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Mayer H. (Jürgen) (1965)
• Weather House 1994
| (D) | After studying at Stuttgart University, Cooper Union in New York, and Princeton University, Jürgen Mayer H. set up his own agency in Berlin in 1996, placing himself at the crossroads of architecture, design, and the new media. He is currently constructing his first building, a town hall at Ostfidern, where the originality lies in the combination of different social and cultural departments, as well as in incorporating roofs which digitally control the run-off of rain water, which is part and parcel of the building's spatial effect. Jürgen Mayer H. also teaches at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, and he taught at Harvard University in 2000, as well. His research projects have led him to conceive of architecture as an interactive surface, controlled by climatic conditions. The "Weather House" can be seen as the prototype of an architecture where climatic conditions are programmatic elements. The house selectively accepts or rejects certain climatic conditions: rain, heat, snow and condensation thus play an active part in the construction of the space. Climates, whether controlled or not, can become new instruments of spatial categories. Jürgen Mayer H. has also built installations where heat-sensitive surfaces react to the body temperature ("ThermoBench"). |
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