Idea Lab for F-LIST

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


Showroom for Knapp AG HQ

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


Meeting Space for Jaguar Land Rover

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 for Magna

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…


Creativity Space for Magna

"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…


Social Space for Magna

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


Trust in your intuitions

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,…


Factory Showroom for Magna

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


Two Bridges for Qilihe River

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 Space for Magna Factory

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


Beijing Education Center

“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.


Innovation Tower

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…


Office Space for ATP

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


Campus Biel “Fun Palace”

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


Active House

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”…


Interactive Public Sound Environment (IPSE)

Interactive Public Sound Environment (IPSE) is a site-specific performative spatial environment integrating audio-visual composition responsive to the engagement between participants. IPSE encourages…


Vision for AUDI

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.


Smart City

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


Responsive Public Space

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


City Lab

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…


Roma Art

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.


Tarnschriften

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…


F.U.T.U.R.

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…


Responsive Open Space Laboratory

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:…


Urban Eco-System

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.


Active House N

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”…


ORTLOS iPhone App released

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


Bags UrbanNomad

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,…


lighThing

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…


iThink released on iTunes

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 Reader

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…


Sensitive Space

“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.


Big green splash

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…


Centre for promotion of Science

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…


Green Tower

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…


Kunsthaus Graz

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


Book Launch & Panel Discussion

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…


Nursing Home for Elderly

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…


iPhone and iPad Developer

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…


ORTLOS Lecture @ Bartlett UCL

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


Fitness Centre + Hotel

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…


ORTLOS in Second Life

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…


ORTLOS Metaverse

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…


ORTLOS @ Culture Lab Newcastle

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.


Exhibition “Performative Networked Design” @ AFC London

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…


inSPACEin

inSPACEin is an architecturally formulated information-communication environment.


Nick’s Cave Trailer

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


Demo House

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 & The Wing

“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…


Restaurant Mangolds

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.


Hong Kong

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.


Urban Park

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…


ANDI – A New Digital Instrument

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…


The Grand Egyptian Museum

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…


Golem Reloaded

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…


Digital Library

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…


ORTLOS @ La Biennale, Venice

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…


Competitions

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