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University of Applied Arts Vienna
Urban Strategies Postgraduate Program, EXCESSIVE IV
critics: Hernan DIAZ ALONSO & José Carlos LOPEZ CERVANTES.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Gonzalo VAÍLLO MARTÍNEZ: Located in the outskirts of Los Angeles, the starting point of the design is based on the standards of a single-family house.

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EXCESSIVE focuses on strategies of architectural design. Many of the ambitions revolve around the topic of excess as a redefinition of beautiful lust and—misfit aesthetics of exuberance and sophisticated conditions of arousal. If design is typically derived from an expertise related to form and proportion, a theory of mutation is possibly an advanced critical stance toward formal traditions. A theory of excessive form is not a rejection of the formal traditions but an extension of them. Further, navigation through the topologies of excessive form can be understood as an intensification of more traditional formal strategies.

EXCESSIVE diplomas & semester finals w/ jurors Hernan Diaz ALONSO, Tom KOVAC, Kivi SOTAMAA, & Reiner ZETTL
Wednesday, 01/16
2.00 pm / 
Urban Strategies Studio
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 3
1030 Vienna

vienna AUSTRIA

University of Applied Arts Vienna,
Urban Strategies postgraduate program, Excessive III
critics: Hernan DIAZ ALONSO, Jose Carlos LOPEZ CERVANTES (asistant professor), Tyler BORNSTEIN (teaching assistant). With special thanks to the studio’s previous assistant professor, Steven MA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Tan AKINCI: The existing Vienna Westbahnhof train station lays in the end point of the Mariahilferstreet which is the shopping axis of Vienna. The “gürtel” which is a green band cuts the street and creates a undefined corridor.The neighbor on two sides; the Bahnhof City contains a lot of closed space with shopping, offices and a hotel.

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Excessive III
Postgraduate Master Thesis, Die Angewandte
University of Applied Arts Vienna
critics: hernan DIAZ ALONSO, steven MA (assistant professor), jose CARLOS (TA)

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

handan YALKI: This project represents my thesis for the “Excessive” postgraduate program at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, 2012. The aim was to design a new train station for Vienna by reinterpreting the existing Westbahnhof station.

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University of Applied Arts Vienna, Excessive postgraduate studio
critic: hernan DIAZ ALONSO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

shahira HAMMAD: This project represents my thesis for the “Excessive” postgraduate program at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, 2012. We were asked to envision a new train station for Vienna, one that would either modify or replace the existing Westbahnhof train station. I chose to keep the existing building, but to contaminate it with structures that would express a complexity that now is missing. My intervention was inspired both from Nature and Culture, and beyond its polemical characteristics it does intend to bring back what in science is called: Spontaneous Order.

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CELETON, Excessive Music Hall
Postgraduate Master Thesis, Die Angewandte/University of Applied Arts Vienna

Studio Excessive, Hernan Diaz Alonso

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

alex SMAGA: Music goes under your skin . . . How to translate the sensation of music into architecture? How to explain the pleasure we experience while listening to Mozart, Beethoven or Jimi Hendrix? How architectural mutation processes correspond to music making? How architecture can stimulate the development of new styles in music?

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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

santosh kumar KETHAM: Historically Vienna is known for its operas and concerts for music lovers. Designing a concert hall in this place is challenging and inspiring.

To me the challenge was to design a concert hall not only as a single architectural building but also as experiencing spaces through urban transition, At same time the design is unique from other music halls, in terms of architectural esthetics, vocabulary and tectonics.

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