Studio Chermayeff & Hönig

Typology
Research
Project
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Client
Dessau Institute of Architecture (DIA)

year
2014 - 2016
Location
Dessau-Roßlau, Sachsen-Anhalt, Deutschland
- From 2014 to 2016 c/o now's Tobias Hönig teaches a joint design studio together with June 14's Sam Chermayeff at the Dessau Institute of Architecture.
head of studio
Sam Chermayeff & Tobias Hönig
students
Mohamed Adel Abdelwahed Abdelmonem, Grace Beatriz Allen Ibarcena, Omar Akl, Sabrina Alvarez, Mateo Argerich, Taraneh Bahman Rokh, Fernanda Barbot, Anzhela Bogdanova, Bojana Bjelic, Irina Boichenko, Olaf Buchholz, Sri Charan, Ines Chicurel, Christian Dase, Yed Efrat, Mohammed Eid, Hanieh Elhamiyan, Mahnaz Hosseini, Amir Faraz Firooz Abadi, Aidan Ferriss, Hui Lin Foo, John Barry Gimutao, Hua Guo, Alaa Haddad, Ruzica Janjic, Erebouni Khachik, Michael Kearns, Oleksandra Kryvstova, Frederica Lagomarsino Guidini, Natasa Lajovic, Ka Ki Lam, Sandor Lillienberg, Xinghua Liu, Xuyang Lou, Quan Ma, Kah Joon Mak, Lautaro Rodrigo Martinez Guadalupe, Hanna Maksymenko, Adhyaksa Mardjuni, Yulya Markelova, Max Mueller, Huyen Trang Ngo, Michael Noon, Alexandra Perrine, Jose Parades, Sasha Peterson, Denisa Petrus, Jackson Philip, Katya Porohina, Nabil Rajjoub, Raquel Otero Rullan, Emiliano Jose Rodriguez Morales, Joanna Sadler, Asiya Salimova, Alexine Sammut, Hanna Sul, Huon Summerson, Moti Tavassoli, Alexandra Teslenko, Joshua Thomas, Fabricio Vela, Shuocheng Wang, Wai Waio, Man Hou Wong, Nicholas Wong Canlas, Wei Xin, Shan Yean Yong, Peng Yu, Chris Zammit, Djordje Zdravkovic, Lije Zhang, Yilun Zhanh, Weijian Zhang
special thanks
Beeke Bartelt, Larisa Tsvetkova
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Re-use of an abandoned stadium for housing by Oleksandra Kryvtsova.
Image: © Олександра Кривцова
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Natasa Lajovic developed a new stadium-typology for the Belgrade-district Novi Beograd. In the sports enthusiastic countries of the former Yugoslavia even niche-disciplines like high-diving find broad public attention. Natasa made use of this fact and designed a high-diving-stadium wrapped around the pool that plays on the one hand with the aesthetics of Spomenici and otherwise with the contemporary condition of Serbia, as the auditorium facing the old town on the other bank of the Sava is formulated as decadent club in which the high-diving-athletes become decoration.
Image: © Natasa Lajovic
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Image: © Aleksandar Vrangaloski
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© Fabricio Vela
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Studio Chermayeff & Hönig, SS15
Newtown Creek Art Storage
The latest since Corbusier’s Villa La Roche we know that art-storage does not necessarily have to look and function like a warehouse. A good example for this in a larger scale is Herzog De Meuron’s Schaulager nearby Basel. Especially in huge Metropolises such as New York the question for storage that provides space as well as security, easy logistics as well as accessibility to a public/semi-public audience, becomes more and more interesting for institutions, collections and auction houses.
