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Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Old hall
Exhibition: 21 November 2002 - 10 March 2003
Opening Hours: Daily 10:00 am - 7:00 pm, Wed until 9:00 pm
Opening: Wednesday 20 November 2002, 7pm
pool Weyringergasse 36/1 A - 1040 Vienna AUSTRIA Phone +43-1-503 82 31-0 Fax +43-1-503 82 31-33 pool@helma.at www.pool.helma.at
Christoph Lammerhuber, Axel Linemayr, Florian Wallnöfer and Evelyn Rudnicki are pool. They have been collaborating since 1993 and founded pool Architektur ZT GmbH in 1998.
Buildings, projects (select): House S32, Hornstein, 1996 House in spe, Vienna, 1998 - 1999 T.O. Penthouse, Vienna, 1999 trum, Locksmith's Hall and Bar, Trumau, Lower Austria (2000 Austrian Clients Prize), 1998 - 2000 pc, Office Building, Vienna, 1999 - 2000 rolphi, Sunglasses Shop, Wiener Neudorf, Lower Austria, 2000 ZOOM Kids' Museum, Vienna, 2001 mcs, Office and Commercial Building, Vienna Einöde House, Pfaffstätten, Lower Austria, both 2000 - 2002
Under construction: mom, Attic Extension, Vienna
Planned: AMZ, Office Building; Kabelwerk Residential Dwellings nugget, Residential and Office Building; all in Vienna
Competitions (select): bel-m, KDAG Grounds, Vienna, 1998 sehr gut, Vienna Primary School, 1998 lgkfld, Innsbruck Administration Building, 1999 sara, Sarajevo Concert Hall, 1999 kölnice, Cologne ICE-Terminal, 1999 kuga, Kunsthaus Graz, 2000 satz, Exhibition Center, Salzburg, 2000 bop mester, Budapest Business Park, 2001 okai, Office Building, Vienna, 2001 p ort, Vienna Northern Railroad Station – Praterstern, 2001 - 2001
Ramp Becomes Room Their contribution to Vienna´s architectural accomplishments of the 1990s is epochal, for the 'Sargfabrik' housing developed together with Johann Winter marks a typological and urbanistic milestone in that decade´s mass of local residential building. After BKK 2 broke up, the members forming 'pool' in 1998 intensified the principles that were noticeable in the inclined planes of the Sargfabrik or the Linz dormitory to a new significance and along a whole scale of measures. Simply spoken, pool architecture unfolds in the ramp´s spatial genesis. The inclined plane emancipates itself from a mere communication band to a catalyst for the structure´s entire form. From the smallest row house to the most comprehensive projects in urban planning, inclined planes of movement create a dynamically flowing, interlocking system that encompasses spatial parts and levels of usage. By grafting further occupancies – by making the ramp 'habitable' – the unidimensional theme is given ambivalence and crucial energy: no formal whim, but rather a creative reassessment of pertinent economic constraints into creative value added. Le Corbusier had made a start with a 'ramp in the house', and Loos had demanded that stairs should 'vanish' from the vertically opened constructional organism; imperceptible steps and plateaus that adhere to space were to link shifting and superimposing levels. [...]
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