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Introduction

The City of Maribor and the 100YC [100 Year City] project is

representing Slovenia at the biggest architectural event in the world.100YC has engaged over 1000 people (students, studio leaders,

architects, advisors, mentors, key stakeholders) have engaged with

the 100YC project. This has produced an incredible engagement,

scalability and collaboration resulting in an astronomical

2.5Million hits , over 2.1Million file exchanges and over 60% userengagement per day between all participants. All were envisaging

their vision of a city of future, which will be as their ideas of Maribor

in 100 years , shown at this year’s Venice Biennale and also

presented and discussed about on numerous lectures, meetings,

panels, symposiums and conferences.

The 100YC project has produced over 100 projects by 23

participating institutions with 37 studio leaders and 400 students from 11 participating countries:

Alessio Erioli – Bologna University ; Matias del Campo and Sandra

Manninger, Liss C. Werner – Dessau Institute of Architecture ;

Veronika Valk – Estonian Academy of Arts ; Marisol Vidal – Graz

University of Technology ; Ulrika Karlsson – KTH Royal Instituteof Technology ; Peter Gabrijelcic – Faculty of Architecture at

the University of Ljubljana ; Julia Koerner – Lund University ,

Nigel Bertram, Tim Schork – Monash University; Karl Chu – Pratt

Institute; Wendy Fok – Princeton University ; Jose Alfano, TomKovac, Karl Fender Charles Anderson, Jane Burry, Paul Minifie, Leon

van Scahik, Vivian Mitsogianni, Francois Roche, Roland Snooks,

Aleksandar Subic, Nicholas Williams – RMIT University ; Hernan

Diaz Alonso, Elena Manferdini, Florencia Pita, Marcelo Spina, Tom

Wiscombe, Peter Zellner – SCI Arc ; Martine De Maesneer – SintLucas ; CJ Lim – The Bartlett School of Architecture ; Hadrian

Predock – UCLA ; Marjan Colletti, Bart Lootsma, Patrik Schumacher,

Peter Trummer – University of Innsbruck ; Rene Van Meeuwen

– University of Western Australia ; Chris Bosse, Dale Jones

Evans – University Technology Sydney ; Reiner Zettl – IoA Die Angewandte.

UvodLetos se prvikrat na tej največji arhitekturni prireditvi nasvetu predstavlja mesto Maribor, in to s projektom 100YC,h kateremu se je priključilo več 1000 ljudi, študentov, vodijstudijev, arhitektov, svetovalcev, mentorjev in ključnihdeležnikov. Vsi so snovali vizije mesta prihodnosti, ki jih bodokot svoje zamisli Maribora čez 100 let prikazali na letošnjem

beneškem bienalu ter jih tudi predstavljali in o njih razpravljalina številnih predavanjih, srečanjih, okroglih mizah, simpozijihin konferencah. Njihovo sodelovanje botruje neverjetnemuuspehu, ki dosega astronomskih 2.5 milijona zadetkov, večkot 2.1 milijona podatkovnih izmenjav dnevno in 60 odstotnoaktivno sodelovanje med vsemi udeleženci. Pri projektu sodeluje23 institucij iz 11 držav, ki so izdelale več kot 100 projektov.

Poleg 400 študentov se je projektu 100YC pridružilo tudi 37

vrhunskih strokovnjakov z vsega sveta:Alessio Erioli – Univerza Bologna, Matias del Campo in SandraManninger, Liss C. Werner – Inštitut za arhitekturo Dessau,Veronika Valk – Akademija za umetnost Estonije, Marisol Vidal– Univerza za tehnologijo Gradec, Ulrika Karlsson – Kraljeviinštitut za tehnologijo KTH, Peter Gabrijelčič – Fakultetaza arhiteturo Univerze v Ljubljani, Julia Koerner – UniverzaLund, Nigel Bertram, Tim Schork – Univerza Monash, Karl Chu– Inštitut Pratt, Wendy Fok – Univerza Princeton, Jose Alfano,

Tom Kovac, Karl Fender, Charles Anderson, Jane Burry, PaulMinifie, Leon van Schaik, Vivian Mitsogianni, Francois Roche,Roland Snooks, Aleksandar Subic, Nicholas Williams – UniverzaRMIT, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Elena Manferdini, Florencia Pita,Marcelo Spina, Tom Wiscombe, Peter Zellner – SCI Arc, MartineDe Maesneer – Sint Lucas, CJ Lim – Šola za arhitecturoBartlett, Hadrian Predock – UCLA, Marjan Colletti , Bart Lootsma,Patrik Schumacher, Peter Trummer – Univerza v Innsbrucku,Rene Van Meeuwen – Univerza Zahodne Avstralije, Chris Bosse,Dale Jones Evans – Univerza za tehnologijo Sydney, ReinerZettl – IoA Die Angewandte – Inštitut za arhitekturo Visokešole za uporabno umetnost, Dunaj.


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What is our vision of cities one hundred years from now? Is it

possible for us to speculate about the functions, requirementsand operations of cities a century in advance - the 100YC project

- and design future matching urban infrastructures? Architecture

has served as a viable trajectory for the needs and complex socialbehaviour of citizens in the past. While architecture may also

be a tracking device for urban development in 100 years’ time,urbanism can be seen as an ongoing attempt to rationalise over

such developments, to inject direction, order, logic and judgement

into structures that have emerged, and to provide a rationale, an

understanding and an evaluation of their historical dynamics.

The rationalisation process through the urbanism lens which allcities undergo has been hitherto dominated by discussions of

external influences – including historic factors, wartime occupationand destruction scenarios, changes of governance and cultural

rulings, etc. – and internal systemic implementations, includingtechnological developments in transport, energy and water

supply, communication facilities, etc. What has been neglected

when looking through the conventional urbanism lens is a closer

consideration of the very living conditions in the city. But because

the actual ‘living’ in the city has stood in the shadow of the orthodoxtopics of city planners, cities find themselves on the verge of collapse

– almost suffocated and in agony under the burden of their ownvery architecture and buried under layers of urbanism theory and

built ideology. 2007 marked a turning point in human history when

the number of people living in cities (3.3 billion) overtook that of

people not living in city compounds (3.2 billion). While the early

20th century had already witnessed visionary utopias and dystopias

of future cities such as Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, it encounteredonly much later the introduction of terms such as megapolis for

actual mega-cities as new world centers. Within a few decades, theexplosion of the urban form of life has forced itself on the agenda

of ‘city’ stakeholders who tended to underestimate or neglect the

developments and symptoms of urban dis-functionality and the

1OOYCKakšna je naša vizija mest čez sto let? Ali je mogoče predvidevatio funkcijah, zahtevah in ukrepih mest stoletje vnaprej inoblikovati prihodnost z ujemanjem urbane infrastrukture?Arhitektura je podprla uspešno pot za potrebe in zapleteno

socialno obnašanje državljanov v preteklosti. Medtem ko je lahkoarhitektura tudi sledilna naprava za urbani razvoj v 100 letih,lahko urbanizem obravnavamo kot poskus teka za racionalizacijodejanskega razvoja. Urbanizem daje smer, pravila, logiko insodbo v strukture, ki so se pojavile, in zagotovi racionalnost,razumevanje ter vrednotenje njihove zgodovinske dinamike.Proces racionalizacije skozi objektiv urbanizma, ki ga doživijovsa mesta, je bil doslej prevladujoč z razpravami o zunanjihvplivih – vključno z zgodovinskimi dejavniki, vojno okupacijo in

scenariji uničevanja, s spremembami o upravljanju in kulturnihodločbah, itd – in internih sistemskih izvedb, ki vključujejotehnološki razvoj v prometu, zaloge energije in oskrbo zvodo, komunikacijsko infrastrukturo, itd. Kaj smo zanemarili,ko gledamo skozi konvencionalen objektiv urbanizma, kipredstavlja podroben premislek o samih življenjskih razmerah vmestu. A ravno zato, ker dejansko bivanje v mestu pomeni živetiv senci ortodoksnih mestnih načrtovalcev, so se mesta znašla narobu propada – skoraj so se zadušila v agoniji pod bremenom

lastne arhitekture in se znašla pod plastmi teorij urbanizma invgrajene ideologije. Leto 2007 predstavlja prelomnico v človeški zgodovini,ko se je število mestnih ljudi, (3,3 milijarde) povzpelo nad tiste, kine živijo v mestnih spojinah (3,2 milijarde). Medtem ko je začetek20. stoletja že bil priča vizionarskim utopijam in distopijamo mestih prihodnosti, kot je delo Metropolis Fritza Langa, sešele kasneje pojavi pojem megapolis za dejanska velemesta,nove svetovne centre. V nekaj desetletjih je eksplozija mestne

oblike življenja prisilila “mesta” interesnih skupin, ki včasihrade podcenjujejo ali zanemarjajo razvoj in simptome urbanedisfunkcionalnosti ter upadanje kakovosti urbanega življenjaokoli sebe.


