15 student design projects from the University of Applied Arts Vienna

A project that bases a transport system on the mythological Yggdrasil tree and a building informed by a termite mound are included in Dezeen's latest school show by the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Also included is a project that uses others' perspectives to understand how the world looks, while another explores reducing the number of crossing points between different user groups to minimise pathogen distribution.

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University of Applied Arts Vienna

School: University of Applied Arts Vienna, Institute of Architecture
Courses: Architecture

School statement:

"This school show by the University of Applied Arts Vienna's Institute of Architecture features a total of 15 projects in the digital exhibition by students from different year groups at the Austrian architecture school, completed as part of either Studio Díaz Moreno and García Grinda, Studio Greg Lynn or Studio Hani Rashid.

"Studio One: Studio Díazmoreno Garcíagrinda believes that in such a global catastrophe, contemporary urban challenges (migratory fluxes, global pandemics, urban structural deficits, the digital shift, environmental racism, precarious inhabitation conditions and spatial exclusion) are demanding a change of paradigm on architectural thinking and design practices.

"Students' work centres on the extreme conditions of the European Slums, and particularly in the settlement in Pata Rât in Cluj-Napoca. Here the students investigated how architecture can still play a role in such socially and environmentally polluted situations."

"Studio Two: Studio Lynn's students spent the year critically rethinking existing building precedents and inventing new building typologies for short stay living in constructive dialogue with contemporary real-world challenges.

"During the year, a social and cultural practice discouraged people from spending time in elevator cabins and enclosed rooms with strangers and encouraged fresh air ventilation and socialising outdoors. This studio addressed contemporary concerns for healthy, hygienic built environments. The designers' response to the year's global pandemic discovered innovative new concepts and design mediums that can transform how we conceive buildings from now on.

Studio Three: Studio Rashid addressed the current overlapping crises that cities have been facing today and emphasised the emergence of new architectural paradigms and hybrid urban typologies that can serve as contemporary visions towards a positive future."

"This included designing a centre for contemporary art in New York City and rethinking the future of airports and urban interconnectivity by developing a holistic vision of urban mobility and sustainable models of city planning.

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MoMAS (Modern Museum of Audible Space) by Emma Sanson, Witchaya Jingjit and Patricia Tibu

"MoMAS is a network of installations, art galleries and spaces for artists to create. Using sound as the connective tissue embodies the ambition of creating a languageless communication between the different components that compose the art world.

"The project not only accommodates sound-related installations, but it is an instrument capable of producing and manipulating sound, with its design based upon sound visualisation methods derived from the research of physicist and musician Ernst Chladni.

"It is an interconnected collection of spaces created to support, display and integrate art and artists into the city's fast-paced and challenging life."

Student: Emma Sanson, Witchaya Jingjit and Patricia Tibu
Course: Studio Rashid
Tutors: Hani Rashid, Jose Carlos Lopez Cervantes, Sophie Grell, Eldine Heep, Sophie Luger and Lenia Mascha
Email: archi.witchaya[at]gmail.com, emma.sanson9[at]gmail.com and tibu.patricia[at]gmail.com

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Traces of Global Warming – Trouble in the Away Away by Jade Bailey

"The incentive is to juxtapose current theory, political and cultural discourse with the unintended and unexpected through the speculation of ideas and spaces.

"The instigating premise of the project is based on the ecological crisis we currently find ourselves within. It is addressed primarily through using traces of global climate change to explore the essence of how we as humans can inhabit and perceive its effects through architectural materiality and spatial qualities. In an attempt to understand how to co-exist with an inevitably tangled future and the sub-nature's it will create."

Student: Jade Bailey
Course: Studio Rashid
Tutors: Hani Rashid, Jose Carlos Lopez Cervantes, Sophie Grell, Eldine Heep, Sophie Luger and Lenia Mascha
Email: jadebailey014[at]gmail.com

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Future Traces by Raffael Stegfellner, Shpend Pashtriku and Sarah Agill

"Future Traces is a proposal for Fiumicino Airport, which aims to dissolve the inward-looking nature of today's airports and find a more peaceful, culturally productive coexistence with their surroundings. The master plan creates new urbanist links between the airport, the ancient ruins of Portus and the surrounding residential communities.

