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| Kastner & Öhler NEU | Universalmuseum Joanneum Roof, ground, wall: three urban statements |
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PPAG architects HEIN-TROY Architekten Geiswinkler & Geiswinkler Atelier 5 Silvia Boday Köb&Pollak Architektur fasch&fuchs. Paul Katzberger Hubmann • Vass Dietmar Feichtinger SPAN & Zeytinoglu gaupenraub +/- lichtblau.wagner Tuscher Weiskopf "Turn On Partner" |
The projects of Kastner & Öhler, Universalmuseum Joanneum, and as a further international example, San Telmo Museum, represent three different ways of approaching complex urban interventions in historical contexts, metaphorically addressing the concepts of roof, ground, and wall.
Kastner & Öhler The extension of the Kastner & Öhler department store deals with the expressive roofs of Graz, an elevated artificial landscape perceived from the Schlossberg, that states the role that a roof can play in the integration of space, light and structure, thus recovering a path that modern architecture had denied during decades. The project draws a geometric profile that blends with the skyline of the city, and seems to express with pride – to paraphrase the famous modern aphorism – that the roof is the generator.
Universalmuseum Joanneum If the center of Graz is known and protected by Unesco for its awesome roofscape, the Joanneumsviertel extension is hidden, on the contrary, under the ground level. The proposal arose from the intention of acting within the strict confines of the horizontal plane, offering a new plaza perforated by conical intersections that define a public space conceived as an artistic installation in the city. The project connects three historical buildings of different times and uses through a concept that aims to be paradoxically simple in its depth and complex in its surface. San Telmo Museum The San Telmo Museum extension in San Sebastián (Spain) focuses on the conflict between the urban structures of the historical center and the powerful topography of Monte Urgull. Conceived as an inhabited wall which is also a public art intervention, it reflects the limit between a natural and an artificial landscape. At times fading and blending in with the hill’s vegetation, at other times evoking the image of a large and apparently unfinished wall, the building becomes an unexpected metaphor of the difficult relationship that all architecture establishes with the landscape and the memory. F.N. | E.S. Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano are graduated Architects at the ETSAM, Madrid (Spain) and the GSAP, Columbia University, New York (USA). They are respectively Professors at the School of Architecture of UEM, Madrid (Spain) and the Universität der Künste, Berlin (Germany) as well as founding partners of Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, with offices in Madrid and Berlin. Both have been visiting critics and lecturers at various international universities and institutions. From 1986 to 1991 they were directors of the architectural journal ARQUITECTURA edited by Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid. Their work has been widely published in international magazines and books and has been exhibited at the Biennale di Venezia (2000, 2002, 2006) an at the MoMA, New York, (2006). Realized projects (selection): Nieto Sobejano’s work has been especially focused on cultural programs of museums and auditorium/congress halls such as the Moritzburg Museum in Halle/Saale (Germany) and the Congress Center in Zaragoza (Spain) for Expo 2008. Current projects (selection): The Barceló Market, library and sports-hall in the centre of Madrid, the Centre for Contemporary Creation of Córdoba (Spain), the Joanneum Museum extension in Graz (Austria), the reconversion of the old Madrid’s Tobacco factory – a historical building from the 18th century – into the new National Centre for the Visual Arts. Awards (selection): Competition Museum of History of Lugo, Spain, 1st prize (2007), Competition Commercial and Sport Center Barceló, Madrid, 1st prize (2007), Spanish National Prize for Restauration (2008), Competition Urban development, Offices and Hotel Building, Munich, 1st prize (2009), Competition National Center for the Visual Arts, Madrid (2009), Nike Prize of BDA, Germany (2010), Aga Khan Award for the Museum in Madinat al Zahra in Córdoba, Spain (2010). Weiterführende Links: www.nietosobejano.com Projektliste in der nextroom architektur datenbank |
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