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Razvoj na področju informacijskih in komunikacijskihtehnologij zagotavlja prve oprijemljive dokaze in kazalnikemožnih prihodnosti 100YC v tem zelo dinamičnem sektorju,vendar z obstoječim transportnim sistemom ni tako. Medtem

ko so se naše zamisli glede prihodnjih oblik prevoza znašle vspektakularnih vizualizacijah Langovega Metropolisa, na primerIztrebljevalec Ridleya Scotta, Peti element Luca Bressona inBrazil Terrya Gilliama, so takšne lastnosti prometa v popolnemnasprotju z dejanskimi zgodovinskimi vzorci, ki še vednoobstajajo v naših mestih in so skoraj nespremenjeni od rimskihčasov. Slovenija zagotavlja širšo platformo projektu 100YCz neverjetnimi možnostmi in posebnimi izzivi: od približno

dveh milijonov prebivalcev jih več kot 50% živi v manjšihdružbenih okoljih mest in vaseh z manj kot 5000 ljudmi. Izmed11 slovenskih mest sta le dve, Maribor, Evropska prestolnicakulture 2012, in Ljubljana, glavno mesto Slovenije, ki štejetaveč kot 100.000 prebivalcev. Ti vidiki, skupaj z dejstvom, da večkot polovico Slovenije še vedno pokriva gozd z zelo plodnimozadjem, omogoča projektu 100YC nove, sodobne načine zaopredelitev kakovosti življenja in zahteva nujno spravo med“mestom” in “naravo”.

Svetovni okvir za takšne ugotovitve in programizaznamujejo nenadzorovano širjenje nekaterih mest inpropad drugih, skupaj z eksponentnim povečanjem spektrain zahtevnostjo njihovih težav. Kitajska naj bi imela svoj prvimegapolis s 450 milijoni prebivalcev, kar je trenutna populacijacelotne EU, na območju ob reki Yang-Tse, v velikosti Nemčije,s trenutno 80 milijoni prebivalcev. Obenem se država sooča zdoslej novimi težavami, z umiranjem mest. Velika mesta z več kot100 milijoni prebivalcev nastajajo tudi v Indiji, ta rast, ne samo na

račun manjših mest, temveč tudi zato, ker za dobrobit vsakegaposameznika v središču širitve in pobegu podobno, predstavljaveliko nevarnost za življenjsko pomembne vire. Zaradi razpadainfrastrukture v manjših mestih, se bo Mexico City, najbrž že leta

erosion of quality of urban life around them.

Developments in information and communications technologies

do provide the first tangible evidence and indicators of possible

100YC futures in this very dynamic sector – but not so our transport

systems. While our ideas regarding future forms of transportationfind spectacular visualisations from Lang’s early Metropolis to e.g.

Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, Luc Bresson’s Fifth Element, and Terry

Gilliam’s Brazil, such futures in transportation seem in stark contrast

to the actual historic patterns still in place in our cities, almost

unchanged from Roman times. Slovenia provides the wider platform for the 100YC

project – with striking possibilities and specific challenges: Of a

population of approximately two million, more than 50% live in

smaller scale social environments of towns and villages with lessthan 5000 people, and of Slovenia’s 11 cities, only two - Maribor,

European Capital of Culture 2012, and Ljubljana, Slovenia’s capital

- have populations greater than 100,000 inhabitants. These aspects

together with the fact that more than half of Slovenia is still forested

provide extremely fertile background for the 100YC project, callingforth new contemporary ways to define quality of living and seek

vital reconciliation agendas of ‘city’ and ‘nature’.

The global context for such considerations and agendas is

marked by uncontrolled expansion of some cities and yet collapseof others, accompanied by an exponential increase of the spectrum

and complexity of their problems. China is expected to have its

first megapolis of 450 million people (the population of the entire

current EU) in an area around the Yang-Tse river the size of Germany

(with currently 80 million inhabitants). At the same time the countryfaces unprecedented new problems with dying cities. While huge

cities with more than 100 million inhabitants are emerging also in

India, such growth is occurring not only at the expense of smaller

urban areas, but also at that of almost every individual citizens’wellbeing in the centres of expansion and desertion alike, posingenormous risks to their vital resources: While infrastructures decay

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2016, znašel brez vodnih zalog.Čeprav v manjšem obsegu, velja Maribor za paradigmo

težav te vrste. Prebivalci mesta iščejo večjo kakovost življenja,ki jo lahko ponudita primestno in podeželsko okolje. S seboj

vzamejo duh svojega mesta in urbano obliko življenja, kiposledično povzroči urbanizacijo podeželja. Mesta se ob temkrčijo, ne le v naši domišljiji in poetično, kot v Nevidnih mestihItala Calvina (La citta invisibile), temveč dejansko, fizično. Globokobčutek disfunkcionalnosti se v naših mestih tako širi, čepravso večplastne funkcije mesta pomembne za našo identiteto inse oblikujejo v odnosu do naših vrednot. In ko priznavamo, dalahko imajo mesta temeljno in konstitutivno vlogo v odnosudo družbene strukture sodobnih družb, kar je lahko ključnega

pomena za prihodnost kulture kapitala, se zdi, da je mesto,paradoksalno, v nevarnosti. Združeni narodi napovedujejo, da sebo rast svetovne populacije nadaljevala vse do 9 milijard do leta2070, kar je približno na pol poti do horizonta projekta 100YC. Bo21. stoletje priča pojavu gigapolisa, ko se mestno prebivalstvorazširi v milijarde, ali se bo na določeni stopnji zgodila novadiverzifikacija in atomizacija z novimi četrtmi, regijami, občinami,subkulturami in urbanimi plemeni? Časi za začetek projekta 100YC so težki časi sprememb,

motenj, napetosti in paradoksa, napolnjeni z možnostmi inpriložnostmi za prestrukturiranje, ponovno opredelitev inponovno odkrivanje prihodnosti mesta. So pa sočasno najboljplodna podlaga za vizionarske arhitekte in urbaniste, daprenovijo perspektive, obnovijo ploščadi in ponovno opredelijopojme življenja v mestih ter da tvegajo nove oblike življenja vekstremni urbani in trans-urbani prihodnosti. 100YC se postavljav samo središče tega področja odkrivanja, predvidevanja inraziskav, ki jih izvajajo posamezniki z občutkom odgovornosti, z

občutljivostjo do skupnega in jasnim razumevanjem tega, kar sepostavlja na kocko. Globalno usmerjen 100YC bo tako vključeval 100vizionarjev vštevši napredne mednarodne arhitekturne šole

as early as 2016.

Although at a smaller scale, Maribor is a paradigm case

for problems of this kind: Its people seek the higher quality of living

that suburban and rural environments seem to offer. They take with

them their city-spirit and urban form of life, which results in theurbanization of rural areas. Cities themselves are at the same time

shrinking, not in our imagination and poetically as in Italo Calvino’s

Invisible Cities (La citta invisibile), but as a matter of fact, physically.

A profound sense of dis-functionality of our cities is thus spreading,

although the multi-layered functions of a city are central to ouridentities and formative in relation to our value systems. While we

acknowledge that cities may play a fundamental and constitutive

role in relation to the social fabric of modern societies and may be of

vital importance to future societies’ cultural capital, the city seemsto be – paradoxically – under threat. The United Nations predict that

the global population growth will continue, to peak at 9 billion by

the year 2070 – roughly half-way towards the 100YC horizon. Will

the 21st Century witness the emergence of the Gigapolis, as city

populations expand into the billions, or will at some stage a newdiversification and atomisation occur, with new quarters, regions,

municipalities, subcultures and urban tribes?

The times to launch the 100YC project are challenging

times of change, disruption, tension and paradox - filled with possibilities and chances for re-structuring, re-defining, re-inventing

the city of the future. They are the most fertile ground for visionary

individual architects and urbanists to renew perspectives, rebuild

platforms and redefine notions of living in cities and to venture

into new forms of life in extreme urban and trans-urban futures.100YC places itself at the very centre of this field of discovery,

speculation and research, to be conducted by individuals with a

sense of responsibility, a sensitivity towards the common, and clear

understanding of what is at stake. Globally focused, 100YC will thus bring together 100visionaries including progressive international architecture schools

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pod vodstvom mnogih najbolj inovativnih svetovnih arhitektov.Vsak naj bi predlagal svojo vizijo načrta za mesto Maribor koteksperimentalnega prostora in delal z transdisciplinarno ekipo,ki lahko vključuje arhitekte, inženirje, znanstvenike, podjetnike,

ekonomiste, umetnike, futuriste, filozofe in urbaniste. V projektu100YC bodo nato predstavljene vse vizije prihodnosti z željo,odpreti nove možnosti za predstavitve in razprave o globalnemodzivu ustvarjalne kulture in tehnologije do splošnih izzivov, skaterimi se sooča tudi Maribor. Cilj 100YC izpostavlja vzorce globalnih sprememb inprepoznavanje motečih mehanizmov ter njihov vpliv na življenjev ekstremni prihodnosti. Njegova podpisna metodologija temeljina praksi raziskav - raziskav skozi oblikovanje. Posebni projekti

predstavljajo tudi laboratorije za raziskovanje in predstavitevinovativnih pristopov ter ustreznih modelov oblikovanja dobreprakse. Meddisciplinarno mišljenje in preoblikovanje sodelovalneprakse, kot ključne kompetence, je najpomembnejše zanadaljevanje dela do prihodnje inovacije, ki temelji na razvojuznanosti materialov, človeško-računalniških vmesnikov, izkušenjoblikovanja in inženirskih sistemov, kot pristopov, izhajajočih iznove dinamike kognitivnega in tehnološkega področja.100YC torej poudarja naravo zunanjih pritiskov na področje

arhitekture in nastajajoče ter očitne kompleksnosti in paradokse,ki urejajo mesta. Namen projekta je, da se ustanovi stalnaraziskava laboratorijske destinacije za prihodnje razpravein razvoj arhitekturne inteligence. Ta se bo zavzemala zasposobnost pogleda v prihodnost, za raziskovanje predvidenihsprememb in spodbujanje k izjemnemu optimizmu kot enemutemeljnih pogojev za preoblikovanje mesta in transformacijooblikovanja globalne ekonomije v 21. stoletju.

