Baumschlager Eberle architects are not so much interested in brick as in sustainable and endurable architecture. Their mixed-use building “2226”, has extremely thick brick walls making technological devices for climate control, heating and cooling almost entirely obsolete. Founding partner Dietmar Eberle explains to uncube why taking brick back to its low-tech qualities actually leads to one of the most advanced uses today for this historic material.
How does your 2226 building work?
Basically the building is just a very simple load-bearing structure
with reinforced concrete floors supported by brick walls isn’t it?
Dietmar Eberle (*1952) studied at Vienna University of Technology in Austria. He was co-founder of the Baukünstler design movement in Vorarlberg, Austria, in 1979. From 1985-2010 he ran a joint practice with Carlo Baumschlager. He has held various teaching posts in Hannover, Vienna, Linz, Zurich, New York and Darmstadt since 1983 and is Professor of Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland and head of its Centre for Cultural Studies in Architecture. He was Dean of the Faculty of Architecture there from 2003 to 2005.
baumschlager-eberle.com
With all these “smart houses” around would you define 2226 as “low-tech”?
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