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Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Old hall
Exhibition: 21 September 2000 - 30 October 2000
Opening Hours: daily 10:00 A.M to 7:00 P.M.
Opening: Wednesday 20 September 2000, 7pm
lichtblau . wagner Diehlgasse 50 / 17 /18 A-1050 Vienna A U S T R I A Phone +43 (1) 545 18 54 Fax +43 (1) 545 18 54 - 4 l.w.arch@aon.at www.lichtblauwagner.com
Susanna Wagner Studied architecture at the TU Vienna, Diploma 1993
Andreas Lichtblau Studied architecture at the TU Vienna / TU Graz, Diploma 1989, 1990 - 1994 Assistant at the TU Graz, Institute for Buildings and Residential Building, 1991 Lecturer at the TU Graz. Joint office since 1987
Buildings, Projects (selection): 1994 Government buildings Bregenz, (competition), construction begins 2000 1996 - 1998, büro.möbel gleisdorf, office furniture company in Gleisdorf, low-energy office building 1992 - 1997 solar.dach wien, solar energy company in Vienna, urban solar technology 1992 development of steel shelf system 1997 standard lamp 1997 accessible sculpture, steel stairs 1998 vinothek vignobles du sud ouest. Since 1999 in Krems, higher education college at Krems 1997 - 2002 low energy family home hang.haus hintersdorf 1999 central parish Podersdorf
from the beginning of their joint work, they made a theme primarily of these invisible conditions of converted space; they understand planning as a development of constructions, which control their inner climate with a minimum of energy, and they expand this through research on building systems, which can be used flexibly and which - particularly in residential building - leave anachronistic norms behind. a program for "pulsating spaces" was formulated at the beginning of the 90s as a result of criticism of the code book describing the responsibilities of residential building organizations and commercial builders. it is based on the separation of hard and soft building parts: a minimal supporting skeleton, with pipe and wall breaches, all pipes and cables are in the hollow floor construction or in a custom-made shell, bathroom and kitchen are reduced to furniture elements, to be connected to pipes emerging from the floor. instead of walls made of plasterboard or bricks there are light screens made of wood, glass or fabric and variable cupboard elements; the façade is conceived as a prefabricated useable puffer zone of several layers, also the corridors and hallways are technically upgraded to become service areas (washing machine, storage space), which are placed out in the common developed structure.
in local residential building, such concepts are still taboo; in administrative buildings, however, lichtblau.wagner have already realized these ideas. their buildings are clear and perfectly formed, light and open, do without formal over-definitions. advanced consumer technology and flexible useful potentials characterize their architecture without letting it take over the aesthetics. lasting comfort, offered without histrionics, is more important to them than visual power. [...]
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