Peter Tomaž Dobrila & Tom Kovac

architects. Each is invited to propose a vision or master plan for

the City of Maribor as an experimental space and work within

trans-disciplinary teams that may include architects, engineers,

scientists, entrepreneurs, economists, artists, futurists, philosophers

and urbanists. 100YC will then showcase these future visions withthe ambition to open up new avenues of presenting and debating

a global response of creative culture and technology to the generic

challenges also facing Maribor.

100YC aims at exposing patterns of global change and

identifying disruptive mechanisms and their impact on life in theextreme future. Its signature methodology consists in practice

based research – research through design. The specific projects

also represent laboratories to explore and showcase innovative

approaches and appropriate models of design practice research.This form of investigation understands trans-disciplinary thinking

and transformational collaborative practice as core competencies,

quintessential to the capacity to condition future innovation. It

recognizes the evolution in material science, human-computer

interfaces, experience design and engineered systems asapproaches that emerge from new dynamics across cognitive and

technological domains.

100YC thus highlights the nature of external pressures

on architecture and the emerging and evident complexities and paradoxes governing cities. An intended outcome is to establish

itself as a permanent research lab destination for future discourse

and the evolution of architectural intelligence. It will promote a long

view capability to explore such speculative futures and to foster

extreme optimism as core conditions in order to reshape the cityand transform design and the global economies of the 21st century.

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Professor Leon van Schaik

Maribor 2012 EuropeanCapital of CultureGallery DESSA in Ljubljana

Leon van Schaik (AO, LFAIA,RIBA, PhD) studied at theArchitectural Association (AA)in London and is Professorof Architecture at the RoyalMelbourne Institute of

Technology (RMIT) where heholds an Innovation Chairin practice based researchin design. From his base inMelbourne, he has promotedlocal and internationalarchitectural culture throughdesign practice-basedresearch. Amongst a longlist of seminal publications,Professor van Schaik is

the author of MasteringArchitecture: Becoming aCreative Innovator in Practice(Wiley-Academy, 2005),Design City Melbourne (Wiley-Academy, 2006), SpatialIntelligence (Wiley 2008). Arecent publication is ProcuringInnovative Architectureco-authored with GeoffreyLondon and Beth George

(Routledge 2010).The Procuring InnovativeArchitecture exhibition hasbeen commissioned as partof the Maribor EuropeanCity of Culture ArchitectureProgram to demonstratehow the pursuit of innovativearchitecture by cities aroundthe world has played a pivotal

role in the capturing of thelocal culture of those cities.The exhibition proposition isthat when the architecture

procured by a city region

is creatively engaged infurthering the desires of thatcity’s citizens, those citizensexperience the well beingthat comes from participatingin formulating what the citymeans for its inhabitants.Forward-looking architecturedoesn’t merely form anunconscious carapace of ourcivic culture; it helps us to

determine new futures for ourselves. This is so much betterthan experiencing change asa victim!

The city regions featuredare (in Europe) Slovenia andStyria, The Ticino, Flanders,Barcelona and London; (inAsia) Melbourne, Perth andKumamoto, Japan; and (in

the USA) Los Angeles – withreference to East Coast andMid West exemplars.

The exhibition comparescurrent innovation withrecently captured innovativearchitecture in each ofthe above city states. Thebook Procuring InnovativeArchitecture provides the

base for the exhibition, anddistinguished architects ineach city region provide theirviews on current innovationin the work of their region in asymposium.

The exhibition exists in twoforms: as a virtual model ofthis exhibition at the 13thVenice Architecture Biennale

and as a real time exhibitionin the DESSA Gallery inLjubljana. Both are designedaround the DESSA Gallery.

Invited exhibition by

Tom Kovac, Curator 13thVenice Architecture BiennaleSlovenian Pavilion, Directorof Architecture 2112Ai[Architectural intelligence],Maribor 2012 EuropeanCapital of Culture.Auspiced by the Director ofDESSA, Andrej Hrausky.

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D-RES 2

Uvod / Introduction 4

100YC 6Peter Tomaž Dobrila, Tom Kovac

Procuring Innovative Architecture 10Leon van Schaik

Bologna University

A3 14Alessio Erioli

Dessau Institute of ArchitectureMaribor 2112 Ai 16Matias del Campo, Sandra Manninger

PARA-rchitecture Contingency Studio 18

Codes in the Clouds IIILiss C. Werner

Die AngewandteAlessi Mutants 20Tom Kovac, Reiner Zettl

Graz University of Technology

Specific | Unspecific 22Roger Riewe, Marisol Vidal,Ferdinand Oswald, Alexandra Stingl

KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyProductive Surfaces 24Ulrika Karlsson, Jonah Fritzell,Daniel Norell, Einar Rodhe

University of LjubljanaSouth Infrastructural Zipper 26Peter Gabrijelčič

Lund UniversityArchitectural Mutations: Cipher Systems 28Tina-Henriette Kristiansen, Julia Koerner,Adam Vukmanov

Monash UniversityMemory + Migration, 30Cyclic Cities, Urban Dialects Nigel Bertram, Tim Schork

Pratt Institute

Maribor Manifold 32Karl Chu

Princeton UniversityVisionary Ecologies – 34Urban-Stratification Wendy Fok

RMIT University Transfomer 36

Karl Fender, Jose Alfano, Tom Kovac

Nano Transit City 38Tom Kovac

Maribor 2112 40

Charles AndersonHigh Rise OF Maribor Tower 42Jane Burry

Around The Bend 44Paul Minifie

FORMFIELD4: 46The Speculative Campus ProjectVivian Mitsogianni

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N’Certainties 48François Roche

Volatile Tectonics 50Roland Snooks

RMIT Hydrogen Fuel Cell Truck 52(H-Truck )Aleksandar Subic

Hexactinellus Euplectellidae 54

Nicholas Williams

Pragmatic Utopia 56Gretchen Wilkins

SCI ArcMaribor Mutations 58Hernan Diaz Alonso

Treads of Maribor: 60A New Bridge for Drava RiverElena Manferdini

Maribor’s Land of Gables 62Florencia Pita, Jackiline Hah Bloom

K/LOUD 64Marcelo Spina

Figures In A Sack 66Tom Wiscombe

Five Principles for A Differential Urbanism 68Peter Zellner, David Bergman

Sint LucasFalse Start. What Matters? 70Martine De Maeseneer, Gideon Boie

University of Innsbruck Bio(tro)nic Gardens 72Marjan Colletti, Georg Grasser,Daniel Luckeneder, Aleksandrina Rizova

From Maribor, to Moneyborn 74Bart Lootsma, Peter Trummer, Martin Mutschlechner

City Of Knowledge 76Patrik Schumacher

The City As An Aggregated Object 78Peter Trummer

Studio 8 ArchitectsThe Hunting Exchange of Maribor 80CJ Lim

UCLA

Faces Of Maribor 82Hadrian Predock

University of Western AustraliaSpace Train Station, A New Layer of City 84Rene Van Meeuwen

University of Technology Sydney

Urban Seeds 86Chris Bosse

Free Trade Zones 88Dale Jones Evans

Zizi YoyoMariBIOr 90Veronika Valk, Toomas Tammis


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Studio Leaders:Alessio Erioli

School or Institution:Bologna University

Country:Italy

Website:http://www.unibo.it/docenti/alessio.erioli

1. Studio Leader BiographyAlessio Erioli is an Engineerand Senior Researcher at theUniversit. di Bologna wherehe also teaches ArchitecturalDesign. He holds a MArch inBiodigital Architecture, PhDin Architectural Engineering,co-founder and coder at Co-

de-iT (www.co-de-it.com). Hehas been an advisor for manyMaster Thesis’ in Engineeringand Architecture; and haslectured for (amongst others)IaaC (Barcelona), AA Visitingschool in Paris, TU Innsbruck,Universidad Iberoamericana(Mexico). His interestsgravitate to the orbital thatinterweaves teaching &

design ecologies in Biodigitalarchitecture. His recentinterests engage with Agent-Based modeling simulationof Complex Adaptive Systemsin architecture coupled withform-finding strategies.

2. SchoolEstablished in 1088, the

University of Bologna iscredited as the oldest of thewestern world. Its history isintertwined with the ones

of great people operatingin the fields of science andhumanities, making it anunmissable reference point inEuropean culture, maintainingits central position until theperiod between the worldwars, when other countriescame to the forefront inteaching and research.Bologna has thus forgedrelationships with institutionsin the most advancedcountries to modernise andexpand its activity, committingitself to the Europeandimension which has now ledto the new university system.

3. Studio descriptionThe studio will investigate theimplications of intelligence

as embodied and embeddedinto the architectural systemitself as distributed processesof structured informationexchange and its inextricableenvironmental interrelations.Intelligence tendency is tobe ubiquitous and embodiedinto organisms and theirenvironments alike; in suchcondition ecology expresses

itself in its very core definitionof abundance and distributionof resources throughinformation exchanges at allpossible scales of complexity.

