The city council of Ljubljana approved the new zoning plan for the city of Ljubljana (IPN). The Masterplan of the Smartinska Partnership prepared by Hosoya Schaefer in collaboration with the city, the private landowners and its team of consultants became law.
Autostadt, the themepark and communications platform of Volkswagen in Wolfsburg, opened a new installation “Mobiglobe”.
The Rhaetian Railway Company in Switzerland announced the results of the test planning it commissioned for the area of the St. Moritz railroad station.
Markus Schaefer has been nominated as the head of the jury for an idea competition in Oslo held on the occasion of the Oslo Triennale. The competition “MAN MADE REFORMULATE” looks at how can architecture solve the challenges of tomorrow. “The intention of the competition is to challenge the participants on how to exemplify and [...]
The Slovenian Chamber of Architects opened and exhibition with architectural and urban design competitions of the last years. The exhibition opened on June 15 at the Museum of Architecture and Design, Castle Fuzine, Ljubljana. Hosoya Schaefer is represented with the Project Smartinska Partnership Masterplan, a 230 ha urban design competition, for which they received the [...]
The AUT in Innsbruck invited three urbanists to give a statement on Innsbruck followed by a panel discussion.
Markus Schaefer gave a public lecture on May 27th 2010. The lecture was organized by OAF (Oslo Association of Architects) in Oslo.
Rogier van der Heide, formerly of Arup Amsterdam and currently Chief Design Officer at Philips, hosted a round table discussion with the topic “The Future of Urban Wellbeing”.
MOBILE OFFICE SPACE – ZOLLVEREIN, GERMANY
Hosoya Schaefer is asked to design a temporary office space using “SwissCell” material in Zollverein, Germany. The project plans to be completed within 2010.
IW, “Interior World – Design & Detail”, vol. 63, 2007, p.48-55 BOB, International Magazine of Space Design, vol. 039, 2007, p. 94-101 CORPORATE ARCHITECTURE, Praxisreport 2007, Achhammer (ed.), p. 36-47 (45-47) ICON, Monthly Magazine of the Year, issue 052, 10/2007, , p.73 ABITARE, “Interiors Design Architecture”, issue 477, 11/2007, p. 118-127, 222-223 AMC, “Special Interiors [...]
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.
MASTERPLAN “MUOTAPARK” – BRUNNEN, SWITZERLAND
Urban design competition 2010
Markus Schaefer spoke in the lecture series, “Urban mutations on the edge – classifying emergent phenomena in developing territories” at the chair of Marc Angélil at ETH Zürich. Title of the lecture was “Re-”.
“Sun Peak”, the project proposed by Hosoya Schaefer and IBV Hüsler AG for the RhB railroad station in St. Moritz has been chosen as the basis for further development together with the project developed by GMP, Germany. Collaborators included Müller Illien Landscape Architects, Arctech Management AG, Space Syntax and Joseph Schwartz.
Hosoya Schaefer concluded a first series of interviews for a film project for Volkswagen including Jaime Lerner, Pooran Desai, Dickson Despommier and the Smart Cities group around William Mitchell at the MIT Media Lab. blm Hamburg is responsible for the film production. The project will be public at the start of May, 2010.
STATION DEVELOPMENT – ST. MORITZ, SWITZERLAND
Urban design study 2009 – selected as a basis for planning proposal
“Sun Peak”, the project proposed by Hosoya Schaefer and IBV Hüsler AG for the RhB railroad station in St. Moritz has been chosen as the basis for further development together with the project developed by GMP, Germany.
Markus Schaefer speaks at the Executive Campus HSG in the “St. Galler Forum für Baudienstleistungen entlang dem Lebenszyklus von Gebauden” on “The (im)perfect City”.
HOUSING PROJECT – BONSTETTEN, SWITZERLAND Competition 2009 – 2nd Prize This housing complex has been commissioned by a developer for a village near Zürich with a large traditional housing stock and very strict building regulations. Four buildings are lined up along the Isenbach and frame the existing farm houses and a new common space located [...]
