structuralDesignM_Final

A new passenger terminal for Innsbruck airport. Since the course was structural design at University of Innsbruck, institute for experimental design, the main focus of the project lies indeed in structural optimization, i.e. the design itself plays a minor role. This can be seen in the development of the projects plan, it is not developed at all. Nevertheless, following the rules of parametricism (I, personally prefer the term of "autopoieses of architecture") it was possible to inform the design process to achieve a coherent overall design. From my point of view this was especially possible because of the building typology, an airport. An airport does not necessarily need to have a strong connection to its context.

Acknowledgment

First of all I have to thank Jon Mirtschin, the developer of geometrygym. His tool brings architecture and engineering closer together. This opens up new ways of how to incorporate building performance, i.e. structural design, into the early design process , also sustainability in terms of material usage can be achieved by implementing and using these tools right at the beginning of a design process, rather than trying to optimize a "final" design as good as possible. Beside the economical benefits it also informs the aesthetic aspects of a design, like in this project presented here. Form is structure.

The same is also valid for [uto] and there tool GECO. I also have to thank [uto] for always supporting me with help and advice.

Last but not least, Michael Budig as course instructor.

designStudioM2_WIP01

A very small village (850 inhabitants)  in Burganland (east of Austria, in the middle of nowhere), called Raiding, happened to have a very famous musician, called Franz Liszt. So this village got, thanks to the EU, a, at least from my point of view, very nice concert hall. The hall seats 600 persons. Raiding is also close to the "top"  wine region of Burgenland. Well, all this made the people from Raiding thinking of how to make a bit of profit out of that. So the decided to invite some really nice Japanese architects to do some designs for them.
On top of that, University of Innsbruck decided to do also some design studios in Raiding.

In fact Rading has a lot of potential, in many ways. The WIP design shown here should become one day something like a "capsular hotel".

structuralDesignM_WIP02

 Shell design research and design study's for a new airport in Innsbruck.
Still in a very early stage.
Main interests are tessellation, structural system and form-finding tools as well as practicing my cross software skills ;)

Software in use:

Maya nCloth
Rhino+GECO+GeometryGym
GSA
Ecotect Analysis
Catia

Special THX to geometrygym and [uto] !