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1OOYC [1OO Year City] | 2112Ai [Architectural intelligence]

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  • Sponzorji v naravi / In-kind Sponsors:

    Medijski pokrovitelj / Media sponsor:

    Sponzor razstave / Exhibition Sponsor:

    Razstavo so podprli / Supported by:

    Razstavo sta nancirala / Financed by:

  • Sponzorji v naravi / In-kind Sponsors:

    Medijski pokrovitelj / Media sponsor:

    Sponzor razstave / Exhibition Sponsor:

    Razstavo so podprli / Supported by:

    Razstavo sta nancirala / Financed by:

  • Sponzorji v naravi / In-kind Sponsors:

    Medijski pokrovitelj / Media sponsor:

    Sponzor razstave / Exhibition Sponsor:

    Razstavo so podprli / Supported by:

    Razstavo sta nancirala / Financed by:

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  • IntroductionThe City of Maribor and the 100YC [100 Year City] project is representing Slovenia at the biggest architectural event in the world. 100YC has engaged over 1000 people (students, studio leaders, architects, advisors, mentors, key stakeholders) have engaged with the 100YC project. This has produced an incredible engagement, scalability and collaboration resulting in an astronomical 2.5Million hits, over 2.1Million file exchanges and over 60% user engagement per day between all participants. All were envisaging their vision of a city of future, which will be as their ideas of Maribor in 100 years, shown at this years Venice Biennale and also presented and discussed about on numerous lectures, meetings, panels, symposiums and conferences.

    The 100YC project has produced over 100 projects by 23 participating institutions with 37 studio leaders and 400 students from 11 participating countries:Alessio Erioli Bologna University; Matias del Campo and Sandra Manninger, Liss C. Werner Dessau Institute of Architecture; Veronika Valk Estonian Academy of Arts; Marisol Vidal Graz University of Technology; Ulrika Karlsson KTH Royal Institute of Technology; Peter Gabrijelcic Faculty of Architecture at the University of Ljubljana; Julia Koerner Lund University, Nigel Bertram, Tim Schork Monash University; Karl Chu Pratt Institute; Wendy Fok Princeton University; Jose Alfano, Tom Kovac, Karl Fender Charles Anderson, Jane Burry, Paul Minifie, Leon van Scahik, Vivian Mitsogianni, Francois Roche, Roland Snooks, Aleksandar Subic, Nicholas Williams RMIT University; Hernan Diaz Alonso, Elena Manferdini, Florencia Pita, Marcelo Spina, Tom Wiscombe, Peter Zellner SCI Arc; Martine De Maesneer Sint Lucas; CJ Lim The Bartlett School of Architecture; Hadrian Predock UCLA; Marjan Colletti, Bart Lootsma, Patrik Schumacher, Peter Trummer University of Innsbruck; Rene Van Meeuwen University of Western Australia; Chris Bosse, Dale Jones Evans University Technology Sydney; Reiner Zettl IoA Die Angewandte.

    Uvod Letos se prvikrat na tej najveji arhitekturni prireditvi na svetu predstavlja mesto Maribor, in to s projektom 100YC, h kateremu se je prikljuilo ve 1000 ljudi, tudentov, vodij studijev, arhitektov, svetovalcev, mentorjev in kljunih delenikov. Vsi so snovali vizije mesta prihodnosti, ki jih bodo kot svoje zamisli Maribora ez 100 let prikazali na letonjem benekem bienalu ter jih tudi predstavljali in o njih razpravljali na tevilnih predavanjih, sreanjih, okroglih mizah, simpozijih in konferencah. Njihovo sodelovanje botruje neverjetnemu uspehu, ki dosega astronomskih 2.5 milijona zadetkov, ve kot 2.1 milijona podatkovnih izmenjav dnevno in 60 odstotno aktivno sodelovanje med vsemi udeleenci. Pri projektu sodeluje 23 institucij iz 11 drav, ki so izdelale ve kot 100 projektov.

    Poleg 400 tudentov se je projektu 100YC pridruilo tudi 37 vrhunskih strokovnjakov z vsega sveta: Alessio Erioli Univerza Bologna, Matias del Campo in Sandra Manninger, Liss C. Werner Intitut za arhitekturo Dessau, Veronika Valk Akademija za umetnost Estonije, Marisol Vidal Univerza za tehnologijo Gradec, Ulrika Karlsson Kraljevi intitut za tehnologijo KTH, Peter Gabrijeli Fakulteta za arhiteturo Univerze v Ljubljani, Julia Koerner Univerza Lund, Nigel Bertram, Tim Schork Univerza Monash, Karl Chu Intitut Pratt, Wendy Fok Univerza Princeton, Jose Alfano, Tom Kovac, Karl Fender, Charles Anderson, Jane Burry, Paul Minifie, Leon van Schaik, Vivian Mitsogianni, Francois Roche, Roland Snooks, Aleksandar Subic, Nicholas Williams Univerza RMIT, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Elena Manferdini, Florencia Pita, Marcelo Spina, Tom Wiscombe, Peter Zellner SCI Arc, Martine De Maesneer Sint Lucas, CJ Lim ola za arhitecturo Bartlett, Hadrian Predock UCLA, Marjan Colletti , Bart Lootsma, Patrik Schumacher, Peter Trummer Univerza v Innsbrucku, Rene Van Meeuwen Univerza Zahodne Avstralije, Chris Bosse, Dale Jones Evans Univerza za tehnologijo Sydney, Reiner Zettl IoA Die Angewandte Intitut za arhitekturo Visoke ole za uporabno umetnost, Dunaj.

  • 6What is our vision of cities one hundred years from now? Is it possible for us to speculate about the functions, requirements and operations of cities a century in advance - the 100YC project - and design future matching urban infrastructures? Architecture has served as a viable trajectory for the needs and complex social behaviour of citizens in the past. While architecture may also be a tracking device for urban development in 100 years time, urbanism can be seen as an ongoing attempt to rationalise over such developments, to inject direction, order, logic and judgement into structures that have emerged, and to provide a rationale, an understanding and an evaluation of their historical dynamics.The rationalisation process through the urbanism lens which all cities undergo has been hitherto dominated by discussions of external influences including historic factors, wartime occupation and destruction scenarios, changes of governance and cultural rulings, etc. and internal systemic implementations, including technological developments in transport, energy and water supply, communication facilities, etc. What has been neglected when looking through the conventional urbanism lens is a closer consideration of the very living conditions in the city. But because the actual living in the city has stood in the shadow of the orthodox topics of city planners, cities find themselves on the verge of collapse almost suffocated and in agony under the burden of their own very architecture and buried under layers of urbanism theory and built ideology. 2007 marked a turning point in human history when the number of people living in cities (3.3 billion) overtook that of people not living in city compounds (3.2 billion). While the early 20th century had already witnessed visionary utopias and dystopias of future cities such as Fritz Langs Metropolis, it encountered only much later the introduction of terms such as megapolis for actual mega-cities as new world centers. Within a few decades, the explosion of the urban form of life has forced itself on the agenda of city stakeholders who tended to underestimate or neglect the developments and symptoms of urban dis-functionality and the

    1OOYC Kakna je naa vizija mest ez sto let? Ali je mogoe predvidevati o funkcijah, zahtevah in ukrepih mest stoletje vnaprej in oblikovati prihodnost z ujemanjem urbane infrastrukture? Arhitektura je podprla uspeno pot za potrebe in zapleteno socialno obnaanje dravljanov v preteklosti. Medtem ko je lahko arhitektura tudi sledilna naprava za urbani razvoj v 100 letih, lahko urbanizem obravnavamo kot poskus teka za racionalizacijo dejanskega razvoja. Urbanizem daje smer, pravila, logiko in sodbo v strukture, ki so se pojavile, in zagotovi racionalnost, razumevanje ter vrednotenje njihove zgodovinske dinamike.Proces racionalizacije skozi objektiv urbanizma, ki ga doivijo vsa mesta, je bil doslej prevladujo z razpravami o zunanjih vplivih vkljuno z zgodovinskimi dejavniki, vojno okupacijo in scenariji unievanja, s spremembami o upravljanju in kulturnih odlobah, itd in internih sistemskih izvedb, ki vkljuujejo tehnoloki razvoj v prometu, zaloge energije in oskrbo z vodo, komunikacijsko infrastrukturo, itd. Kaj smo zanemarili, ko gledamo skozi konvencionalen objektiv urbanizma, ki predstavlja podroben premislek o samih ivljenjskih razmerah v mestu. A ravno zato, ker dejansko bivanje v mestu pomeni iveti v senci ortodoksnih mestnih nartovalcev, so se mesta znala na robu propada skoraj so se zaduila v agoniji pod bremenom lastne arhitekture in se znala pod plastmi teorij urbanizma in vgrajene ideologije. Leto 2007 predstavlja prelomnico v loveki zgodovini, ko se je tevilo mestnih ljudi, (3,3 milijarde) povzpelo nad tiste, ki ne ivijo v mestnih spojinah (3,2 milijarde). Medtem ko je zaetek 20. stoletja e bil pria vizionarskim utopijam in distopijam o mestih prihodnosti, kot je delo Metropolis Fritza Langa, se ele kasneje pojavi pojem megapolis za dejanska velemesta, nove svetovne centre. V nekaj desetletjih je eksplozija mestne oblike ivljenja prisilila mesta interesnih skupin, ki vasih rade podcenjujejo ali zanemarjajo razvoj in simptome urbane disfunkcionalnosti ter upadanje kakovosti urbanega ivljenja okoli sebe.

