Wikipedia:HOLODECK architects

HOLODECK architects, Marlies Breuss and Michael Ogertschnig, are a Vienna/Austria based international studio established in 1998, including a department in Berlin/Germany. With a strong focus on concept driven holistic architecture, the studio works thoroughly based on analytical processes. Designs are followed through with systematic research and applied methods, revealing hidden spatial potentials and resulting in creative and innovative statements.

HOLODECK architects have since won national and international design competitions, and have built numerous projects across different typologies, which are highlighted and honoured on social networks and in the architecture world.

Architectural philosophy and methodology
The studio pursuits low-tech architecture that is based on a context orientated methodology and always serves human needs incorporating natural environments. From the point of starting with the predesign phase until the creation of applicable details, each concept is developed with an innovative and experimental approach and without preconceived ideas on possible solutions.

The studio’s analytical strategies create new functional and spatial sequences using methods of dismantling collected data and assembling them in novel arrangements with astonishing qualities. Information that is being collected throughout the process includes data reflecting on surrounding landscapes, analysis of site and human needs as well as the evaluation of suitable low-tech materials. The process remains in a constant flux, adapting its practise along the way, and maintaining a level of investigation to find an architecture that is innovative, affordable and holistic.

Notable projects
The extensive and varied portfolio of built and conceptual work include large scale urban work, public mixed-use projects, as well as habitats, exhibition architecture and cultural institutions. Most recognised work includes:


 * 2020-2022 Am Handwerk, Scharnstein, Austria
 * 2016-2021 Zentrum für Kultur und Forschung, Mattersburg, Austria
 * 2018 EnBW coworking spaces, Karlsruhe, Germany
 * 2013-2017 austrian embassy bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand (distinguished with awards)
 * 2017 Archiv der Avantgarden AdA, Dresden, Germany
 * 2015 double vision, Albrecht Dürer & William Kentridge, Kulturforum Berlin, Germany
 * 2015 WDR crossmedia house, Cologne, Germany
 * 2009-2015 Wirtschaftspark Breitensee, Vienna, Austria (distinguished with an award)
 * 2009-2014 breitensee studios, Vienna, Austria (distinguished with an award)
 * 2009-2012 roof transformations, Vienna, Austria (distinguished with an award)
 * 2009-2011 urban topos, Vienna, Austria (distinguished with awards)
 * 2011 Aktionsraum 1, MUMOK Museum of contemporary art, Vienna, Austria
 * 2009-2010 Gewerbehof Missindorf, Vienna, Austria (distinguished with awards)
 * 2005-2008 embedded house, Heiligengeist, Austria (distinguished with awards)
 * 2005-2008 stratified townscape, Vienna, Austria
 * 2005-2006 spatial appropriation, Vienna, Austria
 * 2003-2005 floating house, Siegenfeld, Austria (distinguished with an award)
 * 2003-2004 shifthouse, Klagenfurt, Austria
 * 2003-2004 marzona book collection, Architekturzentrum Wien AzW, Vienna, Austria
 * 2002-2008 22 tops, Wolfsberg, Austria (distinguished with awards)
 * 2002-2003 rooftop 02, Vienna, Austria (distinguished with an award)
 * 2002 mobile 01, mobile youth meeting space
 * 2001-2002 parkhouse, Vienna, Austria
 * 1999-2001 looped house, Grossweikersdorf, Austria
 * 1999-2000 hall 01, St. Veit an der Glan, Austria (distinguished with an award)
 * 1996-1999 benthouse, Grosshöflein, Austria (distinguished with an award)

Awards

 * 2020 Energy Globe Award, Thailand
 * 2020 European Architecture Awards
 * 2019 Mies van der Rohe Award Nominee
 * 2019 Architizer A+ Awards Finalist
 * 2019 LEAF - Leading European Architects Forum Award
 * 2019 The Plan Award
 * 2019 Iconic Awards Best of Best Environment Building
 * 2019 Architecture Masterprize Firm Of The Year Award
 * 2018 Green GOOD DESIGN Awards
 * 2018 Austrian Green Planet Building Awards
 * 2014 Best Architects Award
 * 2013 International Facade Award
 * 2010 Landesbaupreis Kärnten Acknowledgement
 * 2010 ZV Bauherrenpreis Acknowledgement
 * 2009 Landesbaupreis Kärnten Acknowledgement
 * 2007 ECOLA Award Nominee
 * 2002 Architekturpreis des Landes Burgenland Acknowledgement

Teaching
HOLODECK architects have been invited by the TU Vienna for a Visiting Professorship, for which they started a cooperation with Kasetsart University in Bangkok. Since 1996 the studio is giving lectures and leading design studios at universities, in order to share their knowledge on conceptual, holistic design and construction with their students. Most recent research and lectures include:


 * The human needs, Research and Design Studio, TU Vienna and Kasetsart University Bangkok, 2019
 * Building design and construction - from the concept model to planning permission, Design Studio, Institute for Building Construction II, TU Vienna, 2009-2018
 * Contemplative Dialogues, Material research workshops with student from universities in Thailand, 2017
 * Building and construction, Undergraduate Design Studio, Institute for Building Construction II, TU Vienna, 2014
 * Urban planning, Design Studio, Institute for Urban Studies, TU Vienna, 2007
 * New developments of housing /Neue Entwicklungen im Wohnbau, Institute for Housing and Design, TU Vienna, 2001-2003

Architecture discourse

 * reflecting human needs, TURN ON Architekturfestival, Vienna, 2021
 * simplicity and complexity, Building Design and Construction, Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Planning, TU Vienna, 2021
 * The Future of “Global Architecture”, Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Planning, TU Vienna, 2019
 * austrian embassy bangkok, TURN ON Architekturfestival, Vienna, 2018
 * stratified townscape, 22 tops, TURN ON Architekturfestival, Vienna, 2009

Literature

 * Society now! - Architektur. Projekte und Positionen, Published by Michael Seidel und Gerhard Steixner, Building Design and Construction, TU Vienna, 2009-2019. ISBN 978-3-03860-178-4
 * Aktionsraum 1, catalogue for the exhibition at the MUMOK, published by Sophie Haaser, Rainer Fuchs, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna, 2011. ISBN 978-3-902490-78-0
 * Double Vision Albrecht Dürer & Wiliam Kentridge, catalogue for the exhibition in Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, 2015. ISBN 978-3-944874-37-1
 * Dresden.Europa.Welt. catalogue for the exhibition in Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, 2017
 * austrian embassy bangkok, HOLODECK architects. art4d, 2018. With text contributions by Kanokwan Trakulyingcharoen.
 * The Human Needs, published by Marlies Breuss and Faculty of Architecture, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, 2019. ISBN 978-616-278-534-4