Such embodiment andembeddedness will beinvestigated exploitingswarm intelligence (throughthe propagation of agent-

based systems) coupled withmulti-scale form-findingprocesses as a mean to unleashopen-ended creativity and

a potential range of affects.Such agent-based systems willco-operate (collaborating orcompeting) within intensiveenvironmental force-fieldsand proactively engage thebody-mind-environmentrelations, from the logics ofmaterial organization to thereverberations at severalsystem scales.

Team Members 01:Andrea BarbieriFilippo ContiGiulia MariottiBeatrice Scardovi

FIND&MERGE

Find(&)Merge is a project thatstarts with a research of a coherentstrategy that can be implementedregardless of changing conditions.Exploiting emergent behaviour of

systems we obtain a model thatfits and simultaneously change theconfiguration of the area in which thesystem acts.

Projected Start: 2102Projected End: 2112Category: Knowledge

Team Members 02:Giulia BotturaIlaria Fiorini

Pier Luigi ForteLorenzo Natali

R+D REACTION & DIFFUSION

User’s connection is even more globaland, thanks to artificial intelligence,technology and organism will be nolonger different. Expressing connectionthrough the interaction of Fitzhugh-Nagumo model (which also acts asreaction-diffusion system for patternformation) with environmental force

fields, we obtained spatial organizationsfor a possible future in the centre ofMaribor in 2112.

Projected Start: 2112Projected End: 2162

Category: Technology

Team Members 03:Chiara ColliSalvatore MarinoUberto Pignatti MoranoGiovanna Roncuzzi

STIGMERGIC FLOWS

New ways of exchanging informationgives the opportunity to connect

people no matter the distance, so theneed of adaptive buildings becomesstronger. Therefore this architecture iscapable of hosting different functionsand the process that generates it canproduce new shapes to adapt to futureneeds.


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Studio Leaders:Matias del Campo, SandraManninger

School or Institution:D/A - Dessau Institute ofArchitectureAnhalt University of AppliedSciences

Country:Germany

Website:www.dia-architecture.de

1. Studio Leader BiographyMatias del Campo and SandraManninger´s focal point isin the implementation ofadvanced, computationaldesign techniques & theapplication of computercontrolled fabricationmethods.

The practice has wonnumerous competitions andhonours such as the Price forExperimental Tendencies inArchitecture. Among theirbest known designs is theAustrian Pavilion for theShanghai Expo 2010.

Matias del Campo and SandraManninger additionally focuson teaching architecturedesign in such schoolsas the Dessau Instituteof Architecture, and theUniversity of Applied Arts inVienna.

2. SchoolThe Dessau Institute ofArchitecture is a graduateunit within the Faculty ofArchitecture and BuildingEngineering in AnhaltUniversity of AppliedSciences in Dessau, Germany.The institute runs a foursemester Masters Program inarchitecture, which is taughtin English. The institute islocated partly within thehistoric Bauhaus buildingdesigned by Walter Gropius.As a School of Architecture,DIA took part in the 2006,2008 and 2010 BeijingArchitecture Biennale. Theschool offers a multitude ofacademic options, and putsstrong emphasis in teachingboth theory in balance withcomputational media andtheir intelligent architectonicand technological handling.

3. Studio description

“Cities, like dreams, are madeof desires and fears, even ifthe thread of their discourse issecret, their rules are absurd,their perspectives deceitful, andeverything conceals somethingelse.” (Italo Calvino)

Unpossessed places, which arebased on human contact withthe complex inhuman urbanstructure. The complexity ofform is defined by visual andgeometrical characteristic ofboth interconnected paths

and fibrous energy collectors.This is provided by puttingtogether components ofvarious heights, which

connect and interact in aparticular ways to create acoherent whole.

An emergent phenomenonarises from having a rangeof alternative choices ofcomponents of various typesand sizes, creating bothdiversity in connectivity andlevels among components.This selection dependson both urban geometryand urban flexibility, withsystem evolution generatingconnections that cross bothmodular boundaries anddistinct scales, to connect onesmall component with a muchlarger structure.

Whilst the lower modularparts of the componentsdefine various connectedspaces across different levelsthe upper fibrous sectionsharvest both energy andnatural resources throughdeformation to environmentalpressures.

Team 01Abdulmalik Saeed

Anahit HayrapetyanTuan Anh PhamLila Panahi KazemiJoanna Dominiak Matthew GaydonSidi ChenZhenhua Xu

PERPLEX APEX

Perplex Apex occupies Maribor byredefining current field conditions, todeploy new urban densities, in plan

and section, based on potential massand void, skyline through variouslevels and scales of interconnectedcomponents. This new fibrous skylineharnesses the local environmentalpressure and resources to sustain thecities life.

Projected Start: 2022Projected End: 2112Category: Technology

Team 02Ana StefanovicAndrew MogylnyiClaudia StoicaMahmoud El HakimSebastian BiałkowskiXintian Li

CONVOLUTED CORROSION

The Convoluted Corrosion project isthe future city concept for Maribor,Slovenia. The main idea of the project

is to simulate the characteristics ofmetabolism to continuously subdividethe city into variations of aggregatedconditions. These fields are generatedwith specific urban qualities that canallow and act as an interactive fabric,which is adaptable to change, andexpansion.


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Team 03Xian Gong

Selma KoudsiYasser MehannaAndreea NicaAndrea RossiKoichi SugawaraMatteo TaramelliTanya Zabavska

TYCHONIAN SEHNSUCHT

Divinior et excellentior sitTriangulorum sphæricorum cognitio,quam fas sit eius mysteria omnibus

propalare.(Tycho Brahe)

A recursive spinning organism,continuously weaving fibers in aredundant labyrinth of claustrophobicabysses, that bonds back humans andarchitecture in a sensual relationship ofmutual yearning.



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Studio Leader:Liss C. Werner

School or Institution:D/A - Dessau Institute ofArchitectureAnhalt University of AppliedSciences

Country:Germany

Website:www.dia-architecture.dewww.studio-codesintheclouds.comwww.tactile-architecture.com

1. Studio Leader BiographyLiss C. Werner is a Berlin basedarchitect, trained at RMITand the Bartlett. She holds ateaching and research post forComputational Architectureand Cybernetics at D/A and isguest professor at CarnegieMellon University, PA. Since2002 Liss C. Werner has beeninvited to teach, crit, andlecture at various universitiesin the UK, Germany, Austriaand Ukraine. As architecturalresearcher she is currentlywriting her Phd thesis onArchitecture + Cybernetics,curated / contributed toseveral conferences andpublications (Digital Week– D/A, Design ModellingSymposium – UDK Berlin,Scripting the Future - Tongji).As project architect sheworked on private residentialand urban projects in theUK, Germany and Russia. Lisswas awarded the DeVereUrban Design Prize andPeter-Fuld Scholarship, is

a member of the BartlettSociety, AHRA (ArchitecturalHumanities ResearchAssociation), American Societyof Cybernetics and GeorgeN. Pauly Fellow. Currentlya publication on the workproduced in her studio ‘Codesin the Clouds’ at D/A is inpreparation.

2. SchoolD/A, located at the famousGropius Bauhaus location,conducts an internationalMaster Course in Architecturerun by Prof. Alfred Jacoby. Theschool has expanded from 10students in 1999 to now 170from over 40 countries withinternational teaching staffand has a large number ofexchange partner universitiesaround the globe.D/A took part in various BeijingArchitecture Biennales, andprojects have been publishedwidely. As laboratory ofresearch D/A has establisheda promising culture of urban,theoretical and computationalarchitecture of scripting,coding and genealogicaltaxonomy to arrive at solutionsfor European and globalchallenges that support theevolution of architecture asa dynamic system informedby generating new strategies.A strong teaching cultureencourages students toexplore advanced technologyand digital fabrication.Systematic design methodspaired with computationalthinking adopt design toolsthat arrive at unforeseenarchitectural proposals.

3. Studio Description‘Codes in the Clouds’is a research by designstudio concerned with theexploration of computationto provoke an architecturalvocabulary that allows thearchitecture of the near futureto depart from the 19thcentury understanding ofpredetermined form towardsan architecture of code, self-organisation and agent-basedformations.

‘PAR.A-rchitecture 2.0Contingency’ suggestsa systemic, evolutionaryrather than formal approachtowards developingspace and function, andconsiders Maribor’s cultural,topographical, economicaland tactile development asbase for its work. The studio islooking at growth of sublimearchitecture and the idea ofarchitecture as hierarchical ornon-hierarchical, emergentorganism. The overridingcybernetic approachrequires the studio to worksystematically and systemicat the same time. We stronglyengage with behavioural andadjunct geometrical principlesof natural and syntheticmaterial to establish strategiesfor architecture of repair andmutation. The architecturefound in the studio isarchitecture of iterations, of apara-architectural quality, inanalysis, process and outcome.The project investigates intothe difference of culturaland biological evolutionprocesses as PAR.A-rchitecture,as mutation and emergent

systems with neurobiologicalconstraints at the sametime. We look to developinterdisciplinary contemporarycode-based vision for Maribor2112. Basis for our work is thehistorical, economical anddemographic developmentof codes in the city of Mariboron a global and local levelpaired with computationaltools of advanced architecturaldesign. Arriving at progressivearchitecture that on onehand reflects history andon the other hand suggeststhe future of Maribor, is themake-up of “PAR.A-rchitectureContingency 2.0”.