  • Razvoj na podroju informacijskih in komunikacijskih tehnologij zagotavlja prve oprijemljive dokaze in kazalnike monih prihodnosti 100YC v tem zelo dinaminem sektorju, vendar z obstojeim transportnim sistemom ni tako. Medtem ko so se nae zamisli glede prihodnjih oblik prevoza znale v spektakularnih vizualizacijah Langovega Metropolisa, na primer Iztrebljevalec Ridleya Scotta, Peti element Luca Bressona in Brazil Terrya Gilliama, so takne lastnosti prometa v popolnem nasprotju z dejanskimi zgodovinskimi vzorci, ki e vedno obstajajo v naih mestih in so skoraj nespremenjeni od rimskih asov. Slovenija zagotavlja iro platformo projektu 100YC z neverjetnimi monostmi in posebnimi izzivi: od priblino dveh milijonov prebivalcev jih ve kot 50% ivi v manjih drubenih okoljih mest in vaseh z manj kot 5000 ljudmi. Izmed 11 slovenskih mest sta le dve, Maribor, Evropska prestolnica kulture 2012, in Ljubljana, glavno mesto Slovenije, ki tejeta ve kot 100.000 prebivalcev. Ti vidiki, skupaj z dejstvom, da ve kot polovico Slovenije e vedno pokriva gozd z zelo plodnim ozadjem, omogoa projektu 100YC nove, sodobne naine za opredelitev kakovosti ivljenja in zahteva nujno spravo med mestom in naravo. Svetovni okvir za takne ugotovitve in programi zaznamujejo nenadzorovano irjenje nekaterih mest in propad drugih, skupaj z eksponentnim poveanjem spektra in zahtevnostjo njihovih teav. Kitajska naj bi imela svoj prvi megapolis s 450 milijoni prebivalcev, kar je trenutna populacija celotne EU, na obmoju ob reki Yang-Tse, v velikosti Nemije, s trenutno 80 milijoni prebivalcev. Obenem se drava sooa z doslej novimi teavami, z umiranjem mest. Velika mesta z ve kot 100 milijoni prebivalcev nastajajo tudi v Indiji, ta rast, ne samo na raun manjih mest, temve tudi zato, ker za dobrobit vsakega posameznika v srediu iritve in pobegu podobno, predstavlja veliko nevarnost za ivljenjsko pomembne vire. Zaradi razpada infrastrukture v manjih mestih, se bo Mexico City, najbr e leta

    erosion of quality of urban life around them.Developments in information and communications technologies do provide the first tangible evidence and indicators of possible 100YC futures in this very dynamic sector but not so our transport systems. While our ideas regarding future forms of transportation find spectacular visualisations from Langs early Metropolis to e.g. Ridley Scotts Blade Runner, Luc Bressons Fifth Element, and Terry Gilliams Brazil, such futures in transportation seem in stark contrast to the actual historic patterns still in place in our cities, almost unchanged from Roman times. Slovenia provides the wider platform for the 100YC project with striking possibilities and specific challenges: Of a population of approximately two million, more than 50% live in smaller scale social environments of towns and villages with less than 5000 people, and of Slovenias 11 cities, only two - Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012, and Ljubljana, Slovenias capital - have populations greater than 100,000 inhabitants. These aspects together with the fact that more than half of Slovenia is still forested provide extremely fertile background for the 100YC project, calling forth new contemporary ways to define quality of living and seek vital reconciliation agendas of city and nature. The global context for such considerations and agendas is marked by uncontrolled expansion of some cities and yet collapse of others, accompanied by an exponential increase of the spectrum and complexity of their problems. China is expected to have its first megapolis of 450 million people (the population of the entire current EU) in an area around the Yang-Tse river the size of Germany (with currently 80 million inhabitants). At the same time the country faces unprecedented new problems with dying cities. While huge cities with more than 100 million inhabitants are emerging also in India, such growth is occurring not only at the expense of smaller urban areas, but also at that of almost every individual citizens wellbeing in the centres of expansion and desertion alike, posing enormous risks to their vital resources: While infrastructures decay in smaller cities, Mexico City might find itself without water reserves

  • 82016, znael brez vodnih zalog. eprav v manjem obsegu, velja Maribor za paradigmo teav te vrste. Prebivalci mesta iejo vejo kakovost ivljenja, ki jo lahko ponudita primestno in podeelsko okolje. S seboj vzamejo duh svojega mesta in urbano obliko ivljenja, ki posledino povzroi urbanizacijo podeelja. Mesta se ob tem krijo, ne le v nai domiljiji in poetino, kot v Nevidnih mestih Itala Calvina (La citta invisibile), temve dejansko, fizino. Globok obutek disfunkcionalnosti se v naih mestih tako iri, eprav so veplastne funkcije mesta pomembne za nao identiteto in se oblikujejo v odnosu do naih vrednot. In ko priznavamo, da lahko imajo mesta temeljno in konstitutivno vlogo v odnosu do drubene strukture sodobnih drub, kar je lahko kljunega pomena za prihodnost kulture kapitala, se zdi, da je mesto, paradoksalno, v nevarnosti. Zdrueni narodi napovedujejo, da se bo rast svetovne populacije nadaljevala vse do 9 milijard do leta 2070, kar je priblino na pol poti do horizonta projekta 100YC. Bo 21. stoletje pria pojavu gigapolisa, ko se mestno prebivalstvo raziri v milijarde, ali se bo na doloeni stopnji zgodila nova diverzifikacija in atomizacija z novimi etrtmi, regijami, obinami, subkulturami in urbanimi plemeni? asi za zaetek projekta 100YC so teki asi sprememb, motenj, napetosti in paradoksa, napolnjeni z monostmi in prilonostmi za prestrukturiranje, ponovno opredelitev in ponovno odkrivanje prihodnosti mesta. So pa soasno najbolj plodna podlaga za vizionarske arhitekte in urbaniste, da prenovijo perspektive, obnovijo ploadi in ponovno opredelijo pojme ivljenja v mestih ter da tvegajo nove oblike ivljenja v ekstremni urbani in trans-urbani prihodnosti. 100YC se postavlja v samo sredie tega podroja odkrivanja, predvidevanja in raziskav, ki jih izvajajo posamezniki z obutkom odgovornosti, z obutljivostjo do skupnega in jasnim razumevanjem tega, kar se postavlja na kocko. Globalno usmerjen 100YC bo tako vkljueval 100 vizionarjev vtevi napredne mednarodne arhitekturne ole

    as early as 2016. Although at a smaller scale, Maribor is a paradigm case for problems of this kind: Its people seek the higher quality of living that suburban and rural environments seem to offer. They take with them their city-spirit and urban form of life, which results in the urbanization of rural areas. Cities themselves are at the same time shrinking, not in our imagination and poetically as in Italo Calvinos Invisible Cities (La citta invisibile), but as a matter of fact, physically. A profound sense of dis-functionality of our cities is thus spreading, although the multi-layered functions of a city are central to our identities and formative in relation to our value systems. While we acknowledge that cities may play a fundamental and constitutive role in relation to the social fabric of modern societies and may be of vital importance to future societies cultural capital, the city seems to be paradoxically under threat. The United Nations predict that the global population growth will continue, to peak at 9 billion by the year 2070 roughly half-way towards the 100YC horizon. Will the 21st Century witness the emergence of the Gigapolis, as city populations expand into the billions, or will at some stage a new diversification and atomisation occur, with new quarters, regions, municipalities, subcultures and urban tribes? The times to launch the 100YC project are challenging times of change, disruption, tension and paradox - filled with possibilities and chances for re-structuring, re-defining, re-inventing the city of the future. They are the most fertile ground for visionary individual architects and urbanists to renew perspectives, rebuild platforms and redefine notions of living in cities and to venture into new forms of life in extreme urban and trans-urban futures. 100YC places itself at the very centre of this field of discovery, speculation and research, to be conducted by individuals with a sense of responsibility, a sensitivity towards the common, and clear understanding of what is at stake. Globally focused, 100YC will thus bring together 100 visionaries including progressive international architecture schools under the directorship of many of the worlds most innovative

  • pod vodstvom mnogih najbolj inovativnih svetovnih arhitektov. Vsak naj bi predlagal svojo vizijo narta za mesto Maribor kot eksperimentalnega prostora in delal z transdisciplinarno ekipo, ki lahko vkljuuje arhitekte, inenirje, znanstvenike, podjetnike, ekonomiste, umetnike, futuriste, filozofe in urbaniste. V projektu 100YC bodo nato predstavljene vse vizije prihodnosti z eljo, odpreti nove monosti za predstavitve in razprave o globalnem odzivu ustvarjalne kulture in tehnologije do splonih izzivov, s katerimi se sooa tudi Maribor. Cilj 100YC izpostavlja vzorce globalnih sprememb in prepoznavanje moteih mehanizmov ter njihov vpliv na ivljenje v ekstremni prihodnosti. Njegova podpisna metodologija temelji na praksi raziskav - raziskav skozi oblikovanje. Posebni projekti predstavljajo tudi laboratorije za raziskovanje in predstavitev inovativnih pristopov ter ustreznih modelov oblikovanja dobre prakse. Meddisciplinarno miljenje in preoblikovanje sodelovalne prakse, kot kljune kompetence, je najpomembneje za nadaljevanje dela do prihodnje inovacije, ki temelji na razvoju znanosti materialov, loveko-raunalnikih vmesnikov, izkuenj oblikovanja in inenirskih sistemov, kot pristopov, izhajajoih iz nove dinamike kognitivnega in tehnolokega podroja.100YC torej poudarja naravo zunanjih pritiskov na podroje arhitekture in nastajajoe ter oitne kompleksnosti in paradokse, ki urejajo mesta. Namen projekta je, da se ustanovi stalna raziskava laboratorijske destinacije za prihodnje razprave in razvoj arhitekturne inteligence. Ta se bo zavzemala za sposobnost pogleda v prihodnost, za raziskovanje predvidenih sprememb in spodbujanje k izjemnemu optimizmu kot enemu temeljnih pogojev za preoblikovanje mesta in transformacijo oblikovanja globalne ekonomije v 21. stoletju.

