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—Franziska Hederer, born 1972 in Austria, studied architecture in
Graz (A) and Delft (NL) and is Associate Professorat the Instituteof
Spatial Design at Graz University of Technology. With her study On
the Oscillating Boundaries of Architecture she received the venia
docendi for Spatial Perception and Experimental Design in 2015.
Her research and teaching focuses on the exploration of artistic
practices, especially the performing arts, as tools for spatial per-
ception and for sensitizing our understanding of space. Teaching
activities at KTH-Stockholm, TU-Liverpool and University of Ap-
plied Arts / Vienna.
She also realizes performances in public space and serves as the
coordinator of the architecture program at FORUM STADTPARK
Graz.
—Andreas Gratl, born 1969 in Austria, is an architect and civil engi-
neer and studied architecture at Graz University of Technology (A).
After some work experience (key qualifications: concept design,
urban design and planning) at several offices like Arch. Richard
Gratl, Arch. Raimund Rainer, Arch. Heinz Mathoi-Streli and Arch.
Szyszkowitz-Kowalsky he founded
balloon
architects with Iris
Rampula and Johannes Wohofsky in 2003. From 2005-2013 he
worked as lecturer at Graz University of Technology (Institute of
Housing, Institute of Spatial Design). He is member in the Federal
ChamberofArchitectsand Engineeringandsince2015chairmanat
the HDA (House of Architecture Graz).
—DaisukeHattori is born in Japanand studiedat the KeioUniversity
in Tokyo and the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio (CH). He
has been working for Sleth Architects in Arhus (DK), Eric Lapierre
Experience in Paris (FR) and Clavien RossierArchitectes in Geneva
(CH). He has been conducting a research studio at the Academie
van Bouwkunst in Rotterdam. Currently he is living and working in
Tokyo as a co-founder of Japanese Belgian Schenk Hattori Archi-
tecture Atelier, an architecture practice that is actively and con-
sciously enganging architecture in both east and west.
Resilience by alliance
Holobiontic structures
Franziska Hederer / Andreas Gratl
TU-Graz, Institute of Spatial Design / balloon architects - Graz
We are many. Incredible many. The term of the individual is no
longer supportable. To separate ourselves from the others and
build our own house, with our own garden, with our own car, with
our own swimming pool, with our own fence, with our own...etc.
etc. makes us fragile in case of disruption.
Resilience in terms of community, buildings and the ecosystem is
referring on diverse systems operating like an organism in ‘multi-
symbiotic’ structures. The US-biologist Lynn Margulis suggested
already in 1993 to replace the idea of an individual by the idea of a
holobiont
(Greek: holos = the whole, bio = life) which implements
the principle of symbiosis to generate survivable, resilient forma-
tions with the potential to increase to very big communities. She
proclaimed the human as a holobiont.
For our workshop we created the term
‘holobiontic structure’
which is a loanword from the discipline of biology. Investigating
the basic principles of a holobiont we want to develop architectur-
al and respectively urban living structures, which apply these
principles and form a resilient built organism. These experimental
design studies should be situated in the city of Antwerp. We
search for existing and especially strong building structures
equipped with some kind of public infrastructure like electricity,
water, information or social, medical or educational services
where we can implement our design solutions in the sense of a
symbiosis.
Pictures
1 NikolausGansterer/ Drawinga Hypothesis / Partofthe Drawing: Questionsof
Orderand Relational Characteristicsof FIGURESOFTHOUGHT
2 Structureofacoral reef
3 Stephane Malka / La Defense Paris
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Territory of imagination
Daisuke Hattori
Schenk Hattori Architecture Atelier - Tokyo
If we are in a room caught by sunset, is the reddish color of this
room then belonging to this roomor to the light in it?
Leonardo Da Vinci practiced an act of recognition with his stu-
dents, from which they had to draw and sculpt. The act called as
Macchia connects us with our ability to perceive and to define. If
we consider that in Ancient Greek, 'Esthetikos' means
Perception, the training of our perception could be considered as
a search for the aesthetical qualities in things. Qualities that have
almost become forgotten design criteria, ungraspable by our im-
age thriven modern apparatuswith which wemake architecture.
In this studio, we will be resilient towards the modern day reduc-
tive tendencies of our understanding of architecture. We will in-
vestigate to which extend space is able to receive its qualities by
having them from withing, resiliently withstanding its outer influ-
ences, or opposite, to which extend it is unresiliently only able to
have qualities by receiving them fromwithout.
Who has ever before considered if a space can be completely neu-
tral towards the sunlight, still dealing very stronglywith it?What if
we would be making space that does not have a graspable quality
without the presence of shadow? How can we discover its hidden
spatial character? How will we build these things and what can
they be?We will look for beauty and coherence as we will practice
the ability of our perception in a similar way as musicians practice
their instruments.
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