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- Les Trois Vallees -

A couple days ago I came home from a exiting week of skiing in the French alps. We had some bad weather - which was a good thing because after we had sat out some snowstorms we could enjoy the nice powder. I've been visiting this resort frequently over the last 15 years or so - I hadn't been lucky with the snow in recent years, but the last week was awesome.

Anyways, here are some pictures. Some of them are from my cousin Basti.

Picture by Bastian Meier

On the way back our car broke down.... This was kind of funny because we had taken Hannah's father's newer Toyota because we thought my 20 year old VW passat might break down on a 1400 km journey… We spend the night in a small town near Torino and had some good food and wine. The next day we could continue our drive home after toyota took a quick look at the car...

Picture by Bastian Meier

Later, H.G.

- Powder at Tauplitz -

The last two days me and my girlfriend Hannah had the chance to drive up to my favorite ski area in upper Styria - the Tauplitz. This is a small resort, which is nice because it's not as expensive as the bigger ones, but still offers a quite big back-country skiing area.
The first day was great. The weather was bad (windy, cold and snowy) but we love that kind of weather. No people means no powder you have to share. ;) The snow was deep and light - just like everybody loves it.

On the second day the weather was much "better". It was sunny and warm - a bad thing for the snow. This time it was wet and heavy. The conditions were quite dangerous because of the fresh snow that had fallen with lots of wind. (Avalanche grade 4) Some people still didn't respect that. We saw three avalanches going off in the first 2 hours of skiing... Luckily nobody was buried.
This day the group was bigger because my mum, my brother, my cousin and some friends came up for a day of powder. Due to respect of the dangerous conditions we decided to stay off the steep slopes and found some smaller and not as steep ones. We also found a nice kicker some people had build a couple days before. Usually I'm not a fan of "big" jumps, but this one landed in soft powder.

Thanks to Raffi for taking pictures of me at the kicker!

Anyway... here are some second day pictures (Didn't take the camera with me on the first day - which was a good thing!!)

picture by Raffael Falk

Later, H.G.

- university work - hyperactive high rise-

it's been a while since i have posted anything... I just had way to many things to finish for university. But yesterday I could finish of my biggest project of this semester. It was about designing a high-rise building in vienna that uses different design ideas to produce it's needed energy. The goal was a positive energy building, that produces more energy than it needs. Basically a power plant ;) . Additional tasks where usage neutrality, smart usage of different energy resources and the improvement of the existing urban landscape. That's way to many tasks for one semester, so people struggled to finish there projects. I almost wasn't able to finish it either because of my bad time management. ;)

I'm not going to get into details about my project, but this is my main design concept.
Since there is quite a lot of wind in vienna I wanted to work with that to power the ventilation of the building and to produce electricity. The high rise is designed to do those things at all three different main wind directions on site. It's a lightweight steel construction (which has more embodied energy than concrete but can be recycled and reused). I added thermal mass with activated water tanks in the ceilings.

All the details about the project are on the posters!

Later; H.G.

band recordings

hi,
during the holidays my band decided it was time to record some of the newer stuff... We just want to know how they sound like, so we don't need professional recordings. We didn't go to a studio - we recorded in our rehearsal room.

The mix isn't finished yet, but I took some pictures.... This was the second time i used my new wide-angle lens. It is a lot of fun, but makes faces look stupid. ;)