"It houses complex water distribution infrastructure, providing flood protection to the shoreline. The water, flowing continuously through the site, is used for various environmental and cultural programmes, superimposed onto the existing airport network.

"This composition aims to define the airport of the future through the optimisation of its technology."

Student: Raffael Stegfellner, Shpend Pashtriku and Sarah Agill
Course: Studio Rashid
Tutors: Hani Rashid, Jose Carlos Lopez Cervantes, Sophie Grell, Eldine Heep, Sophie Luger, Lenia Mascha
Email: rstegfellner[at]gmail.com, s.pashtriku@gmail.com and agillsarah@gmail.com

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Paradigm Compostition by Arkady Zavialov and Miriam Löscher

"Compostition denies the existence of the end. Materials and constructions create a structure that lives with time. There is the need for its future destruction, the composting of its remnants to give rise to a new, better life.

"The incompleteness opens up freedom, the bravery to make mistakes and change. These are the attributes of the sustainable world of the future. The future airport will become a self-adaptive ecosystem that responds to environmental and social demands by re-distribution, reshaping or destruction and re-use of the actual facilities. Railway networks along hyperloop and airships provide the new traffic system."

Student: Arkady Zavialov and Miriam Löscher
Course: Studio Rashid
Tutors: Hani Rashid, Jose Carlos Lopez Cervantes, Sophie Grell, Eldine Heep, Sophie Luger and Lenia Mascha
Email: zavialovarkady[at]gmail.com and loeschermiriam[at]gmail.com

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Yggdrasil (The Future of Urban Interconnectivity) by Witchaya Jingjit, Patricia Tibu, Simonas Sutkus and Anastasia Smirnova

"Just like the Yggdrasil tree, the project aims at becoming a tool for organising and bringing together different worlds, more specifically different transport infrastructures. At the same time, it is a critique and a reaction to the obsoletion of the airport typology as we currently know it.

"The ambition is to work with pollution as an unavoidable byproduct of air travel and integrate it with our architecture as such. The proposal wishes to become a gate figure for the city; a threshold element that is informed by far more than the functional aspects of air travel."

Student: Witchaya Jingjit, Patricia Tibu, Simonas Sutkus and Anastasia Smirnova
Course: Studio Rashid
Tutors: Hani Rashid, Jose Carlos Lopez Cervantes, Sophie Grell, Eldine Heep, Sophie Luger and Lenia Mascha
Email: archi.witchaya[at]gmail.com, tibu.patricia[at]gmail.com, simonassutkus[at]gmail.com, anastasiasmiirnova[at]gmail.com

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Aerial Meadows by Ebrar Eke and Alina Logunova

"In conventional buildings, volumes and spaces are designed first – infrastructure follows the design decisions. In our proposal, we are reversing this hierarchical system by designing the infrastructure of airflow first, which results in new types of organisations, spaces, volumes, programs and occupations.

"We looked at termites mounds as a reference as they have effective natural ventilation. Air supplies from underground inlets are distributed to upper levels through the system of chimneys and atriums.

"On the upper floor, the ventilation system consists of smaller clusters. Air structures with occupiable spaces create a variety of unique spatial relationships."

Student: Ebrar Eke and Alina Logunova
Course: Studio Lynn
Tutors: Greg Lynn, Martin Murero, Maja Ozvaldic, Bence Pap and Kaiho Yu
Email: ebrareke[at]gmail.com and 15_alina[at]mail.ru

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Advection by Olga Filippova, Chenke Zhang and Hao Wu

"Occupiable air infrastructure voids replaces conventional circulation cores and additionally drives vertical airflow. An adopted Ferris wheels concept for our building operates as the only mechanical circulation, providing landing ports into various levels and spaces. Isolated floors are extended from these ports to link all the occupiable spaces."

Student: Olga Filippova, Chenke Zhang and Hao Wu
Course: Studio Lynn
Tutors: Greg Lynn, Martin Murero, Maja Ozvaldic, Bence Pap and Kaiho Yu
Email: hao.wu1302[atgmail.com, zckqinyu[at]gmail.com and filipp.o.a[at]yandex.ru

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Bridged Discontinuity by Tobias Haas and Jonas Maderstorfer

"To deal with the challenges of the pandemic, the project aims to minimise the number of crossing points between different user groups. By separating the high duration functions library, museum and work into three independent massings, the motion flows of the users can be kept parallel."

