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The Future Lab / Idea Lab is place where management and employees can shape the vision of the company's future.

Showroom for the industry leader in logistics KNAPP HQ. Making complexity simple and how everything connects to everything else.

This project is a follow-up of Meeting Space for Magna in Graz. Jaguar Land Rover considering equipping their new factory in Nitra.

Meeting Space provides an immersive experience for the User directly on the shop floor, by combining the spatial setting with embedded high-technology and just-in-time data visualization of all processes in a factory.

"Creativity Space" should operate as an attractor - „brainstorm of ideas“ - a place where all workers and employees have a chance to submit their ideas, propose improvements or simply try out new technologies.

Social Space as multi-functional environments with coffee house flair and embedded technology.

When you are alone for days or weeks at a time, you eventually become drawn to people. Talking to randos is the norm. I’ll never forget the conversation with the aquarium fisherman, forest ranger, and women at the Thai market. It’s refreshing to compare notes on life with people from vastly different backgrounds.

The design focuses on the company's achievement and revolves a view behind the scenes - showing the art of car making.

The design of two bridges has been based on local history and culture of Nanjing. Both designs have their own focus, but the overall design philosophy is consistent.

Office design for one of the worldwide leaders in the car manufacturing industry “Magna Steyr” in Graz. New office spaces are smart environments responsive to the User

“International Education Centre” in Beijing is an spatial experience not only for learning and sports, but also for creativity and imagination as well the social interaction.

The design of the “Innovation Tower” (7 Bamboo Groves) gathers disparate programmatic, physical, and infrastructural elements from the requirements of the building and its surrounding context, and synthesizes these into a form that seamlessly integrates the building into the idiosyncrasies of its site while expressing multiple flows of movement.

Design for new offices – specially adapted to integrated design processes.

The "Fun Palace" is a spatial vision for integrative thought that includes timber construction, flexibility of use, ecology, building operation and technological innovation.

This project emphasizes the performative aspects of the design process. This means that the formal and functional optimization, with focus on only significant elements, mimics so called ”bionics” design principle in architecture.

Interactive Public Sound Environment (IPSE) is a site-specific performative spatial environment integrating audio-visual composition responsive to the engagement between participants. IPSE encourages participants to create their own ‘performative space’ by interacting with their fellow participants.

ORTLOS has been commissioned to develop a vision for the innovative environment supporting the future car development, as well the holistic concept for the future working environment for AUDI.

ZERO WASTE CITY, ZERO CARBON CITY through Active Urban Landscape. Active Buildings. Active Living.

Responsive Public Space (RPS) is a performative spatial environment integrating audio-visual composition responsive to the engagement of participants among themselves.

City Lab – a mixed reality-based space module – is an instrument for creative networked collaboration, designed for world-wide usage. This modular environment is flexible due to an implemented innovative technology and a novel workflow. Enriched by mobile and virtual elements a broad spectrum of spatial settings is possible.

Design for European Roma Exhibition in Strasbourg. A wooden structure, a "3D line in space" based on L-System, creates the spatial setting for exhibition.

The subject of camouflaged writings is counted to the genre of “literature disguised”. This form is characterized by the fact that is intended to distract the unsuspecting one by the title page or an envelope or the cover of a publication from the actual, controversial explosive content. With such, mostly anonymously produced publications has been tried to get around bans and censorship and to prevent seizure. The exhibition attempts to approach this subject in addition to the core concept through different approaches.

Good news: ORTLOS and FormInGrün won the PEPMAC competition in category "Air to Surface" with the project F.U.T.U.R. - from dust till urban regeneration. The scheme proposes urban surfaces as carrier for hydroponic living structures and provides holistic approach to the improvements of urban microclimate, reduction of particulate matter, natural cooling in sommer, CO2 binding, etc.

ROS Laboratory @ Dom im Berg, Graz Do, 21. Juni 2012 18.00-20.00 Öffnen des Kunstlabors nach viertägiger Experimentierphase | 18.00 Gespräche von KünstlerInnen und TeilnehmerInnen mit den Gästen: Gerhard Eckel, IEM KUGRAZ I Melanie Gau, ComputerVisionLab TUWien I Werner Jauk, Institut für Musikwissenschaften KFUGraz Charlotte Pöchhacker, Artimage I Michael Sammer, Soziologe

Project Urban Eco-System is focused on understanding how cities work as ecological system and how sustainable structures can increase the quality of urban life.

This project emphasizes the performative aspects of the design process. This means that the formal and functional optimization, with focus on only significant elements, mimics so called ”bionics” design principle in architecture.

Gandis is iPhone application which supports energy-efficient planning of buildings in a very early design phase.

ORTLOS City Nomad „Every Day“ – bags for „Urban Nomads“ with enough place for laptop, charger, mobile phone and hand baggage. ORTLOS City Nomad „Exclusive“ - an elegant envelope for Laptops, excellent for travelling, meetings and evening receptions.

The Lighthing is an art piece and light object at the same time. The object is a combination of traditional craftsmanship and digital rapid-prototyped production process. Used materials are: polymer surface, aluminium, stainless steel rods, and concrete plate. It’s striking form provides various light settings for different interiors.

iThink Reader has been released on Apple's iTunes Store. iThink is an intelligent semantic e-reading platform, which not only enables the reading of e-books, but also helps in understanding those.

iThink is an intelligent e-reading platform, which not only enables the reading of e-books, but also helps in understanding those. The aim of the iThink project is to envision, design and deliver electronic reading environment which differs from “classical” readers in that it helps humans in the process of understanding -not only reading- the book material.

