SEBASTIAN SEYFARTH Portfolio 2005 - 2012
Sebastian Seyfarth M.Sc. Arch +49 15204850988 seyfarth.sebastian@googlemail.com
City of A
(July 2011 A fictiona University
Hotel Escola (February - April 2011) Tradition and Modernity Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa
Costa del Monumento (April - September 2012) Architectural traces of the global crisis Master’s Thesis
Bufferzones (November 2011) Along the Costa del Sol Universidad de Sevilla
Being and Time (October 2011) Entropy experiment at the dune of Bolonia Universidad de Sevilla
Source:Google earth (map)
9 Month Internship
CONTENTS
(2009-2010) practical working experience at GRAFT Architects in Berlin
Early Works (2005-2007) Bachelor study projects Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus
Apples
1) al future proposal for a city in the alps y of Innsbruck
1 Year in Japan (2008-2009) University of Tsukuba & Shigeru Ban Architects in Tokyo
Emptiness (December 2011) Between Tel Aviv and Jaffa David Azrieli Scool of Architecture
CV Education 2010 – 2012: 2008 – 2009: 2005 – 2008:
Architektur.Studium.Generale. architectural Master study course with collaborative Workshops and a Master Thesis in: Germany - 08.11.-19.12.2010 - Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus Estonia - 10.01.-20.02.2011 - Tallinn University of Technology Portugal - 28.02.-08.04.2011 - Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa Poland - 14.04.-29.05.2011 - University of Technology in Wrocław Austria - 06.06.- 15.07.2011 - University of Innsbruck Spain - 05.09.-16.10.2011 - Universidad de Sevilla Israel - 24.10.-04.12.2011 - Tel Aviv University Germany - 02.01.-12.02.2012 - University of the Arts Berlin ‘UdK Berlin’ 2 Trimester World Heritage studies at the ‘University of Tsukuba’ in Japan Bachelor of science in Architecture at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus (Germany)
Experience 10.2010 – 04.2012: 11.2009 – 08.2010: 10.2010 03.2009 – 08.2009: 08.2007 – 10.2007:
- Student assistant at the ‘Architektur.Studium.Generale.’ chair - Internship at the architecture office „Graft“ in Berlin - Student assistant at the ‘Construction and Statics’ chair at BTU-Cottbus - Internship at the architecture office „Shigeru-Ban-Architects“in Tokyo - Student trainee at the carpenter „Holzwerkstatt – OSW“ in Berlin
Grants and Scholarships 2010 2010 2010 2008
Scholarship for outstanding (Promoter of Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus) German International Study Scholarship (Neufert Stiftung Weimar) Study Scholarship (Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus) Exchange program ‘University of Tsukuba’ Japan (STUDEXA scholarship)
Awards 2012 International Young Planning Professionals Award (IFHP, AESOP, ISOCARP)
Skills and Qualifications Operation systems: Adobe Creative Suite, ArchiCAD, AutoCAD, Rhinoceros 4.0/5.0 + Plug-In’s Languages: German (mother tongue), English (fluent), Japanese (basic)
EARLY WORKS Bachelor study projects Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus (2005-2007)
During the first years of the Bachelor study i started working with analog design tools like progress models, sketches and ink drawings. For the models it was most important for me to experiment and understand the capability and haptics of various materials. From pencil and ink drawings i learned a traditional perspective in experiencing with representation possibilities without getting distracted from digital effects.
EARLY WORKS Bachelor study projects Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus (2005-2007)
During the first years of the Bachelor study i started working with analog design tools like progress models, sketches and ink drawings. For the models it was most important for me to experiment and understand the capability and haptics of various materials. From pencil and ink drawings i learned a traditional perspective in experiencing with representation possibilities without getting distracted from digital effects.
