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falkeis2architects: active energy building - The MAK FUTURE LAB extends an invitation to an exhibition, lecture, and talk


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falkeis2architects: active energy building 

The MAK FUTURE LAB extends an invitation to an exhibition, lecture, and talk 

Lecture and Talk
Exhibition Dates Venue 

Tuesday, 5 June 2018, 6 p.m. MAK Columned Main Hall
6 June – 29 July 2018
MAK FORUM 

MAK, Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna 

With the futuristic apartment house active energy building, Austrian architects Anton Falkeis & Cornelia Falkeis-Senn have created the prototype of a decentralized urban power harvesting system in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. The spectacular building is the result of years of research on using technical innovation to master the challenges facing our society as climate change, energy shortage, and scarcity of resources. In the exhibition falkeis2architects: active energy building, presented in the MAK FORUM within the framework of the MAK FUTURE LAB, photographs, texts, construction drawings, and architectural models provide an insight into the many innovations in materials, construction methods, and network development that have led to the creation of this “active building.” To mark the opening of the exhibition, the MAK is extending an invitation to a lecture followed by a talk with Anton Falkeis, Cornelia Falkeis-Senn, and the architecture journalist Wojciech Czaja on 5 June 2018 at 6 p.m. in the MAK Columned Main Hall. 

Thanks to an integrated power harvesting system developed by falkeis.architects, the active energy building produces more energy than it consumes. The energy- autonomous architecture functions as a local cluster system that connects existing buildings, enabling information, and surplus energy to be pooled. The house is fitted with a mobile shell that stores solar radiation to generate energy and provide heating, and cosmic radiation to provide cooling. Nominated for the 2017 Sustainability Award of the International Lake Constance and the Lake Constance Region: Renewable Ener- gy and Energy Efficiency, the apartment house establishes pioneering architecture as a driving force for improving the quality of life. 

The exhibition falkeis2architects: active energy building has already visited the Austri- an Cultural Forum in New York (11 October 2017 – 22 January 2018) and the A+D Museum in Los Angeles (1 March – 30 April 2018). After being hosted by the MAK, it will move on to the Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin (25 August – 11 October 2018). 

Anton Falkeis and Cornelia Falkeis-Senn have headed the architectural offices of falkeis.architects_vienna and falkeis.architects_vaduz since 1988 respectively 2011, and the falkeis2architects.building innovation lab since 2011. Much has been published on their architectural work, which has also been presented at the Venice, Kuala Lum- pur, New York, and #vienna Biennials. They are Fellows of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. 

The MAK FUTURE LAB is a creative laboratory founded by the MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / #contemporaryart. Through workshops, lectures, panel dis- cussions, and other formats the MAK FUTURE LAB generates interdisciplinary contri- butions to a humane shaping and utilization of Digital Modernity. It positions #design, architecture, and fine art as driving forces of socially, ecologically, culturally, and eco- nomically sustainable market economy models. Through diverse cooperations, it net- works these creative sectors with the fields of science, research, business, and politics. The MAK FUTURE LAB aspires to develop both holistic orientation models and strate- gies for the commons inspired by such models, as well as concrete, innovative business ideas for the future.