Grubenwasserhebewerk
"Aus der Tiefe in die Höhe"
Type: Façade competition, 1st Prize
Year: 2023
Location: Bergkamen, Germany
Client: Municipality Bergkamen
Team: Philipp Mecke, Ana Filipović, Simon Palme
Engineering: Bollinger + Grohmann Consulting GmbH, Frankfurt/M.
Construction management: lingens-baumanagement
Images: Veit Eckelt
Year: 2022
The proposed envelope for the future pump station in the city of Bergkamen consists of four graduated curtains of stainless steel rings. The curtains are only suspended from above and are thus gently moved by the wind. The gradations and the properties of the material evoke an ascending and flowing movement, which suggests the movement of water within the pump station itself. The metal mesh façade not only shapes the external appearance but also offers an essential function by providing an effective, external, low-maintenance sunshade for the building's occupants without obstructing the view to the outside.
Freimundo
Kooperative Großstadt
Type: Open competition for cooperative housing - honorable mention
Year: 2023
Location: Munich-Neufreimann, Germany
Client: Kooperative Großstadt eG
Team: Ana Filipović, Philipp Mecke, Paula Riebel, Cecilia Fossati
Structural engineering: Schnetzer Puschs, Berlin
Landscape architecture: Kraft Raum, Düsseldorf
Fire safety: AMA Brandschutz, Berlin
Interior model: Justus Smolnik
At the heart of the proposal for Freimundo lies the idea about sustainable living, reflected not only in the economical handling of material and spatial resources, but also in the greater collectivisation of everyday life. Housing is a primary site of social reproduction and the increased individualisation and isolation of processes of care and maintenance increase their burden, which also remains mostly to be a female one. These often overlooked activities - such as laundry drying, vegetable pickling, storing large toys, exercising, caring for outdoor plants in winter, and so on - don't find enough space in individual apartments.
Universal Joint
„the liberation from the dogma of convention“
Konrad Wachsmann
Location: Leibnitz Universität Hannover, Dept. dMA
Type: Installation
Status: Ongoing research
Department: Digital Method in Architecture, Prof. Mirco Becker
Assistant Professor : Philipp Mecke
Tutor: Jan Zobel
Students: Rebecca Faulhaber, Maximillian Löwen, Ann Katrin Loewe, Sophia Haid,
Lin Chan Ting, Leon Schittek, Janek Zindler, Marco Schacht
The Research extends the contemporary developments in design, optimization and fabrication. In the 20th century, universal joint systems have been developed that brought such connectors to the forefront of serial production. Konrad Wachsmann, the architect who developed the Universal Connector in the 1950‘s stated how his main intention was „the liberation from the dogma of convention“. However, these standardized systems quickly reach their geometric and design limits in the construction of complex structures and as such could only be implemented at high cost and planning effort.
Forum sächsische Aufbaubank
acme architects
Type: Office Building
Year: Completion 2022
Location: Leipzig
Client: SAB
Team: Friedrich Ludewig, Heidrun Schuhmann, Tim Laubinger,
Dirk Mueller, Philipp Mecke
Engineering: Knippers Helbig
ACME's proposal for the SAB develops the traditional typology of a bank as an imposing institution representing stability, permanence and strength into a contemporary design for a bank of the 21st century. The traditional columns, acting as a transition between inside and outside, have been dissolved into a forest of supports carrying an overarching roof that covers the entirety of the site. Beneath this roof, a number of spaces are new public routes, and spaces are created like clearings in a forest, inviting inhabitation and passage. The columns and roof provide a sense of visual and acoustic enclosure towards the adjacent highway and integrate shading and passive cooling functions for the office spaces. This allows the offices to be open and transparent towards the new public space, creating an efficient, yet loose array of stacked and overlapping office floor-plates to accommodate the many differing departments of the SAB.
Haus WS
Type: Holiday House
Year: 2023
Location: Odenwald
Client: Privat
Team: Philipp Mecke, Ana Filipović
Engineering: Bollinger + Grohmann Consulting GmbH, Frankfurt/M.
