Weitere Würdigung für Ruairí O'Brien's Hologrammfassade in Jena

Fassadenwettbewerb der Stadt Jena 2009

Eine Würdigung erhielt das Haus Markt 16

Eigentümer Kommunale Immobilien.

OTZ ZEITUNG 30.11.2009

DRESDNER BAUSEMINAR: Ruairí O'Brien - Architektur. Licht. Kunst.

DRESDNER BAUSEMINAR

Vortrag

Public Lecture

16. Dezembere 2009, 17:00 Uhr, Z 407

Im Dresdner Bauseminar spricht

Herr Dipl.-Ing. Ruairí O`Brien,

freier Architekt und Lichtplaner in Dresden,

über

"Architektur - Licht - Kunst".

Venue:

University of applied Sciences Dresden
HTW - Dresden, Fr. - List - Platz 1, 01069 Dresden

www.bau.htw-dresden.de/Bauseminar_Flyer.pdf

www.htw-architektur.de/e8/e119/index_ger.html

Ruairi O'Brien presents his latest sculpture "8 windows and 9 doors in light" dedicated to the 20 year anniversary of the "Peaceful revolution"

"8 windows and 9 doors in light"

Ruairí O'Brien

See also:

An article from Sebastian Richter
http://www.superillu.de/aktuell/Dresden_1408404.html

To see further works of light go to:

http://www.architectureoflight.com/

Ruairí O'Brien's Exhibition architecture to celebrate the 20 year anniversary of the "Peaceful revolution 1989" in Eastern Europe opens in Dresden

Ruairí O'Brien designed a modular exhibition system for the International Project "Himmelweit" in Dresden, Germany.

The scientific research team was lead by Dr. Peter Skyba and Sebastian Richter.

The German students; Alexis Demos, Anne Kirchberg, Mario Kliewer, Malte Krumrey each worked on an individual chosen theme which highlighted the importance of the "Peaceful revolution" in 1989 in Dresden.

Stefan Schönfelder from the Politcal education society "weiterdenken", initiator's of the project in collaboration with the "Brücke/Most-Stiftung" was Project Co-ordinator and was supported by Ramona Nestler and Kathrin Bastet.

http://www.weiterdenken.de/

http://www.bruecke-most-stiftung.de/

See also:
http://www.superillu.de/aktuell/Dresden_1408404.html

Ruairí O'Brien recieves Architectural award from the architecture society of Thuringia

Anerkennung für das Büro

Ruairi O’Brien aus Dresden

Ergänzung zum architektourpreis 2009
Erfurt, September 2009.

Das Architekturbüro robarchitects Ruairi O’Brien aus Dresden erhält nachträglich eine der sechs Anerkennungen im Rahmen des „architektourpreis“, den die Architektenkammer Thüringen am Abend des 29. Mai 2009 im Erfurter „Krönbacken“ verlieh.Mit dem 2009 zum dritten Mal vergebenen architektourpreis wurde beispielhafte Thüringer Architektur im Rahmen der Veranstaltungsreihe tag der architektouren gewürdigt. Als Verfasser für das Vorhaben „Sanierung / Umbau spätmittelalterliches Gebäude“ Markt 16 in Jena ist das Büro robarchitects Ruairi O´Brien Dresden zu nennen. Ruairi O´Brien erstellte im Rahmen einer Machbarkeitsstudie erste Vorentwürfe für das Projekt und prägte die Idee des Stadtspeichers und der Hologrammfassade. Er wurde mit der Umsetzung der Hologrammfassade beauftragt.robarchitects Ruairi O´Brien RIBA AKS PLDA (educ.) Dresden wird eine Anerkennung ausgesprochen.