Team 01Ali FarhanSTIGMERGIC SCAPE

StigMergic Scape suggests a futureconception of space as difference-reality, where the boundary of virtualand physical blends. It describes anargument to construct and rethinkarchitectural spatial logic. Futureresidential and economic concerns arefocused on to define the city scape asgeneric growth pattern. Activities areanalysed within the existing industrialareas and reformulated as connectingnetwork of nodes, eventually turning

into a series of fluid potential-spaces.

Projected Start: 2042Projected End: 2112Category: Commerce

Team 02: Arieo ThanicoSuen Siu Kiu, PaulineOCCUPANY FLOW

Occupancy Flow, features a production

system for bio-technologically combinedmaterial to re-pair and re-flesh buildingsin repair and abandoned spaces. Code isbased on a sound analysis of the existingpattern of decay in the city.

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The architecture of ‘Occupancy Flow’encourages the idea of a positive para-

site and describes a strategy that can beapplied locally and globally.


Team 03:Bin ZhangFei TengYouzhi WangVEDO\\VINO

+Vedo\\Vino merges the green areasof Maribor. Based on a demographicanalysis over the last decades the projectchallenges the issue of an aging city, andat the same time the transformationof an urban network into a scriptedgreenscape.

Human behaviour interacts withmaterial behaviour to arrive at a setof computationally generated spaces,pathways and transportation systems.

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Studio Leaders:Reiner Zettl, Tom Kovac

School or Institution:Die Angewandte (Uni. ofApplied Arts Vienna)Urban Strategies

Country:Austria

Website:www. urbanstrategies.at/

1. Studio Leader BiographyReiner Zettl, is a Professorand Art Historian at theArchitecture Institute at theUniversity of Applied ArtsVienna and the Academy ofFine Art Vienna. Zettl is alsoAcademic Director of theUrban Strategies PostgraduateProgram at the University ofApplied Arts Vienna. Zettlwas co-Curator of DesignNow: Austria, Curator ofRock over Barock. 7+2 youngand beautiful (KunsthausMürzzuschlag). In 2006 Zettlwas Curator of Stadt = FormRaum Netz 10th VeniceArchitecture Biennale, AustrianPavilion. Recently Zettl alsotook part at the 12th VeniceArchitecture Biennale ‘AustriaUnder Construction’ AustrianPavilion exhibition.

Tom Kovac, is a Professor ofArchitecture at RMIT University,Visiting Professor at IoA DieAngewandte, Vienna and SciArc, Los Angeles. In 2012 Kovacis the Director of Architecture,2112Ai Maribor 2012 EuropeanCapital of Culture and Curatorof the 13th Venice Architecture

Biennale Slovenian Pavilion. In2012 he is also taking part inArs Electronica Festival ‘The BigPicture’’ and Protoecologics.Kovac’s work is in thecollections of the FRAC CentreOrleans, The American Libraryof Congress Washington, TheAlessi Museum Italy and TheCentre Pompidou Paris.

2. SchoolThe University of AppliedArts Vienna is home tomore than 2,000 students,many of whom come fromother countries, both withinEurope and abroad. Thebroad spectrum of artisticdisciplines, complemented bya large number of scientificsubjects, certainly enrichesthe special atmosphere thatprevails at the »Angewandte«.The Angewandte sees itselfas a place for free artistic andacademic expression, as aforum for open debate, and asa laboratory for artistic visions,which unfold their potentialsin the society of the future.Our goal to remain one of thebest art schools in the worldis inextricably linked to theconsistent effort invested intocontinually increasing ourquality standards, the ongoingrenewal of creative potential,and our uncompromisingadvocacy of artistic andacademic freedom.

3. Studio descriptionThe four-week intensivestudio reinvents the futurerelationship betweenarchitecture and industrial

object, and explores inemergent digital directions

within objects andarchitectural design. Thestudio aims at investigatingand exploring the systems,processes, technology, digitalfabrication techniques in thecontext of research, culture,practice, and on form itself. Thepurpose is to develop series ofsmall-scale objects scaleablegeometries that will assist inthe development of objects offuture and architectural forms.

Each piece aims at exploringa new environment using aformal language of fluiditythat seamlessly transformobject and architecture into acomprehensive environment.The pieces aim to provide abasis for research into patternsand forms in ways previouslydeemed impossible, with thedesigns demonstrating thepotential to transform fromsingle object into a seriesof interconnected elementsand pavilion form, extendingAlessi’s 20-year parallelexplorations in Tea & Coffeeprojects into new design andmicro architecture.

The studio offers architectsand designers a place toput forward experimentalmethods, forms and stylesamidst the technologicalrevolution that is reshapingcontemporary designand architecture. It is ahybrid, quoting design andarchitecture as a scale-lessfield of operation and spatialproduction.

Though some objects areimbued with functionality and

ergonomic considerations,it is about manipulatingspace and formal integration.The designed environmentdescribes movement in a staticmaterial using state-of-the-art methods of design andfabrication. The Alessi Mutantsproject presents a far-reachingopportunity in developingknowledge and the myriadof architectural processes ofAlessi project design. Its aimis to transform our vision ofthe future with new spatialconcepts and bold, visionaryforms.

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Team 01Selene Wong

SPOOON

The Spooon, is parametric in itsarrangement with differentiatedmodules that are able to form a seriesof nested sculpture, which create newtypologies for the otherwise genericutilitarian table landscape. The designdemonstrates potential to transformfrom single object into a series ofinterconnected elements and iterativeforms, extending Alessi’s 20 year parallelexplorations in Tea & Coffee projects,

into new design and micro architecture.


Team 02Bradley David MartinRENEWAL

All processes leave their mark, allprocesses change; all industries must

renew to survive. Renewal representsthe beginning of a radical change inthe production of goods that allowsless material to be combined to formsuperior compounds that are far morefit for utilitarian purpose. than h ave everbeen achieved before.


Team 03Giana Aleah ZukafliUNO

Uno, forms from a single celltransforming and generating into avariation of typologies. This behaviouralpattern and system adopts thecomparative biological evolutionof molecular forms. This transitionalphenomena creates a series of dynamicforms based on the conditions of theenvironment.



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Studio Leaders:Roger Riewe, Marisol Vidal,

Ferdinand Oswald, AlexandraStingl

School or Institution:Institute of ArchitectureTechnologyTUGraz

Country:Austria

Website:www.iat.at

1. Studio Leader BiographyRoger Riewe studiedArchitecture at the RWTHAachen, Germany. In 1987he founded the architecturalpractice Riegler Riewe in Graz,Austria together with FlorianRiegler. Their works havereceived numerous awardsand have been internationallypublished and presented.Since 2001 Roger Riewe hasbeen professor and head ofthe Institute for ArchitectureTechnology at Graz Universityof Technology, Austria.

Marisol Vidal studiedArchitecture at the ETSAV(Escuela Técnica Superiorde Arquitectura) in Valencia,Spain. After graduating shemoved to Graz, where sheworked in several officesand as freelance. Since 2003she has been teaching andresearching at the Instituteof Architecture Technologywith her main focus onthe interrelation betweenconstruction and design.

Ferdinand Oswald workedas carpenter in Heidelberg

and studied architecture atETSAG in Granada, Spain,at the Agency of UrbanPlanning in Bern, Switzerland,and graduated at TechnicalUniversity Dresden, Germany.He has been working at theInstitute of ArchitectureTechnology since 2008,intensifying the topic ofstructure & façade technology

in teaching and research.

Alexandra Stingl studiedArchitecture at Graz Universityof Technology and Ecoled´Architecture Paris – Belleville.In 2000 she founded thearchitectural practice Stingl-Enge Architects togetherwith Winfried Enge. She hasbeen teaching since 2003 atthe Institute of ArchitectureTechnology.

2. SchoolGraz University of Technologypursues top teaching andresearch in the fields of theengineering sciences and thetechnical-natural sciences.An integral part of puttingtogether excellent educationand training programs isknowing about the needs ofsociety and the economy.

3. Studio DescriptionThere is currently a high officevacancy rate in Europe andthe trend is increasing. Tearingdown and replacing an intactbuilding which might wellbe good for another 50 yearsof service simply because

it doesn’t fit in with today’smarket demands is a far

remove from sustainable. Withthis situation in mind newbuildings need to be plannedso that they can easily andefficiently be transformed fromresidential to office uses andvice versa, thus stretching theiruseful operational life. Thisprocess of transformation willonly be possible and/or cost-effective if the conditions of

the new building are suitable.But what are these conditions?

This task was posed to agroup of 3rd year students ofArchitecture at the TechnicalUniversity Graz by their tutorsat the Institute for ArchitectureTechnology. The void atMlinska Ulica offered theperfect site for the experiment:within walking distance fromthe city centre and both thetrain- and bus station andconnecting the old-city withareas of future developmenton both banks of the river.

The students were calledon to design one or morebuildings for this site, whichcould be used for eitherresidential or office purposes.Each unit was requiredto be readily convertiblefrom office to apartmentuse and vice versa. A plotratio ≥2,000 and an openspace provision ≥ 50% werespecified. In order to stimulateexperimental approachesno height limitation was set.The result would be a kindof blank, a base line cateringequally for the highly specificrequirements of residential

units and those of officesand providing a location that

is, at least to some extent,thoroughly neutral in termsof use.

