| Josef Wiedemann, Bayerische Landesbausparkasse, Munich, 1956
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Thought out of step
Experimental stair form finding
Su. 23. - Fr. 28.10.2016 | max. 14 Participants | Cost range A (ca. CHF 250) |
Poster
Stairs play a central role in the history of the building industry. Stairs not only connect floors and rooms, but occupy and shape them at
the same time. Since their basic structure is derived from human movements, they are determined by empirical construction rules from the
inside; from the outside, however, they appear free, which led to very different forms and typologies depending on the period and cultural
area. In everyday planning, the unavoidable "natural" structure leads to numerous geometric norms. The great freedom in the play of forms of
the "spatial bridges" allows a specific contribution to be made from the structural grammar. Between the regularity of the step and the
creative expression, numerous themes of architectural design accumulate on the staircase.
Our seminar week, which we are conducting in cooperation with Raplab, begins with a two-day trip (Munich, Regensburg and Basel), during
which the topic of the staircase is illuminated and discussed from various architectural perspectives. In addition to an insight into the
life′s work of Friedrich Mielke, the world′s first stair researcher, the programme includes a visit to the collection of stair designs at
Herzog de Meuron in Basel. After his return, the focus of the workshop will be on the design of stairs as spatial figures beyond
standardized typologies. The method of experimental form finding will serve as a generative medium to playfully produce unconventional
solutions with the help of structural models. The prototypes developed in the workshop will serve as a design basis for a new staircase
construction that the professorship intends to realize for the new HIB building. It is therefore possible to further develop the design
within the framework of an elective thesis (“Wahlfacharbeit”).
Contributors
Prof. Dr. Wienbreyer, Sophie Schlosser (Institute for Scalalogie, Regensburg)
Aurelien Caetano (Herzog & de Meuron, Basel)
Andreas Keil (Schlaich Bergermann Partner, Stuttgart)
Alessandro Tellini (raplab, ETH Zürich)
Highlights
Bayerische Landesbausparkasse, Wiedemann, Munich, 1955
Allianz headquarters,Wiedemann, Munich, 1952
Alte Pinakothek, Döllgast, Munich, 1957
Pinakothek der Moderne, Braunfels, Munich, 2002
Umschreibung (staircase sculpture), Eliasson, Munich, 2004
div. staircases in Regensburg
Visit to:
Insitute for Scalalogie, Regensburg
Herzog & de Meuron, Basel
Chair of Structural Design
Ole Ohlbrock (ohlbrock@arch.ethz.ch)
Prof. Dr. Joseph Schwartz
Format
Transportation, accommodation, visits, daily sketch workshop and reader included.
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