publications 2013

When you think of green building, for sure you will not connect to a life in the city. A number of projects, however, shows how to combine city life and ecology to innovative concepts. We introduce them to you.

The architects consider the problem basically. For them, the restoration in the building stock is no   physical or technical problem, but a contribution to sustainable development of society. This house of the 1948 shows how an existing structur can be used and how an apartment building with commercial premises becomes an attractive energy terms Townhouse. The wooden staircase, for example, was protected and combined with new elements.

The urban Library Heidenheim creates with the inclusion of the district media center, a forward-looking redesign of the concept library. The project embodies the spirit of the information technology in which various information media is no longer just a place where knowledge is stored, but serves the citizens of all ages primarily as a place of encounter and exchange. Due to the compact and efficient form, and the positioning of the building on the north end of the property, the design fits into the streets of densely populated Brenzstraße. The resulting, attractive, south facing part of the site allows you to have a new park created, forming a green axis that extends from Station Square on the Georges-Levillain-Anlage to Pauluskirche. The library is based around a dramatic and spacious staircase,wich is located in the heart of the building. She can be used as seating, structural element and as a communicative link between the heterogeneous usage patterns of the library. A woven perforated aluminum façade creates adequate and diffuse illumination of the interior. By the curved, ribbon-like form a sculptural character is conveyed and there are small terraces that spread across the library floors. The inspiration was the history of the textile industry Heidenheim.

Interior of INSIDE-OUT, the design concept for the new Schaffhausen Raiffeisen Bank branch by NAU Architecture and Drexler Guinand Jauslin Architekten

The new Raiffeisen Bank branch designed by NAU Architecture and Drexler Guinand Jauslin Architekten was completed this past May in the historical city center of Schaffhausen, Switzerland, after the design won first place in a competition back in May 2012. The design as a whole appeals to the senses, going beyond the basic functions of a bank to creating an open, welcoming place for customers through light, color, and efficient use of space.

A view into the stars is what Daniel Jauslin wanted: onto clouds and the sun. The architect with Swiss roots built a spectacular glass-skylounge into his Rotterdam urban family house. "I want to see the legendary 'Dutch skies'" http://www.eh-i.nl/2013/07/08/interieur-door-het-glazen-plafond/

A view into the stars is what Daniel Jauslin wanted: onto clouds and the sun. The architect with Swiss roots built a spectacular glass-skylounge into his Rotterdam urban family house. "I want to see the legendary 'Dutch skies'"

The Working NAU Architecture & Drexler Guinand Jauslin Architects has recently completed the renovation of Raiffeisen Bank Schaffhausen. Select the two architects drawings and seven photographs and describe the building.

By uncovering the ancient staircase became a close post-war building to the airy loft. In the SCHÖNER WOHNEN-Modernization Competition 2012's it was
the special prize, awarded by the BHW.

Flowscapes is the graduation lab of the Master track Landscape Architecture. It is also open to students of other design disciplines and suitable for students with special interest for landscape architecture. Ecologically motivated architects or urbanists can give shape to their interests
within the academic framework, while working in relatively small groups. The core of the graduation lab is a referred design studio, supported by complementary courses (Nijhuis et al., 2012). The design studio is concerned with the spatial design of new topographies by integrating programs into the ‘genius of place’ and – with regard to landscape development – the continuation of spatial quality and cultural identity. These designerly explorations require a multilayered understanding of landscape: its spatial structure, history, context, as well as
the ecological, economic and social processes involved. In this approach visual thinking
and communication are considered to be crucial. Drawings, mappings and models are used to reveal and create relationships, explore and elaborate landscape systems – in
terms of geometry, quantity, velocity, force, trajectory – and for critical reflection. In
this article we introduce the design studio and provide some background regarding the theme.

On mini-space The "Minimum Impact House" is the result of a research and development project for sustainable housing in the city, and shows how creative urban gaps between buildings can be redensified.

Travel-Guide for the city Frankfurt am Main

In Sachenhausen

Minimum Impect House : Sustainable, vertical space development of small-scale available urban space

»Affordable Housing Prototype in Shenzhen« – this was the topic of the international student competition. So 16 architecture students, Professors and tutors went to China for 14 days. A first group of students went already to China in 2012 to analyze the topic  »A Sustainable Urban Prototype for China«.

The Minimum Impact House is famous all over the world. Even in the japanese TV everybodys talking about it!