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thanks to the organisers! B r a t i s l a v a p o s t . e a s a . t r i p Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and, with a population of about 460,000, thecountry›s largest city. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia on both banks of the Danube River and on the left bank of Morava river. Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the only national capital that borders two independent countries.
example Petržalka (the biggest part in Bratislava) was before 1982 a village which completely destroyed and transformed to residential area with prefab buildings. This and others interesting changes offer Bratislava. WHO WILL SHOW US THE RIGHT PLACES?
WHAT ABOUT ACCOMODATION? We booked 3 crazy hostels. And I can say really crazy, because when I was in the 1st one. The receptionist told me whole story how he puked all night :D (true story, but he was so nice so respectable :D) WHAT ABOUT PARTY?
WHY WE SHOULD GO THERE? Bratislava has his own mystical spirit, because it was not just one of the socialistic countries but always it was a centre between 3 bigger metropoles: Vienna, Budapest and Prague. This spirit of multi culture lives in historic centre. Socialism transformed a lot, for
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for the ones, who are and do you need FOR ARCHITECTS Mumok: Light Installation from Dan Flavin
AND The Poesie of Reduction minimal, concept, land art
3 of the best guides ever...anymaniacs: Beatka (Slovak NC), Adam Berka (old-NC) and Michal Sladek (oldNC). All of them has his own tour de Bratislava. Beatka prepared a city walk called: ,,BARtislava»....Adam: ,,Dirty and healthy» and Michal offer:,,Build politics». Personally, I think you have various choice.
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1st night=night out...so you can see our favorite clubs and bars and for the 2nd night we prepared for you Slovak Halloween night in Galleria Cvernovka. Where we will have saturday›s discussions and then party, party, party. EVERYONE IS WELCOME FROM 2-4 NOV12!
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staying in vienna: have you been to the museums? a place to stay? we can help you. POP.INN.111_Guesthouse/Hostel/ FOR YOUNG INTERESTED FEHome POP_INN 111 is an experimenMALES and maybe NAKED MAN tal pop-up project in vienna ! Leopold Museum: The naked Man ( BOOKINGS: since 18 th Century) Phone Lukas:+436604937706, Time: we meet at 12.30 at Leopold Rebecca:+4369915021595 Museum. Here: Email popinn111@gmail.com Adress: Schönbrunnerstraße 111/2326 1050 Vienna, Austria
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we.made.pinguins.with.caramel! CARAMEL is not only something to eat, its also the name of the Office, that was tutoring the INCM workshop at pratersauna. The office motto: for each projekt a new one. As one of the major offices and no longer a young office but with a noticeable number of high scale buildings, caramel architects join the austrian architectural landscapes. We built pinguins with them; 3D-pinguins out of Paper. we only had to cut it right and to fold the lines, they already had printed on thick paper. You can build everything! Actually is harder as it sounds and its quite challenging to get it right. it also took forever, but the results are very convincing!
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o f f i c e . v i s i t s On Wednesday a small but very informative excursion to the future Vienna Central Station was guided by a representative of Wimmer Architects. And it turned out that he used to be EASA organizer 20 years ago in Turin. EASA is everywhere)). The new central station will be constructed as a through station. For the first time in Austrian’s federal capital, trains will arrive from and depart in all directions. By creating high-performance north-south and east-west connections, the station will become the most important hub for regional, national and international holiday traffic as well as a central intersection in the transEuropean rail network. Each of us had an opportunity to see with one’s own eyes the design and building process. On the site area of the platform that was being constructed we could take a look at building technologies and structure of the station. The design
motto is “universal design”, i.e. the breaking down of barriers and suitability for everyday use. In addition to the station building, the new BahnhofCity [Station- City] will house offices, restaurants, shops, service companies and cultural businesses, flats, hotels and the required car parks.
Thanks a lot to the organizer team!
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Yesterday the NCs moved on with their discussions. After EASA2014 and INCM2013 have been choosen, the list of topics was long! topics like the everlasting problem of the EASA Homepage, even marko, the old Webmaster tried to help and took some time off for us; the Archive, maybe going to be uploaded online finally, the Workshops, the SESAMs and upcoming Events and last but not least the Fees and Tutorfees. Groups have
And at the moment when we got to the platform we realized that polygonal type of structure is peculiar not only to penguins. What a surprise! The roof had the same folding principle. In general the construction site was very huge and vast which was incredibly fantastic and it impressed us a lot.
been made and we tried to fIgure out who should be responsible for what. But what we are really sure of it, that every NC should know the easa guide. 2 percent of fees are actually for the archive, but it seems to be an articel in our guide, that many EASAians just overlook. Thats why we have INCMs, so everyone knows what we are actually here for. Thats why we talk about it. We hope that soon we can present the new website and archive, combined to
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the EASA Community. It shall not take another 5 years. We promise.
Easanetwork.com will be working soon. The day ended with the wonderland lecture, Sesam Rhodos and Igloo Building Sesam in Scuol, Switzerland Presentation.