One place of its own
Kranich Museum
Type: Installation
Year: 2021
Location: Hessenburg
Client: Kranich Museum
Curator: Zsuzsanna Stánitz
Team: Philipp Mecke, Ana Filipović
“A place of one’s own” is a sound installation Ana Filipovic and I developed for the manor park of a Kranich Museum in Hessenburg. The buzzing sound, coming out of the analog "sound machines", draws and constructs an intimate and personal space that comes to exist only when populated and when someone’s movement activates it. This newly constructed space remains invisible, yet when discovered, it can take its visitor on a meditative walk, made for losing oneself in own thoughts..
Gesamtkunstwerke
Arne Jacobsen und Otto Weitling
Die Formgeber des Funktionalismus Die Architektur von Arne Jacobsen und Otto Weitling hat eine herausragende Bedeutung für die Nachkriegsmoderne in Deutschland. Zugleich ist die Qualität ihrer Projekte in Vergessenheit geraten. Diese Lücke in der Wahrnehmung möchten die Kuratoren Hendrik Bohle und Jan Dimog mit der Wanderausstellung und der dazugehörigen Publikation schließen. Mit acht Projekten in Deutschland haben die beiden dänischen Baumeister hier die meisten Bauten außerhalb ihrer Heimat realisiert. Erstmals werden sieben Gebäude in einer Wanderausstellung präsentiert. Sie findet im Rahmen des deutsch-dänischen kulturellen Freundschaftsjahres 2020 und anlässlich Jacobsens fünfzigsten Todestages 2021 statt.
Die Ausstellung wirft ein Schlaglicht auf die Formgeber und die baukulturelle Verbundenheit zwischen Dänemark und Deutschland. Sie ist zugleich eine Bestandsaufnahme der heutigen Situation und des Umgangs mit dem Erbe der Spätmoderne. Die Kuratoren möchten die Besucher dazu anregen, sich selbst ein Bild der Architektur von Jacobsen und Weitling zu machen.
Type: Exhibition
Year: 2020-2024
Location: Nordische Botschaften, Berlin - Haus des Gastes, Fehmarn
Arne Jacobsen Foyer,Hannover - Ratssaalfoyer Castrop-Rauxel - Jenisch Haus, Hamburg
Client: The Link
Team: Philipp Mecke, Hendrik Bohle
Sponsoring: Grid System
Untaggable
Type: Exhibition
Year: 2019
Location: Nicosia, Cyprus
Client: Leo Burnett
Team: Philipp Mecke, Ana Filipović, Konstantinos Cyprianos
Type: Exhibition
Year: 2019
Location: Nicosia, Cyprus
Client: Leo Burnett
Team: Philipp Mecke, Ana Filipović, Konstantinos Cyprianos
For the occasion of the launch of Audi Q2 in Nicosia, we developed an immersive audio-visual installation. The installation was conceived as a circular arena, placed within a historical food market in Nicosia, which served as a stage for several performances during the event. The vantage point of the design was the deconstructed # sign that was a symbol of an entire branding campaign. The installation consisted of two layers of u-shaped profiles, superimposed and connected in a way tension was provided between them, which enabled the static qualities of the structure. Additionally, each profile contained one LED strip, which was programmed to respond to the audio content performer throughout the evening.
Skup
Type: Exhibition
Year: 2019
Location: Satiriko Theater in Nicosia
Client: Alternative Brain Rules
Team: Philipp Mecke, Ana Filipovic, Constantinos Kryprinaos
Spatial design for performative lecture series I'm permanence, held in Satiriko Theater in Nicosia, responded to the topic of permanence by looking at the temporary, yet the permanent structure of the Green Line, the demilitarized zone between the Greek Republic of Cyprus and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. A cease-fire line was materialized a wall of sandbags and gun emplacements appear rather soft and invisible in the city fabric. Amphitheater for the audience is thus created out of white sandbags, reinterpreting a traditional method for constructing defensive walls.