On a former waterfront cement factory site between Queens and Brooklyn we ask for your proposal for a depository warehouse offering the possibility of managing and storing art collections and other valuables. The site is an impressive 800 plus feet along Newtown Creek with an average depth of more than 70 feet, making every part of the site closely related to the waterfront. Bound by the creek and an underutilized railway the atmosphere is one of serenity despite its close proximity to Manhattan, the bustling high rise district of Long Island City and the growing Greenpoint, Brooklyn neighborhood. The land is around 5.800 square meters with an FAR of two and a buildable area of 11.600 square meters. The project should offer a variety of possibilities, include high-tech art storage facilities offering safe and new ways of expanding collections, meeting rooms and exhibition space.
Image: Petar Petricevic
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Elective Studio Hönig SS15
Walter Benjamin, 50 Cent & The Pharaos Sarcophagus
(w/ Guest Mirja Reuter)
„The top feels so much better than the bottom / So much better / Ja you’s a window shopper / Mad at me / I think I know why / Jada you’s a window shopper / In the jewelery store, looking at shit you can’t buy“ (50 Cent)
Walter Benjamin is regarded one of Germany’s most important philosophers and cultural critics. In his most reowned work, „The Arcades Project“ („Passagen-Werk“), the (parisian) arcades, the pre- typology to the department store, became flaneur-ing his object of investigation. The shopping mall „Alexa“ due to its appearance is known as „the pharaos sarcophagus“ among Berliners. The much debated art-deco-facade clearly refers to arcades.
We want to follow Benjamin’s example. Which other references can we investigate flaneur-ing? What could be the meaning of this shopping mall’s spatial setup beyond aesthetical aspects? What was the meaning of „Barbie’s Dream House“ that got constructed for only one summer in Alexa’s backyard? What does a Berlin-City-model in a simulated city tell us about urbanity? Can we become friendly with all the window shoppers there?
Berlin-based artist Mirja Reuter is going to share her knowledge about the interface between flaneur-ing investigation and artistic production with us, as well as her „Alexa-fanaticism“.
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Image: © Bojana Bjelic
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Elective Studio Chermayeff & Hönig WS14_15
Anthropogenic Architecture
Our notion of nature is now out of date. Humanity forms nature. This is the core premise of the Anthropocene thesis, announcing a paradigm shift in the natural sciences as well as providing new models for culture, politics, and everyday life.
The city itself might be the biggest existing anthropogenic machine, a condition almost entirely defined by men. We ask the question where the Anthropocene thesis becomes most visible in our contemporary cities (and in countryside as well) and how our thinking about architecture could or should change based on it.
Anthropocene-Workshop-Weekend, Image: Bojana Bjelic
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Anthropocene-Workshop-Weekend
Image: Bojana Bjelic
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Anthropocene-Workshop-Weekend
Image: Bojana Bjelic
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Excursion WS 2014_15
Zürich & Basel
Herzog & de Meuron's 'Hall 1' at Messeplatz in Basel.
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Excursion WS 2014_15
Zürich & Basel
'Please take off your shoes!' - Visiting Pascal Flammer and his house in Balsthal.
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Studio Chermayeff & Hönig WS 2014_15
'Between Studio and Office - Where and how do architects work?'
Over the next semester we would like to ask you „where and how do architects work“? We’ll start to think about that on our front door steps where beside our own working space at DIA we are neighboring Bauhaus, still influential as an source of ideas how an architect’s professional life could look like (the added photography shows Marianne Brandt in her studio at the Bauhaus' studio building "Prellerhaus").
We’ll examine the myth of the studio and ask ourselves if not the majority of us is working in an office. Also we’ll try not to forget those working on their kitchen tables and the nomads working on trains, planes and at cafes.
The projects will be free but we must find „programs“ that conceptually deal with the conditions of production in the field of architecture.
On excursion we’ll visit Zürich where we’ll visit several architects in their work environment. The same will be done in Berlin during a day trip.
Image: © Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau
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Studio Chermayeff & Hönig SS 2014
'Countryside'
Aleksandra Shulevska - Plug-in-structure for pilgrims in the Himalayas
Image: Aleksandra Shulevska
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Final presentation at the Bauhaus, SS14.
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