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SMAQ Architecture, Urbanisme, Research
ITINERARY Sabine Müller and Andreas Quednau were winners in Europan 6, “In-between cities”, in 2001 in Burgos (E). Their project “DotsAndLoops” is currently under construction. They founded in 2001 SMAQ a collaborative studio that operates in the field of architecture, urbanism and research, based in Berlin and Rotterdam. They both have a Master of Architectural Design at Columbia University, New York and a degree in Architecture at a Technical University in Germany. Looking at the city as inclusive to infrastructural and landscape contexts and their everyday usages, SMAQ’s approach to design is based on a concept of continuity in urbanism, landscape and architecture. They create urban structures open to the diverse trajectories of the citizens at different speeds. From a site on the move, they design diagrams generating their dynamic spatial shapes. They contributed to a number of urban research projects in Germany, Latin America and Africa and have been selected to present their work in exhibitions and installations. Sabine Müller and Andreas Quednau are currently assistants professors at Universities of Technology, Karlsruhe and Berlin. |
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INTERSECTION OF TRAJECTORIES Divers users including large quantity shoppers on the one hand and daily customers on the other, dwellers, workers, passer-throughs, hikers, school kids, watching parents, afternoon walkers, morning runners casually share the space. |
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Bergen (N) - Centre over the highwayL.A.R.S. follows the question, how can a centre be conceived in the periphery of Bergen, along the highway - between shopping malls, large scale businesses and suburban housing. Along the landscape extensions as well as on the mall extension large volumes are placed. They mimic the scale of the surroundings, but contain a variety of programmatic enclaves: retail, offices, apartments, and social and cultural facilities reacting to the site’s landscape capital |
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INTENSIFICATION OF THE EXISTING When looking for connectivity within a peripheral context it is often the existing sequences of green leisure areas that can be drawn on. Programming them can activate them. Create densifying effect while negotiating the potentials and conflicts of the site, developing principles of landscape. |
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Bern (CH) - IsotopAs a hybrid of a motel and a sports park, the project activates the existing sequence of green leisure areas. Grass-growing tilts form the roofs of gymnasiums thus establishing the wide horizon of the motel rooms. The mirroring facades multiply the green surfaces. A park-like artefact emerges, densifying the principles of landscape into a three-dimensional urban pattern. |
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ELASTICITY Driving, exiting, slowing down, stopping, entering home and going outside into the open landscape. The given oppositions of different speeds and scales of driving versus pedestrian measurements are turned in a dense programme of experiences. |
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Stuttgart (D) - Urbanising the motorwayHighway…ing is a research project utilizing the capacities to work with dependencies and motion within computer-aided delineation. It explores a sequence of car-related movements as a base for an integral environmental design. An animation identifies the highway as an elastic, changeable strand of potential activities. These movement tracings become the core of a settlement. |
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INFRASTRUCTURE Infrastructure a matter of design. Infrastructure and natural resources offer alternative prospects on interpreting and inhabiting the urbanised landscape. |
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Stuttgart (D) - BAD (Bath)BAD (bain) uses the technique of warming up water by sun in a garden hose. Pushed to an extreme, this technique becomes structure and generates a sequence of actions: accessing, changing, view-protecting, bathing, lounging. The routes of the required infrastructure – water distribution and channelling, sun-orientation – form one continuous sculpted ribbon. The rigid and elastic qualities of the two materials used – wooden slats and hose – are played out against each other. |
Europan Generation, The reinterpreted city Catalogue (including postage) |