Freshforte building, our mixed-use building in Lagos was featured in Livinspaces’s “Top ten Buildings of 2020”. The “Top Ten” list, compiled by Yakubu Paul and Olorunfemi Adewunmi, is an annual review of buildings of significant interest in Nigeria.
Link to Article:
https://www.livinspaces.net/interviews-and-articles/my-top-10-buildings-of-2020-in-nigeria/
Our director, Stefanie Adisa, was a guest speaker at the 9th ATO Annual Lecture on Wednesday, 8th of December 2021.
The topic centered around “The Role of Adaptive Design”.
Link to Lecture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw0JS7HY5X4
Currently under construction is our new mixed-use facility in Lagos. The design links the concept of recycling with traditional craftsmanship. Re-used intermodal shipping containers become the main structural element. For sun shading, we investigated the potential of traditional rattan weaving on façade panels, which create a transitional space between outside and inside. Stay tuned and find out all details soon.
Architecture:
Studio Elementals
Facade Design:
Studio Elementals, Jeanne Schultz
Interior Design:
S.EA Consulting
Construction:
Adisa Design Studio
Photos:
Medina Sage Dugger
Currently under construction is our new mixed-use facility in Lagos. The engineers and craftsmen and women of Adisa Design Studio (general contractor) have worked hard to bring the complex building design to life.
Here some impressions:
Architecture:
Studio Elementals
Facade Design:
Studio Elementals, Jeanne Schultz
Interior Design:
S.EA Consulting
Construction:
Adisa Design Studio
Photos:
Medina Sage Dugger
Studio Elementals Director Adisa (former Theuretzbacher) was part of the launch of the LUDI Library. The Library on African Urbanism and Architecture is an initiative that responds to the lack of centralized information sources on the peculiar rate, style, and trend of design and urbanization in the African Continent.
According to Stefanie, “A library with African content on culture, architecture, and urbanism is very crucial to gain more knowledge on how to develop content and projects that can be more meaningful in the Nigerian context. Books and other media can inspire deeper research and help us understand valuable lost histories for a more informed approach to designing buildings and cities.”
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ludi_org
Website: https://ludi.org.ng/the-ludi-library-on-architecture-culture-african-urbanism/
2020
Out NOW!
New IoA Publication STRUCTURES OF DISPLACEMENT by Baerbel Mueller and Frida Robles, published by Birkhauser, in Die Angewandte’s book series Edition Angewandte.
Structures of Displacement refers to the joint project between the [applied] Foreign Affairs lab of the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) for the conception and design of the Agricultural Training Center in Harsham Camp in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan (2016 -2019).
The project contributes to the overall UN brief of ”integrated stabilization, economic recovery and reconstruction support for displaced persons and returnees”. As part of the project, [a]FA mapped the camp to identify economic networks, habitats, and individual stories. In order to reflect on the project, Structures of Displacement was also organized as an exhibition and symposium that took place at the Institute of Architecture, University of Applied Arts Vienna in October 2019.
Publishing House: Birkhaeuser
ISBN: 9783035623048
Because of our commitment to sustainability and the environment, the Director of Studio Elementals, Stefanie Theuretzbacher has qualified to be an EDGE Expert. She can now lead a project through the green building certification process.
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On Wednesday 9th of September 2020, Studio Elementals Director, Stefanie Theuretzbacher was on a live chat with Olamide Udoma-Ejorh of LUDI. The conversation centered around our work at Studio Elementals.
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March 2020
In the context of the 150-year anniversary of the University for Applied Arts, SLIVER presented as “positions” the works and ideas of graduates from the Institute for Architecture created in the course of the last three decades. This publication presents these as a cross-section through time and as a pulsating exchange covering the challenges faced by the teaching and practice of architecture, research, and design culture in the past, present, and future.
Publishing House: Birkhaeuser
Article contribution by Stefanie Theuretzbacher
The Harsham Camp ATC in Erbil, the largest city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, was officially inaugurated today by Begard Talabani, Iraq’s Minister of Agriculture and Water Resources, Benoit Wuatelet, UNIDO Programme Coordination Specialist, Stefanie Theuretzbacher, project architect. The opening ceremony was hosted by UNIDO, in collaboration with the [applied] Foreign Affairs Lab of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, who conceived the project.
Harsham is the temporary home of 1500 IDPs, who were forced to leave Ninewa and other northern governorates of Iraq affected by the recent conflict with the Islamic State. Women especially, have few perspectives and possibilities in the everyday life of the camp. The new training center consists of an educational hub, green houses and a garden on 8000 square meters of land. The camp’s inhabitants know how to grow vegetable, now they receive adequate space to supply themselves with fresh food, for communal exchange and income.
Images:
UNIDO
Find more information under the link below:
https://www.unido.org/news/new-agricultural-training-centre-opens-doors-iraqi-idps