JAPAN
1 YEAR IN JAPAN Exchange study experience ‘University of Tsukuba’ and ‘Shigeru Ban Architects’ (2008-2009)
2 Trimester at the University of Tsukuba : interdisciplinary approach by participating in different courses like World heritage, Japanese classes, Graphic design and Printing as well as Architecture classes. In the world heritage it was part of the study to analyse Tsukubas near by heritage as well as the famous ‘ 桂離宮 Katsura Rikyū ‘, the Imperial palace and gardens in Kyoto. Own initiative projects like participating with a group of 7 students at the Tokyo design festa Vol. 29 @ Tokyo Big Sight. We design and printed shirts to exhibit and sell them. To design the exhibition space was part of the project as well. Internship at ‘ Shigeru Ban Architects ’ architecture office in Tokyo which contained : -architectural magazine photo shoots -working and presentation models -floor plans and area calculations -concept design
9 MONTH INTERNSHIP practical working experience ‘Graft - Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH’ Architects in Berlin (2009-2010)
Fields of work: Progress for a marketing research for the Kitchen of the Future -research and visualisations -diagrams, graphics and photo editing -designing new tools + integration, cooking process -target group analysis, target group visualisations -sustainability research Assistance of the ‘Smart Material House’ competition at IBA Hamburg -research and 3D construction -diagrams, graphics, concept illustrations -photo editing -facade studies -sustainability research -area calculations (DIN277) -Model-making Individual work for the Central Munich Tower -3D construction -design for outside areas -furniture designs -counter design Individual work for the ‘Kronprinzengärten’ competition -facade studies, concept and design -3D construction -visualisations -research material and systems
LISBONS HOTEL ESCOLA Tradition and Modernity Universidade Aut贸noma de Lisboa (February - April 2011)
Fitting in the existing typical complex and narrow urban fabric of Lisbon, the new created compound combined a public Hotel with a Hotel educational school facility. These two different functions are intertwining with each other throughout the whole site. This hybrid structure is in it self accessible through a central facilitating square. Therefore each facility is in a relation to the others. For Hotel guests it is always possible to see and feel the presents of the educational background and the infrastructure, and the students are able to reflect their working exercise with the consequences at the costumer level.
concept sketch of the city of apples
CITY OF APPLES A fictional future proposal for a city in the alps University of Innsbruck (July 2011)
Envisioning the city of the future, a major source of inspiration was the metaphor of the „Paradise“ as a utopian reality. This future city is a place where a new race of living species are produced and nurtured by means of genetic modification, and artificial selection. This new breed constitutes the inhabitants of the future city, which is constantly evolving. The futuristic city we envision has no rules, no ethics. The future city undergoes constantly a modification of existent reality in generation of utopia as a lived experience. In Norse mythology, the Prose Edda scripts constantly mentioned the apple, as a magical fruit, a special unique breed of fruits which had healing powers. The „Apple of Sin“; this different unique apple, which had different characteristics. This symbol of the „special fruit“, the taboo, and the approaching of its pleasure, had been the reason why mankind was banished out of paradise, out of utopia. Isn’t mankind nowadays creating his own utopia on earth? The site in Obergurgl is located south west of Austria, on the south eastern periphery of Innsbruck, in the region of Tirol; famous for its large apple production, and bordering Italy, the first biggest producer of Apples in Europe. Around 150 kilometers away from Obergurgl is the Italian city of Trentino, a city famous for its production of the ground breaking genetically modified Golden Delicious Apple Genome, possessing more than 57000 genes, 992 of which are responsible for disease resistance, exceeding the number of human genes. Human-made technology could produce „utopian“ apples on earth. Our future city; the City of Gold, The City of Apples. The dwellers in the city experience two levels of reality, a fake modified artificial-natural landscape of the apple gardens on the surface, and another truth of this product; the underground laboratories where manmade machines are genetically modifying the apple trees from their roots, beneath the layer of earth, to monitor, alter and produce varying breeding of unique apples. The visitors to the city experience only the beautiful paradise reality on the surface, whereas, the inhabitants of the city experience the two layers, the pleasure of feeding on trees apples, and the duty of growing, breeding and modifying them from below. The dwellers inhabit the skin of the city, the artificial layer of landscape in between the two realities, the laboratories and the gardens. A light organic skin covers the city like a veil. It acts as an incubator which creates suitable conditions for the apple trees to grow and dwellers to live. The veil is an organic skin that interacts with forces of nature, throughout the different seasons.