"A public boulevard hosts all the amenities and low duration functions and bridges the three massings and providing an enfilade-like spatial experience transporting people with the programme. The boulevard is defined as a void, providing sufficient ventilation for the areas with the highest intermixing of people."

Student: Tobias Haas and Jonas Maderstorfer
Course: Studio Lynn
Tutors: Greg Lynn, Martin Murero, Maja Ozvaldic, Bence Pap and Kaiho Yu
Email: haastobias[at]yahoo.de and jonas.maderstorfer[at]gmail.com

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La torta a Strati by Alina Logunova and Joyce Lee

"This project serves as an investigation on thinking of borders in various ways as means of organising plans based on agent behaviour. Simulations are set up by putting targets of different properties inside the footprint of the building.

"Floorplates, cutouts, voids and volumes are defined based on the agent movement patterns. A different workflow is created to define space based on programmes, volumes and duration."

Student: Alina Logunova and Joyce Lee
Course: Studio Lynn
Tutors: Greg Lynn, Martin Murero, Maja Ozvaldic, Bence Pap and Kaiho Yu
Email: 15_alina[at]mail.ru and joyceleeeee3[at]gmail.com

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MixINN by Anna Chakhal-Salakhova and Yiting Yang

"The project aims to create an active hotel as a more socially engaged place, with a high level of interaction between users. At the same time, it intends to bring civic experience to the building by arranging hotel rooms mixed with three 'districts' with different spatial organisations and characters generated from the algorithm.

"The agent-based design method helped us define the space typologies in terms of spatial connectivity, boundary conditions and sizes. By blurring the borderline between activity areas and the hotel rooms, the project stimulates interaction, providing a sense of community and connectivity."

Student: Anna Chakhal-Salakhova and Yiting Yang
Course: Studio Lynn
Tutors: Greg Lynn, Martin Murero, Maja Ozvaldic, Bence Pap and Kaiho Yu
Email: chakhalsalakhova[at]gmail.com and yangyiii.yt[at]gmail.com

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All Watched Over by Merve Sahin

"All Watched Over is a digitally mediated and camouflaged interior. It is an impulsing artefact of data and images that are cultivated by the political exiles.

"The interior readapts the theatre and parliament typologies to exchange and circulate visual and linguistic elements, while the exterior envelope employs strategies to trick the surveillance gaze for granting digital anonymity."

Student: Merve Sahin
Course: Studio Díazmoreno Garcíagrinda
Tutors: Cristina Díaz Moreno, Efrén García Grinda, Anna Gulinska, Lorenzo Perri, Zsuzsa Peter and Hannes Traupmann
Email: mmervesahin7[at]gmail.com

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Partly Automated Luxury City by Bofan Zhou, Diana Cuc and Iga Mazur

"The project tries to investigate the heterogeneity and richness of the continuous ground floor conditions of the city where the limits between urban and domestic, public and private are diffused.

"The city operates in the post-work scenario in which leisure creates opportunities for the new social relationships beyond biological family to happen through the spatiality of the communal spaces."

Student: Bofan Zhou, Diana Cuc and Iga Mazur
Course: Studio Díazmoreno Garcíagrinda
Tutors: Cristina Díaz Moreno, Efrén García Grinda, Anna Gulinska, Lorenzo Perri, Zsuzsa Peter and Hannes Traupmann
Email: bofan.zhou1996[at]gmail.com, cuc.diaana[at]yahoo.ro and iam.iga.mazur[at]gmail.com

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Place of Distinct Voices by Patricia Vraber

"Place of distinct voices wonders how to take others' perspectives to form mental images of how the world looks like through the eyes of others. This new civic is a universe on its own, providing an extensive grid of time and space.

"The visitor experiences it through the architecture of inversion and an infinite archive of people's stories that enhance our empathy and emotions."

Student: Patricia Vraber
Course: Studio Díazmoreno Garcíagrinda
Tutors: Cristina Díaz Moreno, Efrén García Grinda, Anna Gulinska, Lorenzo Perri, Zsuzsa Peter and Hannes Traupmann
Email: vraberpatricia[at]gmail.com

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The Otherworldliness by Magdalena Gorecka

"The Otherworldliness, an audio-video production, creates augmented spatial sceneries for an informal and dynamic production and projection of Bollywood movies. It is located in the biggest European greenhouses agglomeration in southern Spain.

