#ioa universityofappliedartsvienna

[energy-design]

In an attempt to to connect architecture with thermodynamics in a tectonic manner, Permeable Clusters strives to bridge environmental conditions with the urban and social environment through a permeable system of apartment clusters. Ranging from the private sphere of individual apartments to the open public sphere of the outside world, the project aims to connect both elements through a semi-private extended green facade which provides more optimal human environmental conditions whilst connecting inhabitants with one another in a community. The extended facade tubes carry warm air away from apartments during the summer whilst still reflecting light down to the lower apartments in winter. The organisation of the clusters of apartments follows sunlight and wind analysis studies to optimize the energy efficiency of the apartment clusters.

[energy-design]

As climate and society changes it might not be the smartest way to customize buildings towards local weather conditions and usage patterns that might be obsolete within a few decades anyway.

At least one alternative could be to design a super-adaptive building skin, which can negotiate any indoor-outdoor differences.

In „Ecologic Balett“, students accepted the challenge to design  an interactive skin that has the ability to sense outside and inside conditions.

The behaviour of the skin can be programmed to achieve the desired climatic goals for a specific usage pattern.

Transformability should affect the skin design as well as the building geometry.

Bernhard Sommer, Galo Moncayo

[energy-design]

CREEPMASTER

Responding to extreme condition of the Artic environment (the moving waters of permafrost) the kinematic scientific station adapts, survives and pursue the goal of scientists, investigating the great wonder of magnetic fields and polar shifts. The locomotion of the station is based on biomimetical principles of hydrostatic animals, abstracted using soft robotics. The main Challenge was to shift further from moving object toward the moving habitat and bringing the amphybiotic architecture into life.

Students:

Ayuna Mitupova

Minerva Zhang

Jon Krizan

University of Applied Arts Vienna - Energy Design Department

Adaptive Strategies

Bernhard Sommer - Galo Moncayo

[energy-design]

Flakturm farming is a vertical extension of the Vienna flight defence tower. This war monument stands in the Augarten and no longer serves no purpose. The project adapts and reuse this tower for differentiated farming; exploiting variations of sunlight and wind conditions. Those conditions identify different eco systems to grow different species of crops. This project offer not only fertile extension of land but also a entertainment and shopping centre on an urban level. Finally the project is also a vertical extension of the surrounding park.

Students:

Nicolas Gold, Niklas Knap, Fady Haddad

University of Applied Arts Vienna - Energy Design Department

Energy Design Seminar - Vertical Farm

Bernhard Sommer - Brian Cody