LIGHTHOUSE - BUILDINGS OF SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE
While the ambience is focused on the needs of the individual in interior design, the atmospheric well-being of society is to the fore in an urban setting. Architecture, as the building block of the city and periphrastic body of the interior space, enables the creation of spaces which tackle the dual needs of the individual and society as a symbiosis, thereby achieving all-round well-being.
With “My White Light”, Artemide has developed an innovative interior lighting concept which responds to its environment according to the situation, generating mood lighting of various whites to suit individual needs. From warm-white yellow/orange tones to cool-white blue tones.
How can architecture respond to its environment according to the situation and, beyond the boundaries of a building, ensure the right atmosphere to meet the needs of the individual and society?
Besides cultural, economic and political aspects, well-being in an urban setting is closely linked to its atmospheric conditions, literally speaking. Cities are currently faced with the challenge of circumventing the effects of global climate change and endeavouring to accommodate this. Architecture can and should be crucial to this.
The aim of this competition is to design a “House of the Future” which will win over the judges with its energetic intelligence and aesthetic radiance. It should provide for well-being in its internal spheres and make a crucial contribution to its external environment.
How do buildings of sustainable architecture look like?
A city which embodies the idea of a joint European and Asian cultural centre by dint of its geographical location has been selected – ISTANBUL. As an interface for cultures, religions and historical influences, a building which can act as a place of intercultural exchange for international organisations, visitors and residents should be developed.
The project sets environmentally-conscious architects the task of developing an energy-optimised building concept with an iconographic effect.
ARTEMIDE
The lighting company Artemide – sponsor of the student competition – was founded in Milan in 1959 by Ernesto Gismondi and Sergio Mazza. Through concerted dialogue with leading architects and designers, the inspiration for the first successful Artemide collections, a style developed which still shapes Artemide luminaires today – high functionality and product quality combined with the highest design standards.
All Artemide luminairs are not only light sources but also objects which assume an emotional connection to their environment through their form and lighting effect. According to the companies’ philosophy of “The Human Light”, light is seen as a source of well-being and a companion to human beings. It is always subordinate to their needs and is thus developed in an environmentally-friendly, sustainable manner.
The lighting systems for architecture can also be combined in many ways and facilitate different mood lighting and lighting output through the use of various light optics, thereby adjusting optimally to the spatial circumstances. Further information at www.artemide.de
UNI KASSEL
Faculty of Architecture, Urban Planning, Landscape Planning (ASL)
Environmentally-Conscious Planning and Experimental Construction
The Faculty of Architecture, Urban Planning, Landscape Planning at the University of Kassel is inviting submissions for this competition. With environmentally-friendly, sustainable, energy-saving, economically efficient and socially responsible strategies in planning and construction, the faculty faces the responsibility of bringing architecture into line with people and the environment, thereby embracing the environmental focus of the University of Kassel. The education on offer there must also meet this claim and the goal of the education cannot simply be to produce technical specialists. Doers on a social, artistic and cultural level who function as independent and critically analytical generalists, taking into account the optimisation of individual aspects, general development and the common good, are particularly sought-after. The assignment in the student competition, as set by Professor Claus Anderhalten, Head of the Faculty of Environmentally-Conscious Planning and Experimental Construction, and his academic assistants Dipl. Ing. Anna Baltschun and Dipl. Ing. Arch. Filip Nosek, is also in line with this approach. Further information is available at www.uni-kassel.de/asl/upeb