Panel discussion organized by the Chamber of Architects of Bavaria at the Haus der Architektur in Munich with Gert Heidenreich,writer, Munich, Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Michaela Krützen, Lehrstuhl Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft, Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München, Markus Schaefer, MScie, MArch, Architect, Hosoya Schaefer Architects, Zürich. Moderated by Prof. Dr. Armin Nassehi, Institut für Soziologie, [...]
International Conference: “urban RESET. How to Activate Immanent Potentials of Urban Spaces” at the Hamburg HafenCity University. Markus Schaefer speaks about “Urban Planning between Form and Performance” in Block 4:” Economic Perspectives” moderated by Prof. Gernot Grabher. [Flyer]
Markus Schaefer speaks at the Kornhausforum in Bern in the lecture series “Schöne neue Welten” organized by the Bern University of Applied Science on “Re-”.
Hiromi Hosoya is appointed as university professor for the platform of “ecology, sustainability, conservation” at the Akademie der bildenden Künste for 2009 – 2011.
MEDIA INSTALLATION – WOLFSBURG, GERMANY Mobiglobe is an ongoing project developed for Autostadt GmbH. It was first made public in 2006 and has since been continuously updated. In its current iteration, it shows issues of global mobility and focuses on the dilemma between the automobile as an increasingly refined product and automobility as a transport [...]
NATURE MUSEUM – ST. GALLEN, SWITZERLAND Competition 2009 Nature is increasingly understood as an interrelated system in which mankind inevitably is a part. A nature museum should make such connections visible and allow for new insights. The proposal therefore, does not follow a classical museum typology. It aims to define a new prototype for a [...]
The new ZDF Heute Studio is on air. Working with Shiftcontrol in the context of a larger development team, Hosoya Schaefer were involved in the concept phase being responsible for key innovations such as the information space, storyboarding in a game environment or the use of pictogram fonts. Watch ZDF present the new studio. [More]
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. [...]
Hosoya Schaefer Architects received a 3rd prize in the competition for a station development in Aarburg, Switzerland in 2010.
Markus Schaefer presents the Smartinska Partnership masterplan at the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce.
“Why Cities? – Mapping and Reality”, lecture on city planning at the chair of Information Architecture at the ETH Zürich. The lecture was taking place in the newly built Value Lab where now also a version of Mobiglobe produced in collaboration with Shiftcontrol is installed. [podcast: link]
“2. Centrope Dialogue – Living in Centrope 2020″ with an exhibition of the first Cities in Motion studio – “Centrope” at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna taught by Markus Schaefer and Stefan Gruber with Jeff Kenworthy. [link]
Markus Schaefer speaks at the Stahlbauforum in Baden, Switzerland. [link, pdf]
Markus Schaefer speaks at a conference on the “Kunstareal München” in Münich, Germany. [link]
STATION DEVELOPMENT – AARBURG, SWITZERLAND Competition 2009 – 3rd Prize Aarburg is a small town near Olten, Switzerland nestled between a bend of the river Aare and a picturesque medieval castle located on a promontory towering over the town. In order to halt the drain of inhabitants and investment from the town, an urban design [...]
Markus Schaefer is on a panel at the “Salon des Recherches” with Ruedi Baur, Clemens Bellut, Vera Kockot of the Masters Degree program “Design Culture” at the ZhdK and Günter-Karl Bose from the HGB, Leipzig. [link]
Hiromi Hosoya and Markus Schaefer are featured in “Das Magazin” in the issue 2009/12 “Menschen, denen die Zukunft gehoert”. [link]
The masterplan Šmartinska Partnerhsip, Ljubljana, will be presented at MIPIM in Cannes. The masterplan has been designed for the city of Ljubljana (MOL) and private landowners by Hosoya Schaefer Architects in collaboration with Space Syntax, Mountainworks / Fakton, Vogt Landscape Architects, IBV Willi Huesler AG and Arup. The scenario “Government City” envisions a maximum of [...]