Weitere Informationen und Projektreferenzen des Büros unter: http://www.ruairiobrien.de/

Herausgeber:Architektenkammer Thüringen, Bahnhofstraße 39, 99084 Erfurt

Tel.: 0361/210500, Fax: 0361/2105050

info@architekten-thueringen.de www.tag-der-architektouren.de
veröffentlicht: 10.09.2009 AKT

Leipzig "89" Sculpture from Ruairí O'Brien opened to the public as part of the City light festival 2009

„Die goldene Informationsskulptur, die aus Segmenten gebaut ist, symbolisiert die Bedeutung des historischen Ereignisses 1989 und macht neugierig auf das Lichtfest am 9.Oktober. Sie schafft eine Spannung in dem denkmalgeschützten Raum (Hansa-Haus) gegenüber der Nikolaikirche im Zentrum der Stadt Leipzig, wo die "Friedliche Revolution" begann. Es ist eine räumliche Skulptur und Infomationsvermittler zugleich. Tafeln informieren über das historische Ereignis im Herbst 1989, über das aktuelle Lichtfest und die daran teilnehmenden Künstler. Ein schwebendes Lichtband über dem monolitschen Objekt gibt die Ziffer „89" in Licht als Symbol für Leichtigkeit wider und spiegelt die Form der auf dem Boden stehenden goldenen Skulptur. Der Dialog zwischen hell und dunkel, leicht und schwer, ist damit vereint im Raum."

Ruairí O'Brien. dresden 11.09.09

Beteiligte Künstler: Andy Gädt, Till Exit, Jörg Herold, Andreas Höll, Uwe Knappschneider, Susanne Weirich, Robert Bramkamp, Marek Brandt, Fred Fröhlich, Norbert Meissner, Joachim Blank, Ute Richter, Ty Sycaci, Sébastien Lefèvre, Stefan Rettich, Tjark Ihmels, Maix Mayer, Jerzy Zo, Via Lewandowsky, Ruairi O’Brien, Tilo Schulz, Kim Wortelkamp, Carsten Nicolai, Arend Zwicker, Olaf Nicolai.

"The Arcades Project" - Bardinale - Light and Word Festival 2009

"The Arcades Project"

Sunday The 6th of September I gave a Light poetry performance dedicated to Walter Benjamin in the Blaue Fabrik in Dresden.

I composed the light performance in 4 parts and each part was accompanied by music.

Part one:

A short "Tango" with female singer calling to mind the city of Bueneos Aires.

Part Two:

A short work from Erik Satie.

Part Three:

Messiaen's "Quatuor pour la fin du temps"- "Abime des oiseaux"

Part Four:

Aaron Copland's "Quiet City".

After the break the componist Günter Heinz gave a "Sprach-Klang-Performance" working with texts from the Iraqi poet Sargon Boulus.

In dialogue with Günter I interacted with light.

"The Dresden Walk" - "Dresden-Spaziergang" - Bardinale - Light and Word Festival 2009

"The Dresden Walk"

On the Monday 31st of August Konstantinos and I undertook a short walk in Dresden as a part of our project for the Light Poetry festival "Light and Word". We talked and let Visual experiences come and go occassionally stopping to work with the moment.

"The Museum experiment" - "Das Museumsexperiment" - Bardinale - Light and Word festival 2009

The Museum experiment

On the 30th of september I invited my Friend the Videoflaneur Konstantinos Antonios Goutos to take part in what i have called "The Museum experiment" in Dresden.

Together we spent the day in the micromuseum I created for Erich Kaestner and tested the depths of space and time with our actions.

During the normal museum visiting hours, we worked individually and at times interacted and communicated with each other. The work was free flowing and experimental. I created small lighting installations among the exhibits and museum architecture which during the day were changed. Using the installations I performed moments of light poetry. Konstantinos interacted with the light poetry works, the visitors and the museums architecture creating his own world of visuals.

The result is a collection of Photographs and a short film which will be shown for the first time to the public during the international poetry festival "Bardinale" and the Light poetry festival "Light and Word".

http://www.bardinale.com/

Prize Ceremony-Messiaen Centre in Poland

Ruairí O'Brien wins First prize

in International architecture competition for his design for the World War II Memorial in Zgorzelec, Poland.

Some press articles:

International Competition Prize Ceremony

Official Press release:

The prize ceremony for the international competition

"Meeting Point Messiaen" a European centre for Education and Culture in Zgorzelec/ Goerlitz

will take place on Thursday the 9th of July 2009 in Zgorzelec.

Im
WETTBEWERB ZUR AUSARBEITUNG EINER STÄDTEBAULICHARCHITEKTONISCHENNUTZUNGS

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PROGRAMMKONZEPTION

FÜR DAS
EUROPÄISCHE ZENTRUM FÜR BILDUNG UND KULTUR ZGORZELEC/GOERLITZ MEETINGPOINT MUSIC MESSIAEN
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Ruairi O'Brien
der 1. Preis zuerkannt worden.