In blur
Type: Exhibition
Year: 2022
Location: Alula - Saudi Arabia
Client: Alicja Kwade, Desert X
Team: Philipp Mecke, Valentin Hertwick
Engineering: Art Engineering
Local Partner: Unitet Art Production
Image credit: Photograph by Lance Gerber
In Kwade’s large-scale installation In Blur, nothing is quite what it seems. Using double-sided mirrors and carefully placed paired natural objects like stones, bushes, and trees, the artist achieves the illusion of sudden and surprising transformations. The mirror glass conceals part of one of the objects, yet at the same time completes it with the mirror image of the same part in the other. In this way, a new, illusionary object is created through the overlaying of reality and appearance.
Mala Tectum
Type: Feasibility Studie
Year: 2023
Location: Island
Team: Philipp Mecke
Mala tectum is a study of a lightweight construction in a natural environment which means a minimum of intervention. A modular system allows the construction to be temporarily erected in the most inaccessible places. Due to the lightweight construction, no permanent intervention in the environment is necessary. The design plays with the intimacy to nature, through the different permeabilities of the layers of the facades it is possible to open up to the environment in different ways depending on the location and needs.
Off Grid
Central square Plovdiv
Type: Infrastructure competition, 3rd Prize
Year: 2018
Location: Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Client: Municipality Plovdiv
Team: Philipp Mecke, Ana Filipović, Veit Eckelt
Central square in Plovdiv marks a plethora of historical layers in non harmonious relation. One over another the layers are reclaiming their dominance over the square. Proposed design is using the language of one to expose the other and vice versa. The grid of the Forum of the ancient Philopoppolis is exposed on the surface in a repetitive regular form that is referring to the building legacy of the contemporary layer. Out of the regular grid arises a set of columns in two orthogonal axes, Cardo and Decumanus, thus marking every of the excavated sites. Their regularity in irregularity becomes a visual connection both present and absent in the image of the city. Columns appear as the sequence during the walk and culminate as a composition from one of the Plovdiv’s high points.The ancient Forum is merged with the square trough the transition from a hard paved to a soft green surface.
Flux
Type: Exhbinition
Year: 2019
Location: Point Galery, Cyprus
Client: Alternative Brain Rules
Team: Philipp Mecke, Constantinos Kryprinaos
Flux is a project that combines the disciplines of music, art and architecture. The installation breaks with the conventional space in that the space no longer behaves as a static boundary. Instead, it adapts to the user in its form and movement to the specific individual. Motivated by the movement of the visitors and their number and movement, the space begins to change. In this way, the space and the user become one and enter into flux.
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Type: Façade competition, 1st Prize
Year: 2023
Location: Bergkamen, Germany
Client: Municipality Bergkamen
Team: Philipp Mecke, Ana Filipović, Simon Palme
Engineering: Bollinger + Grohmann Consulting GmbH, Frankfurt/M.
Construction management: lingens-baumanagement
Images: Veit Eckelt
Year: 2022
The proposed envelope for the future pump station in the city of Bergkamen consists of four graduated curtains of stainless steel rings. The curtains are only suspended from above and are thus gently moved by the wind. The gradations and the properties of the material evoke an ascending and flowing movement, which suggests the movement of water within the pump station itself. The metal mesh façade not only shapes the external appearance but also offers an essential function by providing an effective, external, low-maintenance sunshade for the building's occupants without obstructing the view to the outside.
Type: Open competition for cooperative housing - honorable mention
Year: 2023
Location: Munich-Neufreimann, Germany
Client: Kooperative Großstadt eG
Team: Ana Filipović, Philipp Mecke, Paula Riebel, Cecilia Fossati
Structural engineering: Schnetzer Puschs, Berlin
Landscape architecture: Kraft Raum, Düsseldorf
Fire safety: AMA Brandschutz, Berlin
Interior model: Justus Smolnik
At the heart of the proposal for Freimundo lies the idea about sustainable living, reflected not only in the economical handling of material and spatial resources, but also in the greater collectivisation of everyday life. Housing is a primary site of social reproduction and the increased individualisation and isolation of processes of care and maintenance increase their burden, which also remains mostly to be a female one. These often overlooked activities - such as laundry drying, vegetable pickling, storing large toys, exercising, caring for outdoor plants in winter, and so on - don't find enough space in individual apartments.