Markus Schaefer participates in the Open City Symposium at the ETH Zürich moderating the panel on “Spaces of Migration”. The symposium was organized by ETH’s Network City and Landscape (Netzwerk Stadt und Landschaft – NSL) in collaboration with the Rotterdam Architecture Biennale, with international participation and an evening lecture by Saskia Sassen.[podcast: link to symposium], [...]
MORE THAN HOUSING – ZÜRICH, SWITZERLAND Competition 2009 This project, a competition organized by the private housing cooperative “Mehr als Wohnen” and the city of Zürich, is conceived to provide 320 apartments and shared amenities on a formerly industrial site in Zürich with the aim of conforming to the vision of the 2000W society. Heating [...]
ART BASEL, SWITZERLAND Competition 2009 The leading art fair ART BASEL planned to combine its activities showcasing younger artists and smaller galleries, guest speakers and exchanges with visiting artists into a new venue. A flexible, affordable, yet recognizable fair design had to be proposed that could be adapted also to other places and occasions. This [...]
Interview by Finn Canonica for DRS4 Talk. [podcast: mp3] Forthcoming text “Sustainable Systems:An agenda for a Science of Cities” [pdf]
Hosoya Schaefer won the competition for Smartinska Parntership, a 230ha integrated masterplan in Slovenia, and completed its first phase in May 2009.
SAMEDAN – ST. MORITZ, SWITZERLAND Competition 2008 – 1st Prize Engadin Airport near Samedan – St. Moritz, Switzerland, held a competition for a new airport building including a large restaurant, a hotel, facilities for events, and hangars for aircrafts, helicopters and gliders. Overall a total of 28’000 sqm had to be planned when including parking [...]
The Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel opens “Balkanology”, an exhibition on recent architecture and urbanism in the Balkan states curated by Kai Vöckler and Francesca Fergusson. Hosoya Schaefer Architects is represented with the Šmartinska Partnership project and a text “Light Capital” by Markus Schaefer. [German Press Release]
Hosoya Schaefer Architects receive an Acknowledgment at the Holcim Awards 2008 in Madrid for their Hypercore Office building in Santa Giuila, Milan, Italy. Almost 5000 projects from 90 countries were entered in the second Holcim Awards competition. From the official press statement: “The use of passive design elements, natural ventilation, and incorporation of public spaces [...]
The project for Engadin Airport is shown at the Swiss Day at the Swiss Embassy in Berlin, Germany.
Hosoya Schaefer Architects is visited by one of the “Small Countries, great future” mobile workshops as part of the Cumulus 08 conference hosted by the Design School Zürich. The tour ‘Futurum Exactum’ organized by Basil Rogger looks at scenarios for the future.
Hosoya Schaefer Architects win first prize in the “Šmartinska Partnership” competition in collaboration with Space Syntax, London and Wüest & Partner, Zürich. The task was to create a masterplan for the redevelopment of 230 ha in Ljubljana. This strategically important site in Ljubljana stretches from the central railstation to the highway ring and, among other [...]
Markus Schaefer speaks at the vlow! conference in Bregenz, Austria.
On invitiation from Moroso, Markus Schaefer speaks at the Pecha Kucha Night at the Furniture Fair in Milan, Italy.
Hosoya Schaefer Architects win the first prize in the competition for a mixed use development in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2008.
Hosoya Schaefer Architects win the first prize in the competition for Engadin Airport in St.Moritz – Samedan, Switzerland.
Hosoya Schaefer Architects receive the Special Award “New Generation” at the Contractworld Awards 2008 for their project ANAN in Wolfsburg. “The competition is now regarded as the most important European architecture award for interior design.”
OFFICE – MILANO SANTA GIULIA, MILAN ITALY 2008 Holcium Sustainable Construction Acknowledgement Award (Category Europe) The project is an office building located at the center of the Milano Santa Giulia development which contains 1.2 million square meters of newly built space. Milano Santa Giulia is located in Milan, 4km away from the city center. Main [...]
