GROWJECTS
Growject 26 - Dynamic Platon
September-November 2019
I found that all the Platonic Solids are connected in a way that by a simple mechanism one solid becomes the other...
Growject 24 - Switch Competition
May 2019
For a Pavilion in Amsterdam we set up a Team of Architects and Programmer to invent a House which works like a Tree. The dynamic sails made of hemp fabric will open and close depending on the weather. The mechanism will work not by engine which needs a lot of energy but by the natural weight of the rainwater or the water of the river. An idea to create a space in harmony with nature...
Growject 22 - Whild Boilerroom
April 2019
For the techno event Auftakt (a Preparty for the Festival "Zweitakt") I was constructing a Tower which works as a stage for a Boilerroom party. The size of the diameter can vary but the diameter of the bottom circle and the diameter of the circle at the top will be always in the golden ratio!
Growject 21 - Growing Warehouse
March 2019
For the Company "Teems India Pvt Ltd" I was designing and constructing a Warehouse out of Bamboo.
Bamboo is a very versatile material in terms of strength & also has a very good bending capacity. The bamboo used for this project was locally sourced and then treated on site to preserve it for multiple years. The Joinery junctions were of 3 types and were specially designed for the structure & was customised & fabricated. The new thing was that we where GLUEING the Bamboo into the pipes to protect the material from weather,insects and fangus and prevent it from splitting. As fare as i know nobody did that bevore... but i would be happy to come in touch with people who did similar things in the past! My target is to make Bamboo ready for Industrial usage as I see Bamboo as a solution for many problems we face nowerdays!
Growject 20 - Growing Bamboo Tower
April-July 2018
BAMBOO CENTER AUROVILLE was the perfect place, with the right energy and visionary mindset to push GROWINGTOWER to a
new dimension. Together we were growing the idea to an incredible project...
For more than 3 month volunteers, labourers, cooks, welders, project holder and financial supporter sticked together to
make this Tower happened!
We became like a family and where able to show what GROWINGTOWER and especially Bamboo is able to do. This 45 feet (13,5m) tall tower shows that the GROWINGTOWER structure could be an elementary Building technique in future!!
Thanks to Bamboo Center and to all the people who dedicated themself to the project! ...Especially to the Volunteers!
This tower is now even a WORLD RECORD as the largest tower which was "growing" by a rotation movement, while the top part was build first and the bottom later on...
Growject 19 - Growing SoundDome
"Svaram" in Auroville asked me to design and build a SouldDome for Instruments for them. So I thought a Building which is itself an instrument would be interesting and the output was a dynamic Dome which can change its size according to the movement of a Gong which was hanging in the parabolic Dome...
Growject 18 - Growing Home
After the projects with all this inspiring Indian architect students, some ideas raced in my mind how this amazing structure could be used for living spaces...
Our cities are usually also growing!
...But different than plants they can only grow by occupying more and more area. If we would build dynamic module
houses which are sitting on a rotating ramp we wouldn't need to destroy more forest but grow with our needs! If we need more living space we would just rotate our whole home and add a new room
which can be designed individually...
Growject 17 - Growing Tower Workshop
In 3 Days we were building a 6m tall GrowingTower. This time i used a slightly different Ramp so you will find now perfect squares in the Geodesic Structure.
Growject 16 - Growing Tensegrity Workshop
We had a wonderful time working together on a 6m tall Growing Tensegrity. Thanks to all of you!
Growject 15 - Growing Seed of Life
January 2018
The "seed of life" is a well-known geometric wonder. I thought, "What happens if we let the seed grow? ..."
This construct is self-contained; none of the rods are firmly connected, except through the cords that form the lines of the "seed of life.
Growject 14 - Dynamic Donut
Januar 2018
Nun wollte ich mich zur Entspannung auch mal anderen Strukturen widmen und so kam mir die Idee, die Struktur des Wassers und der Blüten von Blumen genauer unter die Lupe zu nehmen.
Dieser "Dynamische Torus" kann eine unendliche Bewegung um sich selbst beschreiben, wären da nicht die Schnüre zur Aufhängung. Ich konstruierte die Aufhängung so, dass man den Torus teoretisch als Deckeninstallation nutzen könnte.
Das Spannende ist, dass die Struktur nur gut funktioniert, wenn man die Zahlen nutzt die man erhällt wenn man die "2" beliebig oft mit sich lebst multipliziert: (2,4,8,16,32,...).
Growject 12 - Growing Flower
November 2017
A dynamic structure?
Just as flowers open and close their leafes, so we can make buildings movable. The entire dome simply straightens by the string of cords connected to each connection point in the dome.
How can you move upwards while pulling down?
The GROWINGTOWER structure makes that possible!
This is the Model for a tower in the Berlin club "Griessmühle" where this principle is applied.
Groject 11 - Growing Playground
October 2017
Adventures in Pinecone ... Children love nature. On playgrounds you can often see them playing in geometric figures.
The GROWINGTOWER would combine both. The feeling of nature and climbing onto a tree that recreates the structure of a pine cone. A fascinating and easy to build geometric structure.
Groject 10 - Growing Torus Dome
September 2017
The idea of a Growing Torus is interesting if you want to cover a huge space. During the planning phase for a marquee, the drawings and pictures of a GrowingTorusDome were created.
Groject 9 - Growing Dome
September 2017
A marquee which you can build within a very short time without a ladder, crane or anything else ..!
It all stared with a branched plant in the wind. I wondered: How can she stand so stable even though she has only ONE trunk in the middle and no four pillars like a house? After a few days the solution was found and the GROWING DOME was born! A construct that reflects the dome structure of Fuller, but it is much easier to build than the conventional dome. Initially, all the rods are on the ground, with only the ends connected to the strings. By building only the "branches" are mounted on the "trunk" to mount the "branches" is possible without annoying ladders. Stability comes by tensing to the ground at five points.
Groject 8 - Growing Tower Tensegrity 2
August 2017
To show that you can stretch different numbers of spirals to float poles, a second GROWINGTOWER Tensergity was built. This time, the rods hang in five left-handed and eight right-handed spirals of strings, with no rod touching another.
Groject 7 - Giraffe
August 2017
As part of a festival, an entrance was needed.
GROWINGTOWER designed an extra natural sculpture representing a giraffe. She was about 8m high and had headlamps as eyes. Especially at festivals of techno music, it is important to send the eyes on the road. And oversized natural objects are very suitable for this. More animals are already planned for next year ...
Groject 6 - Growing Tower Tensegritry
July 2017
In the first days of my journey from Germany to Portugal, I came to an understanding of the subject of train and pressure in the growing organism. For this I had to leave the limits of the Fibonacci numbers and came instead to a new sequence of numbers, which results from the squares of the Fibonacci numbers and in turn tend to the golden ratio. Instead of 1,1,2,3,5,8 .. we now have 1,1,4,9,25,64, .. But by the way, more importantly, we are now using the GROWINGTOWER structure rods to float in the air. Behind the picture hides a video about it. Take a look!
Groject 5 - Programmdesign
Groject 4 - Golden Tower Project
Groject 3 - Growing Tower Modell
Groject 2 - Schneckenhaus
Groject 1 - Dome
July 2016
Everything started with the dome. The structure that Buckminster Fuller invented at that time. The dome is buildable and degradable in short time and is used as a stage for techno events.