Structural Design B

Wolf Mangelsdorf
Institut für Architektur, Tragkonstruktion
2022S, wissenschaftliches Seminar (SEW), 3.0 ECTS, 2.0 SemStd., LV-Nr. S04079

Beschreibung

El Lissitzky's Wolkenbügel

Part 1 Context and History

During the first few weeks you will be looking at the architectural, historical and technical context of the Wolkenbügel focusing on:

  • The key ambitions of the architect
  • Its historical importance and context
  • The architectural and technological ambitions of the time
  • Structural systems and construction methods of the 1920s

We want you to have a look at how this building would have been built and what the structure would have looked like based on the technologies of the era. You can do this through reference projects and built examples.

The weekly seminars will be there for you to present your findings and to get guidance from us. We will conclude this first part with mid-term reviews on April 27.

Part 2 Translation into a Contemporary Context

Based on the findings of the first part we would like you to translate the conceptual ideas and the ambition of the Wolkenbügel into today’s architectural, cultural and technological context. We would like you to critically assess what of the ideas is still valid, what has been achieved and what a project of similar ambition would look like today.

We would like you to find a suitable site on the Ring in Vienna for that.

  • The key questions to address are:
  • Are the ambitions still relevant?
  • What structural systems would we use today?
  • Speculate on the use of potentially new materials.

Can we defy gravity – where does this become contrived and heavy; how do we achieve real lightness?

For this we would want you to revisit the key themes of El Lissitzki’s project, the tower, the cantilever, the look into the future regarding building methods and materials.

We would like you to explore this using a mix of physical and digital models. Physical models should be large scale (1:100/1:50/bigger?) to replicate structural behaviours and develop a feel for what works and what doesn’t work structurally. You should use your findings and then translate these into the digital models. Physical models should have ‘working model’ character.

We will run this second phase from the mid-term to the beginning of June.

Part 3 Publication

Following the finals we will select the best material and will work together so that this can be edited for the publication we are aiming to produce.

Prüfungsmodalitäten

Examination will be based on a presentation of the work carried out in Parts 1 and 2. We will assess the quality of the research work as well as that of the translation of El Lissitzky's ideas into a contemporary context. We would want to see the understanding of structural concepts and, in the second part, thier their integration into the architectural proposals. 

Termine

09. März 2022, 12:00–13:30 Seminarraum 21
16. März 2022, 12:00–13:30 Seminarraum 9
23. März 2022, 12:00–13:30 Seminarraum 21
30. März 2022, 09:00–10:30 Seminarraum 8
06. April 2022, 12:00–13:30 Zoom session
27. April 2022, 12:00–13:30 Seminarraum 21
04. Mai 2022, 12:00–13:30 Seminarraum 21
11. Mai 2022, 12:00–13:30 Seminarraum 21
18. Mai 2022, 12:00–13:30 Seminarraum 21
25. Mai 2022, 12:00–13:30 Seminarraum 21
01. Juni 2022, 12:00–13:30 Seminarraum 21
08. Juni 2022, 12:00–13:30 Seminarraum 25 , „Final Review“

LV-Anmeldung

Von 01. März 2022, 19:00 bis 08. März 2022, 18:00
Per Online Anmeldung

Architektur (Master): Bereich Expertise: Architectural Science: Tragkonstruktionen 443/002.02

Mitbelegung: möglich

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