Die Preisverleihung findet statt am Donnerstag, 9. Juli 2009, 10 Uhr
in der Gmina Zgorzelec, ul. Kościuszki 70, ZGORZELEC

Poland

Goerlitz 04.07.09

FIRST PRIZE-Ruairí O'Brien-Competition for a European Cultural and Educational centre "Meeting Point Music Messiaen" in Zgorzelec, Poland

Photo: The present entrance to the "Meeting Point Messiaen" on the site of the Stalag VIIIa

FIRST PRIZE
"MEETING POINT MESSIAEN"
in Zgorzelec, Poland

I am very happy to confirm that we have recieved the first prize for our design for a new European cultural centre in Zgorzelec Poland. The city of Zgorzelec is a situated across the river Neisse from Görlitz in East Germany. The competition was to design a museum building, a "Theater Barracks" for live music performances (named so after the original barracks where Messiaen gave concerts for his fellow prisioners) and living quaters for artists on the site of a prisoner of war camp dating from World War II. Olivier Messiaen wrote one of his most famous pieces of music "Quartet for the end of Time" during his time as a prisoner in "Stalag VIIIa".

The Polish and German text announcing the the result is included below.
Ruairí O'Brien, 25. june. 2009 Dresden.

The Polish text:

OGŁOSZENIE WYNIKÓW KONKURSUNA OPRACOWANIE KONCEPCJI URBANISTYCZNO - ARCHITEKTONICZNEJI FUNKCJONALNO - UŻYTKOWEJEUROPEJSKIEGO CENTRUM EDUKACYJNO - KULTURALNEGO ZGORZELE/GOERLITZMEETINGPOINT MUSIC MESSIAENS

ąd Konkursowy na posiedzeniu w dniu 24 czerwca 2009 r. w Zgorzelcu, po zapoznaniu się z pracami konkursowymi dokonał wyboru najlepszej pracy konkursowej i postanowił przyznać pracy opatrzonej kodem 899678.

Autorem nagrodzonej pracy jest:

RUAIRI O BRIEN. ARCHITEKTUR. LICHT. KUNST.

Jednocześnie Sąd Konkursowy serdecznie dziękuje wszystkim uczestnikom konkursu za zaangażowanie i wyraża uznanie za pomysłowość i szeroką znajomość problematyki.

Sąd Konkursowy

The German Text:

DIE VERÖFFENTLICHUNG DER ERGEBNISSE DESWETTBEWERBSZUR AUSARBEITUNG EINER STÄDTEBAULICH- ARCHITEKTONISCHENNUTZUNGS+ PROGRAMMKONZEPTION FÜR DASEUROPÄISCHE ZENTRUM FÜR BILDUNG UND KULTURZGORZELEC/GOERLITZMEETINGPOINT MUSIC MESSIAEN

In der Sitzung am 24 Juni 2009 in Zgorzelec hat das Preisgericht, nachdem es sich mit allen Wettbewerbsarbeiten vertraut gemacht hat, die beste Wettbewerbsarbeit ausgewählt und entschieden, an die Arbeit mit Verfasserkennzahl 899678 zu verleihen.

Der Autor der preisgekrönten Arbeit ist

RUAIRI O BRIEN. ARCHITEKTUR. LICHT. KUNST.

Gleichzeitig bedankt sich das Preisgericht bei allen Wettbewerbsteilnehmern für Ihr Engagement und spricht seine Achtung für ihre Kreativität und die umfangreichen Kenntnisse zur Problematik aus.

Preisgericht

Here a link to Youtube for a short presentation of the

"Quartet for the end of Time"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSdXitBkFb0

Architecture Summer VI-Lecture-House Evolucio

On Sunday, 28th of June, Ruairí O'Brien gave a short presentation about the House Evolucio he designed as part of the Architecture summer and Day of architecture in Saxony.

Such an event allows one to talk directly to people who are interested in architecture in general, but it is also important because it gives prospective clients the chance to see the office and discuss in a relaxed atmoshere what it means to build a house. The house "evolucio" developed and built to offer clients a simple and relatively inexpensive way to achieve a personally defined architecture.

Dresden. 28.06.09

Architecture Summer V -Lecture- Hologram facade-stadtspeicher Jena

Lecture: Hologram facade Jena

Architecture Summer V.

