FORMEL_X – Studio, Kristien Ring

FORMULA_X: VISION with AFF Architects / Plasma Studio / ECOSISTEMA URBANO

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The FORMEL_X Series at the DAZ presents three offices of the up-and-coming generation with their individual positions and sustainable ideas for the future. The series focuses on presenting the offices’ diverse design methodology and design processes.

With back to back solo exhibitions, lectures and interviews, the Londoner Plasma Studio, the interdisciplinary network Ecosistema Urbano from Madrid and AFF Architects from Berlin will present their architectural positions.

FORMULA_X VISION is a discourse event to wrap-up the series. All three offices will come together to discuss their individual approaches to architecture and strategies for developing visions for a better-built future.

Lectures by:

Eva Castro, Ulla Hell / Plasma Studio

Jose Luis Vallejo Mateo und Belinda Tato / Ecosistema Urbano

Martin Fröhlich, Sven Fröhlich / AFF Architekten

Moderation by: Kristien Ring, Director DAZ und Curator of the FORMEL_X Series

FORMULA_X Series at the DAZ 2010/2011

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Curated by Kristien Ring: PLASMA STUDIO, ECOSISTEMA URBANO, AFF ARCHITECTS

FORMULA_X stands for the unknown and the still to be discovered, as well as the individual approach, or formula, for arriving at a design solution: With three successive, individual exhibitions the DAZ will function over the next five months as a laboratory for new ideas. The series is dedicated to the upand-coming generation of talented national and international architects. The focus of each office’s presentation will be on their individual design methodology and design processes. -Not only in exhibition form, but in a public lecture and an interview/portrait online-publication. The goal of FORMULA_X, is to demonstrate the qualities in differing architectural positions, as well as to spotlight the active role of the architect in determining national and international building culture, by giving insight into the facets of their sustainable ideas. –From micro-architectures to urban planning, from new answers for conventional building tasks to futuristic concepts. The series offers a forum for informal exchange and presents contributions that will influence the future debate on building culture.

Theme for 2010: VISION

To envision scenarios and solutions for a better future and to realize these in their built form is a constant theme in the field of architecture. Most often, specific parameters define the architectural problematic and, at the same time, become the basis of developing possible solutions. It is within these parameters that new ideas and concepts are tested. In speculating at possible solutions, every architect has their own methodology – their own architectural position.

How will these parameters be in the future and where will our priorities lie in a world that is changing so quickly and so completely? We have a new challenge in finding the correct response to climatic and demographic change, and the current global economic condition brings us many more questions still. It is at this moment more than ever that architects, designers, artists, engineers and researchers are asked for new ideas and methods. Are the design methodologies that have proven themselves in the past, still relevant for the problems of today and of the future? Will we need to develop fundamentally new, integrative methodologies in order to realize a sustainable architecture and urban planning? Or, will there instead be a turn to a new, all encompassing kind of simplification?

How does one succeed, despite the demands of the commercial market, to form and preserver in maintaining a consistent architectural position while translating the idea and vision for a sustainable environment into the built form? In the context of these new challenges, the DAZ aims not only to present visionary architectural positions with FORMULA_X, but to discuss these issues as well.

FORMULA_X is the new, extended form of the previous GLASHAUS-Series

FORMULA_X-Series at the DAZ. 2010/11 (Exhibitions, Lectures, Interviews, Discussion)

PLASMA STUDIO, Nodal Landscapes

ECOSISTEMA URBANO, eu.Network – Building Relations

AFF ARCHITEKTEN, In Love, To:

VISION: Discourse Event with the Architects

CREDITS:

Curator of the FORMULA_X Series: Kristien Ring, Director DAZ

Exhibition Concept / Installation: by the respective Architects

DAZ PR. and Text Editing: Cornelia Schwarte

DAZ Exhibition Team: Steffen Morenz, Andreas Schleuder

ECOSISTEMA URBANO Interview

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The social media play a large role in your work; communication (Blog/TV/Network), the activation of public space, citizen participation, user activation. This is an aspect that goes beyond traditional architecture. How exactly to you come to utilize the media in your work? Is there a pattern to this: do you generate projects with the use of media, or do you integrate media into your projects?

We think the way to work on ecology is by improving education and knowledge. Our blog is an open platform for the interchange of knowledge and experiences from professionals with different backgrounds from all over the world. Everyone learns from each other, anyone can contribute with his / her own experience. We believe sharing is sustainable and our blog contributes in that sense. …. read more in the interview

The four partners of ecosistema urbano, Belinda Tato Serrano, Jose Luis Vallejo Mateo, Michael Moradiellos del Molino and Domenico Di Siena, have been interviewed by Kristien Ring, curator of the FORMULA_X exhibition series on young architects.

INTERVIEW: “ECOSISTEMA URBANO” 24 Pages, English. EU_ecosistemaurbano_Interview_E_web

The exhibition „ECOSISTEMA URBANO, Looking Through Ecosistema Urbano Eyes“ > 18.11.2010 – 16.01.2011 at the German Center for Atchitecture DAZ, Berlin.

PLASMA STUDIO Interview and Office Portrait

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Your projects explore new ways to translate space and to form an innovative solution to the architectural brief. Throughout these projects, from small to large scale, you have succeeded in developing and keeping a consistent architectural attitude. How would you define “innovation” or “research” in your work? What do you find is the most important aspect of a project and what makes it successful?

