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PORTFOLIO
2015-2017
bACHELOR
01
INTUITIVE TRAJECTORIES
1ST SEMESTER
WS15-2016
PROF. CHRISTINA CONDAK
DANIELA HEROLD
02
adp platform (analogue,digital,production)
deep spaces
2ND SEMESTER PROF. WOLFGANG TSCHAPELLER
SS-2016
WERNER SKVARA
03
cmt platform (construction,materials,technology)
fabric of place
3RD SEMESTER
WS16-2017
PROF. MICHELLE HOWARD
LUCIANO PARODI
04
other works

intuitive
trajectories
christina condak // daniela herold

studio 1 // WINTER2015/16

design without a project
“To experiment is at first more valuable than to produce; free play in the beginning develops courage.
Therefore, we do not begin with theoretical introductions; we start directly with material.” -Josef
Albers
We started working with everyday objects by analysing them through drawings, photographs,
collages and model making. My object was the plastic cover that holds the bottle of whiskey. Basically,
it is a container that is contained and contains a container. Taken out of its box, my container
would not really make sense on its own. But once you start experimenting with it, one can find a lot of
hidden properties.What happens when you blow it up in scale? Or when you reconstruct it out of
different materials?
I divided my object and worked mostly with the different pieces that I got. All these pieces looked like
little capsules, which immediately made me think of brutalist architecture with all its repetitive
modules.
Spaces started to appear throughout my pieces. Spaces that could be connected and myriad of
ways, just like in Lego games. I could start imagine life in these little capsules;being really easy to
change the way they connect, adding or removing modules depending on circumstances.
I reproduced my container and also parts of it in paper and plaster in different scales, each time
discovering something new.

ack_view
front_view
top_view
left_view

paper model_interior

section through successive modules

deep spaces
wolfgANG TSCHAPELLER // WERNER SKVARA

studio 2 // adp PLATFORM sUMMER2016

Fragmented Flexibility
Does the space influence our way of thinking? Does it affect the birth of an idea? Spaces can make you feel small,
uncomfortable and trapped, but they can also free your imagination, show you that everything is possible. In a society
where only the individual success is being promoted, we need a new type of teaching suitable for the times we are living
in, a space that can speak for itself. Especially the upcoming architects, they need to learn how to work with each-other,
exchange ideas and create. No walls that coldly divide, no more boxes or straight lines. Only transparency and playful
lines.
The translation of the found settlement in a hanging model was an intriguing task, for the hanging model is a reactive
model that perpetually changes it appearance under different factors. The first sketch model was aimed to show the
connections between fake chains, for the elements used were paper-clips that can easily be connected and again
disconnected to each other. The sketch model was completely unstable and permanently changeable.
At this point I realised that the little stiff elements, when connected, create a beautiful, fragmented flexibility.
I began by creating my own segments which I wanted to use out of pieces of wood and earrings needles. These
segments allow lots of experimentation in terms of connections, resulting different types of more or less stable elements.
The segments started to lose their purpose of only figurative objects and began more and more to be part of a structural
construction – they were not meant anymore just to define the space, but to enclose it. Among these elements, the
stability of the project demanded weights, which led to deformation and the creation of new forms.
The created workspaces aim to encourage the students that everything is possible, that the imagination has no limits.
There're no straight walls or floors (”an uneven floor is a melody to the feet”).
There're no conventional ways of teaching, no desks. Every line flows naturally.

collective_site_plan

SPACES ARRANGEMENT
OUTLINES REACTING AS CATENARY
CURVES
POSSIBLE CONNECTIONS
BETWEEN SEGMENTS

front view
top view

HANGING MODEL
SCALE_1:25

CLOSE-UP_DIFFERENT_CONNECTIONS

DIGITAL MODEL_CLOSE-UP
INTERIOR VIEW_AMPHITHEATRE

SECTION

STANDING MODEL_SCALE_1:25
CLOSE-UP_CONNECTIONS_BETWEEN_SEGMENTS

FABRIC OF PLACE
MICHELLE HOWARD // LUCIANO PARODI

STUDIO 3 // CMT PLATFORM WINTER2016/17

The City of Sankt Valentin in lower Austria has asked the CMT (Construction, Materials &
Technology) platform of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna to design and build prototypes for
6 bus-stops at strategic positions. Situated in disparate areas lacking in reciprocity, the 6
bus-stops are clearly related to each other, weaving a common thread while assuming their
identity as singular objects.
They respond to very particular social, environmental and technological requirements, both
on the micro scale of each place and that of the city and its inhabitants. This is also a
research project and studies the exciting new technology of woven textile reinforcement,
which replaces steel and its associated corrosion problem. Offering myriad possibilities of
form through folding and shaping, extremely strong,thin skins and the free movement and
integration of data, it would allow us to build with far less materials in the future. With it, we
will construct the fabric of place in Sankt Valentin and one of the first free-standing textile
concrete structures in Europe.
The students of the CMT Platform have constructed a successful full-scale prototype of one
Bus-Stop which is currently standing at the BBB-Halle of the TU-Vienna.
Press release from 7th January 2017
Vienna, Austria

mathematical fold_glide reflection
3rd semester ws16
prof. Howard michelle and luciano parodi

folding dry concrete
The main advantage of
this method is the little
amount of material used
in order to create the
formwork. The formwork
was created like a
scored piece of paper.
The traces that are usually
made before
starting to fold the
paper are resembled in
the formwork by
wooden spacers. The
reinforcement mesh
flows through the spacers,
keeping the whole
in connection.
FORMWORK:
Materials: wood,plywood,
paper, wax, soap

3rd semester ws16
prof. Howard michelle and luciano parodi

I had to apply the concrete
in two shifts: first,
in the flat formwork, and
second, when the concrete
is dry and the
spacers are removed.
Once the spacers are
removed, the concrete
can be folded and fixed
in the final position,
ready for the second
application.

Working Together
The second part of the semester was
collective work. We transformed
our studio into an “office” working
together on delivering proposals,
construction plans for the 6
bus-stops and a 1:1 prototype of one
of the bus-stops.
My main focus (apart from helping at
constructing the formwork and
applying the concrete on the prototype)
was to create the website for
the whole project- a communication
tool between us and the people
of sankt valentin (and of course,
people from the architectural field,
or just people who are interested in
the project). Thus, the website
became a really important tool in
our project.
making of_formwork for the crumpled part

other works
travel sketches, university small projects

hometown glory, romania

casa malaparte_study
on the book by marida talamona

“hometown glory”, Romania

erliner dom, 2016
mainzer dom, 2015
constanta cazino, 2014