ARCH 3501 FA07 Pongratz

From TTU College of Architecture

Christian R Pongratz

Office: 705 C Email: Christian.Pongratz@ttu.edu Studio location: 702 Phone: 806-742-3169-226 Course time: M,W,F>1-16.20 P.M.

Course Information: ARCH 3502 design studio with focus building envelope Credits: 5 semester credit hours

Public@INFO MEDIATION

Public@INFO is the Design Studio that will explore the potential of current technology to mediate information effectively between design and construction and engage public space with temporary structures in both actual space and virtual space.

Public@INFO STUDIO

Public@INFO seeks to create a center, the Infobox, for mediating the changes of the development at Lehrter Bahnhof during the upcoming construction period and involve citizens and visitors early on to participate in what will evolve into one of Berlin’s major infrastructure and city center points in the future. The intention to create there a 21st century city quarter, which would be the first 4G (fourth generation) wireless virtual community in Germany, including train-station, hotel, offices, residential and retail spaces etc. needs to be considered.

BERLIN>DUBAI

The Infobox at Potsdamerplatz built by architects Schneider & Schumacher in 1995, was a temporary and successful precedent with the goal to keep not only residents, but also international visitors “up to date” on one of the biggest building projects in city history. Since the studio project is intended as an architectural commodity ready to flexibly fit different environments, we will look into several sites, such as Berlin and Dubai, and confront the effect onto the design and production. The infobox is not thought of as a modernist kit-of-parts, but more like a contemporary branded product design and a result of industrial mass-customization. Students will develop a building that is fabricated with latest technologies to perform in different situations and which is able to respond to dynamic client needs and flexible program conditions. Student teams will conceive building prototypes, to be manufactured out of prefabricated components similar to the car-aircraft industry in order to establish ways for modularization, re-combination and formal variation through changes in size and shape. Students will get interested into material behavior and combined structural effects and how they link to design techniques and innovation with fabrication.
The site’s importance within a constantly evolving urban fabric and its dynamic relationship to other nodes within the city should be made transparent with a “platform”. The project platform/s will be present in both “real” worlds, a temporary structure in actual space and an info-forum in virtual space.
The actual space (physical building) and the virtual space (web-site), both will allow for information, meeting and exchange, marketing, sales, construction supervision, presentations and contemplation. Each of the programmatic “rooms” are represented in both worlds and equipped for interaction.
The task is to create a temporary building as an interactive environment that merges the two worlds such that it allows the visitor to experience a fluid transition from one world to the other. On the other hand, a visitor to the web-site will find an organizational principle similar to the physical building. The structure/ interface allows anyone to “browse” or navigate through the building and access the “rooms” to participate on-line.

Infobox: [1]

STUDIO PHASES:

THE RESEARCH / ANALYSIS infobox
mobile buildings
virtual sites and portals

Design Process:

Based on generated research data of the structure, programmatic distribution, efficiency etc., accumulated during the research phase the students will start to assemble their own proposal, which will develop from physical 3D-pattern models. Students are required to make 3D-parties as successive models of a generative design process.

Users: The project will address the Typology of users, such as Berlin’s residents (visitors, shoppers, future residents), international travelers, people involved in the construction site, train commuters etc.
Program: The proposal will cover a range of programmatic spaces/ units, to be selected others a shop, café, conference room, view platform (s), a small exhibition space etc. The exact spatial requirements to be determined.
Site: Student teams will insert their proposal into the Lehrter Bahnhof plaza, a large open space with view over the river Spree and to the Reichstag.

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