“Sensitive Space” is a prototype for the space which goes beyond the imagination, and it is build utterly out of information: light, visual image and audio.

Main concept for office complex in Marghera is to design light ecological sustainable architecture for the formal heavy industrial area. The idea is to create “ecological craters” in the building mass, like if the surface would be penetrated by the water drops. Those interior courts provide fresh air circulation and optimal natural light situation for the adjacent spaces.

The design embraces the networked approach on several levels. Conceptually, the networks are inevitable for thinking and working within science, as well as when thinking of a cross-disciplinary collaboration between the fields of science, technology and art.

This study for a tower building explores issues of energy-efficiency and green building for a high-riser. The central element of the building is a vertical garden, which acts as green filter providing the office spaces with fresh air and pleasant micro-climate.

cultural spheres / cultural context / why everything becomes a wrapping / a cover / a cloth / fashioning the year 2000 / representation & high aspirations

Book announcement and panel discussion "The Emergence of Networked Design and Thinking"- Thursday 3 March 2011, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London.
Invited experts, such as Kas Oosterhuis, Neil Spiller, Marjan Colletti, Charlotte Pöchhacker and Georg Flachbart will reflect on issues of ‘virtuality’, ecology of performative design and open innovation. The discussion will be moderated by Ivan Redi and Andrea Redi.

Nursing Home for Elderly. The concept for the nursing home was to create a homely environment for the residents, which also did not require the nursing staff to walk excessive distances. Particular care has been taken to ensure that all the rooms are naturally ventilated and enjoy a good level of sunlight. The living areas for the residents face toward the park.

ORTLOS is looking to hire iPad and iPhone developers for our upcoming projects. You’ll be working closely with our team of skilled UI designers to create spectacular apps for the App Store. Ideal candidates will not only have a comprehensive understanding of the programming languages, APIs, frameworks, etc. that underpin every iOS app, but also an outright obsession with the interactive experience on iPhone and iPad.

6.30pm Wednesday 19th January 2011 /G01/2/3, Bartlett School of Architecture, Wates House,22 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0QB,
Bartlett School of Architecture International Lecture Series

The scheme includes establishment of local business and town center with following features: wellness and fitness centre inclusive coffee house for about 150 guests, covered tribune for the sport area with integrated functions, medical practice, supermarket, dentist, pharmacy, hotel with 20 rooms, restaurant with 200 sits, and senior housing with accompanied day-care centre.

Ortlos in Second Life was established to critically examine the possibilites of the ”virtual world-making”, alternative modes of production, a new design strategies and dislocated performative collaboration.

Ortlos in Second Life was established to critically examine the possibilites of the ”virtual world-making”, alternative modes of production, a new design strategies and dislocated performative collaboration.

Lunch Bites, 18/01/11 12:30: ORTLOS. Lunch Bites is a series of hour-long lunchtime conversations, hosted in Space 7, Culture Lab, New Castle UK, featuring local and visiting thinkers and creators.

11 January – 3 March , ACF London // The exhibition shows recent works by ORTLOS including interactive displays, rapid prototype models, renderings, photographs and objects. The installation “Performative Space Prototype” is an interactive simulation environment for designing and rendering models.

inSPACEin is an architecturally formulated information-communication environment.

A story about mid-thirties person who decides to withdraw himself to self build virtual cave.

Because of its high symmetry, the cube is a regular polytype, and has an excellent SA/V ratio. Two interlocking cubes form the DEMO HOUSE, a third cube shapes the carport.

“The Thing and The Wing” symbolizes a state of mobility, distortion and flows, a certain mood and a programmatic openness and non-dogmatic definitions. Loose architecture made of steel and translucent polymorph surfaces and bodies temporarily captures one possible state of the flow simulation.

Based on the most important image carrier of restaurant "Mangolds", the food, which is fresh, light and unadulterated offered, the ceiling should convey the feeling of lightness and freshness.

Our proposal is based on the idea of the city, which is all over you at the same time: up and down, left and right, forward and backward, with the different quality of urban sequences.

A green grove is the poetic offer of an enchanting new site design for the city of La Paz, Bolivia. The main idea is to incorporate the Urban Park of La Paz into a natural network, through defining its own identity.

A.N.D.I. (A New Digital Instrument), is an open source software development project dedicated to providing a web based platform of highly integrated tools for creative trans-disciplinary collaboration in architectural design.

The project for the GrandEgyptianMuseum in Giza, Egypt attempts to present and visualize the country’s great history rather than to show the exhibits only. The image of our project is based on Network of Experience and Knowledge. The objects become more understandable when they can be viewed in the context of the everyday life of ancient civilizations.

The aim of this installation is to express and expose a model for innovative forms of living and working for the European cultural space in the era of global network, the age difference, ambivalence and extreme openness.

We developed the notion of reading and walking, or walking and reading, as the conceptual organization of the project. This project is about a contextless, imaginative and flexible system which describes the narrative space as dualism between the space of reading and the reading of space.

The conception of our installation for the exhibition of the 7th International Architecture Exhibition 2000, La Biennale in Venice, with the working title of Less Aesthetics More Ethics", is a symbolic manifesto addressing new methods of operation in architecture.

All the competition projects which don't have their own project page are now summarized here.