Students were called to designa kind of blank for the MlinskaUlica, a base line cateringequally for the highly specificrequirements of residentialunits and those of offices

and providing a location thatis, at least to some extent,thoroughly neutral in termsof use.

SPECIFIC | UNSPECIFIC

Team 01Stefan PrattesTutor: Marisol VIDALSTEFAN PRATTES

Team 02Cornelia SteinerTutor: Ferdinand OswaldCORNELIA STEINER

Team 03Kathrin StottnerTutor: Alesandra StinglKATHRIN STOTTNER

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Studio Leaders:Ulrika Karlsson, Jonah Fritzell,

Daniel Norell, Einar Rodhe

School or Institution:KTH School of ArchitecturePerformative Design Studio

Country:Sweden

Website:www.arch.kth.se

1. Studio Leader BiographyUlrika Karlsson is a VisitingProfessor in Architectureand the Head of Program atKTH School of Architecture.Karlsson is also principal ofservo stockholm.

Jonah Fritzell is a Lecturerin Architecture at the KTHSchool of Architecture andfounding partner of StudioAah Architecture & Design.

Daniel Norell is a Lecturerin Architecture at the KTHSchool of Architecture,principal of his own practicein Stockholm and a SeniorLecturer at ChalmersUniversity in Gothenburg.

Einar Rodhe is a Lecturerin Architecture at the KTHSchool of Architecture andprincipal of his own practicein Stockholm.

2. SchoolKTH School of Architecturewas founded in 1877 andhas its current location in

Stockholm since 1970. TheSchool of Architecture is one

of seven departments withinthe School of Architecture andthe Built Environment anddivides into four operativeand executive divisions:Bachelor, Masters, Researchand PhD Level, Outreachand Electives. KTH School ofArchitecture focuses in thefields of Basic and AdvancedDesign, Sustainable Design,

Performative Design, DesignProcesses, Urban Design,Architecture Technology,Critical Studies and Historyand Theory of Architecture.The school has a well-equipped workshop, anadvanced digital fabricationlab and an architecture librarywith a large collection ofbooks and journals. In total

there are around 600 studentsin the professional programs.

3. Studio DescriptionThe studio investigatesarchitecture when informedby biotic material andprocesses related to farmingin the urban context ofMaribor. If surfaces aredefined as boundaries, thestudio investigates when thesurface gets lax, punctuatedor the encapsulation erodes;the surface dissolves intoa fuzzy mélange of solidand liquid matter, gaseouselements and space. Aproductive surface is morethan a surface’ boundaries ofmatter, it has by-products –emissive in the sense that itproduces architectural affect,energy, biotic and abiotic

matter, conditioned by itscontext.

The elusive relationshipbetween the computationalcontrol of surface geometryin architecture, to producemass and void, architecturalinteriorities, volumes,apertures and structure,and the surface’s materialcapacity, as a differentiallypermeable thickness, that

engages with the surroundingatmosphere - moisture levels,substrates, dirt and vegetalmatter - involves a shiftfrom the precisely figuredtoward a more entropic state,occasionally obliteratingthe discrete identities of itsarchitecture.

We have recently seen an

increased interest in foodproduction and urbanagriculture, but little hashighlighted the implicationsfor the shape and thestructure of urban form. Thisstudio seeks to investigateurban agriculture as diversecompounds of nestedvolumes, mass and void,where a multiplicity of scalesand spatial aggregates,allows for a manifold of social,architectural, biotic andabiotic qualities.

Team 01Olga Krukovskaya

Teodor ÅströmTHE URBAN RAVINE

The most dominant features in theproject are water, vegetation andlandscape. All of these features areused to create a strong dreamyambiance in the project, negotiatingbetween the two opposite notions ofthe constructed urban landscape andthe untouched nature.

Projected Start: 2062

Projected End: 2112Category: Commerce

Team 02Cecilia Lundbäck Veronica SkeppeSelma Udriot JohanssonPRODUCTIVE LEAK

Productive Leak is a speculativeproposal on how to integrate farmingin an urban context in Maribor,

Slovenia. It proposes a delta-like citydistrict, in which the architectureis driven by its experiential andperformative qualities in dealing withcollection, retention and distributionof water, on all its scales.


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Ayda Ece AğaoğluCesilia SilvastiGROW AND GLOW: THE INTENSIVESURFACE

Grow and Glow: The Intensive Surfaceis an urban agriculture proposal,spanning over 90,000 sqm, locatedin the future city of Maribor, Sloveniaaiming to investigate and speculateon the interplay of biotic and abioticprogram and material at an urban scaleas well a detailed building scale.


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Studio Leader:Peter Gabrijelčič

Studio Assistant:Mojca Gregorski

School or Institution:University of Ljubljana, Facultyof Architecture

Country:Slovenia

Website:www.fa.uni-lj.si

1. Studio Leader BiographyProf. M.Sc. Peter Gabrijelčič,UL, Dean of the Faculty ofArchitecture, MA in Landscapeand Urban Planning (UL,Faculty of Architecture,University of Ljubljana, Faculty

of Architecture, Construction,and Geodesy, Department ofConstruction, InterdisciplinaryPostgraduate Stndies, 1985).

Research experience:landscape and urbanplanning, urban regeneration,models for revitalisationof degraded urban areas,analysis of trends of spatial

development, ruralism andrural architecture, bridgeconstruction.

2. SchoolThe Faculty of Architecturein Ljubljana is generallyconsidered one of thechallenging Central Europeanschools of architecture.Confirmation of its qualitycomes from numeroussuccessful students and

graduates, often achievingenviable results domestically

and abroad, as well as itshigh quality teaching staffeffectively covering mostcontemporary issues ofarchitectural creativity. Thereare almost 700 studentsenrolled in the graduatecourse while the teaching andassociate staff includes some65 employees. Enrolment inthe Faculty entails an entrance

exam. Each year 120 regularand 45 part-time students areaccepted. In the year 2000 the3000th student graduatedfrom the Faculty. Ourgraduates are known for theirgeneral and professionallyprofiled knowledge andsystematic project approachenabling successfulemployment in various fields

of artistic and architecturalendeavours – from graphicdesign, scenography, interiordesign, architectural andurban design to physicalplanning. FA is a member ofEAAE (European Associationfor Architectural Education).

3. Studio Description

Project presents visionsof urban developmentwhich is determined bynew southern ring road ofMaribor city. In the futuredevelopment, road shouldbecome the infrastructuralzipper that opens numerousopportunities of spatialdevelopment. Road is anew form of public spacewhere we are confrontedwith international flow.Road is endless continuous

flow of people, economy,development and

opportunities.

It is already decided thatnew southern ring road ofMaribor will be positionedon the point where thePohorje massive connects tothe bay of lowland Ptuj field.The space simultaneouslypresents the edge of thetown Maribor and touches

the Pohorje massive. This isone of the UNIQUE locationsin the Maribor city where citymeets nature. Despite the factthat new road should divideor even cut this two entities,we plan future developmentwith a road as a zipper thatconnects city and nature.Road becomes a generator ofdevelopment, international

axis of economical flow. Itis in the area of the city andat the same time in the areaof the Europe, filled in withinternational users. This isa point where city Mariborconnects to the Europe.

Road is crossing fieldsand interacting with golfcourses and Betnava castle,

continuing as dug-in tunnelinto Pohorje massive withsequences of viewpoints.Further it is moving on closerto the city, where it attractsurban development markedby skyscrapers. They arenew city markers, nodesmarking town streets andrhythm of the driver. Thereare numerous crossings over,above and parallel to theflow that establishes endlessconnections between left and

right side of the location. Atthe same time, the ring road

joins Pohorje sport centre andskiing resort into one uniqueentity.

Team MembersMiha BratinaBlaž ŠalamunŠpela Glavač

SOUTHINFRASTRUCTURAL ZIPPER

This project presents a vision for futureurban development determined bythe new southern ring road for the cityof Maribor city. The road should act asan infrastructural zipper by openingnumerous opportunities for spatialdevelopment and provide a new formof public space. The road is envisagedas a portal for an international flow ofpeople, economy and developmentopportunities.

Currently the plan is for the newsouthern ring road of Maribor to bepositioned on the point where thePohorje massive connects to thebay of lowland Ptuj field. The areasimultaneously connects the edgeof Maribor with the Pohorje massiveand is one of the unique locations inMaribor where the city meets nature.The current plan proposes that thenew road divides or even cuts theseentities in two, however, we envisagethat the future development as azipper that connects the city andnature. As a result, the road becomesa generator for development and aninternational axis of economical flow.It is in the area of the city and, at thesame time, it is the a point where thecity of Maribor connects to Europe.

The road crosses fields and interactswith golf courses and Betnava castle,continuing as a digged-in tunnel intothe Pohorje massive with sequencesof viewpoints. As it moves closer tothe city, it attracts urban developmentmarked by skyscrapers. They are newcity markers, nodes marking townstreets and the rhythm of the driver.There are numerous crossings over,

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above and parallel to the flow thatestablishes an endless connection

between the left and right side of thelocation. At the same time, the ringroad joins the Pohorje sport centre andskiing resort into one unique entity.

