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Univ.Ass. Dipl.Ing. Petra Gruber

Department of Design and Building Construction E 253-5, Prof. Helmut Richter
Institute for Architecture and Design

Vienna University of Technology

Karlsplatz 13, 253-5

1040 Vienna, Austria 

Curriculum Vitae

born 10.4.1967 in Ybbs an der Donau, Lower Austria

1985              Graduate of Neusprachliches Gymnasium Wieselburg, languages: Latin, English and French

1985-86          Study pharmacy at the University Vienna

1986               Start study architecture and the Vienna University of Technology

since 1989       Collaboration in various architecture offices, e.g. Rüdiger Lainer, Delugan-Meissl

1994               Study trip to New York, project for Brooklyn

1995 - 1998     Collaboration in office of Helmut Richter

  Founding of own office hotpen

  Excursions to Japan and France, Paris

1998 - 2006     Guest professorship for CAAD at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

1999               Diploma project Pomme d´Ivry Institute for Building Technology and Design

2000               Design of extension of house Angermann in Klagenfurt

  Collaboration in office  Eichinger oder Knechtl

 

2000-current   University assistant at the TU Vienna, Institute for Building Technology and Design

                     (now Department for Design and Building Construction) Prof. Helmut Richter

   Study trip to Mali, West Africa – publication on clay buildings and article in IBO magazine

                      Excursion to Istanbul

2001               2nd prize for experimental tendencies in architecture 2000 for Pomme d´Ivry
                     
federal government of art and culture Austria, exhibition in Krems

                      Excursion to Iceland

                      Workshop Stuttgart dv-werkstatt with Jamie Raap, review, organized by Thomas Lorenz

                      Admission to the Society for Technical Biology and Bionics, Prof. Werner Nachtigall

2002-current   Teaching course of bionik – natürliche konstruktionen,
                     lecture and exercise within the scope of the module
m5 membrankonstruktionen

  Workshop membrankonstruktionen, with Billie Lee and Peter Heppel

2002               Workshop future technologies bionics 2002, Bistra Slovenia

                      Architecture excursion to London and Cornwall

                      6. international Bionics Congress in Saarbrücken, Germany

                      Study trip USA, southwest -  vernacular architecture

 

2003               Concept and coordination of module m4 hülle, leichtbau

                     Workshop future technologies bionics 2003, Bistra Slovenia

                      Admission to Institute for comparative Research in Architecture IVA-ICRA
www.iva-icra.org
                      Field trip to New Caledonia and Sumatra July 2003, vernacular architecture

                      publication and movie on Indonesian architecture

                     Participation at Biomimetics 8 in Reading September 2003, presentation of bionic design

                     CD  transformation architecture bionic design projects 2000-2002

 

2004              Participation at Bionik 2004 Congress at the fair of Innovation and Technology in Hanover
                    presentation of transformation architecture, bionic design projects

 Admission to BIONIS network, UK

Transformation architecture, design program at the Department for Design and Building

Construction, together with space architect Mag. Barbara Imhof

Coordination and participation in module m4 hülle, leichtbau

and workshop permeable surfaces with Billie Lee and Peter Heppel

Excursion to Bali, continuing research on vernacular Indonesian architecture

Excursion to Turin, visit to Alenia Spazio in course of transformation architecture

Excursion to Los Angeles and Phoenix, participation and co-organisation

 

2005            Participation in workshop cultures of living in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia

Design program surfcornwall, light construction workshop and excursion

Field trip to Nias, Indonesia, together with Dr. Ulrike Herbig, surveyor

ongoing research project on vernacular architecture in Nias

Participation CIPA2005 in Turin

Participation in meeting commercial biomimetics, Bath UK

Design program nias surfresort, winter term 2006

Preparation of bionik network at the TU Vienna, together with Dr. Manfred Drack and Dr. Ille Gebeshuber

 

2006            Participation in workshop cities in motion in Bangkok, and field trip to Cambodia and Laos

Study "Lunar Exploration Architecture - Deployable Structures for a Lunar Base"
         for Alcatel Alenia Spazio within the Academia program of the European Space Agency

Excursion to China

Organisation of the symposium Traditional Architecture and Art in Nias, Indonesia
together with IVA, Institute for History of Architecture and Historic Building Survey and Museum for Ethnology Vienna

Founding of the network NIRN Nias Island Research Network

Lecture at the symposium Traditional Architecture and Art in Nias, Indonesia

Current         Preparation of a joint study on Indonesian architecture together with IVA-ICRA
and the Museum for Ethnology Vienna

Admission to Austrian Bionik Kompetenznetz, prepared by Joanneum Research

Preparation of a field trip to Nias for 2006/07

Research topics              

Bionik / biomimetics, natural constructions

Signs of Life in architecture

Traditional architecture and building constructions

Adaptation of traditional architecture in Nias, Indonesia

Earthquake resistant design of traditional architecture in Nias, Indonesia

Experimental design of lightweight structures

Space architecture
 

Publikationen

Bücher und Buch-Herausgaben

P. Gruber:

"bionik - natürliche konstruktionen";

Institut für Hochbau für Architekten, Abteilung für Konstruktion, Installation und Entwerfen, 1040 Wien, 2001, 210 S.

Buchbeiträge

P. Gruber, Ulli Herbig:

"Settlements and Housing on Nias island, Adaptation and Development";

in: "volume 2", TRANS URBAN (Hrg.); herausgegeben von: Trans Urban; Verlag des Instituts für vergleichende Architekturforschung IVA, Wien, 2006, 3-900265-07-0, S. 70 - 87.

