aac workshop archive

Art ∙ Architecture ∙ Nature City for Dreams High Street Alive Lab 2050 Residenzschloss Dresden Konzerthaus Stuttgart Megathek Hamburg Forum Bildende Künste Nantesbuch Interim Opera Frankfurt Japanisches Palais European Art School Vertical Life Tehran City Garden Deutsches Hafenmuseum Hamburg Altona Nord From Module to Urban Quarter Evolutioneum Hamburg, Part II Evolutioneum Hamburg, Part I European Cultural Centre in Venice Brooklyn Powerhouse aac intensive courses Urban Exchange: New School Technoversum Berlin Urban Exchange: Hamburg-Shanghai Việt Nam 2010 TXL+ aac 2008
aac workshop archive
Art ∙ Architecture ∙ Nature

04.09.2024

Art ∙ Architecture ∙ Nature

Opening New Perspectives at WAI Woods Art Institute

This year's aac autumn workshop will focus on architectural interventions in the landscape.
The aim is to create points of orientation and resting places on the grounds of the WAI Woods Art Institute in Wentorf, which in their continuity can form a ‘Parcours découverte’.

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City for Dreams

27.02.2024

City for Dreams

New Spaces for Hayfilm, Armenia

This year's spring workshop of the aac dealt with the design for a Revival of a "Film city" in Armenia.

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High Street Alive

06.09.2023

High Street Alive

Placing vibrant spaces inside former city centre magnets

The aac autumn workshop 2023 took
place from 06 September to 29 September 2023 in Hamburg at the Rainvilleterrassen campus.

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Lab 2050

08.02.2023

Lab 2050

How we want to build in the Future

The aac spring workshop 2023 took place from 08 February to 03 March 2023 in Hamburg at the Rainvilleterrassen campus.

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Residenzschloss Dresden

07.09.2022

Residenzschloss Dresden

New Work at Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

The aac autumn workshop took place from 07 September to 30 September 2022 in Hamburg at the Rainvilleterrassen campus

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Konzerthaus Stuttgart

16.03.2022

Konzerthaus Stuttgart

Designs for a Public Music Campus

The aac spring workshop took place from 16 March to 08 April 2022 in Hamburg at the Rainvilleterrassen campus

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Megathek Hamburg

01.09.2021

Megathek Hamburg

Digital Centre for the Hanseatic City

The aac autumn workshop took place from 1 September to 24 September 2021 in Hamburg at the Rainvilleterrassen campus.

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Forum Bildende Künste

03.03.2021

Forum Bildende Künste

Concepts for a central entrance building at the Kulturforum Berlin

The aac spring workshop took place from 3 March to 26 March 2021 on the premises of the Academy for Architectural Culture at Rainvilleterrasse 4 in Hamburg, Germany.

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Nantesbuch

09.09.2020

Nantesbuch

Designs for a Campus Art and Nature - Gut Nantesbuch

This year's aac autumn workshop took place from 9 September to 2 October 2020 on the premises of the Academy for Architectural Culture at Rainvilleterrasse 4.

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Interim Opera Frankfurt

03.09.2019

Interim Opera Frankfurt

Designs for an interim venue of the Frankfurt Opera

The aac Autumn Workshop 2019 addresses the topic of an interim building for the period of the planned redesign of the Städtische Bühnen in Frankfurt, especially as an interim solution for the continuation of opera performances.

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Japanisches Palais

12.03.2019

Japanisches Palais

The Art Cabinet as a Working Collection

The spring workshop of the aac Academy for Architectural Culture was dedicated to the development of designs for a redesign and reorientation of the "Japanisches Palais" in Dresden.

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European Art School

04.09.2018

European Art School

Rethinking the Mediterranean Academy Project

Architects and artist developed the idea of a European Mediterranean Academy near Cavalière at the Côte d‘Azur under the auspices of Henricus Theodorus Wijdeveld and Eric Mendelsohn in the 30s.

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Vertical Life

13.02.2018

Vertical Life

Urban Qualities in Future High-rise Buildings

The Utopia of the vertical city has forever kept planners and utopians under its spell. From the Tower of Babel to the production designs of “Blade Runner” this vision is recurrently conjured up. The adaption of these ideas for solving the...

