The Pile Building for New York is an alternative architectural design proposal for the Hudson Yards Master Plan in Midtown New York. The Pile is like Manhattan by fusing all its build elements: the Grid, its Blocks, the Central Park, the various neighborhoods, the topography of the original island and Manhattan’s infrastructural projects into one gigantic buildable agglomeration. It consist of 2 Million sqm floor area. It’s 1/4 mile high and wide and was designed in 2020 based on various prototypes developed over the last decade.

Credits: Peter Trummer Architect
Peter Trummer with Joerg Stanzel

Medical innovation is advancing exponentially, leaving hospitals to constantly need to catch up. The more recent their completion, the sooner they become out of date. Can we imagine a different way to build hospitals? What if the hospital were conceived not as a building but as a system, made up of modules, incorporating gardens where nature can be enjoyed by patients and staff? The hospital of the future builds itself. It maximizes the potential of automation and 3D printing, and uses its waste as a resource. The hospital of the future produces what it consumes – its energy, its food, its medicine.

The Jinhua Cultural Center plays into the generative relationship between nature and the arts in China. Instead of a passive backdrop to architecture, the landscape is celebrated as a medium for expression, becoming a symbol and setting in the visitor’s journey. The overall center is shaped by the performance hall and the entrance foyer; these two volumes are linked by the undulating green roof of the exhibition hall and sky bridges moving through the tree canopy. A series of gardens weave around and between these volumes, each referencing iconic landscapes that have shaped the nation’s poetic and artistic traditions.

The project combines two independent yet structurally unified institutions: The Museum of Contemporary Art and the Planning Exhibition, as cultural meeting points and venues for architectural exhibitions. Both museums are designed as separate entities emphasizing their individual functional and artistic requirements. The lobby, multifunctional exhibition halls, auditorium, conference rooms, and service areas will be used jointly. Behind the entrance area between the museums, visitors ascend to the main level by ramps and escalators and enter the “Plaza”. A silvery shining and softly deformed “Cloud” serves as a central orientation and access element on the Plaza.

Contemporary Architecture Practice.

At the very core of Frankfurt, on a site that has been inaccessible for the last 45 years, four new high-rise towers will change Frankfurt's skyline from the air, while cultivating itsliveliness on the ground. The development of these towers, reaching heights of 228 meters, will open up new streets to create a multi-use, vibrant inner-city quarter, bringing together a healthy mix of work, living, relaxation and recreation. The choice of programmes allows for a smooth transition from Frankfurt’s shopping district to the east of Roßmarkt, to the high-rise office towers clustered around Park Taunusanlage.

Haikou Communal Center is located at Haikou Bay facing the South China Sea. Its organic, fluid shape resembles an imaginary marine creature with openings of various sizes that add to the mystery and narrative of the architecture, therefore further evokes the audience's imagination and desire to explore. The building consists of two parts: a 1097 sqm reading space that could store tens of thousands of books, which comprises a café, a reading area and a rooftop terrace; the 300 sqm public communal area includes a bicycle parking lot, a drinking area, bathrooms and lavatories, serving for the tourists’ convenience.

‘’What does ‘tower’ mean in the 21st Century? How can a tower evolve while continuing to attract attention, as the Eiffel Tower does? ‘’ The proposal is 268m high, and consists of 99 individual towers. Both one tower and a collection of towers simultaneously symbolizes the future of societies in an age of diversity. The shape resembles a container, or flowers, a group of islands, perhaps a cloud of spray, or even an aerial city in the future. It is equipped with a viewing platform, also functioning as a three- dimensional exhibition space, with restaurant and café.

RuiXue Multi-hall attempts to integrate the vast field landscape, guided by structural performance design thinking and digital fabrication technology of building robotics. The project seeks to integrate the spirit of local place with new concepts of future architecture and new technologies under the guidance of structural performance design and digital fabrication technology.

Lesley Lokko, curator of this year's Biennale stated, “ The future isn’t just an idea, it’s a place.” Our future takes place Contract Of Fiction gallery, where founder Helmut C.Diez promotes lesser known artists from emerging countries through merging various art forms, both digital and analog into modern representation. The architecture of the gallery Is designed by LAVA Architects. LAVA and Diez seek to expand the more commercially-shown projects within the Metaverse to focus on cultural and social change: to provide an open platform for voices who previously had little to none.

Lijia Smart Park, a 510,830 square-meter development adjacent to Hongyazhai ecological park and surrounding Hongya Reservoir. The masterplan consists of 13 buildings on a plinth that connects all the buildings together into an iconic form. It includes a Big Data Museum, 8 office towers and 4 research and development buildings. Lijia Smart Park brings together morphology, nature, calligraphy, big data, smart-city technologies and cutting-edge aesthetics to shape an urban icon. The design will contribute towards making a better life for all the people who work and visit the project by activating an inspired new urban experience for Chongqing, China.

The project is an AI video specifically developed and designed for the main media façade of the Hyundai Motor Studio Seoul. In its seemingly endless looping, the video simulates several scenarios for the evolution of Seoul into a carbon neutral city. In a multi-layered cyclical process, the city grows through the re-metabolization of urban air pollution, waste and the storing of CO2. Hi-density metropolitan clusters populate with sky-gardens, bio-buildings and eventually lush urban forests to evolve into new constructed landscapes. Trees and buildings alternate, literally evolving from each other, following the circular model pioneered by ecoLogicStudio in the Tree. One sculpture.

Located on Lize Road in southwest Beijing, Leeza SOHO tower anchors the new Fengtai business district - a growing financial and transport hub between the city centre and the recently opened Beijing Daxing International Airport to the south. The new business district is integral to Beijing's multi- modal urban plan to accommodate growth without impacting existing infrastructure networks in the centre of the city.This 45-storey 172,800m² tower responds to demand from small and medium-sized businesses in Beijing for flexible and efficient Grade A office space.

Soomeen Hahm & Hanjun Kim (Soomeenhahm Design), Igor Pantic (Studio Igor Pantic), 2021: A Steam Odyssey is an exhibition developed by Soomeen HahmDesign and Studio Igor Pantic, displayed at SCI-Arc Gallery during the summer of 2021. The exhibition is conceptualized around the notion that making in Mixed Reality (MR) reinvigorates traditional craftsmanship by augmenting hand and material skills with the precision and formal possibilities of digital modeling - occupying the territory between purely automated, exclusively robotically-driven fabrication and highly crafted processes requiring human labour.

Conceptual art pioneer Marcel Duchamp stated that art in museums should have a shelf-life of 50 years. In the vein of Duchamp’s thinking, dynamic NFTs have forever transformed the idea of art as a static object . Open Book is a digital book that never ends, where the initial contributions form the core content of a curated selection of influential artists, writers and curators that will subsequently be opened to the public. This project is based on a new technology developed by Async that will redefine the participatory nature of NFTs; and, in turn, rethink the notion of a book as a finite.

Fusing structure, illumination, and natural ventilation.

Our Nodeul Island Complex creates an urban ecology that foregrounds the primal relationship between architecture and landscape. Designed as a multi-functional urban ground the design integrates itself within the environment. Structuring both light and organization the buildings are naturally illuminated during the day through a translucent veil of glass that serves as illuminated beacons at night. This structural lattice is operable creating a naturally ventilated space that harnesses its performative characteristics through active integration of structure, space and form.  The interiors are adaptive and allow for radically reconfigurable spaces that can through combinatorial versioning offer programmatically varied use cases.