    Peter Toma Dobrila & Tom Kovac

    architects. Each is invited to propose a vision or master plan for the City of Maribor as an experimental space and work within trans-disciplinary teams that may include architects, engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, economists, artists, futurists, philosophers and urbanists. 100YC will then showcase these future visions with the ambition to open up new avenues of presenting and debating a global response of creative culture and technology to the generic challenges also facing Maribor. 100YC aims at exposing patterns of global change and identifying disruptive mechanisms and their impact on life in the extreme future. Its signature methodology consists in practice based research research through design. The specific projects also represent laboratories to explore and showcase innovative approaches and appropriate models of design practice research. This form of investigation understands trans-disciplinary thinking and transformational collaborative practice as core competencies, quintessential to the capacity to condition future innovation. It recognizes the evolution in material science, human-computer interfaces, experience design and engineered systems as approaches that emerge from new dynamics across cognitive and technological domains. 100YC thus highlights the nature of external pressures on architecture and the emerging and evident complexities and paradoxes governing cities. An intended outcome is to establish itself as a permanent research lab destination for future discourse and the evolution of architectural intelligence. It will promote a long view capability to explore such speculative futures and to foster extreme optimism as core conditions in order to reshape the city and transform design and the global economies of the 21st century.

    Peter Toma Dobrila & Tom Kovac

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    Professor Leon van SchaikMaribor 2012 European Capital of Culture Gallery DESSA in Ljubljana

    Leon van Schaik (AO, LFAIA, RIBA, PhD) studied at the Architectural Association (AA) in London and is Professor of Architecture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) where he holds an Innovation Chair in practice based research in design. From his base in Melbourne, he has promoted local and international architectural culture through design practice-based research. Amongst a long list of seminal publications, Professor van Schaik is the author of Mastering Architecture: Becoming a Creative Innovator in Practice (Wiley-Academy, 2005), Design City Melbourne (Wiley-Academy, 2006), Spatial Intelligence (Wiley 2008). A recent publication is Procuring Innovative Architecture co-authored with Geoffrey London and Beth George (Routledge 2010).

    The Procuring Innovative Architecture exhibition has been commissioned as part of the Maribor European City of Culture Architecture Program to demonstrate how the pursuit of innovative architecture by cities around the world has played a pivotal role in the capturing of the local culture of those cities. The exhibition proposition is that when the architecture

    procured by a city region is creatively engaged in furthering the desires of that citys citizens, those citizens experience the well being that comes from participating in formulating what the city means for its inhabitants. Forward-looking architecture doesnt merely form an unconscious carapace of our civic culture; it helps us to determine new futures for our selves. This is so much better than experiencing change as a victim!

    The city regions featured are (in Europe) Slovenia and Styria, The Ticino, Flanders, Barcelona and London; (in Asia) Melbourne, Perth and Kumamoto, Japan; and (in the USA) Los Angeles with reference to East Coast and Mid West exemplars.

    The exhibition compares current innovation with recently captured innovative architecture in each of the above city states. The book Procuring Innovative Architecture provides the base for the exhibition, and distinguished architects in each city region provide their views on current innovation in the work of their region in a symposium.

    The exhibition exists in two forms: as a virtual model of this exhibition at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale and as a real time exhibition in the DESSA Gallery in Ljubljana. Both are designed around the DESSA Gallery.

    Invited exhibition by Tom Kovac, Curator 13th Venice Architecture Biennale Slovenian Pavilion, Director of Architecture 2112Ai [Architectural intelligence], Maribor 2012 European Capital of Culture.Auspiced by the Director of DESSA, Andrej Hrausky.

    Procuring Innovative Architecture

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    D-RES 2

    Uvod / Introduction 4

    100YC 6Peter Toma Dobrila, Tom Kovac

    Procuring Innovative Architecture 10Leon van Schaik

    Bologna UniversityA3 14Alessio Erioli

    Dessau Institute of Architecture Maribor 2112 Ai 16Matias del Campo, Sandra Manninger

    PARA-rchitecture Contingency Studio 18Codes in the Clouds III Liss C. Werner

    Die AngewandteAlessi Mutants 20Tom Kovac, Reiner Zettl

    Graz University of TechnologySpecific | Unspecific 22Roger Riewe, Marisol Vidal, Ferdinand Oswald, Alexandra Stingl

    KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyProductive Surfaces 24Ulrika Karlsson, Jonah Fritzell, Daniel Norell, Einar Rodhe

    University of LjubljanaSouth Infrastructural Zipper 26Peter Gabrijeli

    Lund UniversityArchitectural Mutations: Cipher Systems 28Tina-Henriette Kristiansen, Julia Koerner,Adam Vukmanov

    Monash UniversityMemory + Migration, 30Cyclic Cities, Urban Dialects Nigel Bertram, Tim Schork

    Pratt InstituteMaribor Manifold 32Karl Chu

    Princeton UniversityVisionary Ecologies 34Urban-Stratification Wendy Fok

    RMIT University Transfomer 36Karl Fender, Jose Alfano, Tom Kovac

    Nano Transit City 38Tom Kovac

    Maribor 2112 40Charles Anderson

    High Rise OF Maribor Tower 42Jane Burry

    Around The Bend 44Paul Minifie

    FORMFIELD4: 46The Speculative Campus ProjectVivian Mitsogianni

    Kazalo / Content

  • NCertainties 48Franois Roche

    Volatile Tectonics 50Roland Snooks

    RMIT Hydrogen Fuel Cell Truck 52(H-Truck) Aleksandar Subic

    Hexactinellus Euplectellidae 54Nicholas Williams

    Pragmatic Utopia 56Gretchen Wilkins

    SCI ArcMaribor Mutations 58Hernan Diaz Alonso

    Treads of Maribor: 60A New Bridge for Drava River Elena Manferdini

    Maribors Land of Gables 62Florencia Pita, Jackiline Hah Bloom

    K/LOUD 64Marcelo Spina

    Figures In A Sack 66Tom Wiscombe

    Five Principles for A Differential Urbanism 68Peter Zellner, David Bergman

    Sint LucasFalse Start. What Matters? 70Martine De Maeseneer, Gideon Boie

    University of InnsbruckBio(tro)nic Gardens 72Marjan Colletti, Georg Grasser,Daniel Luckeneder, Aleksandrina Rizova

    From Maribor, to Moneyborn 74Bart Lootsma, Peter Trummer, Martin Mutschlechner

    City Of Knowledge 76Patrik Schumacher

    The City As An Aggregated Object 78Peter Trummer

    Studio 8 ArchitectsThe Hunting Exchange of Maribor 80CJ Lim

    UCLAFaces Of Maribor 82Hadrian Predock

    University of Western AustraliaSpace Train Station, A New Layer of City 84Rene Van Meeuwen

    University of Technology SydneyUrban Seeds 86Chris Bosse

    Free Trade Zones 88Dale Jones Evans

    Zizi YoyoMariBIOr 90Veronika Valk, Toomas Tammis

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    Studio Leaders: Alessio Erioli

    School or Institution: Bologna University

    Country: Italy

    Website:http://www.unibo.it/docenti/alessio.erioli

    1. Studio Leader BiographyAlessio Erioli is an Engineer and Senior Researcher at the Universit. di Bologna where he also teaches Architectural Design. He holds a MArch in Biodigital Architecture, PhD in Architectural Engineering, co-founder and coder at Co-de-iT (www.co-de-it.com). He has been an advisor for many Master Thesis in Engineering and Architecture; and has lectured for (amongst others) IaaC (Barcelona), AA Visiting school in Paris, TU Innsbruck, Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico). His interests gravitate to the orbital that interweaves teaching & design ecologies in Biodigital architecture. His recent interests engage with Agent-Based modeling simulation of Complex Adaptive Systems in architecture coupled with form-finding strategies.

    2. School Established in 1088, the University of Bologna is credited as the oldest of the western world. Its history is intertwined with the ones

    of great people operating in the fields of science and humanities, making it an unmissable reference point in European culture, maintaining its central position until the period between the world wars, when other countries came to the forefront in teaching and research. Bologna has thus forged relationships with institutions in the most advanced countries to modernise and expand its activity, committing itself to the European dimension which has now led to the new university system.

