MEDIA INSTALLATION – WOLFSBURG, GERMANY What will be the mobility of the future? By what means will we travel; how will we plan our cities and how will we organize our lives in order to stay mobile? Such questions are addressed by visionary thinkers in the Mobiglobe installation at the Autostadt in Wolfsburg. The installation [...]
This study has been prepared by Hosoya Schaefer Architects to illustrate the concept of vertical farming. The project is featured in the Mobiglobe 3.0 films which the office produced for Autostadt / Volkswagen.
Hiromi Hosoya organized and conducted a student workshop between Akademie der bildenden Künste, Wien and Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo in collaboration with Prof. Tom Heneghan, Mitsuhiro Kanada, and Makoto Yokomizo. The workshop was held during May 10 -14, 2010 at the Tokyo University of the Arts.
NEWS STUDIO – MAINZ, GERMANY 2007 (on air since 2009) Hosoya Schaefer Architects has been part of an interdisciplinary team working on the new heute news studio at ZDF. The brief was to create a studio that allows new ways of moderating newscasts on TV, but has implications also for online and other new media. [...]
Architectural Design Studio – Akademie der buildenden Künste, Wien 2008
STUDY – LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA 2005 – 2006 The Berlage Institute in Rotterdam has been asked by the City of Ljubljana to prepare an independent view on the city’s urban development opportunities. The thesis studio was taught by professor Markus Schaefer, Hosoya Schaefer Architects and Marijn Spoelstra, Mountainworks (financial consulting). Ljubljana should be well positioned for [...]
MEDIA INSTALLATION – WOLFSBURG, GERMANY Hosoya Schaefer Architects, Zürich, teamed up with Shiftcontrol, Copenhagen, and Buro Destruct, Bern, to create a media installation on automobility for Autostadt Wolfsburg, a subsidiary of Volkswagen. The research and graphic work of Hosoya Schaefer, renown for their mapping projects, has been brought to life in interactive three-dimensional graphics illustrating [...]
Hosoya Schaefer are published with a series of maps on cities and globalisation in the December / January issue of DU magazine. Collaborators included Tim Rieniets from the Shrinking Cities project, Ursula Bieman and Joakim Dahlqvist.
VISUALIZATION – ZÜRICH, SWITZERLAND Published in Weltwoche 2004 Mapping Switzerland is a study performed by Hosoya Schaefer for the weekly political magazine Weltwoche. In eight illustrations Switzerland is analysed in many different ways in an attempt of reinterpreting its stereotypical image. Mapping Switzerland is also an exhibition curated by Pius Freiburghaus and organized by the [...]