Oh Oh Oh - Material Strategies
with asphalt / Kollektiv für Architektur#reusearchitecture #weavingnature #materialstrategies
The Otto Wagner areal, with its Art Nouveau icon, serves as our point of departure to reflect on architecture in transition.
Around 1900, architecture was facing a fundamental transformation driven by new technical possibilities such as reinforced concrete and steel construction. Planners of the Art Nouveau era attempted layering ornamental and floral forms over the raw logic of engineering.
Over the following century, enthusiasm for technical innovation was pursued to excess. Today, the former admiration for what is technically achievable has shifted into a more critical stance: We no longer ask what is possible, but rather—what can we justify? Once again, we find ourselves in a period of profound transformation that demands new responses from architecture.
In this workshop, we explore material strategies within a reuse-resource-culture. Architecture and landscape are considered equal sources — repositories, archives, fields of potential. How can we design a temporary architecture capable of decay and renewal?
On exploratory walks through the terrain, we document, map, and collect found materials, architectural fragments, and vegetative elements. These findings form the framework of the discussion and the basis for new architectural structures.
This experiment explores the tension between durability and decay—between interior and exterior, envelope and envelopment, application and immanence. It questions the truth of materials, but also their transformation, their temporality. To what extent can ornamentation serve as a natural formal language, and how might natural materials influence this process? The aim is to explore both the functional and design potentials and to test a new, insitu architectural language.
Through short inputs, discussions, and perhaps a few sleepless nights under open skies, we will continue to reflect — on kitsch, ornament, value, permanence, aesthetics, and sensitivity.
asphalt is an architecture collective working at the intersection of research, teaching, and building practice. The team explores the potential of existing spaces and structures while critically questioning established dynamics. A central aim of their work is to spatially express the contradictions and complexities of the present. asphalt is passionate about creating spaces that respond to the urgencies of our time and understands architecture as a living, flexible system that provides impulses for ongoing transformation.
Their projects range from architectural concepts and the realization of built environments to exhibition design and self-curated content. They also create temporary installations, objects at various scales, as well as videos, photography, and atmospheric stagings.
www.asphalt-kollektiv.eu
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MEDIA: material sampling, collective drawing, ornamental discussions, structural experiments
︎︎︎LOCATION: main location
︎︎︎TEACHING LANGUAGE: english
︎︎︎WHAT TO BRING: laptop, camera, drawing equipment, gardener gloves, IKEA bag
︎︎︎REQUIREMENTS: Interest in building, experimenting, and exploring materials in context
︎︎︎LOCATION: main location
︎︎︎TEACHING LANGUAGE: english
︎︎︎WHAT TO BRING: laptop, camera, drawing equipment, gardener gloves, IKEA bag
︎︎︎REQUIREMENTS: Interest in building, experimenting, and exploring materials in context