propeller
z (AU)
Korkut Akkalay, Kriso Leinfellner, Philipp Tschofen, Carmen Wiederin
Korkut Akkalay, Kriso Leinfellner, Philipp Tschofen, Carmen Wiederin
Propeller
z was founded in Vienna in 1994 as a young Austrian agency operating in
the overlapping fields of architecture, furniture design, graphic design,
set design and fashion. With their experimental but determinedly experimental
approach, very much to do with the real, this collective strives, by means
of non-linear analytical procedures, to develop effective and heterodox
solutions for the many issues and problems in which they are interested.
As the authors of installations (Fast Forward, 1999, Superheated Ice, 1997),
shop design and development (Gil Fashion Area 1 and 2, 2000), furniture
(Bucky Ball, 2001), and residential projects, currently under construction
(House dbl, 2001, House sgl, 2001), they also built an exhibition pavilion
in Essen (Meteorit, 1998) and won the competition for the construction of
a funicular railway serving the mediaeval Riegersburg castle (Knight Rider,
2000). This project--a precise straight line forming the shortest route
between two points--the castle and the carpark--plays with the curved topography
of the rock, and very clearly illustrates the unusual approach of the Propeller
z team, between precision and radicalness, pertinence and impertinence.