Architektur Works

The Seven Beehives

The seven building are designed to reflect the 7 heavens, earth and seas, colours, prophets, conditions and situations of the heart and the 7 seven voyages of Sinbad the Sailor from the Oriental tale from the Arabian Nights. The seven beehives are for social gathering, togetherness and speaking. The cultural Centre is becoming like in the old times the place of sharing stories of travellers who are traveling on one of the most important trade routes.

Viewed through the lens the reflections of the seven beehives are showing symbolic the opposite niches of the Buddha statues. From all areas of the cultural centre a clear view of the statues is given, which is also supported by the walkway on the roof.

This independent research was concerned with the development of Fairfax Harbour and its correlation to greater Port Moresby.

With the analysis along the topographical situation and using SWOT-tool, it was possible to retrieve key findings, which are able to answered most of the accruing main problems, e.g. social problems, population growth, sustainability in general, infrastructure, energy and water / waste solutions, cultural and heritage, industry growth, transportation and tourism.

The growth is taken as CHANCE to CHANGE for a sustainable future for the upcoming generations of PNG.

A sustainable, C02 neutral research with hotel/congress, service and residential quarter is to be created on the site of the decommissioned Cardinal brewery in the immediate vicinity of the railway station.

Sustainability is not only seen as a calculable, measurable factor. More important for the longevity of the neighbourhood is the acceptance by the residents and users, i.e. that a vital place is created that attracts people and they enjoy visiting, occupying and staying there.

Life in modern container spaces with the classical elements of earth, water, fire, and air, is coming along with the upthrust of gravity.

„ … to a fish, a bird, and a terrestrial creature it turns it into architecture on land, above water, and up in the air“ describes Adolf M. Vogt Le Corbusier’s work. This architectural building is accelerating fast, turning in upthrust, hovering across the waves before disappearing into the sky.

Context
The “Songwol-.-dong” district in particular the available/existing property is characterized by its high topography compared to the future dense residential tower environment. The expressive building of the Embassy is developing and literally twisting from the surface and forming a huge sculpture in its urban environment. Through their intrasigent, varied, homogeneous spatial structure and surface appearance, the sculpture enriches its environment and its functions as a park.

Architectural expression is an element of connection to contemporary urban architecture in Seoul. In the direct environment, the architecture is in dialogue with the topography and contrasts with the architecture of residential buildings by its stacked shape and vegetative cover.

come with me, i’m a troll
come with me, i’m a cloud

Clouds are named among the most dreamlike of ‘poetic things’. Clouds are well known for life bringing adventures and clearing new skies. Clouds are fancy for a daytime dreamlike experience. They call forth easy, ephemeral reveries; and in the next moment we are ‘in the clouds’, ….. and slowly we dip back down to earth, gently teased by positivists. No dreamer, no troll can think about a better attribute for clouds than the solemn significance of other sky ‘signs’. The dreamer always has a cloud to transform. The clouds help us to dream of transformation, innovations and stories. In short, the reverie of clouds has a particular psychological characteristic; it is a reverie without responsibility.