Monthly Archives: November 2011

Program Diagrams

SMAQ

14/11/2011

Infrastructural Urbanism – addressing the In-between

Highway..ing, DotsAndLoops

13/11/2011

Prize / Windtower / Hamburg, Germany

In an invited internationally competition SMAQ’s proposal for the facade design for a windtower including a hotel and offices was awarded with a third prize. The windtower ought to become the future icon of the so called Ecocity that is under development in Hamburg-Harburg, Germany.

01/11/2011

Ecocity Windtower – Hamburg, Germany

Air and air movement are taken as formative themes in the facade design for the wind-tower in the Ecocity of Hamburg-Harburg. The facade suggests multiple associations, not only in connection to the site, but also to the term “wind” in the name of the building: from the rippling of the waters’ surface in the harbour by the wind, to the rustled feathers of a bird sailing through the air. The wind-tower stretches 65 meters into the air and opens up to the west in order to take advantage of the force of the wind. The faceted façade elements reflect the height of a single story [more]