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| Youniq adopts new architectural concept for its ongoing expansion Youniq AG, a listed specialist for student housing with headquarters in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, just introduced a new approach called "Youniq designed by Matteo Thun" as the company continues to expand. Together with the internationally active architectural firm Matteo Thun & Partners, the company not only refined and upgraded the quality of its architecture, fit-out and style, but revamped its entire structural concept of student lifestyle projects. The new approach of Youniq, Germany's biggest provider of student living, includes the use of modular construction and of timber as building material. The Youniq projects on Schleissheimer Strasse and Georg-Wopfner-Strasse in Munich serve as prototypes of Matteo Thun's design and the modular construction method. Matteo Thun was involved not only in the re-launch of architecture and design, but consistently helped to develop the new structural concept of YOUNIQ: "We created an entirely new way of building that combines flexibility, quality, and efficiency. Adopting a holistic concept of architecture, interior, and product design has made it possible to create a modern, forward-looking domicile for students. Wood serves as principal construction material, and, being a renewable resource, it meets our requirements in regard to sustainable building, " commented architect and designer Matteo Thun. All future Youniq projects will be realised as modular constructions, using wood as climate-neutral and recyclable resource. Timber makes the construction process not just considerably more efficient, but it also optimises the environmental impact, conserves resources, and accelerates the construction process. As one of Germany's leading providers of timber construction and modules, the Schwalmtal-based company MHn Modulholz GmbH will serve as prime contractor for Youniq AG. In addition to the turn-key construction of the above-surface storeys in timber modules, the range of services to be performed by the company includes the completion of basements and underground car park in conventional construction, as well as the building fit-out, mechanical services and the complete furnishing of the apartments. Matteo Thun, Matteo Thun, architect and designer, was born in Bolzano in 1952 und studied under Oskar Kokoschka at the Art Academy of Salzburg and at the University of Florence. Together with Ettore Sottsass, he founded the Memphis Group in Milan, and partnered with Sottsass Associati between 1980 and 1984. Between 1983 and 2000, he taught at the University of Applied Art in Vienna. From 1990 through 1993, he worked as art director of Swatch. In 1984, Matteo Thun opened his own studio in Milan. The present company of Matteo Thun & Partners, which employs a team of 50 architects and designers, was formed together with his partners Luca Colombo, Herbert Rathmaier and Antonio Rodriguez in 2000. In the course of his career, Matteo Thun was cited several times for architectural projects, interior design and product design. Among other awards, he won the Compasso d'Oro thrice, and was inducted in the Hall of Fame in New York in 2004. He was awarded the Panda d'Oro Best Hotel Opened in the Year by the WWF, Italy, for the Vigilius Mountain Resort (Meran, Italy) in 2004, and scored the Best of Design Wallpaper Award for two design products in 2010. write your comments about the article :: © 2010 Construction News :: home page |