Vorträge und Poster (mit Tagungsband-Eintrag)

P. Gruber:

"Earthquake Resistance of Traditional Nias Architecture and the Impact of the Disaster";

als Vortrag angenommen für: Traditional Architecture and Art on Nias, Indonesia, Völkerkundemuseum Wien; 30.10.2006 - 31.10.2006; in: "Traditional Architecture and Art on Nias", IVA-ICRA, (2006).

 

P. Gruber, Ulli Herbig:

"Adaptation of Traditional Nias Architecture";

als Vortrag angenommen für: Traditional Architecture and Art on Nias, Indonesia, Völkerkundemuseum Wien; 30.10.2006 - 31.10.2006; in: "Traditional Art and Architecture on Nias Island", IVA-ICRA, (2006).

 

P. Gruber, Ulli Herbig:

"Documentation of Traditional Architecture on Nias Island - Before and after the Disasters";

als Vortrag angenommen für: 11. Internationale Tagung "Kulturelles Erbe und Neue Technologien", Stadtarchäologie Wien; 18.10.2006 - 20.10.2006; in: "Kulturelles Erbe und Neue Technologien", (2006).

 

P. Gruber, S. Häuplik, b. Imhof, K. Özdemir, R. Waclavicek, M. Perino:

"Deployable Structures for a Human Lunar Base";

Vortrag: International Astronautical Federation - IAC 2006, Valencia; 02.10.2006 - 06.10.2006; in: "57th International Astronautical Congress - IAC 2006", International Astronautical Federation, (2006), Paper-Nr. IAC-06-3.2.1, 16 S.

 

P. Gruber, Ulli Herbig:

"settlements and housing in nias island, adaptation and development";

als Vortrag angenommen für: cities on the move, Chulalongkorn university, Bangkok, Thailand; 13.02.2006 - 15.02.2006; in: "cities on the move", (2006), 8 S.

 

P. Gruber:

"Bionik in der Architektur";

als Vortrag angenommen für: Architektur transdisziplinär, TU Wien, Institut für Baukunst; 01.11.2005; in: "Architektur transdisziplinär", A. Rieger-Jandl (Hrg.); (2005), 12 S.

 

P. Gruber, Ulli Herbig:

"research of environmental adaptation of traditional building constructions and techniques in nias";

Vortrag: CIPA 2005 XX International Symposium, Proceedings, Turin; 26.09.2005 - 01.10.2005; in: "CIPA 2005 XX international symposium, proceedings", CIPA heritage documentation, XX international symposium (2005), ISSN 1682 1777; Paper-Nr. 1062, 6 S.

 

B. Imhof, P. Gruber:

"Transformation - structure/space";

Vortrag: Space Exploration Conference 2005, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA; 03.04.2005 - 06.04.2005; in: "Space Exploration Conference 2005", (2005), S. ##.

 

P. Gruber, B. Imhof:

"Transformation: structure/space - A bionic approach to space architecture";

Vortrag: 15th IAA Humans in Space Symposium, Graz; 22.05.2005 - 26.05.2005; in: "Acta Astronautica", Elsevier, 10.10160/j.actaastro.2006.09.032 (2006), 0094-5765; S. ? - ?.

 

P. Gruber:

"transformation architecture";

Vortrag: First International Industrial Conference Bionik 2004, Hannover, Germany; 22.04.2004 - 23.04.2004; in: "First International Industrial Conference Bionik 2004", R. Bannasch, I. Boblan (Hrg.); Fortschritt Berichte VDI, VDI verlag gmbh, Düsseldorf 2004, Reihe 15 (2004), 3-18-324915-4; S. 13 - 21.

 

Vorträge und Poster

P. Gruber:

"Traditional Nias Architecture";

Vortrag: Österreichische Orientgesellschaft Hammer Purgstall, Wien; 15.11.2006.

 

P. Gruber, b. Imhof, S. Häuplik, K. Özdemir, H. Koch, G. Jeronimidis, R. Waclavicek:

"Lunar Exploration Architecture: Deployable Structures for a Lunar Base";

Vortrag: Biomimetics 11 - Biomimetics and Sustainable Environments, Reading; 29.09.2006.

 

P. Gruber:

"biomimetic influences in architecture";

Vortrag: Commercial Biomimetics, Bath, UK; 23.09.2005.

 

P. Gruber, G. Zöhrer:

"Die kanakischer Architektur Neukaledoniens und ihre Stellung in Neukaledonien";

Vortrag: Vortragsreihe des Instituts für Baukunst, Bauaufnahmen und Architekturtheorie, Hörsaal 15; 23.06.2005.

 

A. Rieger-Jandl, E. Lehner, P. Gruber, Ulli Herbig, B. Blasnik, I. Mayer:

"Java/Indonesien, Reise in die Vergangenheit und Workshop für die Zukunft";

Vortrag: Vortragsreihe des Instituts für Baukunst, Bauaufnahmen und Architekturtheorie, Hörsaal 15; 28.04.2005.

 

P. Gruber:

"transformation architecture";

Poster: biomimetics 8, reading, uk; 26.09.2003.

Berichte

 

P. Gruber, b. Imhof, S. Häuplik, K. Özdemir, H. Koch, G. Jeronimidis, R. Waclavicek:

"Lunar Exploration Architecture - Deployable Structures for a Lunar Base";

Bericht für Alcatel Alenia Spazio, Italy; 2006; 128 S.

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