Monthly Archives: January 2012

Runner-Up / Ulsteraue / Geisa, Germany

In the idea and realization competition for the redevelopment of the Ulster meadow and its surrounding areas in the city Geisa in Germany the design of SMAQ in collaboration with Anna Viader was awarded with a runner-up.

23/01/2012

Lecture & Book Presentation / DAZ Berlin

“Infrastructural Urbanism – Addressing the In-Between” Architecture and public space are considered the defining design elements of our built environment – but how significant is technical infrastructure? So far, it has played a relatively subordinate role. Infrastructural Urbanism discusses the effects of infrastructure on urban space and their reception by the public. The book presents [more]

01/01/2012

Ulsteraue – Geisa, Germany

Geisa is a small town with a historical city center in the Thurungian Rohn uplands. What is termed the city’s artisan suburb is currently highly fragmented and hardly legible, spatially. This design draws on what is still recognizable in the structure of the artisan suburb and formulates, through subtle densification, clearly readable and tangible edges [more]

Kindergarten – Berlin, Germany

Facade and vestibule design within the context of thermal facade renovations.