"The proposal brings together displaced immigrants from the sub-Sahara. The project manifests in a sequence of artefacts, which tense the voids within a dense and homogeneous polyethene landscape."

Student: Magdalena Gorecka
Course: Studio díazmoreno garcíagrinda
Tutors: Cristina Díaz Moreno, Efrén García Grinda, Anna Gulinska, Lorenzo Perri, Zsuzsa Peter and Hannes Traupmann
Email: goreckagorecka[at]gmail.com

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Vertical Suburbia by Alexander Klapsch and Jenny Niklasch

"This project rethinks an intensified urban realm and the reconceptualisation of open space on the periphery of Vienna.

"Through the vertical integration of activities, the built space is densified and seen as a juxtaposition to the negative space, creating an environment of coexistence for humans and other species."

Student: Alexander Klapsch and Jenny Niklasch
Course: Studio Díazmoreno Garcíagrinda
Tutors: Cristina Díaz Moreno, Efrén García Grinda, Anna Gulinska, Lorenzo Perri, Zsuzsa Peter and Hannes Traupmann
Email: alexander.klapsch[at]gmail.com and jenny_niklasch[at]outlook.de

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Partnership content

This school show is a partnership between Dezeen and the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Find out more about Dezeen partnership content here.

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Edition Office completes black concrete home in rural Australia

Black-pigmented concrete and black timber battens have been used to create this tactile home in the village of Federal, New South Wales by Australian studio Edition Office.

The Melbourne-based firm designed Federal House to be both a peaceful sanctuary for its clients and a sculptural object dug into a slope in the hilly, forested landscape.

Edition Office has created a black concrete house

"At a distance the building is recessive, a shadow within the vast landscape," described Edition Office.

"On closer inspection, a highly textural outer skin of thick timber battens contrasts the earlier sense of a machined tectonic, allowing organic materials gestures to drive the dialogue with physical human intimacy."

It sits on a slope within a forested landscape

Drawing on the verandah typology common among Australia's colonial homesteads, a central living, dining and kitchen space is wrapped by a partially covered deck area.

This deck was designed to create a variety of different connections to the surrounding landscape.

It was lined with black timber battens that filter air, views and more direct sunlight on the western edge, and left entirely open for panoramic views to the north.

Sliding glass doors open the house to the outside

Sliding glass doors around the living spaces allow them to be completely opened to the elements or sealed off.

At the centre is a double-height garden void, illuminated by a cut in the home's roof.

"The expansion and contraction of the interior allows shifts between the intimate and the public, between immediate landscape and the expansive unfolding landscape to the north," said the studio.

Light wooden floors and tan leather furniture feature inside

Along the eastern edge of the home is the bedroom block, what the studio calls an "enclave of withdrawal, rest and solitude" containing two smaller rooms either side of a bathroom and a large en-suite bedroom with its own private terrace.

For the interiors, the dark wood and concrete are contrasted by lighter wooden floors and tan leather furniture, with custom door pulls designed to encourage a "tactile engagement" with the home.

On the lower level is a thin pool open to the landscape at one end, which cools air as it travels through the building, up the garden void into the living spaces.

This natural ventilation is supplemented with a ceiling fan for the hotter days of the year and a fireplace for winter.

On the lower level is a thin pool

Edition Office has recently completed another rural home in the Australian town of Kyneton, which also saw natural surroundings inform a textural material palette.

The photography is by Ben Hosking.

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Project credits:

Lead designers: Kim Bridgland, Aaron Roberts
Landscape designer: Florian Wild
Structural engineer: Westera Partners
Builder: SJ Reynolds Constructions

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Ten eye-catching hotel bedrooms with standout interiors

For our latest lookbook, we've selected 10 hotel bedrooms to inspire designers working on hospitality projects.

Hotel bedrooms are designed to be welcoming spaces to spend the night away from home.

These striking guest rooms, which range from brightly coloured to pared-back and minimal, can provide inspiration for those designing bedrooms in hospitality projects or the home.

This is the latest roundup in our Dezeen Lookbooks series providing visual inspiration for the home. Previous lookbooks include interiors that make use of colour-theory, Japandi living rooms and residential loft conversions.

