At the core of our multi-scale work in urban & spatial planning and architecture lies the development of added value and resources that result from the interaction of societal innovation, nature and environment, spatial design and digitization.
Our method is based on a combination of ecologic, economic, social and Gestalt sustainability and its tailored spatial embedding.
Our practical experience as planners and civil engineers, our involvement in national and international research projects as well as our long-standing work in university education form the basis of our actions in advancing sustainable spatial research and solutions.
We act with a scientific background!
Sanela Pansiger
DI Dr. techn.
Sanela Pansinger is a certified architect, city planner and urbanist and works multidisciplinarily. She studied Architecture in Sarajevo and Graz University of Technology with an emphasis on urban development and city planning. She wrote her doctoral thesis on the topic of regional spacial planning and urban planning at Graz University of Technology and Technical University of Vienna - IFOER.
At the core of her work lies the relation of designing space and socially-innovative, sustainable development. Her generalist interest in the world was influenced by the asian martial arts concept of lifelong learning and musical terms of perception and expansion of space.
Sanela Pansinger founded “Gestalt Sustainability”, the fourth aspect of sustainability in addition to ecologic, economis and social sustainability. Spaces in transition, Symbiotic Urbanism and spatial innovation are key topics of her work that she deals with in the scope of urban planning, architecture, art, design and science.
After teaching and researching at various universities and working in several architectural offices as well as founding her own plannig office “RaumSchneiderei”, Sanela Pansinger worked as a university assistant at the Institute of Urbanism (Graz University of Technology) and at simlab (Technical University of Vienna).
Between 2017 and 2020 she worked as an urban designer at LIFE (Joanneum Research) and was responsible for innovation, sustainability and spatial organization - UrbanLIFE.
Sanela Pansinger founded adasca at the end of 2019. Her work has since been focused on Gestalt Sustainability and its implementation and contextualization as well as its connetion to current issues like climate, technology, energy and future activity fields.
Petra Kickenweitz
Dipl. Ing.
She worked in her theoretical diploma thesis on participative urban development (2006) with the question of the relevance of building culture and architecture mediation and the associated social responsibility as an architect. Because our built and designed environment is a social product of civilization that is essentially designed and shaped by architecture. Architecture forms the social space and influences the social actions and indirectly the society. Before the background of current social and ecological developments becomes the dealing with and appreciating the resources that have already been built, circular architecture and concrete personal action and the social responsibility increasingly important.
From 2014 to 2019 she worked as a Teaching Fellow and Research Associate at the Technical University of Graz, Institute of Construction and Design Principles and until 2020 as a Research Associate at the FH Joanneum Graz, Institute of Architecture and Management. She was teaching and research with a focus on Modular construction, building culture, participatory urban development and spatial planning. Since 2019 she is a legal expert of placescape (Ortsbildsachverständige)in Styria.
Petra Kickenweitz as an architect and as an architecture journalist, author, editor, curator, architecture mediator with pedagogical training as well as external lecturers at the TU Graz, Institute for Building Physics, Services and Construction, has been using her expertise since 2022 at adasca. Especially in the research to jointly develop new fields of action, in terms of a sustainable built environment.
Petra Kohlenprath
Dipl. Ing.
Petra Kohlenprath works in the field of exhibition conception and design. She deals with the translation/transformation of abstract knowledge into language and forms expressions that are suitable for the target group, both in terms of content and design. Realisation takes place in both real and digital space. Petra Kohlenprath studied architecture and graduated from the Academy of Applied Photography in Graz. Together with the artists' collective Rhizom, she developed the format Interferenzen (Interferences), in which she, as a story activist, negotiated contemporary historical topics from previously unknown perspectives in an interdisciplinary manner.
Hannah Pansinger
Hannah Pansinger graduated from the HTBLVA Ortweinschule in 2022 in the field of "Film and MultimediaArt" and is now currently studying information design at the FH Joanneum.
Of all the areas she has been able to get to know so far, she is most enthusiastic about media design, as it allows her to implement her ideas in a wide variety of ways. Also at the TU Graz "Institute for Architecture and Media" she designed numerous digital media as an intern and thus expand her skills.
Now she works as a media designer at adasca and is looking forward to gain new experiences.
Ricarda Breitenstein
Urban Development
Ricarda Breitenstein completed her Bachelor's degree in Environmental Sciences, Climatology and Meteorology in Freiburg i.Br. in 2020. She continued her master's studies at the Karl Franzens University of Graz, specialising in sustainable urban and regional development, where she is also writing her master's thesis.
At adasca she acts as a link between data-based knowledge of environmental sciences and their spatial embedding. She is also in charge of the adasca shop: SpaceCouture.
Carlos Eduardo Favero Marchi
DI arch.
Carlos Marchi is an architect and urbanist with an international dual graduation from Mackenzie University (Brazil) and Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands). With more than 20 years of experience working over architectural and urban developments in Austria, Angola, the Netherlands, China, Brazil, Greece and Uruguay, his main focus is to explore potential intersections between spatial design, environmental architectonics and information technologies (big-data, digital twins and artificial intelligences). He holds a master's degree from the University of Applied Sciences of Vienna (Austria) in Urban Strategies and Advanced Architectures and an MBA in General Management with triple international accreditation (AACSB, EQUIS, AMBA). He is part of the research group "Digital Gnomonics" organized by the respective departments - ATTP (TU Wien) and CAAD (ETH Zürich) – he also teaches and researches at the Institute of Architecture and Media (IAM) of Graz University of Technology (Austria) and develops specific projects (urban data science & data-driven-design) at Allower organization founded by him in 2019.
With this expertise he has been supporting adasca since 2023, especially in the area of modeling and simulation.
Collaborations
sacher.locicero.architects
sacher.locicero.architects is an international collaboration between French architect Eric Locicero and Austrian architect Gerhard Sacher. The office was founded in 1989 in Graz and Paris. Gerhard Sacher and Sanela Pansinger met at the beginning of the 21st century and have realized a series of projects together many of which have earned recognition and prizes.
Hohensinn Architektur
The collaboration of adasca and Hohesinn Architektur acts as a mediator between space and society. Contextual, transdisciplinary designs and sustainable construction and renovation on various scales develop the potentials of public space and make them accessible. It is an invitation to all, to actively percieve and use the space around us.
ClimateResponsive RainGardens
The working group ClimateResponsive RainGardens is a collaboration of adasca with
BüroPLANUM landscape architecture & traffic planning
Dr.in Marie Therese Fallast BSc Cert.LAFirma quadratic
Dipl.-Ing. Andreas Zobl & Mag. Martin MoserTU Graz Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management
Digl.-Ing. Dr. Gerald Krebs
simlab TU Wien
simlab and adasca have collaborated several times. Their most important project together is smartAIRea: Airport cities as the driving force of urban and regional development.
eseia
European sustainable energy innovation alliance
eseia enables adasca to take part in large-scale international research projects and gives us the opportunity to further investigate the spatial dimension of sustainability.
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