, line drawings and perspectives. As the once inhospitable site blossomed without a gardener because it was freed from the burden of “use”, so too did the students’ projects which, though very different from what we had planned, gained in depth and appreciation of the complexity and importance of a small piece of unsealed soil. 1 For Burning Down the House I see: IKA Review Winter 2019 2 Terra Preta, a super soil made by construction and combustion: In a conscious effort of calibration between conjecture 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 that is the primordial tool for this semester’s undertaking.
CMT / ESC Hannes Stiefel Luciano Parodi Vincent Behrens Florian Berrar Tejas Chauhan David Degasper Alexander Klapsch Ji Yun Lee Rachel Tsz Man Lee Tsz Shing Liu Moritz Schafschetzy Helena Schenavsky Julia Wiesiollek Catherine Zeschan
RAUMPARK – Faux Terrain Vienna1 is a proposal for an ecological megastructure. It provides multitudes of hybrid programmes – habitats for Raumparkians2 of a wide range of species. The programme includes dwellings and spaces for recreation, production and trade, agricultural areas, “urban” infrastructures etc. The structure connects the UNESCO Biosphere Park Wienerwald at Vienna’s western edge with the forests of Prater and the adjacent Nationalpark Donau-Auen in the east of the city. It bridges Vienna over 12 kilometres with a new, resilient urban typology of inhabited forestation that mitigates environmental harm on the city. RAUMPARKS with their pervasive flora and fauna will not only cool down the local and regional climatic conditions; they also have the potential to thoroughly challenge the ecological function of architecture in densifying urban areas. The concept of RAUMPARK – Faux Terrain Vienna is of an intrinsically diverse, inclusive and collective nature. Drastically changing climates inevitably require radical changes of lifestyles, new concepts for sharing environments, and unprecedented forms of democratic, diverse communities. The proposed new structure’s relation to the existing city is spatially, atmospherically, organizationally and politically reciprocal and supportive, and together, they thus form a new entity: cultural heritage is understood as a transformative practice rather than a means of conservation. 1 Human population ca. 337,500 / base ca. 6,000,000 m² / 500 x 12,000 m / max. height 200 m / gross area ca. 20,000,000 m² / individual space 9% = ca. 1,800,000 m² / 25% temporary structures / 29% untouched wilderness = ca. 5,800,000 m² / ca. 290,000 trees, vegetation on the common grounds. 2 Raumparkians are terrestrials (humans and other beings) that settle within RAUMPARK.
CLOTHING AS A LAYER BETWEEN SKIN AND BUILDING HTC / GLC Alessandra Cianchetta Daniela Herold Veronika Behawetz Philipp Behawy Jakob Czinger Katharina Eder Patricia Griffiths Oana Ionescu Maya Karska Lovisa Loren Adriana Nunez Zoe Pianaro Emilia Piatkowska Larissa Raith Pauls Rietums Fabian Schwarz Magdalena Stainer Ilinca Urziceanu Line Duus Vedsoe
What kinds of clothing will we wear in the future, when the climatic conditions of our environment become more severe and temperatures rise continuously? How can we protect ourselves from the thermal influences that will affect the physique of the human body?
Protection against environmental influences, decoration, protection of privacy and visual appearance are not only requirements or characteristics of our second skin – clothing; they also relate to the so-called third skin that surrounds us and offers us shelter – to architecture. What if our clothes change – do the spaces in which we live have to change as well? And in what way do buildings have to be adapted to respond to new formats of clothing? The studio explored clothing as a mediator between body, space and climate. Prototypes and fragments in various scales as well as 1:1 objects were produced. Sewing, stitching, tailoring, knitting, bonding, punching, blanking and cutting were the crafting skills to be learned; folding, layering, wrapping, pinning and darting were the various processing techniques of manufacture.
