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Büro NY is a New York-based architecture and design practice that focuses on innovative design ideas – developing, implementing and building immersive spatial concepts. Their design methodology explores the interplay between algorithmic form generation, programmatic research and material fabrication. The analytical understanding of these systems is offset by an atmosphere-driven focus on experiential spatial qualities and geometric elegance. For the award-winning World Trade Center Memorial design, natural cell formation became a guiding concept. (1st runner-up of 5,200 design entries in competition: Baurmann Brooks Coersmeier) The interweaving of public urban space, nature and synthesized natural systems and their potential virtual subtexts have been at the heart of many Büro NY projects. Büro NY webpage
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February 2010
Büro NY in Compasses (issue on ecologies): Energy Mediators
"Selective Building Skins: Energy Mediators for New Architectural Qualities of Sustainability", an article published by Ludovica Tramontin in 'Compasses' magazine, features Büro NY and its RWTH lecture hall complex project. Compasses is an architecture and design magazine for the professional sector, set and operating entirely in the Middle East area and, in particular, in Emirates market.
January 2010
August 2009
Büro NY is featured in Build magazine (2009 issue on emergence)
Read interview with Jonas Coersmeier (German)
July 2009
Kassel students are putting final touches on Nanotectonica installation
The Digital Fabrication project 'Nanotectonica' is based on nano-scale analysis of biological specimen. A design and production workflow is established employing Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) imaging, Parametric- and Subdivision modeling, Milling and Glass fiber resin lamination.
Nanotechnology and algorithmic tools enable expanded and deeper investigations into natural structures. At the same time, a new understanding of living systems emerges. The search doesn't end with the phenotypical expressions of nature, but seeks to decipher its organizing principles. Nanotechnology and algorithmic processes allow us to speculate on the underlying organizational systems of biological processes. Beyond the bionic, which idealizes living structures as resolved and completed systems, and beyond biomimicry, which strives to copy those systems in their full complexity, we are in search of procedurally optimized building methods employed in living systems.
Jonas Coersmeier, Digital Design Department University Kassel
Student team: Giampiero Riggio, Roberta Ragonese, Ljuba Tascheva, Jan Weissenfeldt, Pat Taylor, Katja Pape, Rania Abdurahman, Christina Finke, Shahram Abbasian, Michael Quickert
June 2009
Büro NY enters invited international competition "Lecture hall complex RWTH Aachen"
Jonas Coersmeier, Gisela Baurmann
Team: Birgit Schönbrodt, Diana Drogan, Jerome Hord, Iljia Bentscheff, Sven Pfeiffer, Simone Schmiedl
Climate Consultant: Transsolar, Stuttgart, New York
Theater Planning: Fisher Dachs Associates, New York
Structural Consultant: Bollinger Grohmann, Frankfurt
The Lecture Hall Complex of the Technical University Aachen will serve as a portal and beacon for the new Campus West extension. It signals the status of the RWTH Aachen a member of the European IDEA League.
Architecture: The design and innovative construction techniques of the Lecture Hall Complex distinguish it as a focal point within both the University and the urban context of medieval Aachen. The building envelope consists of a parametrically generated diagrid with varying aperture and depth. The self-supporting concrete and ceramic elements react to program and orientation, and produce locally specific spatial atmospheres.
Urban Design: An urban plaza leads from the Alleenring into the foyer of the Lecture Hall Complex and disperses visitors between the main auditoria and seminar rooms on both sides. The urban squares around the Lecture Hall Complex become part of the sequence of green plazas along the University’s “axis of science.” The pedestrian connection between the main campus and Campus West along the train line is accentuated by the building’s South Foyer and the neighboring Campus Plaza.
Energy Concept: The aim is to minimize energy consumption while optimizing user comfort. Providing natural air and light are integral parts of the building envelope.
Contact
Büro NY
Gisela Baurmann
Jonas Coersmeier
465 Fourth Street
Brooklyn NY 11215
212.931.8686
