After successful completion of the course, students are able to research and design the conservation and careful development of listed housing estates from the late 19th and 20th centuries. Three case studies are used to learn in depth how to systematically process findings on the history of settlement, construction and use, transformations, condition and living practice and how to formulate measures for maintenance, preservation and coordinated change in the form of a conservation management plan. The draft shows development possibilities for the needs of the residents and includes a further examination of monument values and the management of change. The exercise offers students the opportunity to deal with the diverse requirements and instruments that must be taken into account when maintaining, repairing and carefully adapting an existing building. Students are familiarized with the modern planning tool of the monument conservation plan, which, as a monument-specific master plan, provides orientation for restoration and adaptation and thus enables transparency for all parties involved (residents, planners, authorities, etc.). Students learn about the different perspectives of stakeholders, analyze the urban context and the buildings and practice weighing up processes for protection, conservation, and adaptation.

Objectives
The aim is to safeguard the monumental significance of the housing estates, the preservation and careful development of the structural substance as well as the preservation of appearance and impact using the instrument of the monument preservation plan and to make it fit for the future through a design.
Moreover, students examine existing structural, urban and infrastructural values and how they are appreciated by residents. The questions include: What do you value about your housing estate? What are its qualities? What should be preserved? What do you need? Does monument protection interfere with this? Do you live together in the estate? Do you come together?
The findings are systematically recorded, evaluated and communicated.

Three listed housing estates in Austria are being studied, for which material is available on their settlement and building history as well as on their history of change and protection. The aspects that have not yet been dealt with (including residents' perspectives, sample details, adaptations) will be compiled and processed and summarized in a heritage conservation plan. A predetermined structure of such a plan is reflected upon and tested and, if necessary, supplemented or varied.  The three estates are:
(-) Arbeitersiedlung Eysnfeld in Steyr, Oberösterreich, (-) Knappensiedlung in Hüttenberg, Kärnten, (-) Rabenhof Wien

- Theoretical and research-based processing of the material
- Urban space and building structure analysis
- interviews
- Determination of potential conservation measures
- Development of a conservation management plan based on a specific case study
- Design down to the last detail

Compulsory attendance is required for the entire duration of the course. The first session must be attended or a written cancellation with reasons must be submitted in order to participate.

Participation in the accompanying excursion is compulsory.

Sessions: Tuesdays from 9.00am to 2.00pm in seminar room 257, 2nd floor, Stieg 3, building section AC

First session on 08.10.24 at 9.00am.

Conservation management plan: Textual and (plan) graphic statements in the examination of the structure of a monument conservation plan specified and possibly extended by the Bundesdenkmalamt.

- with textual and graphic statements on the urban planning context, settlement, building and usage history as well as the monument values
- with statements on value attribution and the needs of the residents
- with statements on the management of change and the differentiation of conservation and alteration interventions in consideration of the monument values

Architectural interventions (project): Floor plan, section, view 1:200 /1:100, working model, detail according to concept in 1:25 to 1:10