27.June.2009

As part of the Architecture Summer festival Ruairí O'Brien gave a public lecture in the office on Saturday morning.

Mobile Architecture II-Erich Kaestner Rally and The Perspective Machine

Over 300 children took part in the "Emil and the Detectives" in the city Erich Kaestner Rally on the 25th of June. The mobile perspective machines designed and built by Ruairí O'Brien were also in action accompanying the children on the parcours through the city. Children took the chance to use them to capture new perspectives of the city and do drawings of the streets and buildings of Dresden. Children using the mobile perspective machines to draw on the famous "Augustus brücke" in the city center of Dresden.

Architecture Summer IV

Exhibition architecture lecture and workshop

Himmelweit gleich – Europas 1989

III. Workshop in Dresden

(19 – 21 June, 2009)

- Wroclaw

- Praha
- Dresden

- Bratislava

- Dublin, an west east west story in light and structure by Ruairí O'Brien

At the weekend I was invited to give a lecture on "exhibition architecture" to a group of international students working on the project "Himmelweit" organised by the "Weiterdenken" society in Dresden and Historian Peter Skyba. The project was conceived to look at the changes 20 years on after the peaceful revolution of 1989 that changed the face of Europe. Last year I made a suggestion that I develop an artwork for the society that could represent the larger european dimension of the falling of the Iron curtain. this was then in spring of this year given the go ahead. The artwork/installation expresses my own viewpoint as an artist and architect as to the change I have experienced in my Europe since 1989. Coming originally from Dublin and having experienced the “falling of the wall” on British TV. in London this can be seen as offering a pendent to the eastern works covering this subject. My first work on this subject I called "Baustelle Deutschland" (1999) which is now in the permanent exhibition of "The House of Contemporary History in Leipzig". This was followed by the lightobject "Betreten auf eigene gefahr" or "Enter at your own risk" (2004) placed on the site of the "Plattenbaumuseum" I built in Dresden (2003).

10 Elements of Exhibition architecture-O'Brien '09

My view is a view from another angle, perhaps the far west angle.
The graphic published here is a working method I have developed to create contemporary exhibitions, in my lecture I went into more detail regarding each word and its function in relation to the other elements mentioned.

The project

"Dublin-West-East-West Story told in light and structure by Ruairí O'Brien"

will be exhibited in Autumn in Dresden. Exact details as to location and times will be published in september 2009 on this blog.

School project-"Stadt-Raum-Klang" finished

"Stadt-Raum-Klang" or "City-Space-Sound"

a project for the youth of the city of Freiberg

Ruairí O'Brien

I finished the school project "Stadt-Raum-Klang" in the city of Freiberg with a presentation of the work done on Wednesday the 17th of June. The project which had been running since early january of this year was very successful. The "City-Space-Sound" was created for the "Silbermann society" in Freiberg, the town of the world famous Orgel designer and builder. His orgels are some of the greatest in the world. The idea was to inspire the children to think about the identity of their home town and its sound, its spirit in relationship to themselves. We experimented with sound and acoustics and the architectural space required to achieve certain sounds and relating that back to rooms in the school and streets and squares in the town. We sketched and built cardboard instruments, created performances, analysed structures found in other art forms such as film etc. We also visited the orgel in the Main church of freiberg and were given a guided tour and demonstration by the Domkantor.

Over the last weeks the school children (teenagers) had been working on the idea of creating a collage sculpture with a shoebox which should express their individual personality and sound. As part of the final presentation the school kids were asked to create a larger structure out of their individual works on which they had been working.

The parts create the whole.

see: http://www.stadt-raum-klang.blogspot.com/

Mobile architecture I

Mobile architecture

Architecture summer in Dresden III

Sunday the 14th of June.
We organised a fundraising event for our "Kästnermobil" a mobile exhibition system designed by Ruairí O'Brien to bring the famous German autor to the schools.

The project is in co-operation with the Erich kästner museum in Dresden and the erich Kästner society based in Munich. A further partner is the Deutsche Werkstäaten in Hellerau, Dresden.

