Pocket Mannerhatten - Implementation of Collaborative Urban Structure and Spatial Strategies for Sharing

01.03.2018 - 30.04.2021
Forschungsförderungsprojekt
Globally, urbanization faces the challenge of population growth on the one hand, associated with an increasing pressure on land and space (structure) as well as at the same time shrinking and restructuring requirements on the other hand. This raises the question of how
this conflict can be solved in future. A convincing strategy for this is the approach of a sensitive renewal and densification of existing neighbourhoods. It allows a specific, smallscale adaption of existing uses and infrastructures as well as the integration of multiple expectant social groups and socio-cultural contexts of action. In the case of Vienna, the
growth quarters (Gründerzeitviertel) are especially recommended for such a sensitive densification. The further development of these existing neighbourhoods in just outlined meaning is however functionally highly complex and is complicated by small-scale parcelling, a large number of owners and limited control and funding opportunities of the public sector.
The increased population pressure makes it necessary, particularly in dense neighbourhoods, that more public space, parks and open areas, pedestrian or cycle paths are provided. This can - if at all - only be integrated in the existing urban structures at high cost or by tearing and therefore the loss of land uses and space; more, there is a lack of
innovative methods and strategies to solve this challenge. Pocket Mannerhatten (PM) aims to meet this challenge with a socially innovative participatory organized urban development strategy based on the idea that small scale and adjacent plots are linked with each other
regarding several functions and uses (space sharing). In an innovative manner such building areas and functions, underground, open and green areas as well as energy and building services systems are linked. The architectural theory of conception of “collaboration options" (Niedworok 2014) in compound with a bonus system serves as basis for the project as well as the result of the interdisciplinary research study Smart Cities Demo (finished in 2017). The later included an intensive participatory process and the identification of a project site and interested owners for the one-to-one implementation of the concept as pilot project. On the
basis of a concrete, built realization, further questions concerning participation and stakeholder processes, construction law, urban planning and architecture solutions, cost and financing issues and the development for an innovative administration process as well as a
non-profit business model for a long-term implementation should be answered. The results of the collaboration of interdisciplinary research (consortium) with the city of Vienna and relevant stakeholders should then be merged into a design manual and the long-term implementation in city renewal strategies in Vienna and other cities.

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Institut

Contract/collaboration

  • Magistrat der Stadt Wien
  • Magistrat der Stadt Wien

Grant funds

  • FFG - Österr. Forschungsförderungs- gesellschaft mbH (National) Group Thematic programme Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) Call identifier 9. AS Specific program Smart Cities Demo 2017

Forschungsschwerpunkte

  • Energy Active Buildings, Settlements and Spatial Infrastructures: 100%

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