Last month I was approached by the German embassy in Rome @deutsche_botschaft_rom asking whether I could design a tent for their outdoor events. To me, this is a task of the current times. How much architecture do we really need in order to be sheltered? The pandemic has shown that interiors aren’t suitable for communal events. In fact, interiors are currently maybe even unhealthy for social creatures like us. Together with the fabulous engineers from @schlaichbergermannpartner I developed a new type of tent which is made of wood and cotton (or hemp, let’s see). The tent can easily be set up and rigged like a windsurfing sail. By making use of active bending, the structure is put under tension by a series of lense-shaped beams. The structure is a modular system and can be set up in different combinations. Yesterday I presented the scheme to the German ambassador in Italy, Viktor Elbling, and initiator Dr. Nuria Sanz. Thanks to the director of Villa Massimo, Dr. Julia Draganovic @juliadraganovic, art critic, journalist and architectural theorist Dr. Niklas Maak, Ole Grogro from the German embassy and Sebastian Springfeld @sebastianspringfeld of @villamassimo.de for joining the conversation.
#villamassimo #viktorelbling #niklasmaak #germanembassyinrome #architecturalmodel #ephermalarchitecture #responsivearchitecture
Demountable detail of our #studierendenhaustubraunschweig with @maxhacke fotos by @knippershelbig
#rising #studierendenhaustubraunschweig #gustavduesingandmaxhacke
Meanwhile in Braunschweig the prefabricated parts of our fully demountable #studierendenhaustubraunschweig arrived. In the next weeks the primary structure will be assembled. #gustavduesingandmaxhacke
Here is a little Beitrag in the German news @bayerischer_rundfunk about my work. As pointed out by the narrator, I am in search for new types of spaces and material systems for a climate conscious future. Flexibility through an absolute minimum in materiality allows architecture to respond to extreme conditions and holds the potential to bring us closer to the natural world.
Thanks to @chan.carson @grauvisuals @antarcticbiennale.eng @nadim.samman @wandererabovethemist @villamassimo.de @juliadraganovic #responsivearchitecture #villamassimo #ephermalarchitecture #leightweightarchitecture #brrundschau #architecture #kinetikinstallation #kinetikarchitecture
Happy to share the news that I have been appointed visiting professor at the Department of Architecture at Roma Tre University @architettura_roma_tre
(Text @villamassimo.de)
His experimental teaching approach is based on a search for future architectural typologies and new material systems. Together with the students of Roma Tre, he will develop lightweight structures for a near future of material shortage and climate consciousness.
In his academic career as master studio director at the Institute for Architectural Design (IAD), at Technical University Braunschweig @tu.braunschweig @department_arch_tubs as well as the Chair for Experimental Design (Studio Sobejano) at the University of the Arts Berlin @udkberlin experimentation and prototyping has always been Gustav Düsing´s focus.
They will show progress of my work with the students at Roma Tre on the @villamassimo.de channel in the coming months!
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Videos: Summer semester 2019 at UDK, first year studio „no weight“ at Studio Sobejano, together with Enrique Sobejano and Lisa Tiedje, Guest critics: @alvaro_urbano and @petrit.halilaj
Students: Marc Czampiel, Luis Leon Haas, Romin Vasco Walter, Firas Todemir
Images: Winter semester 2018 at TU Braunschweig, experimental master studio (MEX) „Talus“ at Institut for Architectural Design @iad_tubs together with Volker Staab and Chris Jenssen
#gustavdusing #architect #fellowsvillamassimo #villamassimo #academicarchitecture #romatre #tubraunschweig #udkberlin #studiosobejano #volkerstaab #instituteforarchitecturaldesign #iad #experimentalarchitecture #prototyping #experimentalteaching #newmaterials #materialsystems
Looking down into what is under construction here at the @villamassimo.de
#fromsunsighttosunclipse
To some extent, Antarctica can still be seen as a continent untouched by humans. For an architectural concept this is a very inspiring context. Can Antarctica serve as a case study for a pre-human world? How do you behave as a person who visits such a continent and what is a site-specific architecture to go with it? For the 2017 Antarctic Biennale I suggested a frozen tent, the architecture of the explorer and the curios ones. The tent always stands for a temporary accommodation, it leaves no traces and only offers a minimal skin to the outside world. If you spray it with water, the fabric combines with the ice to form a stable shell which protects the inside. The cold becomes part of the structure and the freezing point gives rise to architecture.