    3. Studio descriptionThe studio will investigate the implications of intelligence as embodied and embedded into the architectural system itself as distributed processes of structured information exchange and its inextricable environmental interrelations. Intelligence tendency is to be ubiquitous and embodied into organisms and their environments alike; in such condition ecology expresses itself in its very core definition of abundance and distribution of resources through information exchanges at all possible scales of complexity.

    Such embodiment and embeddedness will be investigated exploiting swarm intelligence (through the propagation of agent-based systems) coupled with multi-scale form-finding processes as a mean to unleash open-ended creativity and

    a potential range of affects. Such agent-based systems will co-operate (collaborating or competing) within intensive environmental force-fields and proactively engage the body-mind-environment relations, from the logics of material organization to the reverberations at several system scales.

    Team Members 01:Andrea Barbieri Filippo ContiGiulia MariottiBeatrice Scardovi

    FIND(&)MERGE

    Find(&)Merge is a project that starts with a research of a coherent strategy that can be implemented regardless of changing conditions. Exploiting emergent behaviour of systems we obtain a model that fits and simultaneously change the configuration of the area in which the system acts.

    Projected Start: 2102Projected End: 2112Category: Knowledge

    Team Members 02:Giulia BotturaIlaria FioriniPier Luigi Forte Lorenzo Natali

    R+D REACTION & DIFFUSION

    Users connection is even more global and, thanks to artificial intelligence, technology and organism will be no longer different. Expressing connection through the interaction of Fitzhugh-Nagumo model (which also acts as reaction-diffusion system for pattern formation) with environmental force fields, we obtained spatial organizations for a possible future in the centre of Maribor in 2112.

    Projected Start: 2112Projected End: 2162 Category: Technology

    Team Members 03:Chiara ColliSalvatore Marino Uberto Pignatti Morano Giovanna Roncuzzi

    STIGMERGIC FLOWS

    New ways of exchanging information gives the opportunity to connect people no matter the distance, so the need of adaptive buildings becomes stronger. Therefore this architecture is capable of hosting different functions and the process that generates it can produce new shapes to adapt to future needs.

    Projected Start: 2082Projected End: 2092 Category: Knowledge

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    Studio Leaders: Matias del Campo, Sandra Manninger

    School or Institution: D/A - Dessau Institute of ArchitectureAnhalt University of Applied Sciences

    Country: Germany

    Website: www.dia-architecture.de

    1. Studio Leader BiographyMatias del Campo and Sandra Manningers focal point is in the implementation of advanced, computational design techniques & the application of computer controlled fabrication methods.

    The practice has won numerous competitions and honours such as the Price for Experimental Tendencies in Architecture. Among their best known designs is the Austrian Pavilion for the Shanghai Expo 2010.

    Matias del Campo and Sandra Manninger additionally focus on teaching architecture design in such schools as the Dessau Institute of Architecture, and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.

    2. School The Dessau Institute of Architecture is a graduate unit within the Faculty of Architecture and Building Engineering in Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Dessau, Germany. The institute runs a four semester Masters Program in architecture, which is taught in English. The institute is located partly within the historic Bauhaus building designed by Walter Gropius. As a School of Architecture, DIA took part in the 2006, 2008 and 2010 Beijing Architecture Biennale. The school offers a multitude of academic options, and puts strong emphasis in teaching both theory in balance with computational media and their intelligent architectonic and technological handling.

    3. Studio description

    Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else. (Italo Calvino)

    Unpossessed places, which are based on human contact with the complex inhuman urban structure. The complexity of form is defined by visual and geometrical characteristic of both interconnected paths and fibrous energy collectors. This is provided by putting together components of various heights, which

    connect and interact in a particular ways to create a coherent whole.

    An emergent phenomenon arises from having a range of alternative choices of components of various types and sizes, creating both diversity in connectivity and levels among components. This selection depends on both urban geometry and urban flexibility, with system evolution generating connections that cross both modular boundaries and distinct scales, to connect one small component with a much larger structure.

    Whilst the lower modular parts of the components define various connected spaces across different levels the upper fibrous sections harvest both energy and natural resources through deformation to environmental pressures.

    Team 01Abdulmalik SaeedAnahit Hayrapetyan Tuan Anh PhamLila Panahi KazemiJoanna DominiakMatthew GaydonSidi ChenZhenhua Xu

    PERPLEX APEX

    Perplex Apex occupies Maribor by redefining current field conditions, to deploy new urban densities, in plan and section, based on potential mass and void, skyline through various levels and scales of interconnected components. This new fibrous skyline harnesses the local environmental pressure and resources to sustain the cities life.

    Projected Start: 2022Projected End: 2112 Category: Technology

    Team 02Ana StefanovicAndrew MogylnyiClaudia StoicaMahmoud El HakimSebastian BiakowskiXintian Li

    CONVOLUTED CORROSION

    The Convoluted Corrosion project is the future city concept for Maribor, Slovenia. The main idea of the project is to simulate the characteristics of metabolism to continuously subdivide the city into variations of aggregated conditions. These fields are generated with specific urban qualities that can allow and act as an interactive fabric, which is adaptable to change, and expansion.

    Projected Start: 2020Projected End: 2112 Category: Knowledge

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  • Team 03Xian GongSelma KoudsiYasser MehannaAndreea NicaAndrea RossiKoichi Sugawara Matteo TaramelliTanya Zabavska

    TYCHONIAN SEHNSUCHT

    Divinior et excellentior sit Triangulorum sphricorum cognitio, quam fas sit eius mysteria omnibus propalare.(Tycho Brahe)

    A recursive spinning organism, continuously weaving fibers in a redundant labyrinth of claustrophobic abysses, that bonds back humans and architecture in a sensual relationship of mutual yearning.

    Projected Start: 2022Projected End: 2112 Category: Knowledge

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    Studio Leader: Liss C. Werner

    School or Institution: D/A - Dessau Institute of ArchitectureAnhalt University of Applied Sciences

    Country: Germany

    Website: www.dia-architecture.de www.studio-codesintheclouds.comwww.tactile-architecture.com

    1. Studio Leader BiographyLiss C. Werner is a Berlin based architect, trained at RMIT and the Bartlett. She holds a teaching and research post for Computational Architecture and Cybernetics at D/A and is guest professor at Carnegie Mellon University, PA. Since 2002 Liss C. Werner has been invited to teach, crit, and lecture at various universities in the UK, Germany, Austria and Ukraine. As architectural researcher she is currently writing her Phd thesis on Architecture + Cybernetics, curated / contributed to several conferences and publications (Digital Week D/A, Design Modelling Symposium UDK Berlin, Scripting the Future - Tongji). As project architect she worked on private residential and urban projects in the UK, Germany and Russia. Liss was awarded the DeVere Urban Design Prize and Peter-Fuld Scholarship, is

    a member of the Bartlett Society, AHRA (Architectural Humanities Research Association), American Society of Cybernetics and George N. Pauly Fellow. Currently a publication on the work produced in her studio Codes in the Clouds at D/A is in preparation.

    2. School D/A, located at the famous Gropius Bauhaus location, conducts an international Master Course in Architecture run by Prof. Alfred Jacoby. The school has expanded from 10 students in 1999 to now 170 from over 40 countries with international teaching staff and has a large number of exchange partner universities around the globe. D/A took part in various Beijing Architecture Biennales, and projects have been published widely. As laboratory of research D/A has established a promising culture of urban, theoretical and computational architecture of scripting, coding and genealogical taxonomy to arrive at solutions for European and global challenges that support the evolution of architecture as a dynamic system informed by generating new strategies. A strong teaching culture encourages students to explore advanced technology and digital fabrication. Systematic design methods paired with computational thinking adopt design tools that arrive at unforeseen architectural proposals.

    3. Studio Description Codes in the Clouds is a research by design studio concerned with the exploration of computation to provoke an architectural vocabulary that allows the architecture of the near future to depart from the 19th century understanding of predetermined form towards an architecture of code, self-organisation and agent-based formations.

    PAR.A-rchitecture 2.0 Contingency suggests a systemic, evolutionary rather than formal approach towards developing space and function, and considers Maribors cultural, topographical, economical and tactile development as base for its work. The studio is looking at growth of sublime architecture and the idea of architecture as hierarchical or non-hierarchical, emergent organism. The overriding cybernetic approach requires the studio to work systematically and systemic at the same time. We strongly engage with behavioural and adjunct geometrical principles of natural and synthetic material to establish strategies for architecture of repair and mutation. The architecture found in the studio is architecture of iterations, of a para-architectural quality, in analysis, process and outcome. The project investigates into the difference of cultural and biological evolution processes as PAR.A-rchitecture, as mutation and emergent

    systems with neurobiological constraints at the same time. We look to develop interdisciplinary contemporary code-based vision for Maribor 2112. Basis for our work is the historical, economical and demographic development of codes in the city of Maribor on a global and local level paired with computational tools of advanced architectural design. Arriving at progressive architecture that on one hand reflects history and on the other hand suggests the future of Maribor, is the make-up of PAR.A-rchitecture Contingency 2.0.

    Team 01Ali FarhanSTIGMERGIC SCAPE

    StigMergic Scape suggests a future conception of space as difference-reality, where the boundary of virtual and physical blends. It describes an argument to construct and rethink architectural spatial logic. Future residential and economic concerns are focused on to define the city scape as generic growth pattern. Activities are analysed within the existing industrial areas and reformulated as connecting network of nodes, eventually turning into a series of fluid potential-spaces.