Lighting Festival in Leipzig 2009- Lichtfest 2009-Aufbruch Leipzig

Ruairí O'Brien has been invited by the city of Leipzig to take part in their lighting festival to celebrate the 20 year anniversary of the „peaceful revolution“ which occurred in 1989 in East Germany. Above is a city plan with a list of the artists taking part and showing where the works can be experienced. Ruairí O'Brien'swork which is a combination of communication architecture and light art will be installed in the “Hansa” house, a famous heritage building situated next to the “Nikolaikkirche”, the church where the famous “Monday demonstrations” began. The installation or "information sculpture" is a personal statement about communication and the moment "89". It will also provide an exhibition platform about the history of the "Monday demonstrations" and information about the other particpants, supporters and fellow artists taking part in the festival program. It is due to be opened the beginning of August so that visitors to the city and local citizens can begin to focus on the events to come.

Virtualmuseum presentation + Vilém Flusser evening

Virtual Museum

Architecture summer in Dresden II

On friday 29th of May Ruairí O'Brien gave a talk about the virtual museum he is working on.

The project has gone through many development stages since its conception in 1998. The intention was to create a perfect twin sister to the Erich kästner museum now situated in the Villa Augustin in Dresden. Accompanying the talk he presented a book from Vilém Flusser called "Kommuniologie weiter denken" Die Bochumer Vorlesungen. Fischer Verlag. This fomed the background for a very interesting discussion among the viisitors.

http://www.virtual-micromuseum.com/

Betonzeitschiene 2009 - Plattenbaumuseum Dresden

Museum for pre-cast concrete housing

Architecture summer in Dresden I

On the 17th of May Ruairí O'Brien gave a talk about the actual situation and future of the concrete garden project named "Betonzeitschiene" also known as the "Plattenbaumuseum" in Dresden or in english, The museum for pre-cast concrete housing. http://www.betonzeitschiene.com/

"The project is a wonderful example of what simple architecture ideas can mean to inner city life. The project I concieved and have been developing in public space since 2004 demonstrates very effectively that large sums of money or not required to produce architectural projects of quality and real worth. In 2004 I was asked by local residents if I could develop a concept that would help them revitalise a large piece of post industrial urban wasteland situated in the heart of the famous Barock city of Dresden. The Project has gone through several stages of development, politically and artistically. see the website mentioned above for further detail. A final version is planned in 2010."

Ruairí O'Brien

"A further museum project on the site of the former prefabricated concrete slab factory in Dresden's Johannstadt district is a work of urban landscape art which is also based on my microarchitectural concept. Here also, development processes are concerned, as are analysis, deconstruction and visualisation by combining architectural elements in a new way, as well as viewing the world in miniature to help understand the real world and the relativeness of size. The aim is to implement the methodology of making wholes from parts , to hint at the macro world in a pointed selection of fragments, combining past and present through the living preservation of historical monuments in a resource-saving architectural drama.
On a 70-hectare site in the middle of the Johannstadt residential area, the Johannstadt Prefabricated Concrete Slab Factory produced concrete slabs for socialist housing construction projects from 1958 until it was shut down in 1990. The factory in Dresden was particularly important, as it was one of the first prefabricated slab factories in the GDR. The ruins of the city destroyed by bombing were not transported away, they were recycled for reconstruction. The bricks were ground to chippings, mixed with cement and subsequently pressed to form stone blocks and slabs. In my opinion the prefabricated concrete housing is just as much a part of Dresden's identity as the Frauenkirche or the Semper Opera House. With my concept for Germany's first concrete slab construction museum and with the support of a small group of local residents who called themselves the IG Platte it was possible to negotiate with the city over the interim use of the site and we were granted a strip of land 15 meters wide and 100 meters long at the edge of the former factory grounds to work on. The remainder of the grounds, having been unused for eleven years, was cleared for demolition under pressure from an association of neighbouring residents. During the demolition work I worked with the IG platte to save what fragments we thought would be need to tell the story of the site: the old, now renovated porter’s lodge, an original street lamp from the factory, the old gravel silo and approximately 50 tonnes of building materials - brick chippings, steel frames, welded wire mesh, a concrete bathroom cell, colored tiles, mosaic elements, external wall slabs and moulded concrete blocks and panels. "

Ruairí O'Brien 2007

The above text is taken from a "lecture" I gave at the University of Galwy in 2007

Later published in full in "Environmental argument and cultural difference, Locations, Fractures and Deliberations.

Ricca Edmondson and Henrike Rau (eds)

Peter Lang