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Hotel Monville, Canada, by ACDF Architecture

The monochrome bedrooms at Hotel Monville in Montreal keep to a dual-tone theme with black and white accents.

Local firm ACDF Architecture designed the hotel rooms in a largely muted palette including grey carpets and understated lighting by fellow local studio Lambert & Fils. Oak headboards and chairs brighten the otherwise dark space.

Read more about Hotel Monville ›

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Círculo Mexicano, Mexico, by Ambrosi Etchegaray

Architecture office Ambrosi Etchegaray created bedrooms devoid of ornamentation for this Mexico City hotel, which takes cues from the Shakers' minimal approach to living.

The bedrooms of Círculo Mexicano adopt this style with a series of blocky wooden plinths that make up the rooms' tables, storage cupboards and bed bases. Terracotta barrel-vaulted ceilings also feature in some of the bedrooms.

Find out more about Círculo Mexicano ›

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The Ned, England, by Soho House

Private members' club Soho House created 252 lavish bedrooms in the Ned hotel, which is located in an Edwin Lutyens-designed bank.

A vintage feel permeates the guest rooms that are informed by 1920s and 1930s design.

Brass and mahogany furniture contrasts with mustard-coloured sofas and large four-poster beds, while richly patterned curtains and cushions are reflected in decadent chandeliers hanging from the ceiling.

Find out more about The Ned ›

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Whitworth Locke, England, by Grzywinski+Pons

New York-based studio Grzywinski+Pons used vintage posters advertising international trading between Manchester and "warmer and brighter corners of the globe" as a design prompt for the bedrooms in this hotel based in the English city.

Whitworth Locke's guest rooms feature interiors in quaint 1800s-informed pastel colours. Exposed brick walls are painted salmon-pink, while gold wall lamps illuminate pistachio-green accents and illustrated monochrome bedclothes.

Find out more about Whitworth Locke ›

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Hotel Saint Vincent, US, by Lambert McGuire Design

Grey bedrooms at the Hotel Saint Vincent in New Orleans reflect the chilling legacy of the building, which was converted from a 19th-century infant asylum.

Austin-based practice Lambert McGuire Design chose to paint the walls and ceilings of the rooms in a dark shade of grey intended to echo the hotel's sinister atmosphere.

Red velvet upholstery offsets the grey walls, combined with unlikely colourful accents such as bold yellow telephones.

Find out more about Hotel Saint Vincent ›

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Eaton DC, US, by Gachot Studios and Parts and Labor Design

Time-worn pieces such as Himalayan salt lamps and colourful textiles add to this Washington DC hotel, which has retro bedrooms designed to reject the luxury style of accommodation in the city.

New York studios Gachot Studios and Parts and Labor Design created the hotel's eclectic bedroom interiors.

Read more about Eaton DC ›

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Barceló Torre de Madrid, Spain, by Jaime Hayón 

Spanish designer Jaime Hayón brought his signature playful style to the bedrooms of Barceló Torre de Madrid, a vibrantly designed hotel in the Spanish city.

Best known for his recurring animal imagery, Hayón added pieces such as his Monkey table, a humorous cartoon monkey-shaped concrete resin side table, to the hotel's quirky rooms. The designer's Catch chairs and Palette tables also feature, while abstract gold lion motifs decorate large mirrors above guest beds.

Read more about Barceló Torre de Madrid ›

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Palm Heights, Grand Cayman, by Gabriella Khalil

1970s Caribbean mansions informed the mood of Palm Heights, a hotel on the island of Grand Cayman by interior designer Gabriella Khalil.

The hotel's bedrooms feature an eclectic mix of materials including Italian pale stone floors and a combination of yellow and blue tones intended to mimic the colours of the beach. Neutral white walls complement the rooms' natural light and offset their bolder upholstery.

Find out more about Palm Heights ›

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Hotel Valley Ho, US, by Edward L Varney

Many of the bedrooms at the Hotel Valley in Scottsdale, Arizona, which was transformed by architect Edward L Varney, contain freestanding bathtubs positioned against vibrant yellow walls.

The bedrooms are finished with neutral-coloured terrazzo floor tiles that soften deep burgundy lounge chairs by American design firm Knoll.

Find out more about Hotel Valley Ho ›

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Condominio Monti, Italy, by Studio Tamat and Sabina Guidotti

Chunky scalloped headboards in shades of cobalt, hot pink and purple take centre stage in the bedrooms of this Italian boutique hotel by Studio Tamat and Sabina Guidotti.