LECTURE SERIES SUMMER 2020* Sohyi Kim
HITZE – KOCHEN – ESSEN Brian Cody
FORM FOLLOWS ENERGY Claudia Bosse
HTC / GLC Angelika Schnell Lisa Schmidt-Colinet Annika Böcher Chiara Desbordes Lilli Gaigal Yoko Halbwidl Alma Kelderer Dila Kirmizitoprak Martin Kohlberger Diana Konovalova Valeriia Malish Anna Orbanic Mert Özcan Lisa Penz Hannah Rade Mona Steinmetzer Lukas Strigl Martin Sturz
The students of Heat Takes Time began to explore and to draw the underground vaults, cellars and corridors of Vienna’s first district. The idea was to scan this district, which has a high density of people and stony walls, and is one of the hottest districts during the summer, for its potential for an alternative writing of history. Keeping in mind the theories of Claude Lévi-Strauss about “cold” and “hot” societies, which challenged the Western model of progress, the students devised highly varied forms of depicting and conceiving the subterranean world of Vienna. By descending into the darkness of cellars that in some cases extended down as deep as five levels, access to a conventional plan view suggesting spatial and temporal coherence was cut off. Instead, the students experimented during this first phase with means of reflecting the spaces as an experience in time, through sequential sketches, mobile phone videos, or short stories they wrote. If climate change has destabilized the accepted concept of time, always directed towards growth in our society, perhaps the instruments used to depict space and time will have to be reconsidered as well. Then came Corona, and what had just been a rather abstract, theoretical concept now became concrete experience in a crisis. Prevented from the immediate experience of actual places and reduced to themselves, the stories that had been begun – part fictional, part real – started to become ever more autonomous, and to overlie and enrich the apparent reality of the first district of Vienna. The focus was always on finding a different idea of the past, the present and the future, and to smuggle it into supposed reality as theory and/ or practice.
THE HEAT OF INNER ORGANS – MICROCOSMIC AND MACROCOSMIC CONSTELLATIONS Peter Sellars
THE ARCHITECTURE OF INJUSTICE, AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF JUSTICE The Lecture Series was organised and curated by Hannes Stiefel.
*Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the lectures could not take place in summer 2020.
ADP ANALOGUE DIGITAL PRODUCTION CMT CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY ESC ECOLOGY SUSTAINABILITY CULTURAL HERITAGE HTC HISTORY THEORY CRITICISM GLC GEOGRAPHY LANDSCAPES CITIES
The HITZE TAKES COMMAND project 2019/2020 is generously supported by IMMOBILIEN PRIVATSTIFTUNG
Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien Institut für Kunst und Architektur Augasse 2–6, 1090 Wien www.akbild.ac.at/ika
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Writing 2100 – A digital Tale of the Future in 5 Scenes Roxane Seckauer, 2020
SUMMER 2020
HEAT, ICE CORES, MANGANESE NODULES
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Wolfgang Tschapeller Damjan Minovski
Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien Institut für Kunst und Architektur Augasse 2–6, 1090 Wien www.akbild.ac.at/ika
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LUV. Shared Microspaces Max Pertl, 2020
SUMMER 2020
CITY COOLING
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Aristide Antonas Werner Skvara
Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien Institut für Kunst und Architektur Augasse 2–6, 1090 Wien www.akbild.ac.at/ika
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In-Between Enclosure. A Peek Underground Antonia Autischer, 2020
SUMMER 2020
BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE II REKINDLING PARADISE
CMT / ESC Michelle Howard Antje Lehn
Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien Institut für Kunst und Architektur Augasse 2–6, 1090 Wien www.akbild.ac.at/ika
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RAUMPARK. Model Ji Yun Lee, 2020
SUMMER 2020
RAUMPARK FAUX TERRAIN VIENNA
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Hannes Stiefel Luciano Parodi
Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien Institut für Kunst und Architektur Augasse 2–6, 1090 Wien www.akbild.ac.at/ika
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HabitatClad. Survival kit Jakob Czinger, Patricia Griffiths, 2020
SUMMER 2020
VENUS IN FURS CLOTHING AS A LAYER BETWEEN SKIN AND BUILDING
HTC / GLC Alessandra Cianchetta Daniela Herold
Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien Institut für Kunst und Architektur Augasse 2–6, 1090 Wien www.akbild.ac.at/ika
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Re-remembering Lilli Gaigal, 2020
SUMMER 2020
HEAT TAKES TIME
HTC / GLC Angelika Schnell Lisa Schmidt-Colinet