The project is located in the east part of berlin in between two contradictory neighbourhoods – Friedrichshain and kreuzberg. the site is aligned to the ringbahn station – Berlin frankfurter allee. these two general characteristics contributes location with continuous human flow, variable in terms of needs and interests. the purpose of new building – multifunctional space, hosting art gallery, public …
TUB Prototypes – shape memory alloy shading
The prototype using ‘shape memory alloy springs’ presents a first prototype for a shading device. It derived from a series of folding tectonics, slotting in the hinges, steel springs and copper wiring between the dual layers of the flaps and base. From the previous prototype of developing only a single wings, now six wings had to be integrated with each …
TUB project: CityLab City Maker – Denkfabrik Stadtfabrik
at TU Berlin, Chair of Sustainable Urban Design, Prof. Raoul Bunschoten, 2016 The Tempelhof airport building as an incubator to address Berlin’s housing crisis. The former Tempelhof airport building is like a theatre set in search for a strong play and its characters. It is one of the largest buildings in Europe and sets the scene for the most symbolic …
Conference at TU Berlin – Cybernetics: state of the art
A conversation and conference to review and preview cybernetics as design strategy in computational architecture, urban design and socioecological habitats natural and artificial. Let’s discuss if a difference can be registered at all. During the last decade Cybernetics has awaken its SnowWhite sleep, ready to be understood, embraced and established as a science to design. The international conference reviews and …
Geometry and form III
DIA, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences GEOMETRY AND FORM III Space is defined as complex system made up of individual characteristic points, nodes of an event, named architectural form. We define space as open and closed fields of pattern and language. In 300BC mathematics were discovered by Aristotle, geometry by Euclid. Since then geometry has been subjected to space, form, …