    Projected Start: 2042Projected End: 2112 Category: Commerce

    Team 02: Arieo Thanico Suen Siu Kiu, PaulineOCCUPANY FLOW

    Occupancy Flow, features a production system for bio-technologically combined material to re-pair and re-flesh buildings in repair and abandoned spaces. Code is based on a sound analysis of the existing pattern of decay in the city.

    PARA-rchitecture Contingency Studio Codes in the Clouds III

  • The architecture of Occupancy Flow encourages the idea of a positive para-site and describes a strategy that can be applied locally and globally.

    Projected Start: 2022Projected End: 2112 Category: Technology

    Team 03: Bin ZhangFei TengYouzhi WangVEDO\\VINO

    +Vedo\\Vino merges the green areas of Maribor. Based on a demographic analysis over the last decades the project challenges the issue of an aging city, and at the same time the transformation of an urban network into a scripted greenscape.

    Human behaviour interacts with material behaviour to arrive at a set of computationally generated spaces, pathways and transportation systems.

    Projected Start: 2032Projected End: 2112 Category: Transport

  • 20

    Studio Leaders: Reiner Zettl, Tom Kovac

    School or Institution: Die Angewandte (Uni. of Applied Arts Vienna)Urban Strategies

    Country: Austria

    Website: www. urbanstrategies.at/

    1. Studio Leader BiographyReiner Zettl, is a Professor and Art Historian at the Architecture Institute at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the Academy of Fine Art Vienna. Zettl is also Academic Director of the Urban Strategies Postgraduate Program at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Zettl was co-Curator of Design Now: Austria, Curator of Rock over Barock. 7+2 young and beautiful (Kunsthaus Mrzzuschlag). In 2006 Zettl was Curator of Stadt = Form Raum Netz 10th Venice Architecture Biennale, Austrian Pavilion. Recently Zettl also took part at the 12th Venice Architecture Biennale Austria Under Construction Austrian Pavilion exhibition.

    Tom Kovac, is a Professor of Architecture at RMIT University, Visiting Professor at IoA Die Angewandte, Vienna and Sci Arc, Los Angeles. In 2012 Kovac is the Director of Architecture, 2112Ai Maribor 2012 European Capital of Culture and Curator of the 13th Venice Architecture

    Biennale Slovenian Pavilion. In 2012 he is also taking part in Ars Electronica Festival The Big Picture and Protoecologics. Kovacs work is in the collections of the FRAC Centre Orleans, The American Library of Congress Washington, The Alessi Museum Italy and The Centre Pompidou Paris.

    2. School The University of Applied Arts Vienna is home to more than 2,000 students, many of whom come from other countries, both within Europe and abroad. The broad spectrum of artistic disciplines, complemented by a large number of scientific subjects, certainly enriches the special atmosphere that prevails at the Angewandte. The Angewandte sees itself as a place for free artistic and academic expression, as a forum for open debate, and as a laboratory for artistic visions, which unfold their potentials in the society of the future. Our goal to remain one of the best art schools in the world is inextricably linked to the consistent effort invested into continually increasing our quality standards, the ongoing renewal of creative potential, and our uncompromising advocacy of artistic and academic freedom.

    3. Studio descriptionThe four-week intensive studio reinvents the future relationship between architecture and industrial

    object, and explores in emergent digital directions within objects and architectural design. The studio aims at investigating and exploring the systems, processes, technology, digital fabrication techniques in the context of research, culture, practice, and on form itself. The purpose is to develop series of small-scale objects scaleable geometries that will assist in the development of objects of future and architectural forms.

    Each piece aims at exploring a new environment using a formal language of fluidity that seamlessly transform object and architecture into a comprehensive environment. The pieces aim to provide a basis for research into patterns and forms in ways previously deemed impossible, with the designs demonstrating the potential to transform from single object into a series of interconnected elements and pavilion form, extending Alessis 20-year parallel explorations in Tea & Coffee projects into new design and micro architecture.

    The studio offers architects and designers a place to put forward experimental methods, forms and styles amidst the technological revolution that is reshaping contemporary design and architecture. It is a hybrid, quoting design and architecture as a scale-less field of operation and spatial production.

    Though some objects are imbued with functionality and ergonomic considerations, it is about manipulating space and formal integration. The designed environment describes movement in a static material using state-of-the-art methods of design and fabrication. The Alessi Mutants project presents a far-reaching opportunity in developing knowledge and the myriad of architectural processes of Alessi project design. Its aim is to transform our vision of the future with new spatial concepts and bold, visionary forms.

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  • UNO Team 01Selene WongSPOOON

    The Spooon, is parametric in its arrangement with differentiated modules that are able to form a series of nested sculpture, which create new typologies for the otherwise generic utilitarian table landscape. The design demonstrates potential to transform from single object into a series of interconnected elements and iterative forms, extending Alessis 20 year parallel explorations in Tea & Coffee projects, into new design and micro architecture.

    Projected Start: 2012Projected End: 2032 Category: Technology

    Team 02Bradley David MartinRENEWAL

    All processes leave their mark, all processes change; all industries must renew to survive. Renewal represents the beginning of a radical change in the production of goods that allows less material to be combined to form superior compounds that are far more fit for utilitarian purpose. than have ever been achieved before.

    Projected Start: 2012Projected End: 2032 Category: Technology

    Team 03Giana Aleah ZukafliUNO

    Uno, forms from a single cell transforming and generating into a variation of typologies. This behavioural pattern and system adopts the comparative biological evolution of molecular forms. This transitional phenomena creates a series of dynamic forms based on the conditions of the environment.

    Projected Start: 2012Projected End: 2032 Category: Technology

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    Studio Leaders: Roger Riewe, Marisol Vidal, Ferdinand Oswald, Alexandra Stingl

    School or Institution: Institute of Architecture TechnologyTUGraz

    Country: Austria

    Website:www.iat.at

    1. Studio Leader BiographyRoger Riewe studied Architecture at the RWTH Aachen, Germany. In 1987 he founded the architectural practice Riegler Riewe in Graz, Austria together with Florian Riegler. Their works have received numerous awards and have been internationally published and presented. Since 2001 Roger Riewe has been professor and head of the Institute for Architecture Technology at Graz University of Technology, Austria.

    Marisol Vidal studied Architecture at the ETSAV (Escuela Tcnica Superior de Arquitectura) in Valencia, Spain. After graduating she moved to Graz, where she worked in several offices and as freelance. Since 2003 she has been teaching and researching at the Institute of Architecture Technology with her main focus on the interrelation between construction and design.

    Ferdinand Oswald worked as carpenter in Heidelberg and studied architecture at ETSAG in Granada, Spain, at the Agency of Urban Planning in Bern, Switzerland, and graduated at Technical University Dresden, Germany. He has been working at the Institute of Architecture Technology since 2008, intensifying the topic of structure & faade technology in teaching and research.

    Alexandra Stingl studied Architecture at Graz University of Technology and Ecole dArchitecture Paris Belleville. In 2000 she founded the architectural practice Stingl-Enge Architects together with Winfried Enge. She has been teaching since 2003 at the Institute of Architecture Technology.

    2. School Graz University of Technology pursues top teaching and research in the fields of the engineering sciences and the technical-natural sciences. An integral part of putting together excellent education and training programs is knowing about the needs of society and the economy.

    3. Studio Description There is currently a high office vacancy rate in Europe and the trend is increasing. Tearing down and replacing an intact building which might well be good for another 50 years of service simply because

    it doesnt fit in with todays market demands is a far remove from sustainable. With this situation in mind new buildings need to be planned so that they can easily and efficiently be transformed from residential to office uses and vice versa, thus stretching their useful operational life. This process of transformation will only be possible and/or cost-effective if the conditions of the new building are suitable. But what are these conditions?

    This task was posed to a group of 3rd year students of Architecture at the Technical University Graz by their tutors at the Institute for Architecture Technology. The void at Mlinska Ulica offered the perfect site for the experiment: within walking distance from the city centre and both the train- and bus station and connecting the old-city with areas of future development on both banks of the river.

    The students were called on to design one or more buildings for this site, which could be used for either residential or office purposes. Each unit was required to be readily convertible from office to apartment use and vice versa. A plot ratio 2,000 and an open space provision 50% were specified. In order to stimulate experimental approaches no height limitation was set. The result would be a kind of blank, a base line catering equally for the highly specific requirements of residential

    units and those of offices and providing a location that is, at least to some extent, thoroughly neutral in terms of use.

    Students were called to design a kind of blank for the Mlinska Ulica, a base line catering equally for the highly specific requirements of residential units and those of offices and providing a location that is, at least to some extent, thoroughly neutral in terms of use.

    SPECIFIC | UNSPECIFIC

    Team 01Stefan PrattesTutor: Marisol VIDALSTEFAN PRATTES

    Team 02Cornelia SteinerTutor: Ferdinand OswaldCORNELIA STEINER

    Team 03Kathrin StottnerTutor: Alesandra StinglKATHRIN STOTTNER

    Projected Start: 2012Projected End: 2032-42 Category: Technology, Knowledge

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    Studio Leaders: Ulrika Karlsson, Jonah Fritzell, Daniel Norell, Einar Rodhe

    School or Institution: KTH School of ArchitecturePerformative Design Studio

    Country: Sweden

    Website:www.arch.kth.se

    1. Studio Leader BiographyUlrika Karlsson is a Visiting Professor in Architecture and the Head of Program at KTH School of Architecture. Karlsson is also principal of servo stockholm.