In the cold of the Winter 2018 together with @nadim.samman I was invited to again show this project originally conceived for the @antarcticbiennale.eng at the @bnkr_space in Munich at an exhibition called “Antarctica as a Project” as part of the series “stop making sense, it’s as good as it gets” curated by the great @joannakamm and @ludwig.engel many thanks to @studio_nina_pettinato @janosbergob @cosmic.lust for the support. Some of the photos by Elias Hassos
Tomorrow, Wednesday the 13th at 1:30pm I’ll be giving a lecture at the @tudarmstadt about our project at @tu.braunschweig. Feel free to join, zoom link in bio. 👋 #gustavduesingandmaxhacke #darmstadtbraunschweig
Custom joint as part of a fully #demountablestructure developed in collaboration with @knippershelbig. The pavilion on the grounds of the @tu.braunschweig can be rearranged in layout or even dismantled and reconstructed in a different location. This #structuraldetail allows the building to respond to changing requirements, internal and external. #ephermalarchitecture #responsivearchitecture
This is the raw #prefabricated #structure for our #studierendenhaustubraunschweig #pavilion project as a fully #demountablearchitecture #superstructure #gustavduesingandmaxhacke #tubraunschweig #deparchment #metalworkshop #steelconstruction
A series of sectional drawings explaining the #lightweight #materialsystem for our RCC Project as part of our #fortnightism concept. With @chan.carson
#pendamicarchitrcture #salutegenicarchitecture #tent #responsivearchitecture #biophilicarchitecture #soapbubbleexperiment
Check out this inspiring conversation between Niklas Maak and @swr2.de about our project #fortnightism which I developed together with Carson Chan @chan.carson
Link in bio.
#niklasmaak #mobilearchitecture
Still from our film #notesonfortnightism with @chan.carson. This is a grey-water collector which sits at the down point of a #stretchmembrane inspired by #soapbubbleexperiment by the great #freiotto. The diagonal orientation of high and low points create a constant slope and a structural rigid #saddlesurface.
Check out Niklas Maak’s article in the Frankfurter Allgemeiner Zeitung (Germany’s newspaper of record), on Notes on Fortnightism, the project @chan.carson and I made about architecture in our new pandemic age. Images by @grauvisuals
#topography
riverbeds served as a resource for building material - here blendend with debris from the 2016 earthquake in central Italy
#structuraldetail of an #exoskeleton protecting an #earthquake damaged building - > joining #temporality with #permenancy #responsivedesign
Join us for the Künste a @villamassimo.de tomorrow and on Thursday the doors are open! Please register!
#umbrello #prototyping
Il Duomo Di Venzone in single pieces at Rivoli Bianchi after the devastating earthquake of 1976. Fully reconstructed in 1995.
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#architectureofearthquakes #architectureisgeology #palimpsest #futurespoil #spolien
Thanks @cuhkarchitecture and @jeroen_urbansystems for inviting me to give a lecture about my work on Thursday the 24th of September.
