The Public Interior: Museum for Architectural Drawing 

Architectural Space, pictorial depiction, drawing and redrawing, as well as building and rebuilding as a "superposition of different spatial thoughts coming together, " as Hermann Czech referred to them, are the main subjects of this design project.

To what extent does urban space affect the conditions of the interior? Should there be a continuum between inside and outside, as Modernist Architecture propagated? Or, as Aldo Van Eyck once said: "Instead the transition must be articulated by means of defined in-between places which induce simultaneous awareness of what is significant on either side. An in-between space in this sense provides the common ground where conflicting polarities can again become twin phenomena”. And what role does the design of entrances, transition spaces and intermediate spaces play for the permeability between exterior and interior spaces?

In 1748, Giambattista Nolli drew a plan of Rome, in which the city is represented as a spatial sequence consisting of paths, squares and public interiors. A reconstruction of spatial experiences that are made in the city. Spatial figures within the urban fabric stand out from their surroundings and define urban spatial hierarchies, as well as significant locations.

We will pursue the spatial sequence in the building's interior. Halls, stairs, vestibules, connecting rooms and corridors do not only allow movement between individual rooms, but structure them, thereby putting them into relation with one another. Moving through the building—in the sense of a "promenade architecturale"—offers a differentiated perception due to constant changes in perspective.

Timeline

Course Introduction: Thurs. 07 March 2019 – 10:00 

Workshop I: Thurs. 02 May and Fri. 03 May 2019

Workshop II: Thurs. 06 June and Fri. 07 June 2019

Meetings will be held on Thursdays around 9:00 a.m. in Projektraum 15 (alternative Tuesdays 9:00 a.m.). 

Dates are subject to change!

Task

Our work is conceived as a research-based design project. Based on in-depth research on specified topics, the participants should develop their projects for a museum for architectural drawing. 

Our projects for the museum for architectural drawing will be developed on two sites in the city centre of Vienna. One of them is located on the corner of Fleischmarkt/Bauernmarkt, the other, a conversion of an existing building from the 1950s is located on the same street at Bauernmarkt 9.