THE PARADIES
THE MASHINE
APPLE ORCHARDS AKA THE PARADISE
SKIN FAT/EARTH/FERTILE SOIL CONSTRUCTION MESH ROOTS LIGHT CANALS
LIVING UNIT
LIVING UNIT STORAGE STORAGE
WORKING AREA
DATA ARCHIVE LIVING UNIT TRANSFER LOCK
STORAGE FACILITATOR
WACHS NUTRIENT CAPSULES
VITAMIN REPRODUCER INSECT GENETIC BREEDING
SUN GENERATOR
MINERALS
ELECTRICITY SOURCE
PROVIDER AKA THE MASCHINE
Summer Apples Orchard Performance Theater Theater
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City Entrance Point
Fall Apples Orchard Observation Tower + Hotel Public Space around the water lake
S1
Winter Apples Orchard
Spring Apples Orchard Existing Path Apple Flavored Water Springs
Rivers cutting through the mountains Pavilion / Folly: Market, Selling Point, Exhibition, Service Bar
Topview Flows of Pollen spread out towards the city Apple Tree Orchards Pavilion / Folly: Market, Selling Point, Exhibition, Service Bar Light Skin / Fabric Veil South West Wind blowing from the Valley
Tower Entrance Platform Observation Tower Ramps through Observation Tower Traveller‘s Hotel The Big Golden Apple Tree
Tree Genetic Modification Labs Partial Section Water Collection Reservoir
Section S1
BEING AND TIME Entropy experiment at the dune of Bolonia Universidad de Sevilla (October 2011)
How does something gets an identity? What is time? What is being? ‘Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.’ Martin Heidegger
BUFFERZONES Along the Costa del Sol Universidad de Sevilla (November 2011) The project considers a territorial transformation on the coast, a phenomenon of critical importance both at European and international levels. Given its outstanding geography and climate, the development of tourism on the Andalusian coast, specifically the western part of the Costa del Sol, but also beyond, on the shores of the Strait of Gibraltar, started as early as the 1950s. An interpretation of this area as a potential model for tourism led to a process of accelerated urban development driven by aggressive speculation throughout the second half of the 20th century. This part of the Andalusian coast is now, at the beginning of the 21st century, fully consolidated: studies that consider this area purely on the basis of tourism, however, are incomplete and it is necessary to adopt a wider overview which encompasses not only tourism as a key feature, but also other dynamics in the area. As the phenomenon is so complex, however, it is impossible to apply traditional research tools or a linear methodology. The prevailing trend towards oversimplification and a macro-analysis of the territory in isolation, a reductive, homogenous approach, needs to be counterbalanced by historical, critical and architectonic considerations reflecting a multifaceted system that is both plural and diverse. ‘Bufferzones’ reacts to the subject in different scales. In the macro scale we see the whole Costa del Sol area as one entity with punctual buffer zones around the neglected heritage. As a first step to connect the original identity of the coast with the nowadays use as a tourist destination, the historical Watchtowers, which more and more vanish between the contemporary touristic developments, getting reactivated and hereby reconnecting this former link between each other. (Bufferzone 0)
In the next step and in a smaller scale we observed the conditions in Estepona, one of the denser populated areas. By exploring the city with a ‘Dérive’ we examined the lack public space and a consequential social separation between local residents and temporary tourists. Among this two different population groups are our next defined buffer zones which create a public common space to provide possibilities for enhanced exchange. (Bufferzone 1 + 2 + 3)
In a last step, we focused on the micro scale and observed the space right around the historical watchtower. We created a defined space which is representing the tower and a link to its former purpose, the connection to the water. With this subtle interverence we get the identity of this heritage connected to the city. (Bufferzone 4 + 5)
EMPTINESS Between Tel Aviv and Jaffa David Azrieli Scool of Architecture (December 2011)
Former district of Menashiya, an Arabian neighbourhood of Jaffa, deserted in 1948 and demolished in the 60’s, causes a dilemma of separation and space between Jaffa and Tel Aviv which is still not solved. We decided to design the blank, filling the hole with emptiness and underlining the left over space, giving it its own strength and identity - neither Tel Aviv nor Jaffa. The aim is a space of consciousness without specific connotations which causes the user to reflect and contemplate. A topography supported by punctual interventions with its own programme, beyond commerce, and a space in between which works as a resonance body that allows flexible activities.
