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Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Old hall
Exhibition: 06 December 2001 - 15 April 2002
Opening Hours: Daily 10:00 am - 7:00 pm
Opening: Wednesday 5 December 2001, 7pm
HOLODECK.at kirchengasse 13 a - 1070 vienna austria phone +43-1-524 81 33-0 fax +43-1-524 81 33-4 vienna@holodeck.at www.holodeck.at HOLODECK.at on "nextroom - architektur im netz" (in german)
HOLODECK.at - office for spatial design established in vienna and berlin in 1998, founded by marlies breuss, michael ogertschnig & susanne schmall (until 2001). have directed design studios since 1996; lectured at the tu vienna and politechnico di torino. components of our design include program restructuring, superimposition of local information, conceptual interpretation and new material technologies.
buildings (select): 1996–98 benthouse (private unit), großhöflein, burgenland rooftop 01 (private unit), bodensdorf, carinthia positionen 01 (temporary setting), eisenstadt spatial object fcb (temporary setting), vienna
1998–2001 convex.shop (public entity), eisenstadt hall 01 (public entity), st.veit/glan, carinthia making.it center (temporary setting), vienna global tools. infusionen (temporary setting), vienna loopedhouse (private unit), großweikersdorf, lower austria.
the loop of facts HOLODECK.at projects are marked by loop-shaped sequences, foldings continuously shifting out of the site into buildings' envelopes, tossing themselves up, and turning and sliding back into the terrain. loop and folding figures have been included in the hot spots of architectural debate since the 90s. decades ago, reinforced-concrete engineering had superseded the old tectonics of supporting and supported members. now, the issue of continuous spatial articulations, "freed" of the axis of gravity, was introduced into a novel dimension by the development of synthetic materials, of bearing membranes and of the emergence of complex cad programs.
for HOLODECK.at, the spatial loop is no mere formal pattern. rather, a critical mass – then leading to a turnover, a loop of empiricism into a new quality – develops in their projects from the collection and overlapping of empirical data. but of course, conventional as-built analysis is insufficient for such a conceptual turnover – "transprogramming", in bernard tschumi's words. specific methods must already be applied in the investigative phase in order to force open linear or monocausal lines of argumentation and to bring a given situation's concealed potentials to light. in urbanistic designs, HOLODECK.at's investigations are thus sharpened by observing and evaluating the established facts with new conceptual frames, supplemented by references to external observers who query and reassess the statistically gathered data with their own subjective diagrams. [...]
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