Bauhaus

I bought this house two decades ago. It was precisely what I had been looking for: a modernist house, comfortable and safe, in an interesting spot with a privileged view of the city. The project was designed by Vilanova Artigas in 1942, when he was just 27 years old and “flirted” with the concepts of Bauhaus: integrated spaces, transparency, pilotis. When I bought the house it had already been reformed several times. My goal was to adapt it to contemporary needs, such as creating a master bedroom with a bathroom and private closets, air conditioning, heating for the pool, thermo-acoustic frames, renovating the kitchen and bathrooms… I even transformed a former coat room into a powder room. I intended to reestablish the original facad... More

Thinking outside of the box: Experimental structure »Open Source: Cardboard« in Weimar, Germany Corrugated honey panels form the basis of this pavilion. It was designed by the students from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism and Civil Engineering and was implemented by the chair of Design and Structural Systems. Anyone interested may visit the structure on the south campus of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. »Open Source Cardboard« is the first permanent structure created from corrugated cardboard. The capabilities of this sustainable material will be examined with the help of this 3 x 5 meter long, experimental structure. »This lightweight cardboard construction serves as a subject for our research. Through long-term observations,... More

When in 1919 Walter Gropius became director of the newly formed Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar – a merger of an arts and crafts school and a school of art – he couldn‘t have known that only six years later he would have to move it to Dessau to escape increasing pressure from local craft-workshops that perceived the new school as a threat to its industrial design interests; the city of Weimar, famous in the late 18th and early 19th century for its intellectual and cultural life, had lost the avant-garde institution to an industrial town. In Dessau, the school found a new home in the iconic modernistic building designed by Gropius himself, established a Department of Architecture in 1927 and became acclaimed for its functionalist approach to arch... More

The Casa-Atelier is the result of aconversion of a small attic which, in 1960, was a drying room on the top floor of the highest building in the heart of Città-Giardino. It had a terrace that led to a small toilet. Then, in 1990,the terraced was transformed bythe addition of a conservatory, a room with glass walls that housed a kitchen. The architects, who now live in the house, then proceeded to revolutionize the 29 sq. m of the attic and the 19 sq. m outdoors. The idea was: it doesn’t matter how many square metresyou have but the perception you have of them. First, they expanded the usable space with the construction of three functional areas in wood: two partition wall in the front room, one at 900 and another along the parapet of the... More

If design and art makes part of your life, this is the place to be in Tuscany! An industrial hangar build amid the Tuscan countryside, views on the medieval ruins of montelifré and 2 km away from the small town of montisi: that’s what it was. But the hangar became more since his building in the late sixties: from a fabric of clay pigeons it was converted in a body shop for cars, but no business was succesfull…so in 1999, the abandoned structure was bought by the Austrian sculpture Reinhold Traxl, and that’s where the art-hangar’s real story begins… Reinhold fell in love with the hangar for it’s simple cement construction with almost perfect proportions, neutral and functional, where the surrounding landscape flows into the interior and... More

The Barcelona Pavilion, designed by Mies van der Rohe and one of his best-known works, was the Pavilion that Germany was presented at the international exhibition held in Barcelona the year 1929 and represented the presentation to the world of the modern architectural movement. It was designed to host the official reception presided over by King Alfonso XIII along with the German authorities. Originally called German Pavilion, later renamed Barcelona Pavilion, was the card of presentation of Germany after World War II, emulating the progress within the modern culture of a nation that still had its roots in classic story. Its elegant design combined with rich natural materials served Mies as a bridge towards his professional future within... More

More than a school, Bauhaus was a network. A network of people and ideas through which modern architecture and design was disseminated across the world. The impact of the Bauhaus can still be strongly felt in cities far apart as Tel Aviv and Buenos Aries. In line with the Bauhaus principle that called for unification and integration (of industry and design) we propose a project that integrates building, city, infrastructure and landscape. Rather than designing a free standing ‘building in the park’ we propose a network of spaces: open, semi closed and closed that engage city, museum and park through a series of passages, courtyards and gardens. Unified by a continuous roof structure intersecting arcades criss cross the park to cre... More

The urban space experiments of the Aarhus Festival often take their point of departure in local issues – with the aim of examining and testing temporary solutions that might, in the longer turn become permanent solutions to the benefit of the city. One of the focus points of the 2014 Aarhus Festival was the square in front of the main train station. The aim was to test some of the solutions that are devised in the local traffic plan 2020 to see what effect some of the farther reaching solutions might have. One of the pivotal points of the traffic plan is to limit the flow of car traffic in the southern part of downtown Aarhus. This was achieved during the festival by blocking the station square from through traffic. Schonherr’s idea wit... More