Program Matrix
EMPTINESS
Anne Groß, Elena Herwarth von Bittenfeld, Sebastian Seyfarth We decided to design the blank, lling the hole with emptiness and underlining the left over space, giving it its own strength and identity - neither Tel Aviv nor Jaffa. The aim is a space of consciousness without specic connotations which causes the user to reect and contemplate. A topography supported by punctual interventions with its own programme, beyond commerce, and a space in between which works as a resonance body that allows exible activities.
Group Space
Single Space
Group Space
Single Space
Public Reading
Reading Hall
Toilet
Library
Book exchange
Area Section
Single private space
Book exchange and Library Entrance
Reading Room
Single private space
Book exchange
Library and Reading room
Single private space
Book exchange
Library entrance and Reading room
Library
Source:Google earth (map)
COSTA DEL MONUMENTO The architectural traces of the global crisis at the Costa del Sol Master’s Thesis (April - September 2012)
The Master Thesis project is dealing with the topic of unfinished and abandoned construction sites. This phenomenon has its roots in the time of mass construction and speculation developments, which was followed by the global financial crises. Constructions came to halt and there were no money to either finish or deconstruct them. Nowadays these places are neglected and avoided by local residents and city municipalities. 100 CONSTRUCTION RUINS ON 100KM COASTLINE Main goal of the work is to investigate the potential of the unfinished and abandoned construction sites, pointing out a future perspective of these structures and the whole coastal area. The project is about introducing a strategy for a balance between natural landscape and dense urbanization. The project will introduce the area to the contemporary generation of travelers and locals. This new target group will bring more variety in the future developments but without considering mass tourism and mass commerce. The project is more about the real-life of the area. Additionally it has the concept of investing no new money by working with the minimal tools of intervention. The aim is to work with the ruins, natural appearance and decay. It will bring people together with nature and the human creation of concrete structures figuring out the question: How can a participatory design process integrates man, the abandoned and nature into a hybrid ruin construction for the future?
Source:Google earth (Street view)
100 RUINS ON
100
KM COASTLINE
History of Tourism at the Costa del Sol from 1900 till 1950
Beginning of tourism
At the beginning of the 20th century, the shoreline of the Costa del Sol had only a traditionally agrarian and fishing economy.
since the 1900
Source:Greenpeace
For an alternative, people saw the potential in the tourism sector knowing that Málaga has a wonderful benign climate and coastal situation. Advertising the region for tourists with its best potential, the climate: 320 sunny days 3000 hours of sun average 18.7° (13.8° winter, 24.4°summer)
National boost
The arrival of the railroad meant a boost for tourism. Narrow lane railroads linked Málaga with Fuengirola at the beginning of the 20th century. This allowed access to the cast of Sundays and Holidays especially for many Andalusians of the interior. These were the beginnings of the Beach Holidays.
International boost
Civil war
The airport of Málaga is built as a key gateway to the Costa del Sol. After the first world war, the first airport appears, in 1921 with the regular line Latécoére linking Toulouse and Casablanca, with The Civil war stops in Barcelona, caused a decAlicante, Málaga, iline in the tourand Tánger. ism industry
1921
1936
National boost 2
International boost 2
The opening of further railway connections with Madrid meant a large input of tourists, mostly nationals.