    Jonah Fritzell is a Lecturer in Architecture at the KTH School of Architecture and founding partner of Studio Aah Architecture & Design.

    Daniel Norell is a Lecturer in Architecture at the KTH School of Architecture, principal of his own practice in Stockholm and a Senior Lecturer at Chalmers University in Gothenburg.

    Einar Rodhe is a Lecturer in Architecture at the KTH School of Architecture and principal of his own practice in Stockholm.

    2. SchoolKTH School of Architecture was founded in 1877 and has its current location in

    Stockholm since 1970. The School of Architecture is one of seven departments within the School of Architecture and the Built Environment and divides into four operative and executive divisions: Bachelor, Masters, Research and PhD Level, Outreach and Electives. KTH School of Architecture focuses in the fields of Basic and Advanced Design, Sustainable Design, Performative Design, Design Processes, Urban Design, Architecture Technology, Critical Studies and History and Theory of Architecture. The school has a well-equipped workshop, an advanced digital fabrication lab and an architecture library with a large collection of books and journals. In total there are around 600 students in the professional programs.

    3. Studio DescriptionThe studio investigates architecture when informed by biotic material and processes related to farming in the urban context of Maribor. If surfaces are defined as boundaries, the studio investigates when the surface gets lax, punctuated or the encapsulation erodes; the surface dissolves into a fuzzy mlange of solid and liquid matter, gaseous elements and space. A productive surface is more than a surface boundaries of matter, it has by-products emissive in the sense that it produces architectural affect, energy, biotic and abiotic

    matter, conditioned by its context.

    The elusive relationship between the computational control of surface geometry in architecture, to produce mass and void, architectural interiorities, volumes, apertures and structure, and the surfaces material capacity, as a differentially permeable thickness, that engages with the surrounding atmosphere - moisture levels, substrates, dirt and vegetal matter - involves a shift from the precisely figured toward a more entropic state, occasionally obliterating the discrete identities of its architecture.

    We have recently seen an increased interest in food production and urban agriculture, but little has highlighted the implications for the shape and the structure of urban form. This studio seeks to investigate urban agriculture as diverse compounds of nested volumes, mass and void, where a multiplicity of scales and spatial aggregates, allows for a manifold of social, architectural, biotic and abiotic qualities.

    Team 01Olga KrukovskayaTeodor strmTHE URBAN RAVINE

    The most dominant features in the project are water, vegetation and landscape. All of these features are used to create a strong dreamy ambiance in the project, negotiating between the two opposite notions of the constructed urban landscape and the untouched nature.

    Projected Start: 2062Projected End: 2112 Category: Commerce

    Team 02Cecilia LundbckVeronica SkeppeSelma Udriot JohanssonPRODUCTIVE LEAK

    Productive Leak is a speculative proposal on how to integrate farming in an urban context in Maribor, Slovenia. It proposes a delta-like city district, in which the architecture is driven by its experiential and performative qualities in dealing with collection, retention and distribution of water, on all its scales.

    Projected Start: 2012Projected End: 2112 Category: Commerce

    Team 03Ayda Ece Aaolu Cesilia SilvastiGROW AND GLOW: THE INTENSIVE SURFACE

    Grow and Glow: The Intensive Surface is an urban agriculture proposal, spanning over 90,000 sqm, located in the future city of Maribor, Slovenia aiming to investigate and speculate on the interplay of biotic and abiotic program and material at an urban scale as well a detailed building scale.

    Projected Start: 2022Projected End: 2112 Category: Commerce

    Productive Surfaces (A)Biotic Architectures II

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    Studio Leader: Peter Gabrijeli

    Studio Assistant:Mojca Gregorski

    School or Institution: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Architecture

    Country: Slovenia

    Website: www.fa.uni-lj.si

    1. Studio Leader BiographyProf. M.Sc. Peter Gabrijeli, UL, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, MA in Landscape and Urban Planning (UL, Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Architecture, Construction, and Geodesy, Department of Construction, Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Stndies, 1985).

    Research experience: landscape and urban planning, urban regeneration, models for revitalisation of degraded urban areas, analysis of trends of spatial development, ruralism and rural architecture, bridge construction.

    2. School The Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana is generally considered one of the challenging Central European schools of architecture. Confirmation of its quality comes from numerous successful students and

    graduates, often achieving enviable results domestically and abroad, as well as its high quality teaching staff effectively covering most contemporary issues of architectural creativity. There are almost 700 students enrolled in the graduate course while the teaching and associate staff includes some 65 employees. Enrolment in the Faculty entails an entrance exam. Each year 120 regular and 45 part-time students are accepted. In the year 2000 the 3000th student graduated from the Faculty. Our graduates are known for their general and professionally profiled knowledge and systematic project approach enabling successful employment in various fields of artistic and architectural endeavours from graphic design, scenography, interior design, architectural and urban design to physical planning. FA is a member of EAAE (European Association for Architectural Education).

    3. Studio Description Project presents visions of urban development which is determined by new southern ring road of Maribor city. In the future development, road should become the infrastructural zipper that opens numerous opportunities of spatial development. Road is a new form of public space where we are confronted with international flow. Road is endless continuous

    flow of people, economy, development and opportunities.

    It is already decided that new southern ring road of Maribor will be positioned on the point where the Pohorje massive connects to the bay of lowland Ptuj field. The space simultaneously presents the edge of the town Maribor and touches the Pohorje massive. This is one of the UNIQUE locations in the Maribor city where city meets nature. Despite the fact that new road should divide or even cut this two entities, we plan future development with a road as a zipper that connects city and nature. Road becomes a generator of development, international axis of economical flow. It is in the area of the city and at the same time in the area of the Europe, filled in with international users. This is a point where city Maribor connects to the Europe.

    Road is crossing fields and interacting with golf courses and Betnava castle, continuing as dug-in tunnel into Pohorje massive with sequences of viewpoints. Further it is moving on closer to the city, where it attracts urban development marked by skyscrapers. They are new city markers, nodes marking town streets and rhythm of the driver. There are numerous crossings over, above and parallel to the flow that establishes endless connections between left and

    right side of the location. At the same time, the ring road joins Pohorje sport centre and skiing resort into one unique entity.

    Team MembersMiha BratinaBla alamunpela Glava

    SOUTHINFRASTRUCTURAL ZIPPER

    This project presents a vision for future urban development determined by the new southern ring road for the city of Maribor city. The road should act as an infrastructural zipper by opening numerous opportunities for spatial development and provide a new form of public space. The road is envisaged as a portal for an international flow of people, economy and development opportunities.

    Currently the plan is for the new southern ring road of Maribor to be positioned on the point where the Pohorje massive connects to the bay of lowland Ptuj field. The area simultaneously connects the edge of Maribor with the Pohorje massive and is one of the unique locations in Maribor where the city meets nature. The current plan proposes that the new road divides or even cuts these entities in two, however, we envisage that the future development as a zipper that connects the city and nature. As a result, the road becomes a generator for development and an international axis of economical flow. It is in the area of the city and, at the same time, it is the a point where the city of Maribor connects to Europe.

    The road crosses fields and interacts with golf courses and Betnava castle, continuing as a digged-in tunnel into the Pohorje massive with sequences of viewpoints. As it moves closer to the city, it attracts urban development marked by skyscrapers. They are new city markers, nodes marking town streets and the rhythm of the driver. There are numerous crossings over,

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    Projected Start: 2010Projected End: 2030 Category: Transportation

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    Studio Leader: Tina-Henriette Kristiansen

    Additional InstructorsJulia Koerner, Adam Vukmanov

    Guest professors:Sir Peter Cook, Erick Carcamo, John Ross and Thomas Chevalier

    School or Institution: Lund University Department of Architecture, Department of Theoretical and Applied Aesthetics, Architectural Mutations S.A.T. Space and Technology

    Country: Sweden

    Website: www.arch.lth.sewww.architecturalmutations.blogspot.se

    1. Studio Leader BiographyTina-Henriette Kristiansen is a Danish architect and leader of 3 design units at Lunds University. She received her master degree from AARCH, Aarhus, Denmark in 1998. Her Ph.D. studies and research areas are on Augmented Reality and Extreme Environments and she has on several occasions been a visiting researcher and guest professor at NASA Johnson Space Center, USA and many international schools among Sasakawa International

    Center for Space Architecture, Houston University, ETH Zurich, KISD Cologne, Architectural Association London, ESA European Space Agency, Rice University, Royal Academy of fine arts, Copenhagen.

    Julia Koerner is an Austrian architect, based in London. She has received her master degree in architecture with distinction in Greg Lynns studio at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, 2009. Since 2007 she has been working for Ross Lovegrove Studio in London. Julia has taught at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Architectural Association London as well since 2010 as guest professor at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Aesthetics, School of Architecture, Lunds University. Adam Vukmanov is a London based architect, researcher and lecturer. He has received his master degree in architecture with honours in Greg Lynns master class at University of Applied Arts Vienna, in June 2009. Until recently, Adam has been working as Project Architect at Acme and before that at Span-arch in Vienna where he was involved in construction and advanced fabrication of Austrian EXPO pavilion in Shanghai 2010. He has taught at University of Applied

    Arts, Vienna, Architectural Associations Visiting School in Paris and is currently a guest lecturer at the School of Architecture, Lunds University.

