The last 3 days we had a very inspiring workshop in the Aedes gallery in Berlin. Future City Lab is imagined by Thomas Auer / Transsolar and Daniel Dendra / anotherArchitect to develop and research the furture of our cities of 2050. Following the spririt ” We cant predict the future we have to design it, the future city lab becomes a network of experts, universities and students from all over the world.
Normally without a location, the future city lab settled down in the architectural gallery AEDES in Berlin converting the exhibition rooms into a workshop lab hosting several workshops with world class experts and creative students in different fields of interest.
This time the workshop was called “clothing the city” and was supported by the korean company KOLON, which is one of the biggest groups in Korea. Having the different experts from the automotive, technical textiles and fashion departments on the table the students were able to think about the future of the textile skin of our buildings and facades.
Next to the experts from Kolon, members of the imagine group Thomas Auer, Ulrich Knaack, Holger Techen and Marcel Bilow also the Korean architects from SUH architects Euhlo Suh and Kyungen Kim joined the workshop to support the students with their concepts and ideas.
More info about the future city lab on: http://www.ftrctlb.com/
you can also follow the facebook site of the future city lab just search for futurecitylab.
AMAZING: URBAN THINK TANK TOGETHER WITH THE IMAGINE GROUP WINS HOLCIM GLOBAL AWARD SILVER
We just got the news, our project in Sao Paulo in which the whole imagine group containing imagine envelope (facade), imagine structure (structure) and Transsolar (climate concept) received the Global Holcim Silver Award. Based on a concept by Urban Think Tank, we put all our effort in supporting the team. Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner adressed this building as a social hub in the middle of the vavelas of Sao Paulo.
We are very happy and proud to receive after the gold award for the national Holcim award in south america also the silver global award, indicating this building and its concepts as the worlds best sustainable solution.
Have a look at the project by clicking into the picture, all plans are available in high and low res.
IMAGINE BOOK LAUNCH
On the 9th of March we will launch the new two books of the imagine book series we publish with 010 publishers. Feel free to join the event, but send a note in advance just to make sure we have enough wine …
The books will be imagine 03 performance driven envelope made by Holger Techen, Ulrich Knaack, Tillmann Klein and Marcel Bilow
imagine 05 energy is written by Thomas Auer, Linda Hildebrand, Ulrich Knaack and Marcel Bilow.
Having published no.3 now we also closed the gab in the series …and no.6 is already in printing …we will announce that later.
IMAGINE GROUP WINS HOLCIM AWARD 2011
the imagine group containing imagine structure, Transsolar and imagine envelope supported the design team of Alfredo Brillembourg / Urban Think Tank to develop a sustainable project in the favelas of Sao Paolo. With this project we won the Holcim Award 2011. We are very proud for this achievement and congratulate the team for this prize.
more infos about the project by clicking into the picture and here :
Have a look on Thomas TED talk in Hamburg. We are proud of you Thomas, move on !
MID TERM PRESENTATIONS ESA GREEN LAB
We were invited to join the mid term reviews for the green lab run by Thomas Auer ( Transsolar) and Daniel Dendra ( AnotherArchitect) at the ESA in Paris. The topic is water and the students create very innovative and ispiring concepts.
If you would like to see more of their concepts have a look on their blog:
Finally the digital version of our cloud at the Venice Biennale went online today.
CLOUDSCAP.ES AWARD is looking for:
Innovative visionary developments with regard to a building skin, which might have an impact on: energy efficiency, indoor environmental quality, outdoor environmental quality and/or embedded energy / resources required for construction
We are looking for a sketch idea with: title, visualization - up to 4 images,
statement - a short text of up to 300 words in English.
The jury will award $ 16 000 in prizes.
Have a look at the short animation or come and visit cloudscap.es
Matthias Schuler from transsolar was interwieved from the Baunetz-TV team and speaks about the artificial cloud at the biennale in venice. This one is in german others will follow but it gives a very good impression of the walk trough the cloud.
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CLOUDSCAPES FROM TRANSSOLAR
Visit the cloud on the biennale in Venice and have also a look behind the scenes on the website from the project http://www.cloudscap.es
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Imagine Group’s concept is to network the knowledge base according to the tasks and challenges at hand, to provide technical solutions for esthetic and constructive issues. This type of networked collaboration without large, locally fixed hierarchies enables an interdisciplinary, yet topic-related working method that is efficient and – just as important – fun.
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If you are a long time follower of our blog you may have recognized that we have posted a lot of content from the bucky lab the TU Delft prototyping master class. We have now started a new blog dedicated to the bucky lab, so if you are interested have a look and follow us also there:
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