Wasserhebewerk Bergkamen
The proposed envelope for the pump station consists of four graduated curtains of stainless steel rings. The outermost layer extends to the base and closes the volume to the outside. Behind this are three further layers that are gradually stepped back towards the top. The curtains are only suspended from above and are thus gently moved by the wind. The gradations and the properties of the material evoke an ascending and flowing movement. The metal mesh façade not only shapes the external appearance, but also offers an essential function by providing an effective, external, low-maintenance sunshade for the building's occupants without obstructing the view to the outside.
Location: Bergkamen
Type: Infrastructure 2022
Status: 1.Prize Competition
Completition: 2024
Architects: Philipp Mecke, Ana Filipovic, Simon Palme
Engineering: Bollinger + Grohmann
Visualisations: Veit Eckelt
Sächsische Aufbaubank
acme architects
ACME's proposal for the SAB develops the traditional typology of a bank as an imposing institution representing stability, permanence and strength into a contemporary design for a bank of the 21st century. The traditional columns, acting as a transition between inside and outside, have been dissolved into a forest of supports carrying an overarching roof that covers the entirety of the site. Beneath this roof, a number of spaces are new public routes, and spaces are created like clearings in a forest, inviting inhabitation and passage. This open, partially green space recalls the site's past as part of Leipzig's pleasure gardens: acres of formal gardens with long, sweeping avenues, down which the city's residents strolled together on balmy summer evenings in the 18th century. The columns and roof provide a sense of visual and acoustic enclosure towards the adjacent highway and integrate shading and passive cooling functions for the office spaces. This allows the offices to be open and transparent towards the new public space, creating an efficient, yet loose array of stacked and overlapping office floor-plates to accommodate the many differing departments of the SAB.
Location: Leipzig
Type: Office
Phase: LP 1-5, Artisitc Supervision 6-8
Status: Completion 2022
Architects: Acme Architects
Engineering: Knippers Helbig
Team: Friedrich Ludewig, Heidrun Schuhmann, Tim Laubinger, Dirk Mueller, Philipp Mecke
One place of its own
“A place of one’s own” is a sound installation Ana Filipovic and I developed for the manor park of a Kranich Museum in Hessenburg. The buzzing sound, coming out of the analog "sound machines", draws and constructs an intimate and personal space that comes to exist only when populated and when someone’s movement activates it. This newly constructed space remains invisible, yet when discovered, it can take its visitor on a meditative walk, made for losing oneself in own thoughts..
Kranich Museum, Hessenburg, 2021
Curator: Zsuzsanna Stánitz
With Ana Filipovic
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HAUS WS 2023
Central square in Plovdiv
Central square in Plovdiv marks a plethora of historical layers in non harmonious relation. One over another the layers are reclaiming their dominance over the square. Proposed design is using the language of one to expose the other and vice versa. The grid of the Forum of the ancient Philopoppolis is exposed on the surface in a repetitive regular form that is referring to the building legacy of the contemporary layer. Out of the regular grid arises a set of columns in two orthogonal axes, Cardo and Decumanus, thus marking every of the excavated sites. Their regularity in irregularity becomes a visual connection both present and absent in the image of the city. Columns appear as the sequence during the walk and culminate as a composition from one of the Plovdiv’s high points.The ancient Forum is merged with the square trough the transition from a hard paved to a soft green surface.
Location: Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Type: Infrastructure
Status: 3.Prize Competition
Team: Philipp Mecke, Ana Filipovic, Veit Eckelt
Gesamtkunstwerke
Arne Jacobsen und Otto Weitling
Die Formgeber des Funktionalismus Die Architektur von Arne Jacobsen und Otto Weitling hat eine herausragende Bedeutung für die Nachkriegsmoderne in Deutschland. Zugleich ist die Qualität ihrer Projekte in Vergessenheit geraten. Diese Lücke in der Wahrnehmung möchten die Kuratoren Hendrik Bohle und Jan Dimog mit der Wanderausstellung und der dazugehörigen Publikation schließen. Mit acht Projekten in Deutschland haben die beiden dänischen Baumeister hier die meisten Bauten außerhalb ihrer Heimat realisiert. Erstmals werden sieben Gebäude in einer Wanderausstellung präsentiert. Sie findet im Rahmen des deutsch-dänischen kulturellen Freundschaftsjahres 2020 und anlässlich Jacobsens fünfzigsten Todestages 2021 statt.