    2. School Lund University has long and vibrant history covering almost 350 years of teaching. It has evolved from just a few hundred students and professors being paid with meat and grain into its present form, with around 47.000 students and a position ranked in the worlds top 100 universities in recent years. Lund University is the highest placed comprehensive university in Scandinavia (Times Higher Education 2011/2012 rankings). The Department of Theoretical and Applied Aesthetics, School of Architecture has around 600 students is now attending our 5 year professional program leading to a Master in Architecture. Architectural Mutations by Tina-Henriette Kristiansen is one of four current Bachelor programs.

    3. Studio Description CIPHER SISTEMS are coded and encrypted structures we see in nature as a phenomenon of scale. Their fractal appearance in certain morphologies, diversifying in size, is an intriguing aspect for morphogenetic

    design. The reappearing relationship of macro and micro patterns found in different states of physicality in a variety of environments, is leading to an understanding about emergence and the connectivity between systems.

    Thus, the MUTATING ARCHITECTURE studio analyses, evaluates and decrypts reoccurring natural patterns and explores possibilities of their application on visionary scenarios in futuristic city context. We develop and reproduce 3-Dimensional systems of selected natural phenomenons and generate an iteration of mutations with both topological and parametric modelling. Generated systems are applied in horizontal and vertical formations in the outcome of urban matrix and architectural body to study the variations, adaptation, connectivities, scale, repetitions and densification strategies for Maribor 2112Ai [Architectural intelligence] 100YC.

    Architectural Mutations: Cipher Systems

  • Team 01Beatrice EckordLukas MalmTHE WINE WALK

    The wine walk emphasizes the history of Maribor as a city of wine making and commerce, and brings this spirit into the future. By connecting existing and future nodes related to wine a path is created. This path transforms the city, and makes the production of wine visible

    Projected Start: 2012Projected End: 2112 Category: Technology

    Team 02Henrik MalmSWARM BUILDING LAB

    Maribor 2112. A new breed of structurally intelligent swarm robots is the latest trend in building. These robots collaborate to reinforce complex sets of building members at structurally important locations. Swarm intelligence is also used on a master plan level and we zoom in on a development of Maribor University.

    Projected Start: 2012Projected End: 2112 Category: Technology

    Team 03Hanieh Heidarabadi Zuha AlasadiDEUS EX MACHINA

    Maribor is a city defined and divided by its most important natural source, the river. The project targets the development of hydropower as renewable energy since the capacity for it is great in the country. Our vision is a river populated by machines combining architecture and energy production in one hundred years.

    Projected Start: 2012Projected End: 2112 Category: Technology

    CIRKULATION SIGHT LINES OLD AND NEW BUILDINGS PROGRAM / ACTIVITY

    production

    hotel

    restaurant

    winemuseum

    old buildings wineshop

    new buildings

    DIAGRAMS FOR THE SITE OF THE WINERY

    PRESENT AND FUTURE NODES RELATED TO WINE CONNECTING THE NODES GENERATES A PATTERN THE WINE PATH ADAPTS TO THE HISTORICAL CITY. IN THE PERIPHERIC AREAS IT BECOMES THE GRID THAT DICTATES THE TRANSFORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF NEW URBAN FABRIC.

    BY TRANSFORMING THE PATTERN A WINE PATH IS CREATED

    DIAGRAMS FOR HOW THE WINE WALK IS DERIVED

    ROOF PLAN

    CIRKULATION (THE WINE WALK)

    WINE FERMENTATION / PRODUCTION

    AUTOMATED ROBOTS TAKING CARE OF THE VERTICAL WINE YARDS

    WINE FERMENTATION

    HOTEL

    ADMINISTRATION

    SHOWROOM

    WINE BOTTELING

    WINE LABORATORY

    GRAPE CRUSHINGSUN PANELS

    WINE SHOP

    WINE TASTING/RESTAURANT

    WINE MUSEUM

    AUDITORIUM

    PARK AREA WITH GRAPE GROWING

    WINE CELLARS FOR STORING AND AGING WINE

    EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC

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    Studio Leader: Nigel Bertram, Tim Schork

    Contributing staff:Lee-Anne Khor John Warwicker (visual communication)Gene Bawden (visual communication)Professor Callum Morton (fine art)Selby Coxon (industrial design)

    School or Institution: Monash UniversityDepartment of ArchitectureFaculty of Art

    Country: Australia

    Website: www.artdes.monash.edu.au/architecture/www.mesne.netwww.nmbw.com.au

    1. Studio Leader BiographyNigel Bertram is a director of NMBW Architecture Studio and Practice Professor of Architecture at Monash University.

    In 2010 Nigel completed his PhD through architectural project at RMIT University, where he taught for 11 years and was co-director of the Urban Architecture Laboratory research unit.

    Tim Schork is a director of the trans-disciplinary design firm MESNE Design Studio and a lecturer in the Department of Architecture at Monash

    University. Internationally renowned for his design excellence and explorative, creative and innovative research, his work combines a sophisticated design philosophy with advanced technology in order to create novel design solutions that address contemporary social and cultural agendas.

    2. School Architecture at Monash is an innovative program that engages with practice, industry, and the broader community. It seeks to advance the contemporary practice of architecture through social and environmental sustainability. The program is characterised by its location with an art and design faculty that is focused on architecture as a creative discipline. Connections are established between architecture, art and design, enabling students to establish a creative network by studying alongside industrial designers, painters, sculptors, interior architects, glass artists and more. Architecture at Monash fosters design as a mode of thinking, seeing and working.

    Team MembersArchitectureAshleigh BriggsLaura CourtneyLiam EastopAlexander John GibsonJesse GouldLinda HuynhBrenna KinnairdJohnny LongJohn Low Daniel MckennaDan ParaschivoiuChris Rigney

    Deborah Gabriela Schatz SchwartsteinBenjamin TuckerHanah WexlerKirah WhiteShigeru Iijima

    Fine ArtValerie Sparks

    Visual CommunicationCassandra Brock Dean GordonLizzie Mae Takiri Nia Kelly Tang

    Industrial DesignAndrew Van der Merwe

    Team 01MEMORY + MIGRATION

    This project develops a relationship between memory, migration and time. Without wanting to predict or impose anything finite onto Maribor, we have developed a project that escapes time through nostalgia and memory. With migration as our vehicle the project explores both grafting the memory of Maribor from the diaspora back in to Maribor and weaving exotic and unfamiliar culture from foreign communities into the traditional and timeless city.

    Projected Start: Early 1900sProjected End: 2112 +Category: Knowledge

    Team 02URBAN DIALECTS

    Urban Dialects examines how the architectural language and urban identity of a city is transformed by new cultural and economic exchanges. Proposing a dynamic rental economy that operates at the scale of a room, the project explores the fine grain dialogue between existing and new urban conditions.

    Projected Start: 2012Projected End: 2112 +Category: Commerce

    Team 03CYCLIC CITIES

    Cyclic Cities responds to shifts in Maribors population, activation and use by implementing a dynamic planning system that fosters and accelerates cycles of urban growth and decay. The project establishes a series of intelligent feedback loops through a new rental system and a series of urban switches and capacitors that will enable Maribor to generate, regenerate and react in real-time to its persistent population flux.

    Projected Start: 2012Projected End: 2112 +Category: Knowledge, Commerce

    Memory + Migration, Cyclic Cities, Urban Dialects

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    Studio Leader: Karl Chu

    Studio Assistant:Mojca Gregorski

    School or Institution: Pratt Institute School of Architecture

    Country: United States

    Website: www.pratt.eduwww.metaxy.com

    1. Studio Leader BiographyKarl Chu, originally from Myanmar is a professor at the School of Architecture, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. Before then, he was the founding director of the Institute for Genetic Architecture at the GSAPP, Columbia University, NY. He also taught at SCI Arc, Los Angeles in the nineties where he came up with the concept of genetic architecture. He has lectured extensively and has participated in international conferences and exhibitions. He is developing a new ontology of architecture based on the architecture of possible worlds.

    2. SchoolPratt Institute is a specialized university with 4500 students in undergraduate and graduate programs in the fine arts, design, fashion, architecture, and information and library science. The

    School of Architectures mission is to educate the future leaders of the design, planning and management disciplines in the professional fields of architecture, urban design, city and regional planning, construction and facilities management, environmental management and historic preservation. This effort builds upon a strong context of professional education within an art and design institute that stresses the relationship between intellectual development and creative activity

    3. Studio descriptionMaribor, in its current form, is in need of spatial intervention that would re-vitalize its rather stagnant form. It is divided by the train tracks that cut through east to west in the southern part of the city and from the northern end of the city to the southern end in addition to the highway. The only vital area of the city is the centre of the city. The main impetus of the project is to re-configure the overall structure and organization of the city such that it injects vitality and flow into its city-form.

    Correspondingly, four areas of the city are targeted: Melje, the old industrial area west of the old city, Studenci, Magdalena, and Tabor on the southern side of the river. The project for Maribor Manifold is designed to generate urban form that would allow for the emergence of a new

    kind of spatial dynamics. This proposition for a dynamic interweaving of the city-form hopefully would engender the interfusion of the private sector with the public sector, the commercial with the residential, software industry with service industries, etc. In addition, the form of the city introduces a modern configuration of the labyrinth, one that is vital and alive.

