PROJECT list

Projects EARTH

  • ZOOM Factory, concept for an integrative space for young people, Vienna, Austria, 2010
  • DEPLOYABLE GETAWAY - OFFICE research project; an deployable furniture for the open plan office for relaxation or concentrated work, ongoing since 2007 - co-financed through departure - Vienna creative industries
    BIOS, exhibition design, "Adventure National Parc", BIOS Hohe Tauern Museum, 2009
  • VISITAIR CENTER - Information Center, Vienna International Airport, September 2007
  • FIPES - Phase A Definition Study Facility for Integrated Planetary Exploration Simulation [FIPES], Liquifer Systems Group [LSG] presented the outcome of a comissioned study to its client, the European Space Agency in October 2006.
  • LIFE ON MARS - Temporary science exhibition in the city; June/July 2006
  • ZOOM Kindermuseum/Children Museum, "Raumstation - Skylab 5", exhibition architecture, Vienna 2005
  • FFG - Austrian Research Promotion Agency, conversion of a lobby ad office spaces, Vienna 2004
  • IN DER ZUKUNFT LEBEN (Living in the future), art installation in cooperation with Christoph Hinterhuber, Vienna 2004
  • THE OTHER HORIZON, design for private clients for a new roof on an existing house, Mauerbach 2003
  • SPACE GATE– part 2, Lobby for the Austrian Space Agency, Vienna, 2003
  • EGA, completion of the reconstruction|conversion of the Vienna, female cultural institution EGA, ESCAPE*spHERE 2002
  • SMART ENVIRONMENT, "Design Processes and Digital Aesthetics of Intelligent Products", exhibition, ESCAPE*spHERE 2002, architecture in co-operation with Design Zone Looshaus, curator: Unit F, office for fashion, information architecture: Orhan Kipcak
  • Austrian Space Agency, Office Remodeling - A Study for ASA, Creating a new identity, ESCAPE*spHERE 2002
  • EGAnow, female cultural center, Vienna, 1st prize in the invited competition, ESCAPE*spHERE 2001
  • THE PERCH, art in the public space, exhibition in Bozen, Italy, May 2002, ESCAPE*spHERE 2001
  • BACKPROJECTION - the gummybear with suntan in the internet" for the ARS ELECTRONICA festival TAKEOVER in Linz, September 2001, ESCAPE*spHERE 2001
  • 1998-2003 ESCAPE*spHERE more
  • STUDENT DORMITORIES, (Design of the student dormitory for the University of Nicosia, Cyprus); competition in cooperation with Vardas Studio, 1998, prize: recognition
  • PULP FLATS IN A BLURRED OASIS, exhibition: Progressiv 97; four mentions in german newspapers and magazines, Koeln, Germany; BARBARA IMHOF 1997
  • PULP FLATS IN A BLURRED OASIS, Exhibition in Berlin, Germany; architectural gallery: “AEDES”, BARBARA IMHOF 1997
  • TEMPLE OF LAUGHTER (The End), 1st Prize-winning Project, Los Angeles, BARBARA IMHOF 1994

 

Projects SPACE - ZERO-GRAVITY

  • ISS-Sleep-Kit (Sleeping bag for an astronaut for the International Space Station) - feasibility study for the Austrian Aerospace and Space Agency ALR of the FFG, 2010/11
  • DEPLOYABLE GETAWAY (Sleepstation for the ISS and for the office) - deployable spaces for retreat and recreation onboard the International Space Station and within an open plan office, since 2007
  • HUMAN MISSION TO MARS (HMM) - [Interior] Configuration Options, Habitability and Architectural Aspects of the Transfer Habitat Module (THM) and the Surface Habitat on Mars (SHM) "; design study for the European Space Agency AURORA program, 2003/04 in the Concurrent Design Facility
  • Wireless Augmented Reality Prototype (WARP), MOONFRONT 2002, Design, Academy of Art, San Francisco, California, USA
  • Mars Spaceship 1+; advanced spaceship to Mars; Projct team: Petra Gruber, Barbara Imhof, Melanie Klähn, Thomas Frings; biomimetic approach to space architecture, 2004/5

 

Projects MOON/MARS

  • RAMA - ROVER FOR ADVANCED MISSION APPLICATIONS, Project team:Barbara Imhof, Norbert Frischauf, Sandra Häuplik-Meusburger, Waltraut Hoheneder, Susmita Mohanty, Kürsad Özdemir, Stephen Ransom, René Waclavicek, October 2007-January 2009, Client: Thales Alenia Space, Euopean Space Agency, in the frame of the Analysis of Surface Architecture for European Space Exploration - Element Design
  • Innovative concepts for surface architecture, in the frame of an ESA initiated study for the "Analysis for Surface Architecture"
  • DEPLOYABLE STRUCTURE FOR A LUNAR BASE, cooperation with HB 2 institute-TU-Vienna, study for ALENIA SPAZIO, Torin, Italy, 2006
  • ExoMARSrover, (Mars exploration 2008) design study for the European Space Agency, 2003/04
  • HUMAN MISSION TO MARS (HMM) - [Interior] Configuration Options, Habitability and Architectural Aspects of the Transfer Habitat Module (THM) and the Surface Habitat on Mars (SHM) "; design study for the European Space Agency AURORA program, 2003/04 in the Concurrent Design Facility
  • LUNAR BASE DESIGN WORKSHOP 2002 (New Concepts for Permanently Manned Lunar Bases held in Noordwijk), The Netherlands from 10-21 June 2002, initiators:Barbara Imhof, Susmita Mohanty,
    in cooperation with
    Hans Jurgen Rombaut, Architect, Principal, Lunar Architecture
    Hans Schartner, Architect, University of Technology, Institute for Design and Building Construction, Vienna
    Paul J. van Susante Civil Engineer, Graduate Research Assistant, Colorado School of Mines department of Engineering
    Jim Volp Astrophysicist, Young Graduate Trainee, ESA/ESTEC
  • MXG = Mars Xtreme Gear Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, USA, SUSMITA MOHANTY 2001,
  • FUTURE SHELTER - Mars surface habitats: architectural designs and concepts for planetary outposts
    Barbara Imhof - HB2 - in cooperation with
    Hans Schartner, Architect, University of Technology, Institute for Design and Building Construction, Vienna
    in cooperation with the Univeristy of Technology Munich
  • BIO-PLEX, human –rated-test-facility for Marsexploration, Johnson Space Center, NASA, Houston, Barbara Imhof 1997
  • Space Training: Johnson Space Center, NASA, participation as external reviewer in the studies of a two-month isolation test; Participated in the physiological training for the parabolic flights and volunteered as test subject for a MIR docking study and a 5-week resistance exercise regime study for long duration stays on the new International Space Station, Barbara Imhof, Susmita Mohanty, 1997