1950
It is towards the end of the 1950’s with the appearance of charter flights and the enlargement of the airport’s installations, that the exponential evolution of tourism began in Málaga’s seashore.
since the 1950
1965 Benidorm
History of the Costa del Sol from 1950 till the Spanish property Bubble and the global crisis
1956
1984
2009 Source: Antonio Alba Ruiz
Source:Greenpeace
2010 Benidorm
WWW.COSTADELMONUMENTO.COM
COSTA DEL MONUM
100 NEGLECTED PLACES ALL THE WAY FROM MALAGA TO MANILVA
Progress Of Construction
foundation
skeleton
Walls
NEWS Source:Google earth (map)
The webpage listes all the 100 construction ruins on the 100km of coastline from Malaga until Manilva. Through interactiv buttons on the page it is possible to get to know the location, surrounding, possiblilities of access, the appearence and the activities of the sites. To start looking for some ruins the user has the option to either search within different ruin classifications types or directly by selecting the ‘+’ ruin-site symbol on the map.
finished
abandoned
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FOUNDATION SKELETONS BRICKS, WALLS FINISHED CONSTRUCTION ABANDONED WITH HISTORY
SINGLE UNIT HOUSE HOUSING COMLEX RESORT
TYPES OF RUINS Object Size
solitaire
Building complex
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COSTA DEL MONUM
100 NEGLECTED PLACES ALL THE WAY FROM MALAGA TO MANILVA
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FOUNDATION SKELETONS BRICKS, WALLS FINISHED CONSTRUCTION ABANDONED WITH HISTORY
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Activities and changes on the Web page and on the ruins sites
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Web page, Costa del Monumento Itinerary, History
User interface, Exchange of ideas, COMMUNITY CLOUD Memories, Inspirations
YOUR PERSONAL IT 99_Ghost - town
87_Skeleton - town
Trip 1
Site 2
Trip 2
Site 1
NEWS Source:Google earth (map)
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23_Concrete Forest
62_Nature mansion
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Walking trip based on off road beattracks Length: 121 km Time: 22 hours 34 mins Water: 10-20 Liter Food: 4 kg Sleep: 3 times Advantege: explore your way
Site 4
Hitch hiking along the N-340
Length: 80.9 km Time: 1 hour 59 mins Water: 1-2 Liter Food: 0.3 kg Sleep: 0 Advantege: fast and social
COMMUNITY CLOUD Trip 01: 99 - 87: Length: 9.5 km Time: 2 hours 13 mins
Trip 01: 99 - 87: Length: 5.8 km Time: 11 mins
Trip 02: 87 - 62: Length: 22.3 km Time: 4 hours 39 mins
Trip 02: 87 - 62: Length: 16.t4 km Time: 36 mins
Trip 03: 62 - 23: Length: 89.2 km Time: 15 hours 42 mins
Trip 03: 62 - 23: Length: 58.7 km Time: 1 hour 12 mins
87_SKELETON TOW MANILVA_Sabinillas
NEWS Source:Google earth (map)
Calle Cornisa del Sol Sabinillas - Manilva 36°21’34.67”N 5°14’21.18”W
Watch tower
Neighbouring Ruin Sites
Manivla golf course
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MANILVA
15:00 min LOCATION
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km
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N-340
Location of bridges and tunnels
Carretera del Penoncillo Sabinillas - Manilva 36”21’50.37” N 5”14’05.41” W
walking path and duration from the ruin over the N-340 to the pedestrian infrastructure: beach
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TOWN
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MANILVA
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87_SKELETON T MANILVA_Sabinillas
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Interpretation drawing from traveller85
Sebastian Seyfarth M.Sc. Arch +49 15204850988 seyfarth.sebastian@googlemail.com