    The formal organization of a city implicitly contains conditions of possibility for the spatial dynamics of flow and interaction that are responsible for the behaviour of its inhabitants.

    Maribor Manifold is an expression of the schematic logic of the city-form derived from the synthesis of two figures of spatial organization: the labyrinth and the dynamical logic of flow. The configuration space of the city-form of Maribor Manifold is designed with the intention to allow for the multi-layered inter-fusion of both convergent and divergent programs. Devoid of zoning demarcation, the Maribor Manifold is the embodiment and expression of the city as a complex organism.

    Team MembersAmir KarimpourMelissa BalcazarKyungJin JunMerritt Vossler

    MARIBOR MANIFOLD

    Maribor Manifold is an expression of the schematic logic of the city-form derived from the synthesis of two figures of spatial organization: the labyrinth and the dynamical logic of flow. The configuration space of the city-form of Maribor Manifold is designed with the intention to allow for the multi-layered inter-fusion of both convergent and divergent programs. Devoid of zoning demarcation, the Maribor Manifold is the embodiment and expression of the city as a complex organism.

    Projected Start: 2052Projected End: 2030 Category: Knowledge

    Maribor Manifold

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    Studio Leader: Wendy W Fok

    School or Institution: Princeton University

    Country: United States

    Website: http://we-designs.org

    1. Studio Leader BiographyWendy W Fok, director/founder and team member of WE-DESIGNS.ORG.Fok has an international background from Vienna, New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, Beijing, Hong Kong & Canada. Her art installations have been displayed in Hong Kong, Shanghai, New York, Athens, Venice, Prague, and has worked on several international architectural projects, exhibitions, & competitions including the 12th La Biennale di Venezia 2011, the Shanghai Expo 2010, & Athens Fringe Festival 2009.

    2. SchoolThe School of Architecture of Princeton University began in 1832 on the belief that architects should have a well-rounded education in liberal studies; approach their profession primarily as an art; understand and appreciate the other arts in relation to architecture; and be taught the science of building construction as a part of their training in design rather than as an end in itself.

    The School is committed to the specificity of architectural expertise at the same time that it is open to new forms of practice and collaborations with allied disciplines. From the beginning, the School of Architectures curriculum has always responded to changes in the profession and in architectural education, providing students with courses that reflect contemporary and emerging issues in architecture.

    3. Project Intention In an era of environmental extremes and the influx of 70% of the globes population to the major urban settlements, the Maribors 2112 Visionary Ecologies Urban-Stratification Master plan re-examines the Citys current obsolete infrastructure proposing a new interlaced and stratified regenerative system creating urban conditions throughout the city where clean technologies, interactive architecture, and sustainable commerce can reside.

    Urban-Stratification is a connective tissue reacting as a threshold between an active transportation hub, Maribor Interactive Centre for the Arts, and technological energy generator that will provide a reformative highway and transportation system for Maribor. The project will introduce over 100 kilometres of additional roadways to serve as a departure point for

    this urban intervention as well as embedded piezoelectric harvesting membranes. The embedded membranes will harvest the energy from vibration, weight, and motion, through several means of traffic, including but not limited to trains, vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians; thus, assisting Maribor 2112 to become one of the first Net Zero cities by three main sources of productivity energy systems: piezoelectric, hydro, and thermal.

    As the citizens of Maribor, visitors, and cultural critiques meander the city through the Urban-Stratification ecological and interactive promenades, they will be led experience the architecturally icon of the 2112 Maribor Interactive Centre for the Arts. Convening multiple systems of complexities and parallel programmatic systems, the landscape and pathways outline purposeful accidents that change through programmatic shifts and movement.

    The Centre will become an opportunity to experience a new sustainable typology of architecture, clean technologies, and design intelligence. Acting as an active iconic architectural infrastructural and cultural piece, Urban-Stratification will be the stage of public relations, social, and digital interactions, which in turn converts the City of Maribor into an urban catalyst that propagates sustainable development

    throughout the rest of the city.

    The Maribor 2112 Urban-Stratification Master Plan fosters new interactive social urban ecologies to redefine the existing city, not only as the cultural capital of Europe but also as Europes first Net Zero energy city to become the first urban laboratory where architecture intelligence, social interaction, and clean technologies interact simultaneously.

    Team MembersWendy FokKadri Kerge Jose L AguilarIvan P Cheung

    URBAN-STRATIFICATION

    The Maribor 2112 Urban-Stratification Master Plan is a multidisciplinary proposal that utilizes obsolete existing infrastructure as a generative system of energy activating developmental zones along the Drava river fostering new interactive social urban ecologies to redefine the existing city, not only as the cultural capital of Europe but also as Europes first Net Zero energy city, to become the first urban laboratory where architecture intelligence, social interaction, and clean technologies interact simultaneously.

    Projected Start: 2012Projected End: 2112Category: Technology

    Visionary Ecologies Urban-Stratification

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    Studio Leader: Charles Anderson, Cath Stutterheim (SAALA)

    School or Institution: RMIT University School of Architecture and Design

    Country: Australia

    Website: www.rmit.edu.au www.saala.com.au

    1. Studio Leader BiographyDr Charles Anderson and Cath Stutterheim are co-directors of SAALA. Charles interests are extensive and widely inter-disciplinary, from public art projects through landscape architecture and urban design to product and fashion design. He has a distinguished reputation as an artist and designer and has received numerous awards for his work, from both within and without the landscape architectural profession. Caths design work is particularly engaged with the dynamic between designed and natural forms, and is especially motivated by the challenges and opportunities for landscape architecture which arise from the effects of climate change.

    Both Charles and Cath maintain a close liaison between practice, research and education through their ongoing roles at RMIT University where Charles is

    Program Director of the MLA and Cath is Adjunct Professor.

    2. SchoolThe strategic direction of the School of Architecture and Design is underpinned by three guiding scholarship principles: scholarship-of-change; curated and vertically integrated design scholarship; and tri-polar scholarship.

    We aim to address compelling, contemporary issues such as climate change, globalization and rapid urbanization in ways that facilitate cultural change through design. Our scholars, (students, lecturers and researchers), are risk-takers in the sense that they endeavour to bring about change both in design practice and by practicing design. These changes are pursued through refinement, criticism and experimentation and within an ethical framework of social justice and human rights.

    3. Project Intention

    What is the breaking point of a city? And what is on the other side of no return?

    Aggrenomics seeks to answer these questions through investigating and speculating what Maribor might become as a result of reaching a breaking point. Using the progression of time as a fundamental design element, a narrative is created based on how Maribor responds to an economic breaking point over

    the next hundred years.

    Resulting from the current European economic crises, the breaking point forces Maribor to change, with the city choosing to turn toward localism by integrated urban agriculture within the city to eventually become self-sufficient. Keeping on the same forward trajectory, Maribor quickly becomes world leaders in agriculture technology.

    In order to conceptualise moments in Maribors future, Aggrenomics focuses on Housing; Agriculture and Transport Technology and the relationships between them. The design attempts to find opportunities for intervention and design that appear within this narrative, creating concise, accurate and viable proposals for Maribor leading up to 2112.

    The future of Maribor 2112 is a series of Climatic events starting from the disappearance of the snow on the Alps to the rise in the sea level of the Mediterranean sea. Climate change as phenomena has an impact on the functioning of the society putting a pressure on the energy industry leading to advancements in technology and knowledge.

    Migration to the City due to its safer north location in Slovenia puts future pressure on the population creating a perfect mix for a flourishing

    of the citys tourist economy and a new form of energy generation powered by human kinetic energy and motion.

    The more the merrier becomes a slogan for Maribor as it has become a city that survives on the energetic increase in population. Piezoelectric material lay on the slopes of pathways storing kinetic energy transferred by humans and the transport system thrives on an aerial level with hovering technology allowing the surface of the city to be transformed into a series of gradients. These paths become generators of energy as peoples state of mind is influenced by walking as a healthier choice.

    Team 01Lu LinPrat TalegaonkarSally (Zi Xue) Yang

    GRADIENT CITY

    In 2112, the project aims to generate interesting public spaces that encourage people to dwell more on the outside rather on the inside and to explore creation of new challenges provided by the inhabitable circulation of gradients.

    Projected Start: 2030Projected End: 2112Category: Transport, Technology

    Maribor 2112

  • Meljski Hrib

    Malecnik

    Za Kalvarijo

    Mestra Park

    Pekre

    Limbus

    Kamnica

    Kosaki

    Razvanje

    Legend

    Historic Core

    Mixed Vertical Ag & Res

    Space Ag Research Centre

    Genetic Research Centre

    Drava River

    Maribor University

    Parkland Areas

    Agriculture Areas

    Maintained Residential Areas

    Testing of Verticle Farming Areas

    Ag Reclaim Residential Areas

    Progressive Residential Areas

    Industrial Areas

    Highrise Residentail Areas

    Fish Farming Areas

    Waterfront

    Public Market

    Reserves/ Forest

    Hydroelectricicty Station

    Established Greenhouses

    Railway Line

    Train Stations

    Major Freeways

    Major Roads

    Minor Roads

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