Objectives:
...and it came to pass, not to stay.
For our studio @architettura_roma_tre we left the surface of the earth behind to create a new type of co-housing structure which is elevated from the ground with a minimal footprint as a new #architecturalmodel for a near future of material shortage and environmental consciousness. Each proposal became a cell in the larger structure, while we experimented with lightweight materials in the spirit of #freiotto @yona_friedman and #buckminsterfuller . As a purely physical experience, our studio was material based, experimental and free. Throughout the semester, we developed skills and knowledge in #tensilemembrane structures as a material system that is light, #changeable and #resourceful . Together, we created a project through direct communication, elaboration and joined forces. Just like with any experiment, the final result was undefined and open-ended.
Visiting Professor: Gustav Düsing
Assistants: Zoe Panunzio & Virginia Stella
Students:
Marina Tonolo & Elena Todini
Marta Martinelli & Giorgio Tabelli
Caterina Cecconi & Elisa Cencioni
Matteo Colantoni & Paolo D’Orazio
Marco Ugolini & Eleonora Ragonici
Leonardo Bruffa & Mark Laurente Agaloos
Big thanks to our guest critic and photographer @leonhard.clemens
Sunsight to Sunclipse //
now on view as part of
Villa Massimo in Città
17-26.06 // @villamassimo.de
Can architecture be like an atmosphere? By using the energy of the sun to create an architectural volume, the installation behaves in synergy with planetary constellations and is a direct transformation of energy into architectural space. Known as the coriolis effect, the installation creates waves similar to the Rossby-Waves, giant serpentine streams of high altitude winds, largely responsible for the global weather. Sunsight to Sunclipse is a space that represents a new type of architecture which understands itself as part of a larger planetary system that is fluid, dynamic and responsive.
Video @jo.foerster
#sunsighttosunclipse
#rossbywaves
#corioliseffect #spinningumbrella #solarspace
On Monday at 8:00am, me and Dr. Jan Mittelstädt of @knippershelbig will be talking about the fruitful relationship between structural engineers and architects as part of the structural-design lecture series @tuhamburg
Besides other projects, me and Jan have been working on our @tu.braunschweig project together with @maxhacke
#knippershelbig #gustavduesingandmaxhacke #structuralengineering #structuraldesign
Thanks @aitmagazine for publishing our project industry & leisure which we developed for @journey2creation #denkwürdig #sonnendeck
Photo by. @leonhard.clemens #gustavdusingandmaxhacke @maxhacke #tubraunschweig @knippershelbig
On Thursday at 11am I will speak about my work at the University of Camerino Scuola di Architettura e Design @unicamsaad in Ascoli, live and direct! You can also view the lecture online, see link in Bio.
So far, so good. Beautiful photos by my bestie @leonhard.clemens #studierendenhaustubraunschweig #gustavduesingandmaxhacke
Together with the great @ayumipaul I made a small table for her exhibition “song does not know the concept of yes or no”. Thanks for the inspiring collaboration here at @villamassimo.de, we miss you very much already!
These are images of the new project for the German Embassy in Rome. @deutsche_botschaft_rom . The design was developed in close collaboration with @schlaichbergermannpartner. The tent consist of 4 large panels which can be arranged in different configurations, making it a modular and adoptable structure able to respond to various situations and scales.
#tent #modularstructure #responsivearchitecture #architecturalvisualization
Beautiful Photos by Photographer Nils Koenning @nils_koenning #studierendenhaustubraunschweig #gustavdusingandmaxhacke #architecturalphotography
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!
Image material:
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