The initial conceptual phase is very important: we try to set up a clear concept which is the base for decisions along all the planning process. -Every decision taken has to stand/hold against the conceptual base in order to reach a high degree of coherence. Our work is an attempt to employ the visual in relation to bodily experience and awareness..…..read more in the interview:

This interview with the PLASMA STUDIO-Partners Eva Castro, Holger Kehne and Ulla Hell is by Kristien Ring, curator of the exhibition series FORMEL_X on young architects. PlasmaStudio_Interview_E_web

Exhibition > 01.10. – 14.11.2010 at the German Center for Architecture DAZ, Berlin.

AFF Architects Interview and Office Portrait

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Plasma Studio „Nodal Landscapes“ in the FORMULA_X Series

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In physics the term ‘plasma’ describes a particular state of matter in which energy is readily conducted through a material – the fluid spaces of Plasma Studio’s architecture work by the same principle. Folding space into space, the architects draw landscapes into buildings, streets into facades, inside to outside. Transformative tectonics set spaces, planes and bodies into unforeseen relationships that challenge conventional topographies and spatial codes.

For the last 10 years the office, currently based in London, Southern Tyrol and Beijing, has been widely recognized as one of the leading international architecture and design practices of the emerging generation. From small scale installations to large scale master planning, Plasma Studio’s projects bear strongly the mark of a digital design process. Propelled by the partners’ academic research and teaching at the Architectural Association in London. Plasma Studio develops architectural solutions by mediating between the scales of topography & context on the one hand, and sensory & physical relationships on the other. Their holistic design process enables an elastic response to completely varied contextual conditions and assignments. The exhibition at the DAZ presents their characteristic approach within a jump in scale ; from built projects in Europe to recent work – in – progress planning in China.

www. plasmastudio.com

OFFICE PORTRAIT: „PLASMA STUDIO, Nodal Landscapes“ Edited by Kristien Ring, 24 Pages, English. pdf download

PROGRAM: Exhibition > 18.11.2010 – 16.01.2011

Opening > 18.11.2010 | 7pm, Introduction by Kristien Ring, Director DAZ / Lecture by PLASMA STUDIO „Nodal Landscapes“ von Eva Castro, Holger Kehne, Ulla Hell.

CREDITS:

Curator of the FORMULA_X Series: Kristien Ring, Director DAZ

Exhibition Concept / Installation: PLASMA STUDIO

DAZ PR. and Text Editing: Cornelia Schwarte

DAZ Exhibition Team: Steffen Morenz, Andreas Schleuder

ECOSISTEMA URBANO in the FORMULA_X Series

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Ecosistema Urbano’s name is program : Their projects combine architecture, urbanism, engineering and sociology to strive for a ‘creative urban sustainability’. The focus of their work is on the complex phenomenon of the city, which they react to (or activate) through innovative, creative and holistic interventions. The interdisciplinary office from Madrid is an international consultant on sustainable urban development for cities and regions. Public space is thereby a central issue : Ecosistema Urbano catalyses urban processes that help citizens to change their own environment through proactive interventions.

The work of Ecosistema Urbano defines new boundaries of the profession of architecture and urban planning : They are moderators, develop strategies, systems and social media interfaces for a spurring on urbanity. With their own social network, blog and web – TV, Ecosistema Urbano offers various platforms to bring people together and to share knowledge about sustainable urban development and ideas for the city.

Designing processes and situations where the relations between people can be optimized is Ecosistema Urbano’s key to a successful project. Their exhibition at the DAZ will visualize, through a classical 3 D optical system, the process and strategies for a selection of recent work.

www.ecosistemaurbano.org

OFFICE PORTRAIT: „ECOSISTEMA URBANO“ Edited by Kristien Ring, 24 Pages, English. pdf download

PROGRAM: Exhibition > 18.11.2010 – 16.01.2011

Opening > 18.11.2010 | 7pm, Introduction by Kristien Ring, Director DAZ / Lecture by ECOSISTEMA URBANO „Urban Social Design“ from Belinda Tato.

CREDITS:

Curator of the FORMULA_X Series: Kristien Ring, Director DAZ

Exhibition Concept / Installation: ECOSISTEMA URBANO

DAZ PR. and Text Editing: Cornelia Schwarte

DAZ Exhibition Team: Steffen Morenz, Andreas Schleuder

AFF Architects „In Love, To:“ in the FORMULA_X Series

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The work of AFF is based on the understanding of architecture as an object, something sculptural. This view manifests itself already during the development process of their projects. AFF’s work develops through a process of designing in which they use trusted procedures. For AFF, this means: Producing and simultaneously constantly deciding, correcting, refining. Every step can be a new source of inspiration; every intermediate result creates new reactions and is part of an evolution.

But, where does the process begin? Where does it end? AFF would like to show the very beginning: It is the memories and the impressions that, at a first glance do not seem to have any influence on decisions, but indeed play a role beyond the beginning of a project. The process is determined by objects and images that have a strong character and their own past. It is the mysteriousness of the stories behind these objects that provokes AFF: with their own logic and charm the loved objects and images entice to anew. In Love, To :

www.aff-architekten.de

OFFICE PORTRAIT: „AFF Architekten“ Edited by Kristien Ring, 24 Pages, German. pdf download

PROGRAM: Exhibition > 21.01. – 13.03.2011

Opening > 21.01.2010 | 7pm, Introduction by Kristien Ring, Director DAZ / Lecture by AFF Architekten „In Love, To“ from Martin Fröhlich

CREDITS:

Curator of the FORMULA_X Series: Kristien Ring, Director DAZ

Exhibition Concept / Installation: AFF Architekten

DAZ PR. and Text Editing: Cornelia Schwarte

DAZ Exhibition Team: Steffen Morenz, Andreas Schleuder