Oh beloved concrete you are so beautiful but your times should be over …

Rendered impression on my reflections in contemporary architecture …

cova da moura story

My first comic (so don`t be too critcal),  drawn  in order of a projekt in “Cova da Moura” an suburb area near lisbon, similar to a ghetto. The people who live there, most of them from Cape Verde and the rest of Africa, have  to deal with an area in a very bad condition. Cova da Moura also not enjoys the best reputation in Lisbon and in the media.
For my analyses the most significant thing is, that people spend most of the time on the streets, the most important public space in this case. And thats whats the comic is all about.
 

Drawn with pigmentliner –  November 2009

Green Wave

These panels are the result of an ideas competition for the austrian town Straßwalchen (in Salzburg). Straßwalchen is a minor city in the low density belt around Salzburg. It consits mainly of two crossing roads. The german word for road “Straße” is in the name included – this city has been facing the problems and benefits of mobilty and traffic since it’s foundation. Our contribution “Die Grüne Welle” won the first price and was presented in town hall to an interested audience.

Strasswalchen will evolve in the future. Our goal is keeping the qualities of this city and improve further groth of the housing areas. The Green Wave is symbol of a sustainable transformation in terms of the two most important factors in the future: energy and environment. We propose targeted interventions in Strasswalchen: A dense residential area with garden plots, a green ring with a variety of recreational opportunities and an energy concept for the huge spaces aquired by the company Lagermax. And a newly designed square in the center, which will form an attractive business area, will give the city a new face. Strasswalchen will be in the flagship in terms of energy and sustainability for the whole region.

model fotos -central place of Strasswalchen

original A0 panels

The ” Green wave” – a contribution by Cornelia Pirker, Matthias Jäger, C.Mattthias Kügler, Salzburg 2009

Blof

The BLOF is a concept developed for the theme of a kind of furniture, only made from eternit. After a competition in order of a workshop, we were asked to produce 35 “BLOF`s” for the company itself.
The concept is simple – Eternit common used as a board – put in a completly other form, to produce a cube wich is individual and special for itself but also compatible in the use with many of them. The BLOF is multifunctional in its usage – and leaves space for many opportunities for a possible handling.

Did this project togehter with Andrea Bretter, Barbara Birgfellner, Miraim Nascemento and Marton Toth.

Fotos and Layout by C.Matthias Kügler – fall 2008 – Vöcklabruck

Advanced Architecture

Advanced Architcture – Installation #1 (found)

Zürich, Sept.2009

MM1

MM1 from Matthias Jäger on Vimeo.

This is a small video I did with Google Sketchup. It’s only a surface with a rastered, yellow pattern. The camera is slowly moving and changing the point of view. Due to the overlay of different rasters (the screen raster of the computer monitor & the yellow raster) comes the mighty moire effect into force.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moiré_pattern

Dieser Baum ist Unser – wir Studierenden, aber auch Euer – Ihr Lehrenden und Angestellten.

Nach fortschreitender Vereinheitlichung unserer Universität, der TU Graz, scheint es an der Natur der Zeit auch der Vielfältigkeit wieder Raum zu geben. Deshalb haben wir unserer Universität diese beiden Bäume zum Geschenk gemacht. Sie stehen an der alten Stelle zweier ehemaliger Bäume, die ihren Lebenszyklus vollendet haben. Mögen sie viele Generationen Früchte tragen und Freude bereiten.

Inzwischen wurden die beiden gepflanzten Bäume ausgerissen. (2 Stunden nachdem sie aufgestllt wurden). Auf der Webseite http://dieserbaumistunser.com kann man sich die drei Teile unserer Videodokumentation ansehen.

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Grid survey

This survey for a public space was created together with Matthias Jäger and Conni Pirker during an ideas competition for the cityscape renewal of Salzburg’s community Strasswalchen.

We created a grid that fluently conforms to spatial structures and movement.

Competition entry is coming soon…

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Reaktive Lichtinstallation von kmkg & Matthias Jäger

Zusammen mit Martin Kern (kmkg) habe ich für die Aufnahmeparty im Architeturzeichensaal 4 eine Lichtinstallation entwickelt, die einerseits die einzige große Lichtquelle im Raum war und andererseits pulsierend auf die Musik reagiert hat. Das Motiv waren 9 große in einer Reihe angeordnete Balken hinter denen das Licht, 9 DMX gesteuerte Power LED, auf die gegenüber liegende weiße Wand heraus gestrahlt hat. Interessant war, dass man mit ein und demselben Setting immer wieder anders auf die Stimmung der Musik reagieren konnte und so sehr “räumliche” und intensive Visuals möglich waren.

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It’s a big party come and join it!!!