Location: Leibnitz Universität Hannover, Dept. dMA
Type: Installation
Status: Ongoing research
Department: Digital Method in Architecture, Prof. Mirco Becker
Assistant Professor : Philipp Mecke
Tutor: Jan Zobel
Students: Rebecca Faulhaber, Maximillian Löwen, Ann Katrin Loewe, Sophia Haid,
Lin Chan Ting, Leon Schittek, Janek Zindler, Marco Schacht
The Research extends the contemporary developments in design, optimization and fabrication. In the 20th century, universal joint systems have been developed that brought such connectors to the forefront of serial production. Konrad Wachsmann, the architect who developed the Universal Connector in the 1950‘s stated how his main intention was „the liberation from the dogma of convention“. However, these standardized systems quickly reach their geometric and design limits in the construction of complex structures and as such could only be implemented at high cost and planning effort.
Type: Office Building
Year: Completion 2022
Location: Leipzig
Client: SAB
Team: Friedrich Ludewig, Heidrun Schuhmann, Tim Laubinger,
Dirk Mueller, Philipp Mecke
Engineering: Knippers Helbig
ACME's proposal for the SAB develops the traditional typology of a bank as an imposing institution representing stability, permanence and strength into a contemporary design for a bank of the 21st century. The traditional columns, acting as a transition between inside and outside, have been dissolved into a forest of supports carrying an overarching roof that covers the entirety of the site. Beneath this roof, a number of spaces are new public routes, and spaces are created like clearings in a forest, inviting inhabitation and passage. The columns and roof provide a sense of visual and acoustic enclosure towards the adjacent highway and integrate shading and passive cooling functions for the office spaces. This allows the offices to be open and transparent towards the new public space, creating an efficient, yet loose array of stacked and overlapping office floor-plates to accommodate the many differing departments of the SAB.
Haus WS
Type: Holiday House
Year: 2023
Location: Odenwald
Client: Privat
Team: Philipp Mecke, Ana Filipović
Engineering: Bollinger + Grohmann Consulting GmbH, Frankfurt/M.
Type: Installation
Year: 2021
Location: Hessenburg
Client: Kranich Museum
Curator: Zsuzsanna Stánitz
Team: Philipp Mecke, Ana Filipović
“A place of one’s own” is a sound installation Ana Filipovic and I developed for the manor park of a Kranich Museum in Hessenburg. The buzzing sound, coming out of the analog "sound machines", draws and constructs an intimate and personal space that comes to exist only when populated and when someone’s movement activates it. This newly constructed space remains invisible, yet when discovered, it can take its visitor on a meditative walk, made for losing oneself in own thoughts..
Type: Exhibition
Year: 2020-2024
Location: Nordische Botschaften, Berlin - Haus des Gastes, Fehmarn
Arne Jacobsen Foyer,Hannover - Ratssaalfoyer Castrop-Rauxel - Jenisch Haus, Hamburg
Client: The Link
Team: Philipp Mecke, Hendrik Bohle
Sponsoring: Grid System
Die Formgeber des Funktionalismus Die Architektur von Arne Jacobsen und Otto Weitling hat eine herausragende Bedeutung für die Nachkriegsmoderne in Deutschland. Zugleich ist die Qualität ihrer Projekte in Vergessenheit geraten. Diese Lücke in der Wahrnehmung möchten die Kuratoren Hendrik Bohle und Jan Dimog mit der Wanderausstellung und der dazugehörigen Publikation schließen. Mit acht Projekten in Deutschland haben die beiden dänischen Baumeister hier die meisten Bauten außerhalb ihrer Heimat realisiert. Erstmals werden sieben Gebäude in einer Wanderausstellung präsentiert. Sie findet im Rahmen des deutsch-dänischen kulturellen Freundschaftsjahres 2020 und anlässlich Jacobsens fünfzigsten Todestages 2021 statt.
Die Ausstellung wirft ein Schlaglicht auf die Formgeber und die baukulturelle Verbundenheit zwischen Dänemark und Deutschland. Sie ist zugleich eine Bestandsaufnahme der heutigen Situation und des Umgangs mit dem Erbe der Spätmoderne. Die Kuratoren möchten die Besucher dazu anregen, sich selbst ein Bild der Architektur von Jacobsen und Weitling zu machen.
