Survivalkit for traffic victims
FILEKit© is a project tackling a very unpleasant everyday problem: traffic congestion, “file” in Dutch. The project was part of the First International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam with the focus on mobility. Besides a permanent installation in the Biennale exhibition facilities, the project FILEKit© also plans a series of events on the motorways surrounding Rotterdam. FILEKit© encourages motorists to transcend the physical and mental barriers of their own vehicle and to communicate with the unexpected, the unfamiliar.
Place
Rotterdam, NL
Client
1st International Architecture Biennale of Rotterdam
Cooperation Partner
ARTGINEERING, D+.NL Ole Schilling
Year
2003
Survivalkit for traffic victims
FILEKit© is a project tackling a very unpleasant everyday problem: traffic congestion, “file” in Dutch. The project was part of the First International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam with the focus on mobility. Besides a permanent installation in the Biennale exhibition facilities, the project FILEKit© also plans a series of events on the motorways surrounding Rotterdam. FILEKit© encourages motorists to transcend the physical and mental barriers of their own vehicle and to communicate with the unexpected, the unfamiliar.
Place
Rotterdam, NL
Client
1st International Architecture Biennale of Rotterdam
Cooperation Partner
ARTGINEERING, D+.NL Ole Schilling
Year
2003
The major theatres of the capital city of the Federal Land unite on the Rathausplatz in St. Pölten in a ticket office. The remodelling of the facility plays on the elements and properties of the theatre. The curtain as principle element of the wall design embodies the separation of two worlds. The velvet curtain partly hides and shows what is concealed behind it. The ticket sales counter is in the front area and the “box” is at the rear, so to speak a grand circle situation for personal advising, also accoutred with props alluding to the world of the theatre.
Place
Sankt Pölten, AT
Client
Landestheater Niederösterreich Betriebs GmbH
Completion
2013
GFA
112 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Wolfgang Wössner
The major theatres of the capital city of the Federal Land unite on the Rathausplatz in St. Pölten in a ticket office. The remodelling of the facility plays on the elements and properties of the theatre. The curtain as principle element of the wall design embodies the separation of two worlds. The velvet curtain partly hides and shows what is concealed behind it. The ticket sales counter is in the front area and the “box” is at the rear, so to speak a grand circle situation for personal advising, also accoutred with props alluding to the world of the theatre.
Place
Sankt Pölten, AT
Client
Landestheater Niederösterreich Betriebs GmbH
Completion
2013
GFA
112 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Wolfgang Wössner
Communication strategy in the public space
As part of the City of Vienna’s guidelines for building culture, an exhibition and a strategic master plan were conceived for communication to the city’s inhabitants – organised for the first time as a collective project by a team of curators, architects, open space planners and architecture educationalists in coordination with the MA 19 of the City of Vienna.
feld72, nonconform and inspirin developed a series of themes on building culture in five locations in the public space, which were enacted in partnership with the photographer Hertha Hurnaus.
Cooperation Partner: inspirin, nonconform
Location
Vienna, AT
Year
2014
Client
MA19 of the city of Vienna
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Graphics
zunder zwo
Communication strategy in the public space
As part of the City of Vienna’s guidelines for building culture, an exhibition and a strategic master plan were conceived for communication to the city’s inhabitants – organised for the first time as a collective project by a team of curators, architects, open space planners and architecture educationalists in coordination with the MA 19 of the City of Vienna.
feld72, nonconform and inspirin developed a series of themes on building culture in five locations in the public space, which were enacted in partnership with the photographer Hertha Hurnaus.
Cooperation Partner: inspirin, nonconform
Location
Vienna, AT
Year
2014
Client
MA19 of the city of Vienna
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Graphics
zunder zwo
Artistic Encounter and Installation
Scene of the project is the estuary area of the Isonzo near the industrial town of Monfalcone, which on the one hand is a nature reserve, on the other remarkable for an illegally erected lake dwelling settlement. This witness to an anarchistic building culture is threatened with extinction, but together with the nearby shipyard will set up an arena for artistic interventions on the themes of migration, speculation and white-collar crime – the starting point of a journey into the “art informel” of Italy.
Artistic Encounter and Installation
Scene of the project is the estuary area of the Isonzo near the industrial town of Monfalcone, which on the one hand is a nature reserve, on the other remarkable for an illegally erected lake dwelling settlement. This witness to an anarchistic building culture is threatened with extinction, but together with the nearby shipyard will set up an arena for artistic interventions on the themes of migration, speculation and white-collar crime – the starting point of a journey into the “art informel” of Italy.
Based on the piano compositions of Erik Satie a spatial installation was conceived that gives rise to a special experience: Satie demanded his work be played 840 times consecutively and at a slow tempo so as to bring out its meditative character. This means that the entire performance lasts 21 hours. The audience is immersed into an extraordinary game with space, time and repetition. Themselves part of the installation, all visitors are invited as audience and actors to perform action instructions parallel to the live piano music and to sound out personal levels of perception.