Deutsch-dänische Verbundenheit Der nordische Funktionalismus von Jacobsen und Weitling ist ein Spiegel der Visionen der alten BRD. Es ging bei den Entwürfen und Aufträgen um Demokratie, Prestige und Effizienz. Die Ausstellung wirft ein Schlaglicht auf die Formgeber und die baukulturelle Verbundenheit zwischen Dänemark und Deutschland. Sie ist zugleich eine Bestandsaufnahme der heutigen Situation und des Umgangs mit dem Erbe der Spätmoderne. Die Kuratoren möchten die Besucher dazu anregen, sich selbst ein Bild der Architektur von Jacobsen und Weitling zu machen. Die Reise wird sie ans Meer, in Modellstädte der Moderne und zu einer Vielschichtigkeit führen, die eine Auseinandersetzung im Sinne Otto Weitlings provoziert: „Ein Für und Wider wäre schon ein positives Zeichen, denn ein Haus, über das man nicht redet, ist meist nicht der Rede wert.“
Location: Nordische Botschaften, Berlin - Haus des Gastes, Fehmarn - Arne Jacobsen Foyer,Hannover - Ratssaalfoyer Castrop-Rauxel - Jenisch Haus, Hamburg
Type: Traveling Exhibition 2020-2022
Team: The Link, Grid System
Untaggable
For the occasion of the launch of Audi Q2 in Nicosia, we developed an immersive audio-visual installation. The installation was conceived as a circular arena, placed within a historical food market in Nicosia, which served as a stage for several performances during the event. The vantage point of the design was the deconstructed # sign that was a symbol of an entire branding campaign. The installation consisted of two layers of u-shaped profiles, superimposed and connected in a way tension was provided between them, which enabled the static qualities of the structure. Additionally, each profile contained one LED strip, which was programmed to respond to the audio content performer throughout the evening.
Location: Nicosia, Cyprus
Type: Exhibition
Status: Completition 2019
Architects: Philipp Mecke, Ana Filipovic, ABR
Skup
Spatial design for performative lecture series I'm permanence, held in Satiriko Theater in Nicosia, responded to the topic of permanence by looking at the temporary, yet the permanent structure of the Green Line, the demilitarized zone between the Greek Republic of Cyprus and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. A cease-fire line was materialized a wall of sandbags and gun emplacements appear rather soft and invisible in the city fabric. Amphitheater for the audience is thus created out of white sandbags, reinterpreting a traditional method for constructing defensive walls.
Location: Cyprus
Type: Installation
Status: Completition 2019
Team: Philipp Mecke, Ana Filipovic, Constantinos Kryprinaos
In blur
In Kwade’s large-scale installation In Blur, nothing is quite what it seems. Using double-sided mirrors and carefully placed paired natural objects like stones, bushes, and trees, the artist achieves the illusion of sudden and surprising transformations. The mirror glass conceals part of one of the objects, yet at the same time completes it with the mirror image of the same part in the other. In this way, a new, illusionary object is created through the overlaying of reality and appearance.
Location: Alula Saudi Arabia 2022
Type: Installation
Phase: LP 1-9
Status: Completion 2022
Artist: Alicja Kwade
Engineering: Art Engineering
Local Partner: Unitet Art Production
Image credit: Photograph by Lance Gerber
Mala Tectum
is a study of a lightweight construction in a natural environment which means a minimum of intervention. A modular system allows the construction to be temporarily erected in the most inaccessible places. Due to the lightweight construction, no permanent intervention in the environment is necessary. The design plays with the intimacy to nature, through the different permeabilities of the layers of the facades it is possible to open up to the environment in different ways depending on the location and needs.
Location: Island
Type: Glamping
Status: Feasibility study
FLUX
is a project that combines the disciplines of music, art and architecture. The installation breaks with the conventional space in that the space no longer behaves as a static boundary. Instead, it adapts to the user in its form and movement to the specific individual. Motivated by the movement of the visitors and their number and movement, the space begins to change. In this way, the space and the user become one and enter into flux.
Location: Point Galery, Cyprus
Type: Installation
Status: Completion 2019
Team: Philipp Mecke, Constantinos Kryprinaos
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Universal Joint
A Place of One's Own
Haus WS 2023
mala tectum
Rejcavik, 2021
Flux
Exhibition 2019, Point Galery Nicossia
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