Untaggable
Type: Exhibition
Year: 2019
Location: Nicosia, Cyprus
Client: Leo Burnett
Team: Philipp Mecke, Ana Filipović, Konstantinos Cyprianos
For the occasion of the launch of Audi Q2 in Nicosia, we developed an immersive audio-visual installation. The installation was conceived as a circular arena, placed within a historical food market in Nicosia, which served as a stage for several performances during the event. The vantage point of the design was the deconstructed # sign that was a symbol of an entire branding campaign. The installation consisted of two layers of u-shaped profiles, superimposed and connected in a way tension was provided between them, which enabled the static qualities of the structure. Additionally, each profile contained one LED strip, which was programmed to respond to the audio content performer throughout the evening.
Skup
Type: Exhibition
Year: 2019
Location: Satiriko Theater in Nicosia
Client: Alternative Brain Rules
Team: Philipp Mecke, Ana Filipovic, Constantinos Kryprinaos
Spatial design for performative lecture series I'm permanence, held in Satiriko Theater in Nicosia, responded to the topic of permanence by looking at the temporary, yet the permanent structure of the Green Line, the demilitarized zone between the Greek Republic of Cyprus and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. A cease-fire line was materialized a wall of sandbags and gun emplacements appear rather soft and invisible in the city fabric. Amphitheater for the audience is thus created out of white sandbags, reinterpreting a traditional method for constructing defensive walls.
In blur
Type: Exhibition
Year: 2022
Location: Alula - Saudi Arabia
Client: Alicja Kwade, Desert X
Team: Philipp Mecke, Valentin Hertwick
Engineering: Art Engineering
Local Partner: Unitet Art Production
Image credit: Photograph by Lance Gerber
In Kwade’s large-scale installation In Blur, nothing is quite what it seems. Using double-sided mirrors and carefully placed paired natural objects like stones, bushes, and trees, the artist achieves the illusion of sudden and surprising transformations. The mirror glass conceals part of one of the objects, yet at the same time completes it with the mirror image of the same part in the other. In this way, a new, illusionary object is created through the overlaying of reality and appearance.
Mala Tectum
Type: Feasibility Studie
Year: 2023
Location: Island
Team: Philipp Mecke
Mala tectum is a study of a lightweight construction in a natural environment which means a minimum of intervention. A modular system allows the construction to be temporarily erected in the most inaccessible places. Due to the lightweight construction, no permanent intervention in the environment is necessary. The design plays with the intimacy to nature, through the different permeabilities of the layers of the facades it is possible to open up to the environment in different ways depending on the location and needs.
Type: Infrastructure competition, 3rd Prize
Year: 2018
Location: Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Client: Municipality Plovdiv
Team: Philipp Mecke, Ana Filipović, Veit Eckelt
Central square in Plovdiv marks a plethora of historical layers in non harmonious relation. One over another the layers are reclaiming their dominance over the square. Proposed design is using the language of one to expose the other and vice versa. The grid of the Forum of the ancient Philopoppolis is exposed on the surface in a repetitive regular form that is referring to the building legacy of the contemporary layer. Out of the regular grid arises a set of columns in two orthogonal axes, Cardo and Decumanus, thus marking every of the excavated sites. Their regularity in irregularity becomes a visual connection both present and absent in the image of the city. Columns appear as the sequence during the walk and culminate as a composition from one of the Plovdiv’s high points.The ancient Forum is merged with the square trough the transition from a hard paved to a soft green surface.
Flux
Type: Exhbinition
Year: 2019
Location: Point Galery, Cyprus
Client: Alternative Brain Rules
Team: Philipp Mecke, Constantinos Kryprinaos
Flux is a project that combines the disciplines of music, art and architecture. The installation breaks with the conventional space in that the space no longer behaves as a static boundary. Instead, it adapts to the user in its form and movement to the specific individual. Motivated by the movement of the visitors and their number and movement, the space begins to change. In this way, the space and the user become one and enter into flux.
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