The building structure of the city of Vienna has currently revealed major weaknesses with reference to the need for the rapid provision of shelter for people fleeing to Vienna. For the accommodation many vacant office buildings were available, but in spite of the existing large housing needs due to their mono-functional design they are hard to adapt for residential use.
The provisional usage of these buildings by the refugees was a kind of space laboratory situation, as the areas of life living, working and community activities can be joined to a CITY STRUCTURE IN HOUSE SIZE and how these can be networked with the existing urban environment. Intuitively the new residents executed their "RIGHT TO THE CITY" , that Henri Lefebvre in 1968 in the eponymous book "Le droit a la ville" described as a 'Community entitlement to the urban characteristics created in the process of urbanization ".
Here is the objective of designing "URBAN CELL STRUCTURE": to give the "right to the city" a breakthrough, not only on the higher level of crosslinking of the public space and public transport to the buildings, but also within the building itself in the form of a partially self-made and adaptable spatial cell structure that binds to house technical and static infrastructure elements and is available for all urban areas of life. The place of development of the new structural concept, currently mainly consisting of juxtaposed monofunctional buildings Westbahnhof in Vienna area is proposed. Starting from the existing track we will experiment with cell structure on a platform over the middle 2 tracks and on the site of the dismantling of the remaining tracks. (See the enclosed space program and the design studio held at the same location at the institute for urbanism under the supersivion of Michael Hofstätter.)
As Gilles Deleuze in his publication "Break Things" put it: "We should not look for the Eternal but on forming anew, the emergence or what Foucault called the topicality¿