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2010 Venice architecture biennale – AUSTRIAN PAVILION

Hosoya Schaefer Architects are exhibiting an object titled “L(e)ichtraum” at the Austrian Pavilion upon invitation by the pavilion’s curator and designer Eric Owen Moss. The pavilion entitled “Austria: Under Construction” showcases the exchange of Austrian architects, schools and clients with the rest of the world. Our participation is part of the group of international architects teaching at Austrian schools of architecture. The exhibition will be open to the public from August 29, 2010.

http://www.labiennale.at/2010/

L(E)ICHTRAUM (2010)

We are interested in geometries and structures which are based on logic, rules and algorithms. But they should also be organic, able to adapt to local conditions and to generate differentiated spaces. This model is a snapshot of an ongoing investigation in our professional and academic work and has been produced for the Architecture Biennale in Venice. It is based on an idea developed in the context of a competition in the Europaallee development in Zürich. The structure is based on a hexagonal grid which can be continued indefinitely. According to programmatic, functional or spatial needs the grid can be adapted flexibly and provide large or small, narrow or wide, regular or organic spaces and anything in between. Openings and courtyards provide light and allow for cells filled with green. Each module has three points of support in the form of ribbon columns. One side of the ribbon always sits on a grid node. The other in turn travels around the node and makes the column dance. Twisting and turning in different directions the columns provide stiffness to all sides. The model illustrates an idea of space which is limitless, expandable, adaptable and in that sense universal, but nevertheless also local, specific and differentiated.

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