WTO – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND Competition 2008 The building proposed intends to symbolize a new identity for the WTO site – for staff and visitors alike as well as the general public passing through the park. Respectful off and clearly differentiated from the existing building which has a presence and aura almost like a feature of [...]
HOUSE OF PEACE – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND Competition 2008 The building consists of two main elements: the institutional office spaces organized as a floating ring and the “Espace Académique” located under and inside the ring. On the ground level, it ties the building into the flows of the city; on the upper floors it connects the [...]
MIXED DEVELOPMENT – LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA Competition 2008 – 1st Prize The project is based on a composition of various building structures and functions forming the masterplan guidelines for the site. The program consists of office, hotel, retail and housing functions. The aim is to create three different zones which are connected to one entity: A [...]
GEROLDSTRASSE – ZÜRICH SWITZERLAND The client asked for an unusual concept for an unusual site. Instead of designing another high-rise building in front of the Prime tower, we propose to design a group of towers that are linked together. The plans of the individual buildings are simple rectangles located like a checkerboard pattern on site. [...]
Markus Schaefer and Hiromi Hosoya are appointed as professors at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna, Austria for 2007 – 09.
The Mobiglobe project, developed together with Shiftcontrol is featured on Apple Pro.
“37 Gründe, liberal zu sein” is published, edited by Fulvio Pelli, the president of the liberal party of Switzerland (FDP). The book contains a spectrum of voices, liberal and critical, by authors such as Vaclav Klaus, Guido Westerwelle, Kurt Aeschbacher, Ruedi Noser and many others. Markus Schaefer contributed two essays and illustrations (#21 and 25).
Hiromi Hosoya lectures at the Universität der Künste in Berlin, Germany.
Hiromi Hosoya lectures at Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Markus Schaefer speaks at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in the series ‘Next Life’. Title of the lecture is: ‘Maps, Scripts, Prototypes’. Interview with Erhard An-He Kinzelbach.
Markus Schaefer speaks at the Technical University of Vienna in a conference on strategic building for corporations. Title: ‘Crossmedia Architecture’
Hosoya Schaefer is appointed as the architect of the new Rinascente department store in Sta. Giulia near Milan. On approximately 14’000 sqm the building to be designed will accommodate also retail and hosuing in addition to the megastore. Sta. Giulia is a 1.2 mio. sqm development by Risanamento Spa. which is part of the Zunino [...]
Anan, a Japanese Noodlerestaurant at the Autostadt in Wolfsburg designed by Hosoya Schaefer is completed. The project is based on a competition won in 2005. The design scope ranged from the architectural project, to media, identity and all the printed matter. The graphic concept has been developed with Lopetz of Buro Destruct in Bern. A [...]
Hiromi Hosoya and Markus Schaefer are guest professors at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste for the summer semester 07.
Markus Schaefer participates at a panel discussion at the Architecture Museum in Basel in the context of Freezone. The panel is organized by the ETH Studio Basel, headed by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron and discusses city planning: ‘Wer plant die Stadt’. A video can be seen here.
LA RINASCENTE – MILANO SANTA GIULIA, MILAN ITALY The project is a mixed use building located at the center of the Milano Santa Giulia development which contains 1.2 million square meters of newly built space. Milano Santa Giulia is located in Milan, 4km away from the city center. Main transport routes, including a high-speed railway [...]
SBB BAUFELD E – STADTRAUM HB, ZÜRICH Competition 2007 The proposal layers the functions horizontally resulting in deep floor slabs that are lit with internal courts and light wells. Since all the layers have different spatial and structural requirements a flexible hexagonal module has been adopted. Each hexagon is supported by three “ribbon columns” that [...]
The custom furniture has been developed in collaboration with Quinze & Milan’s designer Alain Gilles. An earlier concept has been developed with a dutch industrial designer, Jan Melis.
