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Community-built market completed in northern Ghana by [a]FA

2020-04-21T15:24:00-04:00

The New Guabuliga Market is a recent design-build project that has been underway from [applied] Foreign Affairs ([a]FA), a transdisciplinary lab at the Institute of of Architecture of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Based on research done back in 2018, a team of students designed this modular market structure with the goal of attracting traders to the remote community of Guabuliga in northern Ghana to strengthen the socio-economic health of the region.

Photo by Toms Kampars.

Construction began in early 2019 and the market opened in August 2019. The design consists of a "floorscape" and "roofscape" ad utilizes an integrated water source, furniture, and a market shop for locally made products. The structure takes inspiration from the traditional grain silos of the region.

Photo by Juergen Strohmayer.

The market was built with local labor and professionals who relied on the direction and expertise of the project partners. Everyone from local masons and welders to seasoned design ...

Coop Himmelb(l)au compares campus redesign of the University of Applied Arts Vienna to a "prison courtyard"

2016-07-11T14:05:00-04:00

After the University of Applied Arts Vienna chose a winner for its campus redesign competition in 2012, the proposal is just now being made a reality—much to the disappointment of another prominent Viennese institution, Coop Himmelb(l)au.

The University selected Riepl Kaufmann Bammer Architecktur’s design for a major renovation and expansion of its current buildings, totaling 9,500 square meters of new space. On July 6, the University broke ground on the project, and on July 8, Coop Himmelb(l)au’s communications office sent out an email decrying the design, comparing it to a “prison courtyard” and asking “does it necessarily have to be the worst project which will now be realized?”:

Commonly, Architecture is understood to be a three-dimensional imprint of content. Following this view, the rendering – boastfully called “inwards facing campus” – looks rather like a prison courtyard. If that image was a reflection of the University of Applied Arts’ curricula, one should definitely be con...

Bence Pap and Mario Gasser’s 4th prize Austrian Pavilion entry for 2015 Milan Expo

2014-01-14T20:41:00-05:00

Architects Bence Pap and Mario Gasser from Studio Lynn/University of Applied Arts IoA sent us their entry for the Austrian Pavilion competition for the 2015 Milan Expo. Pap and Gasser's collaborative proposal won 4th prize in the international, two-stage open competition.

Check out the rest of the proposal on Bustler.

Get Lectured: University of Applied Arts, Vienna Fall '13

2013-11-26T13:02:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2013

"Get Lectured" is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series--along with their snazzy posters--for the current season. Although the fall term is about to wrap up, we'll still post some select posters and lecture series worth checking out.

Our featured poster this time comes from the University of Applied Arts, Vienna - Institute of Architecture.

Here's a summary of the Sliver Lecture Series '13-'14 - Digital Craft:

"Advanced fabrication technologies, once dominated by other disciplines, are now not only a major component in architectural schools and related research labs around the world, but have now become an integral part of a contemporary architectural practice. In this lecture series we want to emphasize our attention and curiosity for formal engineering challenges. We invited practitioners, engineers, theoreticians, and artists who, embedded in their networks, meander between different disc...