Projected Start: 2010Projected End: 2030Category: Transportation

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Studio Leader:

Tina-Henriette Kristiansen

Additional Instructors

Julia Koerner, Adam

Vukmanov

Guest professors:

Sir Peter Cook, Erick Carcamo,

John Ross and Thomas

Chevalier

School or Institution:Lund University

Department of Architecture,

Department of Theoretical

and Applied Aesthetics,

Architectural Mutations S.A.T.

Space and Technology

Country:

Sweden

Website:

www.arch.lth.se

www.architecturalmutations.

blogspot.se

1. Studio Leader Biography

Tina-Henriette Kristiansen is

a Danish architect and leader

of 3 design units at LundsUniversity. She received her

master degree from AARCH,

Aarhus, Denmark in 1998. Her

Ph.D. studies and research

areas are on Augmented

Reality and Extreme

Environments and she has

on several occasions been a

visiting researcher and guest

professor at NASA JohnsonSpace Center, USA and many

international schools among

Sasakawa International

Center for Space Architecture,

Houston University, ETH

Zurich, KISD Cologne,Architectural Association

London, ESA European Space

Agency, Rice University,

Royal Academy of fine arts,

Copenhagen.

Julia Koerner is an Austrian

architect, based in London.

She has received her master

degree in architecture withdistinction in Greg Lynn’s

studio at the University of

Applied Arts Vienna, 2009.

Since 2007 she has been

working for Ross Lovegrove

Studio in London. Julia has

taught at the University of

Applied Arts Vienna, the

Architectural Association

London as well since 2010as guest professor at the



School of Architecture, Lunds

University.

Adam Vukmanov is a London

based architect, researcher

and lecturer. He has received

his master degree inarchitecture with honours

in Greg Lynn’s master class

at University of Applied Arts

Vienna, in June 2009. Until

recently, Adam has been

working as Project Architect

at Acme and before that at

Span-arch in Vienna where he

was involved in construction

and advanced fabricationof Austrian EXPO pavilion in

Shanghai 2010. He has taught

at University of Applied

Arts, Vienna, Architectural

Association’s Visiting School

in Paris and is currently aguest lecturer at the School of

Architecture, Lunds University.

2. School

Lund University has long

and vibrant history covering

almost 350 years of teaching.

It has evolved from just a

few hundred students andprofessors being paid with

meat and grain into its present

form, with around 47.000

students and a position

ranked in the world’s top 100

universities in recent years.

Lund University is the highest

placed comprehensive

university in Scandinavia

(Times Higher Education2011/2012 rankings). The



School of Architecture has

around 600 students is

now attending our 5 year

professional program leading

to a Master in Architecture.

Architectural Mutations by

Tina-Henriette Kristiansen isone of four current Bachelor

programs.

3. Studio Description

CIPHER SISTEMS are coded

and encrypted structures

we see in nature as a

phenomenon of scale. Their

fractal appearance in certainmorphologies, diversifying

in size, is an intriguing

aspect for morphogenetic

design. The reappearing

relationship of macro and

micro patterns found indifferent states of physicality

in a variety of environments, is

leading to an understanding

about emergence and the

connectivity between systems.

Thus, the MUTATING

ARCHITECTURE studio

analyses, evaluates and

decrypts reoccurringnatural patterns and

explores possibilities of their

application on visionary

scenarios in futuristic city

context. We develop and

reproduce 3-Dimensional

systems of selected natural

phenomenons and generate

an iteration of mutations

with both topological andparametric modelling.

Generated systems are applied

in horizontal and vertical

formations in the outcome of

urban matrix and architectural

body to study the variations,

adaptation, connectivities,

scale, repetitions and

densification strategies for

Maribor 2112Ai [Architecturalintelligence] 100YC.

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Team 01

Beatrice Eckord

Lukas Malm

THE WINE WALK

The wine walk emphasizes the history

of Maribor as a city of wine making and

commerce, and brings this spirit into

the future. By connecting existing and

future nodes related to wine a path is

created. This path transforms the cit y,

and makes the production of wine

visible


Projected End: 2112


Team 02

Henrik Malm

SWARM BUILDING LAB

Maribor 2112. A new breed of

structurally intelligent swarm robots

is the latest trend i n building. These

robots collaborate to reinforce

complex sets of building members

at structurally important locations.

Swarm intelligence is also used on a

master plan level and we zoom in on a

development of Maribor University.


Projected End: 2112


Team 03

Hanieh Heidarabadi

Zuha Alasadi

DEUS EX MACHINA

Maribor is a city defined and divided

by its most important natural source,

the river. The project targets the

development of hydropower as

renewable energy since the capacity

for it is great in the country. Our vision

is a river populated by machines

combining architecture and energy

production in one hundred years.


Projected End: 2112


CIRKULATION SIGHTLINES O LD AN DN EW BU IL DI NG S P RO GR AM / A CT IV IT Y

production

tl

restaurant

i

oldbuildings wineshop

ili

DIAG RAMS FO R THE S ITE O F THE WINERY

PR ESEN T AN D F U T UR E N O D ES R EL AT ED T O WI N E C O N N EC T I N G T HE N O D ES G EN ER AT ES APAT T ERN THE WINE PATHADAPTS TO THE HISTORICALCITY.

INTHE PERIPHERICAREAS ITBECOMES THE GRIDTHAT

DICTATES THE TRANSFORMATIONANDDEVELOPMENTOF NEW URBANFABRIC.

BYTRANSFORMING THE PATTERN AWINE PATHIS CREATED

DIAGRAMSFORHOW THEWINEWALK ISDERIVED

CIRKULATION(THE WINE WALK)

WINE FERMENTATION/PRODUCTION

AUTOMATEDROBOTS TAKING CAREOF THE VERTICALWINE YARDS

WINE FERMENTATION

HOTEL

ADMINISTRATION

SHOWROOM

WINE BOTTELING

WINE LABORATORY

GRAPE CRUSHING

SUNPANELS

WINE SHOP

WINE TASTING/RESTAURANT

WINE MUSEUM

AUDITORIUM

PARK AREAWITHGRAPE GROWING

WINE CELLARS FORSTORING ANDAGING WINE

EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC

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Studio Leader:Nigel Bertram, Tim Schork

Contributing staff:Lee-Anne KhorJohn Warwicker (visualcommunication)Gene Bawden (visualcommunication)Professor Callum Morton (fineart)Selby Coxon (industrial design)

School or Institution:Monash UniversityDepartment of ArchitectureFaculty of Art

Country:Australia

Website:www.artdes.monash.edu.au/

architecture/www.mesne.netwww.nmbw.com.au

1. Studio Leader BiographyNigel Bertram is a director ofNMBW Architecture Studioand Practice Professor ofArchitecture at MonashUniversity.

In 2010 Nigel completed hisPhD through architecturalproject at RMIT University,where he taught for 11 yearsand was co-director of theUrban Architecture Laboratoryresearch unit.

Tim Schork is a director ofthe trans-disciplinary design

firm MESNE Design Studio anda lecturer in the Departmentof Architecture at Monash

University. Internationallyrenowned for his design

excellence and explorative,creative and innovativeresearch, his work combinesa sophisticated designphilosophy with advancedtechnology in order to createnovel design solutions thataddress contemporary socialand cultural agendas.

2. SchoolArchitecture at Monashis an innovative programthat engages with practice,industry, and the broadercommunity. It seeks to advancethe contemporary practice ofarchitecture through social andenvironmental sustainability.The program is characterisedby its location with an art and

design faculty that is focusedon architecture as a creativediscipline. Connectionsare established betweenarchitecture, art and design,enabling students to establisha creative network by studyingalongside industrial designers,painters, sculptors, interiorarchitects, glass artists andmore. Architecture at Monash

fosters design as a mode ofthinking, seeing and working.

Team Members Architecture

Ashleigh BriggsLaura CourtneyLiam EastopAlexander John GibsonJesse GouldLinda HuynhBrenna Kinnaird

Johnny LongJohn Low Daniel MckennaDan ParaschivoiuChris Rigney

Deborah Gabriela Schatz SchwartsteinBenjamin TuckerHanah WexlerKirah WhiteShigeru Iijima

Fine Art

Valerie Sparks

Visual Communication

Cassandra Brock Dean GordonLizzie MaeTakiri NiaKelly Tang

Industrial Design

Andrew Van der Merwe

Team 01MEMORY + MIGRATION

This project develops a relationshipbetween memory, migration and time.Without wanting to predict or imposeanything finite onto Maribor, we havedeveloped a project that escapes timethrough nostalgia and memory. Withmigration as our vehicle the projectexplores both grafting the memoryof Maribor from the diaspora backin to Maribor and weaving exoticand unfamiliar culture from foreigncommunities into the traditional andtimeless city.

Projected Start: Early 1900sProjected End: 2112 +Category: Knowledge

Team 02URBAN DIALECTS

Urban Dialects examines how thearchitectural language and urbanidentity of a city is transformed by newcultural and economic exchanges.Proposing a dynamic rental economythat operates at the scale of a room, theproject explores the fine grain dialoguebetween existing and new urbanconditions.

