UBERBAU
ALI SAAD | THOMAS STELLMACH | ARCHITECTURE & URBANISM
***NEWS July 2010***
Ali Saad and Thomas Stellmach are invited to participate in the kick-off workshop of MOD.org , the freshly founded urban action research collective from Bangalore, taking place from 14.7.2010 to 16.7.2010 in Berlin, and to present their urban vision on Aleppo.
***NEWS June 2010***
Ali Saad is invited as a guest critic to the Berlage Institute for the final presentations of the studios 'After Displacement: Large-scale Housing Solutions for Diyarbakir', tutored by Martino Tattara and Joachim Declerck with Elia Zenghelis, and 'Creative Bejing', tutored by Rients Dijkstra and Thomas Stellmach.
The Final Presentations of the Berlage Institute Studio 'Creative Beijing' are held. Thomas Stellmach is tutoring this studio with Rients Dijkstra (maxwan a&u).
***NEWS May 2010***
End of May, Thomas Stellmach will hold a workshop at Strelka Institute in Moscow together with the director of Rotterdam's Berlage Institute, Vedran Mimica. They will look at the possible scenarios for the development of Red October, Strelka's site, and the intricacies of the balancing act between harsh zoning and free construction, between working space and living space, between efficient and creative, individual and collective.
UBERBAU is offering a 6 month internship to students. If you are interested, download the job announcement.
***NEWS Mar 2010***
UBERBAU lectured on urban development in Baghdad, Iraq at the PRIC Conference. Read the New York Times article, as long as it's up.
UBERBAU is collaborating with LIN Finn Geipel + Giulia Andi architects & urbanists in the field of urban strategy on an urban study comissioned by the French Government. The aim is to develop a vision for Aulnay-sous-Bois, Sevran, Livry-Gargan, Clichy-sous-Bois and Montfermeil, five of the most precarious districts in the East of Paris' suburbs.
***NEWS Feb 2010***
UBERBAU wins Europan 10. Our scheme "Der Rote Faden", a cooperation with Martin Sobota (Cityförster), Marc Ryan (West8) and Artur Borejszo is awarded the 1st prize for the site of Heidelberg. Download the press release: EN (pdf, 2MB) | DE (pdf, 2MB).
***NEWS Jan 2010***
The Dutch Stimuleringsfonds voor Architectuur awarded UBERBAU a grant to carry out a research project on hybrid roads in the Netherlands. Advised by a multidisciplinary team consisting of Rients Dijkstra, Henk Tromp and Wouter Vanstiphout, "Street Life" will speculate on how European roads could be reconceived as social infrastructures, trigger new developments and integrate the potentials of their complex urban environments.
UBERBAU is the practice of Ali Saad and Thomas Stellmach that specializes in research-based strategic urbanism, urban design and planning as well as architecture. Our designs, strategies and researches always include recurring issues such as context, density, flexiblity, mixed-use, phasing and transformability, which we regard as pre-requisites for any sustainable approach. These develop in close collaboration with our clients as well as specialists from various other fields in temporary or permanent collaboration. In 2010, UBERBAU has shaped an urban vision for the future of Aleppo, the second biggest agglomeration in Syria, for the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ). See the online presentation of the project at Madinatuna, the Aleppo City Development Strategy site. Or download our full Aleppo - Diverse | Open City report here [pdf, 89MB]
ALI SAAD (*1975, Beirut) studied Architecture at TU Berlin and UPC Barcelona with grants from the German National Academic Foundation and the European Commission. Right after his graduation from the chair of Prof. Kees Christiaanse he became assistant professor at the Institute for Architecture of the Technische Universität Berlin conducting and publishing extensive research and teaching on the contemporary transformation of post-war New Towns in India, Pakistan, Lebanon, Iran, France and Poland. Before opening up his own office, he was working on projects ranging from the architectural to the regional scale as an architect and project leader at maxwan architects & urbanists in Rotterdam and at LIN Finn Geipel + Giulia Andi architects & urbanists in Berlin. At LIN he was chef de projét of "Grand Paris Métropole Douce", an urban vision of a prosperous and ecologically balanced Greater Paris in the year 2030, as part of the Grand Paris project, initiated by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Ali is registered in the Dutch architects register. [Ali on linkedin]
THOMAS STELLMACH (*1975 Freiburg, Germany) studied Architecture and Philosophy at TU Berlin and UPC Barcelona. Recent examples of his work are Europe’s largest urban design commission, Project A101, in Russia and the supervision of the UK’s largest residential development, Barking Riverside in London, for the Rotterdam based practice maxwan a&u. He teaches at the renowned Berlage Institute with a focus on complex urban processes. He recently conducted the 'Urban Cookbook' atelier finding recipes for sustainable urbanism at the Academie voor Bouwkunst, also in Rotterdam, and runs the online architecture magazine dysturb.net. He was a guest lecturer on urban design and architecture at the University of Science and Arts in Aleppo, Syria. In 2010, he has lectured and conducted workshops at the Tsinghua University in Beijing, Strelka Institute in Moscow and the PRIC Conference in Baghdad. He recently won the prestigious competition for young architects Europan X with an urban plan for the city of Heidelberg in Germany. Thomas is registered architect of the Dutch Stichting Architectenregister. [Thomas on linkedin]
more to come. stay tuned.