Zumtobel Lighting’s Post

📗CAMPUS IN VIENNA - OPTIMISING THE TERRAIN FOR THE USERS🏔 The sloping terrain and the noisy location on the outskirts of Vienna posed a special challenge for our Vienna office: the new House of Engineering as part of the FH Campus Wien | University of Applied Sciences Wien rises on two levels out of the artificial terrain. The skilful use of the terrain makes it possible for the two parts of the building to offer teachers and students an interesting and unusual view of the city, while the orientation of the complex minimises the acoustic emissions from the nearby city exit.   The S-shaped building structure also provides a solution for the organisation of the outdoor spaces, as they are protected by the cantilevered parts of the building. In addition, the view of the surrounding slope's stone-faced embankment offers an unusual experience in flat Vienna. The dynamic form of the building promises on the outside what it delivers on the inside: Flowing spaces lead via access zones to the classrooms, which can be enlarged and reduced in size as required. Inside, a city within the city has manifested itself, to quote the Viennese architect Josef Frank (1885-1967): "A well-organised house is to be laid out like a city with streets and paths that inevitably lead to squares that are shut off from traffic so that one can rest on them." The term "resting" can be relativised in a school. #baumschlagereberlearchitekten #Vienna #campus #school #education Say hello to our colleagues in vienna: https://lnkd.in/e3cmQ3tD Photos: Maximilian Haidacher

Architectural Glass Louvres & Schools Opportunities in the Post-COVID Landscape In this whitepaper, we examine the opportunities for architectural glass louvres in the post-COVID landscape with a focus on student health and wellbeing, improving academic performance and preventing aerosol transmission, as well as acoustic and safety considerations in the education context. #constructionaustralia #constructionnewzealand #constructioncanada #naturalventilation #freshair #breathe #sustainabledesign #energysaving #airquality #windowlouvres #windowautomation #operableroofs #louvres #architecturaldesign #makingbuildingsbreathe #breathablebuildings

- it's such an honor to meet you, Jan, especially because I am doing a Ph.D. in the environmental psychology field, - then you will read this book twice! 😁 It is the usual facial expression when I tell somebody I am doing a Ph.D. 😁 This time, somebody is the legendary architect and urbanist Prof. Jan Gehl during a book signing at MO muziejus | MO Museum. Cities for people (Miestai žmonėms) book presentation highlights: Problems: ❗️While building cities, we usually do everything to make cars happy, so we live in 60 km/h architecture when we feel the most happy in 5km/h architecture; ❗️Famous buildings in cities look funny, like perfume bottles, and fit for covers of architecture magazines; ❗️We plan buildings from a helicopter view, not from a personal view (human scale); ❗️modernistic architecture has no concern for people and social life. “I was at the funeral of modernism,”- said Jan Gehl. Solutions: ✅ it is crucial to build human-centric, livable cities; ✅ It is essential to ask people how they feel in the space; ✅ city life must include spaces for meeting, for slow mobility (walking and cycling), places to stop and dwell and sit and watch the world go by; ✅ we should create livable, sustainable, healthy cities, good cities to be old in. #peoplecentric #peoplecities Leidykla LAPAS (LAPAS books)

Through the design of functional green areas, the aim is to create a more fluid connectivity between the different spaces of the campus, which are sometimes fragmented and divided by public roads. Green therefore acts as both a visual and spatial connector. The graphic icon system was developed with the aim of communicating the functional green areas in the clearest and most immediate way possible, aiming to make them recognizable and understandable for future users of the campus. #amaart #bfeducational #innovation #green #visualidentity #formazione #ricerca #grafic #innovazione #campus #landscape #sostenibile #design #wayfinding #signage #greenery #designproposal #beautifularchitecture #sustainable #sustainablearchitecture #sustainablesolutions #futureproof #innovation #architecturetender #urbandevelopment #urbancore #naturalwayfinding

Yesterday we hosted the second round table in our 'Life Science Summer Sessions', this time with a focus on 'Sustainable Labs in the City'. Discussion centered on what a ‘sustainable lab’ really means in a central London context. The round table explored the respective carbon benefits of refurbished spaces versus new-build lab buildings and the opportunities to incorporate circular design strategies into both the fit out of lab spaces and into their daily operational consumption. The importance of a thorough evaluation of a project’s technical brief and the collation of operational data from existing labs buildings was agreed to be a critical learning process for future projects, especially given the speed at which this highly technical typology continues to evolve. The question of timber construction for lab buildings proved an interesting discussion for the group who weighed up the sustainability benefits of timber against the technical constraints and how we might adapt timber buildings to meet the specific challenges of life sciences.  This event formed part of Piercy&Company's 'Life Science Summer Sessions 2023' and is part of our ongoing research around place-making in complex urban locations and resilient sustainability. Thank you so much to all who attended this fascinating discussion. #Lifescience #labarchitecture #labdesign

Dive into our new whitepaper: 'Enhancing Academic Excellence: A Guide to Modernizing University Furniture.' Discover how upgrading furniture can shape a dynamic learning environment, promote sustainability, and support campus growth. Get your full guide: https://lnkd.in/edVfWfg8 #EthosourceOfficeFurniture #EducationInnovation #UniversityFurniture #CampusGrowth #AcademicEnvironment #SustainableCampus #DynamicLearning #FurnitureUpgrade

Now available for Pre-Order EDUCATION issue of The Journal of Biophilic Design. Case studies, research, science, interior design, architecture. As always, the Journal bridges the gap between research and practice. Pre-order a copy, useful design information for home offices and workplaces too. #biophilicdesign #educationforall #educationdesign #schools #university

Streets that are better for climate (resilience and carbon capture!) for biodiversity, for people. Did you know that the greenbelt is less biodiverse than parts of London? This is an interesting thought when we consider where and how we build homes for people, and what ‘protecting green spaces’ really means. Creating new ones is just as important. Back to this picture, top of my list is Trafalgar Square. Yours?

✍ 👣 🌏 🌎 🌍🏙💗🌰 🌳🤝🏞🌻🦋🐾🌱🕊 Check out #FORM #FOLLOWS #LIFE #REINVENTING #CITIES #Competition DESIGNING FOR LIFE - #participants are #challenged to #reimagine #urban #spaces through the #naturefirst #lens approach (#including #human, #plant and #animal) #integrated #colocation #onehealth #wellbeing #forall #NbD #planning #Proposals should #develop an approach to #shape #cities as #systems #supporting #life and #enhancing its #relational #qualities, rather than as #productive and #efficient ‘#machines’. #Participants are #invited to #submit #designs that #showcase the #transformation of #urbanspaces into #thriving #ecosystems that #respect and #reflect the #complex #interdependencies of life. The designs should #explore #radical approaches towards the #rethinking and #designing of urban spaces. see more 👇thanks to Martha C. Fajardo P. (DLitt) (principle inviting form to promote and enhance life’s web of relationships, interdependence, and mutual thriving - Olivia Bina inspired by Gilles Clément and Patrick Geddes).

The exterior design of this #building helps the structure blend in with its surroundings. #landscape