Place
Vienna, AT
Client
ImPulsTanz
Completion
2009
Production
gravityhappens.
Artistic concept, Piano
Kerstin Kussmaul, Jan Burkhardt
Pictures
Laurent Ziegler, feld72
Based on the piano compositions of Erik Satie a spatial installation was conceived that gives rise to a special experience: Satie demanded his work be played 840 times consecutively and at a slow tempo so as to bring out its meditative character. This means that the entire performance lasts 21 hours. The audience is immersed into an extraordinary game with space, time and repetition. Themselves part of the installation, all visitors are invited as audience and actors to perform action instructions parallel to the live piano music and to sound out personal levels of perception.
Place
Vienna, AT
Client
ImPulsTanz
Completion
2009
Production
gravityhappens.
Artistic concept, Piano
Kerstin Kussmaul, Jan Burkhardt
Pictures
Laurent Ziegler, feld72
Festival headquarters steirischer herbst
Can a maximum of signal effect and practical options for new usage and presentation facilities be conceived for an already existent location – the Forum Stadtpark? Yes, with a re-usable deposit and return object, infinitely available, with enormous potential: the Euro pallet. Diverted from its normal purpose it can form the module for temporary architecture just as well as the brick for a durable building. Architecture with an expiration date thwarts and disrupts the existing building, whether in terms of space, typology, or aesthetics – a productive disruption. Especially in its ephemerality it strove after an aura of massive solidity.
Prize: Steirischer Holzbaupreis
Place
Graz, AT
Client
steirischer herbst
Completion
2010
GFA
562 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Festival headquarters steirischer herbst
Can a maximum of signal effect and practical options for new usage and presentation facilities be conceived for an already existent location – the Forum Stadtpark? Yes, with a re-usable deposit and return object, infinitely available, with enormous potential: the Euro pallet. Diverted from its normal purpose it can form the module for temporary architecture just as well as the brick for a durable building. Architecture with an expiration date thwarts and disrupts the existing building, whether in terms of space, typology, or aesthetics – a productive disruption. Especially in its ephemerality it strove after an aura of massive solidity.
Prize: Steirischer Holzbaupreis
Place
Graz, AT
Client
steirischer herbst
Completion
2010
GFA
562 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
“The work of feld72 explores the intersection between architecture, applied urbanism and art. From the very beginning the collective has examined the issues surrounding the use and perception of public space with a series of self-initiated projects called “Urban Strategies”.These 1:1 projects that form the basis for a “theory through practice” have been implemented across Europe and deal with very different types and situations of public space. The examination of space as a social form is also a focal theme in their built architecture projects that have already received several awards as well as in their successful competition entries for major projects, which are now in the construction phase.” (Lilli Hollein).
The Installation is a reflection on that experimental search for an architecture that could response to a broader world-view (“Weltanschauung”), and is itself a view on that
world (“Weltbild”). World in progress…
Place
Giardini padiglione, IT
Client
La Biennale di venezia
Year
2008
“The work of feld72 explores the intersection between architecture, applied urbanism and art. From the very beginning the collective has examined the issues surrounding the use and perception of public space with a series of self-initiated projects called “Urban Strategies”.These 1:1 projects that form the basis for a “theory through practice” have been implemented across Europe and deal with very different types and situations of public space. The examination of space as a social form is also a focal theme in their built architecture projects that have already received several awards as well as in their successful competition entries for major projects, which are now in the construction phase.” (Lilli Hollein).
The Installation is a reflection on that experimental search for an architecture that could response to a broader world-view (“Weltanschauung”), and is itself a view on that
world (“Weltbild”). World in progress…
Place
Giardini padiglione, IT
Client
La Biennale di venezia
Year
2008
Biennale Exhibition Contribution
2007 – The boundaries between the commercial and the public space are becoming more and more blurred. Our immediate environment, whether architectural or media-based, is dominated by advertising and thus by promises of another life. “urbanism – for sale” is taking the prohibition of advertising issued in 2007 for the entire conurbation of São Paulo as impetus to tackle the theme of consumerist mechanisms and reap benefits from this for constructing another world. We are confronting a world of mere promise and never-to-be achieved potential with a world of real experience lived out in the – social – environment: the exhibition area will be the shop window of a concept store of a completely different kind.
Place
Sao Paulo, BR
Client
7th Sao Paulo International Architecture Biennale
Year
2007
Biennale Exhibition Contribution
2007 – The boundaries between the commercial and the public space are becoming more and more blurred. Our immediate environment, whether architectural or media-based, is dominated by advertising and thus by promises of another life. “urbanism – for sale” is taking the prohibition of advertising issued in 2007 for the entire conurbation of São Paulo as impetus to tackle the theme of consumerist mechanisms and reap benefits from this for constructing another world. We are confronting a world of mere promise and never-to-be achieved potential with a world of real experience lived out in the – social – environment: the exhibition area will be the shop window of a concept store of a completely different kind.
Place
Sao Paulo, BR
Client
7th Sao Paulo International Architecture Biennale
Year
2007
