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The metropolitan area of Zürich is an urban area in the center of Europe which is of essential importance for the Swiss economy. Together with the agglomeration of Lucerne it contains 1.9 mio. inhabitants and 900’000 jobs in 238 municipalities located in 8 cantons. About 60% of the inhabitants and jobs are found in the core agglomeration of Zürich.
The image is showing Zürich as a diverse mosaic of locations which in its totality is competing in the global market of locations. Specific areas in the larger region are cooperating and competing at the same time (coopetition).
Zürich is the region’s center and its gate to the world. But most of the development opportunities are located outside the city area. In order to preserve the vitality of the mosaic of locations and to reinforce its diversity, such developments need to be better coordinated.
The image of the region is mediating between different scales; it is reducing complexity and serving as a strategic tool which enables the dialogue between different stakeholders and professional disciplines.
We describe the image as the combination of structure, gestalt and form: The structure of the region is defined by the terrain, by zoning and most importantly infrastructure. Structure is controlled by the spatial and infrastructure planning of the cantons. Its gestalt is based on the identities of the different villages, quarters or neighborhoods, and their potential for change. This potential we defined by reserves of building land and transport capacity, and by the elasticity of a local identity when changing. Form is in the domain of the architects or landscape architects and includes public spaces, parks, streets or landmark buildings.
The metropolitan region thus is seen as an archipelago of form in a sea of gestalt organized by the currents of structure.
Based on this framework, a series of strategic development opportunities become visible which have been illustrated and explained in the project. One example is the concept “Science Valley” for the Glattal area stretching from Affoltern to Uster with the historic country roads as an urban backbone.

Prof. Dr. G. Schmitt, iA, ETH Zurich
Prof. Dr. A. Grêt-Regamey, PLUS, ETH Zurich
Prof. Dr. T. F. Rutherford, CEPE, ETH Zurich
Prof. Dr. M. Bierlaire, TRANSP-OR, EPFL
Prof. Dr. R. W. Scholz, IED, ETH Zurich
Prof. Dr. A. Eisinger, Perimeter Stadt
Urban Design Group with Franz Eberhard, e2a architects, em2n architects, Hosoya Schaefer Architects, Guagliardi Ruoss Architects

http://www.nfp65.ch/

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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 shows mobility as the systemic interplay between transportation, city structure, resource flows and lifestyle. Its main message is that sustainable mobility needs to be based not only on improved cars running on renewable energy or new solutions for public transport, but also on urban planning strategies, resource management and changes in personal lifestyle. Only with combined measures in all areas can mobility truly be optimized. In the film, presented on six over-sized rear projection panels arranged like the windows of a car, four visionaries are presenting their projects or concepts; in the same space, six interactive stations add detail and explain the defining parameters of each project.

The graphic leitmotiv of the installation is a starry sky representing the many ideas available to improve the future. Among them are those that can be combined to innovative strategies and sustainable solutions. But only when the issues confronting us are understood in a systemic manner, meaningful choice becomes possible. The interviews take place in the white space generated by one of the stars enveloping all the screens and are supported by precisely choreographed graphics. Each segment ends with a panorama of a real environment showing the project or concept in action. The film illustrates the progress from idea to strategy, project and implementation and makes a proactive stance towards the future palpable.

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DESIGNED FOR MOBIGLOBE 3.0 PROJECT

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.

The project is envisioned to have a farmers market at the street level, 30 stories of productive area and penthouses on top. The facade is planned with ETFE, the structure based on a lightweight steel frame construction.

In the film, Dickson Despommier, the originator of the vertical farm idea, explains the concept supported by graphics produced by Hosoya Schaefer.

http://www.verticalfarm.com/

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NEST – workshop in tokyo 2010

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.

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DESIGN STUDIO – AKADEMIE DER BILDENDEN KÜNSTE, WIEN 2008

This studio is the third in a series of research inquiries about creating something unexpected from a singular starting point. Through research, design, and fabrication, students explore the potential, the structural use, and the life cycle of contemporary building materials. Aside from addressing the history of technology and the production of materials in the context of modernity, this research studio looks at flexible, changing, and modular systems, using aluminum as a main structural element.

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Cities in Motion is a design investigation spanning two semesters, organized by the platform Geography, Landscape and Cities (GLC) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. The aim of the investigation is to better understand the relationship between urban form, mobility and projects on an urban or architectural scale. Do such projects to which we referred as “prototypes” reflect the larger context they are situated in, or inversely can they affect this context by means of a kind of urban acupuncture?

The first studio, the subject of this report, dealt with Centrope, a large region including portions of four different nation states and the cities Vienna, Bratislava, Brünn and Györ among others. The second studio was situated in Bucharest and dealt with the scale of a large city. Each studio was working with an external advisor. In the case of Centrope this was Prof. Jeff Kenworthy, an expert on issues of mobility and author of the most concise assessment of the consequences of car dependency. In Bukarest, the studio was working with Anna Rose of Space Syntax, a London based company specialized in the assessment of spatial accessibility.

The first studio, the subject of this report, dealt with Centrope, a large region including portions of four different nation states and the cities Vienna, Bratislava, Brünn and Györ among others. The second studio was situated in Bucharest and dealt with the scale of a large city. Each studio was working with an external advisor. In the case of Centrope this was Prof. Jeff Kenworthy, an expert on issues of mobility and author of the most concise assessment of the consequences of car dependency. In Bukarest, the studio was working with Anna Rose of Space Syntax, a London based company specialized in the assessment of spatial accessibility.