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das beste der leichtbauarchitektur |
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http://www.baumkrone.ch |
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http://www.visionlife.de |
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auerwordpalast auerstedt 1998 |
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bestes online-magazin der baukunst |
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eine begnadete malerin |
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jan fride´s slangtrainer and more |
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klänge und gesänge von anna kalberer und jojo büld |
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weltmusikfestival antwepen |
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krautrock vom feinsten |
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weltgesang höchster güte |
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http://www.liquid-sound.com |
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wilder gesang und geige |
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s´phinxt-festival in heggelbach |
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regenbogenträume schweiz |
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traumhafte feenwelt im thüringer wald |
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Namita Dharia, Mumbay 2008 |
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Experimental architecture, by its nomenclature, indicates a marginalized architecture that positions itself on a boundary of the profession, often overlapping with several disciplines. Marcel Kalberer and his Sanfte Strukturen Atelier, interpellate themselves as experimental architects, producing experimental architecture –titled “Botanical Architecture”. Their distinctive choice of method and material, forms architecture that sites itself at the boundaries of architecture, art, and landscape, and by this very peripherality acquires a means to critique these disciplines. Kalberer’s work bears strong influences of the distinctive Land Art movement. Born in the 1960’s, this line of thought was a crucial moment in the history of both art and architecture where art bridged the barriers between architecture and landscape, and embraced political critique, including that of the practice of art and architecture. Kalberer’s latest project - the Arena Salix (a pavilion built within the grounds of a hotel in Germany) too opens up a line of questioning that addresses issues of design evolution, sustainability, responsive architecture, and community-based architecture, to name a few. The project forms an example of a unique model of building that exemplifies Kalberer’s work, an ambiguous architecture – part landscape, part sculptural, part architecture, part skeletal framework. Celebrating the structural systems of the industrial age, the form of the pavilion evokes the Gothic cathedral and the grid–shell structures of Frei Otto, stripped bare to the fluid lines of their supporting rib structures. Through this, the project pays homage to the ability of structural systems to produce a figural and volumetric masterpiece. In the Arena Salix, the natural replaces the manmade – supple young willow branches supplant concrete and steel, marking a clear balance between natural and artificial architecture. In many ways, the work is a critique of architecture’s ecological and sustainable footprint. The projects demonstrate the simplicity with which architecture can be ecological and thus, become spokespersons of sustainability. Ecological relationships are addressed not only through materiality, but also at several crucial scales. Through the choice of material – willow branches, the architecture becomes landscape itself, and waste materials both during and after construction are eliminated. The projects are community based - usually built by locals - volunteers, school children, helping build local landmarks, nourish community identity, and raise a respect for the environment. The success of these aims are seen in the popularity and fame of the projects, within the community, post construction. As the diagrams of Arena Salix projected evolution depict, the projects are living projects. The Arena Salix is thus a responsive architecture, changing with natural climatic cycles, turning from green and lush to bare and minimal, architecture based on emergent systems minus the software and advanced scripting languages. As the branches of the pavilion take root and grow, they mutate the structure and transform the architecture. Parametric design and self-regulating systems, thus achieved with a simplistic gesture. Beyond the structural techniques and critical aspects of the structure, lie the human responses to the project. The Arena Salix is beautiful, a pleasure to the eyes and the heart. An experience of the medieval romantic translated into the ephemeral and ecological. Through these simple design gestures, Kalberer has designed a responsive and evolutionary pavilion that is beloved to all those who walk under its boughs. |