The furniture aims at being as simple and comfortable as possible. The furniture is executed in QM FOAM ™ and powder coated steel tubes.
Markus Schaefer speaks at the Stuttgarter Medientage in the section on Media and Architecture. The conference is taking place in the Römerkastell Bad Cannstatt on November 9 and 10.
Hiromi Hosoya speaks at the conference ‘Japan Now: Country Positions in Architecture’ at Cornell University and the Japan Society in New York. The speakers are Momoyo Kaijima (Atelier Bow-Wow), Mitsuhiro Kanada (ARUP), Hiromi Hosoya (Hosoya Schaefer Architects) and Taira Nishizawa (Taira Nishizawa Architects). Keynote speaker is Toyo Ito (Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects). This conference [...]
Hosoya Schaefer is part of a team awarded a grant by the Swiss Federal department for culture for the development of a documentary movie on mobility. The documentary will be produced by Condor Communications (producer: Patrick Müller) and Interscience Film/Gero von Boehm and coauthored by Chris Reuter and Markus Schaefer.
Opening of the exhibition and press conference of ‘Ljubljana: Urban Scripts for a Light Capital’ at the City Hall in Ljubljana, Mestni Trg 1. The study report is available from the Berlage Instiute in Rotterdam. [project]
The Venice Biennale is showing work by the Berlage Institute including ‘Ljubljana: Urban Scripts for a Light Capital’. [project]
Markus Schaefer is featured on ‘Grenzgänger‘ 9/06. Text bei Axel Simon, photographs by Markus Frietsch.
Hiromi Hosoya is a visiting professor at the Architecture School of Cornell University.
Kulturzone 06 – 5 Tage 5 Themen, organized by the Schirn Kunsthalle and Messe Frankfurt. Markus Schaefer participated in a panel moderated by Volker Albus.
Presentation to Volkswagen’s group wide “Global Conference” in Wolfsburg with the presence of the entire upper management of the group.
Trendtag 2006 at the Curio Haus in Hamburg organized by Trendbüro. Markus Schaefer talks about ‘Architectures’.
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 [...]
International Symposium on Metropolitan Regions at the Technical University of Munich with a lecture by Markus Schaefer.
Hosoya Schaefer contributes to a luncheon at the World Economic Forum 2006 in Davos hosted by Swiss Re and Credit Suisse.
PROTOTYPE – WOLFSBURG, GERMANY The task for the Innovida project was to think in new ways and design an unconventional structure using a technology, which originated in the boat building industry. The material used is a sandwich board with a polyurethane core, coated by fiberglass – produced and licensed by Innovida. These foam boards provide [...]
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 [...]
NAI Publishers published The Architecture of Hospitals’ edited by Cor Wagenaar. The book contains a chapter on the studio with the same name taught by Markus Schaefer at the Berlage Institute in spring 2005. [Draft of the essay: PDF]
The latest double issue of Archplus on OMA / AMO contains an essay by Markus Schaefer on Architecture as Media. [PDF]
Hosoya Schaefer participated in the exhibition ‘B-Zone, Becoming Europe and Beyond’ at the Kunst-Werke Berlin curated by Anselm Franke with work by Ursula Bieman, Angela Melitopoulos and Lisa Parks.
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.
JAPANESE NOODLE RESTAURANT – WOLFSBURG, GERMANY Competition 2005 – 1st prize The geometric structure developed for the project consists of a series of distorted hexagonal cells organized by a geometric pattern on the floor and the ceiling. The cells are developed and can be inhabited in different manners. The cells are made of 20mm thick [...]
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 [...]
MIXED DEVELOPMENT – GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS The project is a part of the housing campaign, “35 bold building projects in Groningen, INTENSE CITY” exploring intensification and mixed programming in 35 locations in the existing city area. The campaign aimed at building a surplus of 10,000 dwellings within the city area. We proposed not a vertical [...]