Brightly coloured furnishings are paired with more paired-back furniture including steel bedside tables with marble bases by Austrian designer Klemens Schillinger.

Find out more about Condominio Monti ›

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This is the latest in our series of lookbooks providing curated visual inspiration from Dezeen's image archive. For more inspiration see previous lookbooks showcasing mezzanines, U-shaped kitchens and calm living rooms.

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Lemoal Lemoal creates hempcrete sports hall in France

Paris studio Lemoal Lemoal has used hempcrete blocks to build the Pierre Chevet sports centre, which the studio believes is the country's first public building built from the material.

Named Pierre Chevet, the 380 square-metre sports hall is located in the town of Croissy-Beaubourg near Paris.

The sports hall has hempcrete block walls

Lemoal Lemoal used the building as an opportunity to experiment with hemp as a construction material.

The sports centre contains an exercise hall and changing rooms enclosed in a structure made from hempcrete blocks, which were constructed by cement manufacturer Vicat.

The blocks were made using lime and hemp hurds – an agricultural material produced from hemp stalks, which were grown in France.

The sports hall has a half vaulted structural system

The exterior of the building is clad in white, cement-fibre panels that protect the hemp blocks.

Inside, the building has a wooden, half-vaulted structure that is adjoined to the hempcrete walls for support and provides the interior space with a column-free interior.

"The structure is a mix of timber and hempcrete blocks, wooden half-vaulted porticoes lean against a wall of hempcrete blocks for support," Lemoal Lemaol told Dezeen.

"This combination frees a maximum of space for practising sports, and allows large opening of two facades to the public space."

Walls were half rendered revealing the hempcrete blockwork

Lower sections of the walls were treated with hemp plaster – a technique typically used across the interiors of hempcrete buildings to conceal the material's textural quality.

Other areas of the walls were left untreated to reveal the blockwork and aid the building's acoustic performance.

Hempcrete removes the need for insulation

"By virtue of [hempcrete's] multiple qualities, hemp blocks makes it possible to avoid the use of linings and to reduce the thickness of the walls to the essential," said the studio.

"It also makes it possible to increase the practicable surface of the sports hall."

It has a shower and changing spaces

Hempcrete was chosen for the construction by Lemoal Lemoal for its durability, fire resistance and the fact it is an emerging construction material.

The material's France-based production also means it promotes short and local supply chains.

"Hempcrete is very popular due to its high qualities for construction, which is really good news for sustainability," said the studio.

"We choose to work with hempcrete because this sustainable and long-lasting material has also multiple performances, which allows us to reduce the thickness of the walls and get high quality and spacious interior rooms."

Walls were rendered with a hemp plaster

The blocks used in the building can be assembled dry and have an interlocking system that does not require adhesives or mortar. The hempcrete also removes the need for additional insulation due to its natural insulating qualities.

"The innovation here is not to use hempcrete for a public building but the hempcrete blocks with dry interlocking."

The blocks were created using hemp hurds and lime

The studio explained that the sports hall is France's first public building to use hempcrete blocks and hopes it will encourage others to consider using the material on future projects.

"The Pierre Chevet sports hall is the first new public facility built with hemp-concrete blocks, it helps to engage stakeholders in the building industry in ecological transition and helps to reduce the number of different materials used," said Lemoal Lemoal.

"The project was notably an opportunity to train a masonry company to this technique. Lighter than a traditional concrete block, but with a similar implementation, the hemp block can convince entrepreneurs to permanently modify their prescriptions."

The bases of the walls were rendered in lime

Hemp is a carbon sequestering material when used in constriction. Cambridge University researcher Darshil Shah explained that hemp is estimated to be one of the top CO2-to-biomass converters.

He stated "[hemp] is even more effective than trees," and that "industrial hemp absorbs between eight to 15 tonnes of CO2 per hectare of cultivation."

The blocks have an interlocking system

Hemp is becoming more widely used as a construction material. A video made at Margent Farm in Cambridge details how Hemp is grown, cultivated and processed to be used as a construction material.

Elsewhere in Cambridge, Jonathan Tuckey Design recently announced its plans to add a hempcrete extension to a house in a conservation area.

Photography is by Elodie Dupuy.

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