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Micky Remann, Auerstedt 2003 1806 hat die europäische Geschichte dem Dörfchen Auerstedt kurzzeitigen Weltruhm beschert. 191 Jahre später hat der Schweizer Architekt Marcel Kalberer die friedlichste Schlacht dieser Welt nach Auerstedt gebracht. Es war eine Schlacht, bei welcher viel gelacht, geredet, gefeiert und Großartiges geschaffen wurde. Der Auerworldpalast als das bisher größte lebende Naturbauwerk der Welt wurde mit Hilfe von 300 freiwilligen Helfern buchstäblich gepflanzt.Schon während seines Studiums und seiner Arbeit an der Universität Stuttgart war Marcel Kalberer dem ökologischen Bauen mit Leib und Seele verschrieben. Dabei hat er wahrscheinlich die älteste Idee der Menschheit wieder aufgegriffen. Die Primaten sollen den konstruktiven Umgang mit Ruten und Ästen schon gekannt haben. Inspiriert von namhaften Architekten wie Hundertwasser, Frei Otto und Rudolf Doernach gründete Marcel Kalberer 1977 das Baukunstatelier "Sanfte Strukturen" und baute mit seinen Mitarbeitern Pavillons, Bühnen, Häuschen und Skulpturen. |
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Interview at the opening celebration of the Auerworld palace – Auerstedt, the 19. July 2008 Christina Hirschberg: Marcel, it is now exactly 10 years since you planted the Auerworld palace and today we celebrate the opening. It has grown to the hight you predicted. is it finished now? Marcel Kalberer: Yes, the vegetation has taken overe the whole structure and has enclosed it entirely. So after 10 years of growth we can consider it to be finished. Certainly it will continue to grow but today it is a fully fledged tree palace. Christina Hirschberg: How did you go about realizing it? Marcel Kalberer: We organized an international working camp led by the architects and artists of the SANFTE STRUKTUREN group. We worked with 300 people of all kinds: children, seniors, women, students from many different nations. It was a very unconventional construction process. Somewhere between a chain gang and a party. Lots of music and communication – all work done by hand with no heavy machinery. Woodcutting, binding, planting and construction all done in a spirit of high communication and interaction. It was the first large willow structure to be realized. That`s why everybody was very enthusiastic and motivated to be working on this pioneering project. Christina Hirschberg: Now it is known as the mother of all willow palaces – the first large scale example of botanic architecture in the world. What was your intention with this kind of living architecture? Marcel Kalberer: I like the term „living architecture“ not only because of his botanical and ecological implications but also because of the social and individual dimension. This is construction by a community of volunteers. It contrasts and enriches the conventional architecture performed by professionals and experts . Christina Hirschberg: How does it feel to visit the palace today? Marcel Kalberer: It is one of my favorite projects. An architecture always changing, always growing. Like many spectators and tourists I like to come back every year to see how it has changed. Christina Hirschberg: Did your vision come true? Marcel Kalberer: I think so. The palace looks venerable and somehow archaic. It looks as it has always been. It looks timeless and the inner space ot the mandala structure is equaly for parties, concerts and exhibitions. The palace is always open, a free open space for all people. At any time everybody can stage here his own party, a wedding or any celebration he likes – a dream came true.
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Marcel Kalberer, Heggelbach 2007 Das Grüne Bauen mit lebenden Weiden ist die radikalste Form des organischen Bauens. Das Bauwerk entsteht nicht mehr gemäss einer Analogie zwischen Haus und Organismus das Bauwerk ist ein Organismus - ein Baumwerk. Das Pflanzwerk wird aus vegetativen Konstruktionselementen gebildet ist selbsttragend und wurzelt fest in der Erde. Von Glastonbury Abbey, dem Ort an dem die christliche Kirche im Inselreich ihren Ursprung hat (das Avalon von König Arthur) wird überliefert, dass Joseph von Arimathea eine Weidenkirche gebaut habe, die erste christliche Kirche in England. Auf diese Legende bezog sich im 18. Jahrhundert der schottische Architekturhistoriker James Hall. Er pflanzte zwei neogotische Weidenkirchen, um nachzuweisen, dass die gotischen Bauformen mit ihren Bündelsäulen und dem vegetabilen Zierrat ihren Ursprung in gepflanzten Architekturen hatten, dass die gotischen Baumeister noch Kenntnisse der frühchristlichen Weidenarchitektur gehabt haben. Auch der französiche Utopist Melville zeichnete im 19.Jahrh. pflanzliche Kathedralen. 1984 - Der moderne Weidenbau Zusammen mit dem Flechtmeister Peter Sturm unseren Frauen und Kindern pflanzten wir im Frühjahr 1984 im Freibereich unseres „Ateliers im Wald 7“ für unsere Tochter Anna einen kleinen Weidenpavillon. Wir kannten keine Vorläufer, keine anderen Beispiele oder Versuche und ob so viele Weiden auf so dichtem Raum überhaupt leben können. Wir liessen uns von dem Experiment überraschen. Die kleine Kuppel gedieh bestens und wir ahnten bald, dass wir mit dieser natürlichen Bau- und Pflanzweise eine grossartige Möglichkeit zum Bauen und Gestalten für JEDERMANN gefunden haben. Ein geeignete Möglichkeit gestalterisch motivierte Laien in die Verwirklichen auch „grossartiger“ Werke zu integrieren und ihnen die Gelegenheit zu geben, sich aktiv und kreativ an der Gestaltung der eigenen Umwelt zu beteiligen. |
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