Projected Start: 2012Projected End: 2112 +Category: Commerce

Team 03CYCLIC CITIES

Cyclic Cities responds to shifts inMaribor’s population, activation and useby implementing a dynamic planningsystem that fosters and acceleratescycles of urban growth and decay. Theproject establishes a series of intelligentfeedback loops through a new rentalsystem and a series of urban switchesand capacitors that will enable Mariborto generate, regenerate and react inreal-time to its persistent populationflux.

Projected Start: 2012Projected End: 2112 +Category: Knowledge, Commerce

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Studio Leader:Karl Chu

Studio Assistant:Mojca Gregorski

School or Institution:Pratt Institute School ofArchitecture

Country:United States

Website:www.pratt.eduwww.metaxy.com

1. Studio Leader BiographyKarl Chu, originally fromMyanmar is a professor atthe School of Architecture,Pratt Institute, Brooklyn,NY. Before then, he was

the founding director ofthe Institute for GeneticArchitecture at the GSAPP,Columbia University, NY. Healso taught at SCI Arc, LosAngeles in the nineties wherehe came up with the conceptof genetic architecture. He haslectured extensively and hasparticipated in internationalconferences and exhibitions.

He is developing a newontology of architecturebased on the architecture ofpossible worlds.

2. SchoolPratt Institute is a specializeduniversity with 4500 studentsin undergraduate andgraduate programs in the

fine arts, design, fashion,architecture, and informationand library science. The

School of Architecture’smission is to educate the

future leaders of the design,planning and managementdisciplines in the professionalfields of architecture, urbandesign, city and regionalplanning, construction andfacilities management,environmental managementand historic preservation.This effort builds upon astrong context of professional

education within an art anddesign institute that stressesthe relationship betweenintellectual development andcreative activity

3. Studio descriptionMaribor, in its current form, isin need of spatial interventionthat would re-vitalize its rather

stagnant form. It is dividedby the train tracks that cutthrough east to west in thesouthern part of the city andfrom the northern end of thecity to the southern end inaddition to the highway. Theonly vital area of the city is thecentre of the city. The mainimpetus of the project is to re-configure the overall structure

and organization of the citysuch that it injects vitality andflow into its city-form.

Correspondingly, four areasof the city are targeted: Melje,the old industrial area westof the old city, Studenci,Magdalena, and Tabor on thesouthern side of the river. Theproject for Maribor Manifold

is designed to generateurban form that would allowfor the emergence of a new

kind of spatial dynamics. Thisproposition for a dynamic

interweaving of the city-formhopefully would engenderthe interfusion of the privatesector with the public sector,the commercial with theresidential, software industrywith service industries, etc.In addition, the form of thecity introduces a modernconfiguration of the labyrinth,one that is vital and alive.

The formal organization ofa city implicitly containsconditions of possibilityfor the spatial dynamics offlow and interaction that areresponsible for the behaviourof its inhabitants.

Maribor Manifold is anexpression of the schematic

logic of the city-form derivedfrom the synthesis of twofigures of spatial organization:the labyrinth and thedynamical logic of flow. Theconfiguration space of thecity-form of Maribor Manifoldis designed with the intentionto allow for the multi-layered inter-fusion of bothconvergent and divergent

programs. Devoid of zoningdemarcation, the MariborManifold is the embodimentand expression of the city as acomplex organism.

Team MembersAmir KarimpourMelissa BalcazarKyungJin JunMerritt Vossler

MARIBOR MANIFOLD

Maribor Manifold is an expression ofthe schematic logic of the city-formderived from the synthesis of twofigures of spatial organization: thelabyrinth and the dynamical logicof flow. The configuration space ofthe city-form of Maribor Manifoldis designed with the intention toallow for the multi-layered inter-fusion of both convergent anddivergent programs. Devoid of zoningdemarcation, the Maribor Manifold isthe embodiment and expression of thecity as a complex organism.


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Studio Leader:Wendy W Fok

School or Institution:Princeton University

Country:United States

Website:http://we-designs.org

1. Studio Leader BiographyWendy W Fok , director/founder and team memberof WE-DESIGNS.ORG.Fok has an internationalbackground from Vienna,New York, London, Paris,Tokyo, Beijing, Hong Kong &Canada. Her art installationshave been displayed inHong Kong, Shanghai, New

York, Athens, Venice, Prague,and has worked on severalinternational architecturalprojects, exhibitions, &competitions including the12th La Biennale di Venezia2011, the Shanghai Expo 2010,& Athens Fringe Festival 2009.

2. School

The School of Architectureof Princeton Universitybegan in 1832 on the beliefthat architects should havea well-rounded educationin liberal studies; approachtheir profession primarilyas an art; understand andappreciate the other artsin relation to architecture;and be taught the science

of building construction as apart of their training in designrather than as an end in itself.

The School is committed tothe specificity of architectural

expertise at the same timethat it is open to new formsof practice and collaborationswith allied disciplines. Fromthe beginning, the Schoolof Architecture’s curriculumhas always responded tochanges in the professionand in architecturaleducation, providing studentswith courses that reflect

contemporary and emergingissues in architecture.

3. Project Intention In an era of environmentalextremes and the influxof 70% of the globe’spopulation to the major urbansettlements, the Maribor’s2112 Visionary Ecologies –

Urban-Stratification Masterplan re-examines the City ’scurrent obsolete infrastructureproposing a new interlacedand stratified regenerativesystem creating urbanconditions throughout thecity where clean technologies,interactive architecture, andsustainable commerce canreside.

Urban-Stratification is aconnective tissue reactingas a threshold between anactive transportation hub,Maribor Interactive Centre forthe Arts, and technologicalenergy generator that willprovide a reformative highwayand transportation systemfor Maribor. The project will

introduce over 100 kilometresof additional roadways toserve as a departure point for

this urban intervention as wellas embedded piezoelectric

harvesting membranes. Theembedded membranes willharvest the energy fromvibration, weight, and motion,through several means oftraffic, including but notlimited to trains, vehicles,bicycles and pedestrians;thus, assisting Maribor 2112to become one of the firstNet Zero cities by three main

sources of productivity energysystems: piezoelectric, hydro,and thermal.

As the citizens of Maribor,visitors, and cultural critiquesmeander the city through theUrban-Stratification ecologicaland interactive promenades,they will be led experience thearchitecturally icon of the 2112

Maribor Interactive Centre forthe Arts. Convening multiplesystems of complexitiesand parallel programmaticsystems, the landscape andpathways outline purposefulaccidents that change throughprogrammatic shifts andmovement.

The Centre will become an

opportunity to experiencea new sustainable typologyof architecture, cleantechnologies, and designintelligence. Acting as anactive iconic architecturalinfrastructural and culturalpiece, Urban-Stratification willbe the stage of public relations,social, and digital interactions,which in turn converts the

City of Maribor into an urbancatalyst that propagatessustainable development

throughout the rest of the city.

The Maribor 2112 Urban-Stratification Master Planfosters new interactive socialurban ecologies to redefinethe existing city, not only asthe cultural capital of Europebut also as Europe’s first NetZero energy city to become thefirst urban laboratory wherearchitecture intelligence,social interaction, and

clean technologies interactsimultaneously.

Team MembersWendy Fok Kadri KergeJose L AguilarIvan P Cheung

URBANSTRATIFICATION

The Maribor 2112 Urban-StratificationMaster Plan is a multidisciplinaryproposal that utilizes obsolete existinginfrastructure as a generative systemof energy activating developmentalzones along the Drava river fosteringnew interactive social urban ecologiesto redefine the existing city, not only asthe cultural capital of Europe but alsoas Europe’s first Net Zero energy city,to become the first urban laboratorywhere architecture intelligence, socialinteraction, and clean technologiesinteract simultaneously.


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Studio Leader:Charles Anderson, Cath

Stutterheim (SAALA)

School or Institution:RMIT UniversitySchool of Architecture andDesign

Country:Australia

Website:

www.rmit.edu.au www.saala.com.au

1. Studio Leader BiographyDr Charles Anderson and CathStutterheim are co-directorsof SAALA. Charles’ interestsare extensive and widely inter-disciplinary, from public art

projects through landscapearchitecture and urbandesign to product and fashiondesign. He has a distinguishedreputation as an artist anddesigner and has receivednumerous awards for his work,from both within and withoutthe landscape architecturalprofession. Cath’s designwork is particularly engaged

with the dynamic betweendesigned and natural forms,and is especially motivatedby the challenges andopportunities for landscapearchitecture which arise fromthe effects of climate change.

Both Charles and Cathmaintain a close liaisonbetween practice, research

and education throughtheir ongoing roles at RMITUniversity where Charles is

Program Director of the MLAand Cath is Adjunct Professor.

2. SchoolThe strategic direction of theSchool of Architecture andDesign is underpinned bythree guiding scholarshipprinciples: scholarship-of-change; curated and verticallyintegrated design scholarship;and tri-polar scholarship.

We aim to address compelling,contemporary issues such asclimate change, globalizationand rapid urbanization inways that facilitate culturalchange through design.Our scholars, (students,lecturers and researchers),are risk-takers in the sensethat they endeavour to bringabout change both in design

practice and by practicingdesign. These changes arepursued through refinement,criticism and experimentationand within an ethicalframework of social justiceand human rights.

3. Project Intention

What is the breaking point of a

city? And what is on the otherside of no return?

Aggrenomics seeks to answerthese questions throughinvestigating and speculatingwhat Maribor might becomeas a result of reaching abreaking point. Using theprogression of time as afundamental design element,

a narrative is created

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