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Tehran City Garden

03.09.2017

Tehran City Garden

Designs for a New Civic Centre – Shaping Public Life on the City’s Former Airport Area

The autumn workshop 2017 of the aac Academy for Architectural Culture for the first time was dedicated to the architecture and cultural exchange between Germany and Iran.

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Deutsches Hafenmuseum Hamburg

28.02.2017

Deutsches Hafenmuseum Hamburg

Designs for the National Port Museum

Big sailing ships dominated the scene of the Hamburg port until the 20th century. Today, the Hamburg tidal port is the third largest container handling hub in Europe. Only enormous changes in the structure of the Port of Hamburg allowed this...

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Altona Nord

13.09.2016

Altona Nord

Designs for Hamburg’s New Traffic Hub

When they no longer serve their original function, railway sidings can become important inner-city development areas. This opportunity arose in Hamburg as a result of the decommissioning of a branching goods train depot. The plan for the entire...

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From Module to Urban Quarter

24.05.2016

From Module to Urban Quarter

Case Study Houses for the 21st-Century Berlin

The global change of mankind from rural circumstances to a mostly urban-orientated society of the future manifests itself in the latest waves of migration. The radical change sharpens our...

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Evolutioneum Hamburg, Part II

05.11.2015

Evolutioneum Hamburg, Part II

Designs for a Natural History Museum: Exhibitions, Collections, Research

The title “Evolutioneum”  includes much more than the renaissance of the old Hamburg Natural History Museum destroyed in World War II. Although the collections that were saved prior to its destruction make up a large part of the...

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Evolutioneum Hamburg, Part I

15.09.2015

Evolutioneum Hamburg, Part I

Designs for a Natural History Museum: Exhibitions, Collections, Research

The title “Evolutioneum”  includes much more than the renaissance of the old Hamburg Natural History Museum destroyed in World War II. Although the collections that were saved prior to its destruction make up a large part of the...

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European Cultural Centre in Venice

25.02.2015

European Cultural Centre in Venice

Designing in Dialogue between Traditional and Modern

The idea of a European Cultural Centre as a cross-national place of discourse, research and public work has already been discussed for a while at multiple levels inside the European Union.

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Brooklyn Powerhouse

01.09.2014

Brooklyn Powerhouse

An Architectural Contribution to the Cultural Ecology of the Gowanus District

The name Brooklyn Rapid Transit Powerhouse refers to a large coal-fired power station built at the end of the 19th century to generate electricity for Brooklyn’s streetcar system. A New York philanthropist recently purchased the property with...

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aac intensive courses

23.06.2014

aac intensive courses

aac summer Research Lab 2014

In the first lab, the aac will in investigate how the design process changes through the use of parametric design approaches on its geometric, material and structural level. The exploration is...

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Urban Exchange: New School

04.09.2013

Urban Exchange: New School

Designs for the German School Shanghai

The discussion of modern and future-proof schools is highly topical and addresses a theme of global importance. What tasks will a school of the future be faced with? - How does new teaching...

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Technoversum Berlin

27.02.2013

Technoversum Berlin

The Museum of the Future

The German Museum of Technology in Berlin with currently 500,000 visitors annually is the largest museum of its type after the Deutsches Museum in Munich. It is situated on a ca. 10.5 hectare...

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Urban Exchange: Hamburg-Shanghai

08.08.2012

Urban Exchange: Hamburg-Shanghai

Architecture for the Demands of today’s Urban Populations

A place at an aac-workshop, allows selected students to tap directly into more than 45 years of experience collected by the German Architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners. With more than 470...

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Việt Nam 2010

10.06.2010

Việt Nam 2010

Architectural concepts for a "Deutsches Haus" in Ho Chi Minh City

In 2010, the aac organised a workshop abroad for the first time. The workshop took place in Hanoi, Vietnam, was official part of the anniversary year “Germany in Vietnam 2010” and was organised in cooperation with the Vietnam Architects...

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TXL+

31.12.2008

TXL+

Showcase of an energy-plus city

In 2009, twenty award-holders from Germany and China took part in a five-week course at number 13 Planckstraße in Hamburg to work out a scheme for the future use of the 460 ha site of...

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aac 2008

31.08.2008

aac 2008

"Architecture as cultural export – concepts for a globalised world"

The teaching at the 2008 aac took place under the roof of the general topic: "Architecture as cultural export – concepts for a globalised world". This issue will be dealt with by means of

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