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Hello-Wien-Party Vampires, witches, ghosts, zombies and naked Slovenians guys could be met on the streets of Vienna on halloween. Till the last moments easians didn’t know what kind of costume they would put on, but as Hugo once said “The more limits you have the more creative you think” and we had a lot of limits: closed shops, lack of time, narrow range of material but thanks to our craziness we did it! And we did it pretty well! We started the night in Werk with drinking. Than we actually had a plan to go from bar to bar, pub to pub but we stuck in the first one, the Loft, and no one had regrets about this. It seemed that Dj played easa playlist! “WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS”, “We are Young” etc. The more we danced the more the 2nd floor looked like sauna. It was getting hot and airless inside but it didn’t prevent us from going crazy on the dance floor. But it was overcrowded inside so easians one by one got squeezed out of the club. And that was a good excuse to go home.
ORGANISERS CROSSWORD 1. Meanings range from cloth to being really drunk; 2. Night; 3. Charm, ironic joke; 4. Cigarette; 5. The police 6. Traditional Viennese restaurant; 7. Sausage stuffed with cheese; 8. Shit (Damn!); Let’s check how well you have learnt MUST TO KNOW list of words! Finish the puzzle Find the keyword Get a FREE shot (only for first 3)
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QUESTION OF THE DAY night on architecture feetback
Adam Powel, UK and Pauli Rikaniemi, FI Monday night we all gathered in the Architecture Zentrum for an evening of lectures from Austrian Architects. With plenty of graphisoft-wine, beers and cake to keep us all going. The lectures covered a wide variety of projects, from sperm walls to moveable facades. We actuallly liked the Sperm Wall a lot, Sweet and funny! When concentration started to falter and the wine seeming more appealing, we were all pulled up with architectural pantomime with cady prizes. The Office CARAMEL exhibiting their buildings with gymnastic expression, Miko Mitow from Bulgaria even won their latest book. The lectures ended on a high note preparing everyone for the late night Louvre party.
what is your impression? who was your favourite, and why? JP Treacy, IRL: This lecture series really impressed me, to condense an office ethos into 20 minutes of speech ensures the most important information is given and without any time for the audience attention to wander. The high standard and variation of offices which spoke was excelent, and I was surprised at the youth of directors. For me the Querkraft director explained their unique mehod of designing buildings in a manner which left me blown away. Inspiring. Karolina Ciplyte, LTU: 9 short concentrated pieces of unique opportunity to rethink the sense of architecture, while getting hit by a caramel bonbon. Yvonne Michel, CH: I was amazed by the current architecture going on in austria. its a pitty, we dont hear that much about it in switzerland, the exchange beetween our countries is very important. we can only build good architecture in collaboration, we should speak the same language, actually we do. and thanks a lot for your humor, i think that is missing in swiss architecture. we are just boring. In 20 years, we will not be of any importance anymore, if we are not adapting to europe. Iurii Kryvokhvatko, Ukraine I liked all ideas in general. That one about bicycles by Feld72 was a very good example of an unconventional way of thinking. Soma’s kind of a parametric projects were very impressive. They look so natural in all senses. I prefer architecture of flexible geometry in general. Anastasiya Andrukovich, Belarus I enjoyed the evening. I liked that the speeches were quite short and contained only important facts, necessary information. I especially like Soma. Why? mmm…Can’t remember for sure, but I even wrote down its name on the palm of my hand in order to have a closer look at their projects later. Tiia Vahula, Estonia Yeah! It was very interesting to listen to the speakers. I was especially impressed by PodPod Design studio team. The way they spoke about what they did was very inspiring. One can see how passionate they are about what they do. ( and interpretation of her speech ) Tati Leonteva, Russia Some of them I found quiet interesting and useful. What I liked more was Querkraft. It seems to me that Jakob Dunkl has his own principles, which he follows either you like it or not. His confidence in the way he sees how the architecture should be done is his main advantage. Karl Ebejer, Malta I noted the architects’ attitude to students. They were very friendly and easy-going and informal in the way they communicated with us. As for the one I liked most, it was Querkraft, especially I noted the way this company worked with its clients. And the way Jakob Dunkl performed was quiet expressive.
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another halloween party in Bratislava
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WEATHER
Quaxi ( ORF TV-weather frog ) ist on holyday, too. but generally it feels much warmer!
Tiia and Lucy, these two young females from estonia, are looking for a flat in vienna. starting in january. dont part them, they need to stay together, we can only give them to a good n warm place, where they can be part of a loving family.
Adam Berka, old slovakian NC opened a book and design shop in bratislava. now he comes to EASAsand INCMs, filling us in with the newest books and designs in and for Europe. More Infos: HP: 82.sk, EMAIL: info@82.sk
ÂŤit is amazing what make-up can do!Âť Nikoloz Bolkvadze, Georgia, living in Praha. at Halloween, borrowing ladies make up, that gave easa a special gothic touch, since it was basicly mascara and lipstick all over our faces.