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SUMMARY:An interdisciplinary colloquium / EAST lab - ARCHIZOOM
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Florencia Collo (Atmos lab)\, Christina Köchling (Bauhaus-Uni
 versität Weimar)\, Marco Merz and Christian Kahl (Clauss Kahl Merz Atel
 ier für Architektur)\, Penny Sparke (Kingston University)\, Tiago Borges
  (EAST lab)\nGREENHOUSE STUDIES \nLectures by Florencia Collo (Atmos lab
 )\, Christina Köchling (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)\, Marco Merz and Chr
 istian Kahl (Clauss Kahl Merz Atelier für Architektur)\, Penny Sparke (
 Kingston University)\n\nOrganised by Tiago Borges\, with the design studio
  Greenhouse Studies\, EAST lab\n\nWhat is a greenhouse without greenery? O
 r a winter garden without winter? Greenhouses have long served a fundament
 al purpose: to create a controlled climate for plant life. From their orig
 ins as functional structures\, greenhouses have evolved into different typ
 es of spaces\, serving new purposes and opening up new possibilities in ar
 chitecture. The late 20th century saw a resurgence in greenhouse innovatio
 n\, influencing bioclimatic architecture\, passive energy solutions and\, 
 more recently\, as multi-purpose spaces.\n\nThis colloquium brings togethe
 r voices from botany\, history\, architecture and engineering to explore a
  variety of themes related to this architectural milieu. The colloquium r
 econsiders greenhouses as responsive\, inhabitable environments and seeks 
 to rethink greenhouses as a dynamic interface between the natural and buil
 t environment. In the background\, thirty-four case studies of greenhouses
  and wintergardens from the last century illustrate one of architecture’
 s most fascinating artefacts.\n\nColloquium happening in the exhibition S
 un Shines on Architecture at ARCHIZOOM in the context of the Solar Bienna
 le\n\n\n \n\n\n———\n\nPENNY SPARKE\nPlant-filled winter gardens in 
 nineteenth-century British curative spaces\n\nThis lecture will examine th
 e ways in which plant-filled winter gardens were integrated into a range o
 f nineteenth-century British curative spaces - those of hydropathic hotels
 \, convalescent homes and\, what were then called\, lunatic asylums\, in p
 articular. They functioned as important aspects of a therapeutic regime wh
 ich involved bringing together the comforting role of domesticity with the
  calming effect of nature\, both of which the designers of those spaces\, 
 together with their medical collaborators\, believed to have strong curati
 ve qualities. Situated to benefit from what were believed to be the healin
 g effects of light and inspiring views of the natural world\, they also pr
 otected guests/patients from adverse weather conditions. The gardens acte
 d as intermediate spaces\, bringing the inside out and the outside in\, an
 d\, along with open verandas\, terraces and balconies\, were thought to pl
 ay a key environmental role in the physical and mental recovery of the inh
 abitants of the buildings in question.  \n\nCHRISTINA KÖCHLING\nAestheti
 cs of technology\n\nClimate change and rising construction costs have reig
 nited interest in low-tech approaches to architecture. Architects today ar
 e increasingly looking for simple\, efficient solutions that can be realis
 ed in harmony with local conditions. The book “Ästhetik der Technik” 
 (Aesthetics of technology) uses three experimental houses from the 1970-90
 s to show how building technology can be understood as an integral part of
  the design and the architectural concept. The ‘Tree House’ by Ot Hoff
 mann in Darmstadt\, the ‘Solar House’ by Rolf Schoch in Zollikofen and
  the ‘Air House’\, the International Meeting Centre for Science\, IBZ\
 , by Otto Steidle in Berlin\, all focus on the potential of nature and use
  low-tech ideas such as water storage and reuse\, passive cooling and the 
 use of solar energy.\n\nMARCO MERZ & CHRISTIAN KAHL\nLyse-Lotte\, a house
  a city\n\nThe Lyse-Lotte project emerged from a cooperation model in whic
 h three different interest groups\, two existing cooperatives\, as well as
  a group of befriended families\, joined forces to develop and realize a c
 ollective and unconventional housing project on a building lease plot owne
 d by the Habitat Foundation. In addition to the overarching sustainability
  goals of the Habitat Foundation (affordable rents\, density of use\, ener
 gy-efficient\, ecological and healthy construction)\, a collage-like archi
 tecture was created\, the stacking of three different residential typologi
 es\, whose primary basic structure considers the different needs for spati
 al program\, community\, participation and changeability. The result is a 
 house for about 40 residents in three individual communities with two-stor
 ey residential studios\, family flats with a shared entrance area\, small 
 flats and a cluster flat with a large balcony as well as communal rooms\, 
 joker rooms\, a guest room\, a guest flat and a greenhouse on the roof. Th
 e collage-like result shows the utilization typologies and becomes a symbo
 l of participatory architecture.\n\nFLORENCIA COLLO\nIt’s nice today. On
  the climate\, comfort\, and pleasure of the winter gardens\n\nThe lecture
  will develop on the research project carried out with Lacaton & Vassal ab
 out the performance of their winter gardens\, which is published on the bo
 ok "It´s Nice Today". It will cover the methodology\, four case studies a
 nd key findings.\n\n———\n\nMore details on the program to come
LOCATION:Archizoom https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SG%201212
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