Das Projekt setzt sich mit Ernst Haeckel und seiner, im 19. Jahrhundert kulturell verankerten Sichtweise und Repräsentation von Natur auseinander und versucht diese in die heutige Zeit kritisch weiterzudenken.

Geographical position and abundance of forests have determined the spread of wood as the main building material of Lithuania in 20th century. Therefore, Lithuania holds a rich collection of woodenware and reminiscences of wooden architecture with the outstanding ornamentation. Due to industrialization and standardized building products, material’s innate characteristics and inherent heterogeneity remain largely neglected and unexplored.

Nunavut is the youngest, largest and most northerly territory of Canada - a place of extremes with averaging temperatures below zero, no roads and a winter with no daylight. But most of all it is a place of drastical change. The general warming of the climate has severe effects on the permafrost ground, accelerating landforming processes and destabilizing the ecological system.

The baroque garden is a geometrically structured artificial construct with major and minor axes, formed by channels, basins or paths.

The central visual axis is most often surrounded by a system of parallel and perpendicular and star-shaped intersecting paths. The greatest emphasis is placed on regularity and symmetry. The baroque garden is part of an overall architectural scheme that also often features orangeries, parterres, fountains, ruins, pools, palm houses and menageries — aesthetically tied together by a common decoration scheme usually derived from Greek and Roman mythology. The Schönbrunn Palace as an exemplary model of Baroque design can be understood as a composition of organic and inorganic components. Not restricted to architecture and plants cut into shape the park included a menagerie which later turned into the Tierpark Schönbrunn. Being open to the public since 1779 it is the oldest active zoo in the world and home to 8392 animals.

explores the landscape as an object of technical manipulation and understoods it as a specific object. A landscape architectural series of experiments to clarify topological qualities.

Ecology of Fear - Apokalypse Tirol; Design Studio Master 2, University of Innsbruck
Imagine the valley bottom does not exist anymore. The chasm below you is as final as the ridge above you. The rug has been literally pulled out from under us. We design the city in the danger zone. What possibilites do irreclaimable sites, unstable topographies, alpine catastrophies offer.

Mitten im Abseits- Das Stadion als active landscape; Entwurfsstudio Master 2, Universität Innsbruck

Frozen Heaven

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Aus dem Willen heraus, Architektur frei von Begründungen und Rechtfertigungen bzw. von Bedingungen zu entwickeln, beginnt das Projekt in einer Leere, in einem vermeintlich reinem Labor. Freie Assoziationen schaffen Raum, im sprudelnden Kontext des ICHs.

Andreas Manzl

Plenarsaal Raumreserven; Entwurfsstudio E2, Universität Innsbruck

„Die Parteien müssen in den nächsten Wochen ausschnapsen, welcher Parlamentsklub wie viel Platz im Hohen Haus und dessen Nebengebäuden bekommt. Etwa 33m² pro Abgeordnetem stehen jeder Fraktion zur Verfügung. Alleine die ÖVP, die die meisten Mandate verloren hat, muss also auf etwa 500 m² verzichten. Dazu kommen persönliche Animositäten und Präferenzen für bestimmte Räumlichkeiten. Bis zur konstituierenden Sitzung Ende Oktober wird es daher mindestens dauern, bis die Platzverteilung endgültig geregelt ist.“                 aus: Der Standard vom 30.September 08

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