soma* won the second prize in the competition for the redesign of the Karlsplatz-Passage, Vienna. It is the busiest public transport hub in Austria, counting over 200.000 passengers a day. The result of the competition is published in the current edition of Architektur Aktuell (The Art of Competition, Springer-Verlag, March 2009).
a complex twist in ceiling and wall geometry enables an opening to above groundContemporary music has no built representation in Vienna, the self-proclaimed „city of music“. Sonic Tower wants to fill this gap and bring modern music back to the center, the Karlsplatz.
vertical instrument for contemporary music, Karlsplatz
Aggregation is a landmark for a media city. The structure is an open system consisting of lines creating a felt-like mass. Instead of boundaries (e.g. walls and floors) connections are space-defining.
interaction between shells and structure