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AV Monografias 215 Baumschlager Eberle

AV Monografias 215 Baumschlager Eberle

Baumschlager Eberle has given architectural form to a verse of Jorge Guillén which Eduardo Chillida made popular: “How profound is the air.” The sculptor met the poet in Harvard in 1971, and that encounter sparked a friendship, an artist’s book, and a series of sculptures that took their title from a fortunate line of ‘Más allá,’ the poem that introduced Cántico in 1928. When the two have disappeared, Dietmar Eberle brings new life to the verse where Guillén – who sang the lyrical materiality of the building – and Chillida – who studied architecture several years – converge, and this with a body of work that reconciles density and atmosphere, depth and air: the compactness that urban sustainability demands and the hygrothermal control that permits reducing or eliminating energy use; the thermal inertia that compensates daily or seasonal oscillations and the ‘exact breathing’ that regulates the maximum presence of carbon dioxide.
Twenty years back we already admired the studio of Vorarlberg for its deep-bay residential projects, organized in concentric layers that allowed designing extremely compact buildings, with the subsequent cost saving (due to the reduction of the facade-floor ratio) and the no less significant energy saving (because by improving the form coefficient, the enclosure exposed to the weather is smaller). In fact, Baumschlager Eberle opened the monograph we published then, gathering twenty residential developments in different European countries, with a lucid text that underlined the regional roots of collective housing, marked by social, technical, and normative factors; the importance of construction details and the learning process that helps refine them; and the necessary dialogue with the agents involved in this type of project – developers, authorities, and occupants – aiming to reconcile functional demands and formal preferences.
Today, that admiration has extended to the decision to transfer Eberle’s research and teaching at the ETH on densities and atmospheres to actual buildings, from the central studio in Lustenau and also from those in Vaduz, Vienna, St. Gallen, Zurich, Hong Kong, Berlin, Hanoi, Paris, Hamburg, and Cracow. A decade ago,
the architect and professor announced that he was set to design the building for his office in such a way that it would need no energy at all, and that visionary endeavor took shape in 2013 as an efficient and exquisite cube that we published in Arquitectura Viva under the title ‘Atmosphere without Machines,’ in an issue that defended the importance of thermal inertia for sustainability under the motto ‘Mass is More.’ The verse of Guillén inspired Chillida to create architectural sculptures where space and air are materials just as essential as alabaster or iron, and Eberle places his compact and atmospheric prisms under that dark light.

Luis Fernández-Galiano
Lo profundo es el aire How Profound is the Air

Teoría activa   Active Theory

Dietmar Eberle
Densidad y atmósfera Density and Atmosphere

Florian Aicher
Temperaturas críticas Critical Temperatures

Práctica reflexiva   Reflexive Practice

Conjunto de viviendas Lohbach I, Innsbruck (Austria)
Lohbach I Residential Development, Innsbruck (Austria)
1997-2000

Complejo residencial Achslengut II, St. Gallen (Suiza)
Achslengut II Residential Complex, St. Gallen (Switzerland)
1998-2002

Oficinas Vodafone Nederland, Amsterdam (Países Bajos)
Vodafone Nederland Office Building, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
2001-2011

Torres residenciales MOMA, Pekín (China)
MOMA Residential High-Rises, Beijing (China)
2002-2005

Residencia de estudiantes en Molkereistraße, Viena (Austria)
Molkereistraße Student Residence, Vienna (Austria)
2002-2005

Conjunto de viviendas Eichgut, Winterthur (Suiza)
Eichgut Residential Development, Winterthur (Switzerland)
2002-2005

Centro de formación y oficinas Hilti, Schaan (Liechtenstein)
Hilti Training Centre and Office East, Schaan (Liechtenstein)
2004-2006

Embarcadero Nordwesthaus, Fußach (Austria)
Nordwesthaus, Fußach (Austria)
2004-2008

Edificio Universitario ETH e-Science Lab HIT, Zúrich (Suiza)
University building ETH e-Science Lab HIT, Zurich (Switzerland)
2005-2008

Edificio de usos mixtos Solids IJburg, Amsterdam (Países Bajos)
Solids IJburg Mixed Use Building, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
2005-2011

Edificio 2226, Lustenau (Austria)
2226 Building, Lustenau (Austria)
2006-2013

Casa del Conocimiento, Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxemburgo)
Maison du Savoir, Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg)
2007-2015

Complejo residencial Chilestieg, Rümlang (Suiza)
Chilestieg Residential Development, Rümlang (Switzerland)
2011-2014

Viviendas Schlachter, Bregenz (Austria)
Schlachter Residential Project, Bregenz (Austria)
2012-2016

Edificio de oficinas Green Office® ENJOY, París (Francia)
Green Office® ENJOY, Paris (France)
2013-2018

Viviendas modulares para refugiados, Berlín (Alemania)
Modular Housing for Refugees, Berlin (Germany)
2016-2018