Home for the next 10 month. @villamassimo.de
@chan.carson and I have been working on an architectural proposal responding to the 2 week quarantine period that is becoming a part of our lives and the global cultural effects this period of time will have. Check out the trailer to our video, which will debut @akademiederkuenste on 10.09 as part of the show EC(centric)CITY curated by @nadim.samman which is part of @berlinartweek this is a collaborative project with @grauvisuals @ole_fries & whoknowswhocares @eva_temponera and great #katharinapütter #matthiasmaercks of #tableaufilms
#fortnightism #pandemic #quarantine #disasterarchitecture #responsivearchitecture #responsivecarecenter #archilovers #salutegenicarchitecture
1:1 #mockup of a #structuraldetail for our project #studierendenhaustubraunschweig
#underconstruction #tubraunschweig #studierendenhaustubraunschweig #foundation #reinforcedconcrete #gustavduesingandmaxhacke
Some more photos of my project titled #industryandleisure with great help by talented @mariammiami
This is an elevated #sundeck which allows people to overlook the closed Balustrade. The #structure is made of #galvenizedmetal #grillades
This is a private commission for @journey2creation and is a rentable space! Get in touch!
Anchors for one of our 121 super thin columns to be woven into the rebars of the concrete plinth. Once casted, these serve as threads for four large screws. #gustavdusingandmaxhacke #construction #deparchment #steel #advancedengineering
Braunschweig Update: These will be the foundations for the exterior columns of our project for the @tu.braunschweig The small metal parts will be casted in so that the end plate of the columns can be screwed in precisely. #gustavdusingandmaxhacke #construction #formwork #foundation #deparchment
Today is Earthday. I am sharing with you a project from 2017 for the Antarctic Biennale named „Tent on Cuverville Island, Antarctica". This is a tent of frozen #cloth as a #sitespecific response to the question of #humansettlement on #unspoiledland
Shot with a disposable #fujisimpleace camera #nofilter
#EarthDay2020 #Earthperspectives #backtoearth #earthday
#artforahealthyplanet #interspecies #interspeciesarchitecture #antarctica #expedition #antarcticbiennale
#emptyinterior #rendering of our project for the @tu.braunschweig with @maxhacke currently #underconstruction to be completed in 2021 🙏 @department_arch_tubs #engineering by @knippershelbig .
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#architecture #design #interiordesign #art #architecturephotography #photography #architecturelovers #architect #archilovers #building #arquitectura #instagood #city #construction #travelphotography #love #arquitetura
It’s interior appreciation week so here comes another glimpse into our project for @journey2creation photos by @jo.foerster .
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#interiordesign #curtainsdesign #construction #customfurniture #archdaily #dezeen #architecturalinstallation #usablesculpture #berlindesign #industrialinterior #interior #furniture #designinspiration #contemporaryart #archilovers #arquitectura #berlinarchitecture #berlininterior #architecture #journey2creation #interiorgoals
This is the #cateringarea of 1 of our 2 large #multiusespace for @journey2creation with #stainlesssteelkitchen and custom #stainlesssteelfurniture and #upholstery with #heavyindustry in the background .
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#interiordesign #curtainsdesign #construction #customfurniture #archdaily #dezeen #architecturalinstallation #usablesculpture #berlindesign #industrialinterior #interior #furniture #designinspiration #contemporaryart #archilovers #arquitectura #berlinarchitecture #berlininterior
#interiors in times of #quarantine another view of our latest project #spacepockets for #journey2creation in #berlin with fotos by @jo.foerster .
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#interiordesign #curtaindesign #construction #customfurniture #archdaily #industrialdesign #industrialinterior #archilovers #arquitectura #contemporaryinteriors #coronainterior #textilearchitecture
From yesterday’s #groundbreaking #headlinenews #construction starts now! @tu.braunschweig @department_arch_tubs @maxhacke @iad_tubs #braunschweigerzeitung
Sneak peak to my newly finished project intitled SPACE POCKETS. Another exploration into the field of #textilearchitecture with 400 sqm full of custom furniture. Thanks to @journey2creation More soon.
Fotos by @jo.foerster .
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#interiordesign #curtainsdesign #construction #customfurniture #archdaily #dezeen #architecturalinstallation #usablesculpture #berlindesign #industrialinterior #interior #furniture #designinspiration #contemporaryart #archilovers #arquitectura