After successful completion of the course, students are able to.understand the complexity of a design process. Students are able to operate in different levels in this processes in their own design project.
2021. A pandemic, the latent social question of a justice related to the distribution of resources, the climate change and the digitalization pose us the questions of a new organization of space and consequently of a different architecture.
In the special issue on Vienna and its housing strategies of Arch+ (one of the most influential magazines of Architecture and urbanism in the German speaking context), guest edited by our research department, we have put forward the thesis of the „end of housing (as a typology)“.
How can we overcome the monofunctionality of classical housing typologies and generate new alternative forms of communal living? How can we develop resilient, elementary and robust structures and platforms, which on the one hand guarantee great openness and flexibility and at the same time guarantee the production of urban spaces?
The goal of our design course is not the singular, unique object, but the search for core elements of city, so-called “Stadtbausteine” (“basic” urban building structures), which can generate entire neighbourhoods and different spatial configurations based on repetition and variation. We find historically a similar approach for example in the urban fabric of the “Gründerzeit” (founders period) in Vienna, the Greek Polykatoikia, or the Plan Cerdás in Barcelona.
What is the form of new “Stadtbausteine” today with our completely different socio-economic and technological conditions, and how can they accommodate future uses not yet known?
Today we have to pose ourselves different questions of participation, ownership, resource distribution and their use. The way in which we organize work, living and mobility is undergoing major changes. We want to give expression to contemporary ways of living and rethink the relationship of the urban fabric, society and nature in a different way: Open Society. Open City. Open Source. Open Structures.
We see the design course as a Think- and Do-Tank, where, in addition to the „body of knowledge“ of architecture, we will above all explore the question of the future of our living and working together with experts from a wide range of disciplines.
Ort:
In Wien wie in anderen europäischen Städten werden noch immer aufgrund des großen Bedarfes an Wohnraum Siedlungsstrukturen in peripherer Lage produziert. Eine große Wohnsiedlung ist aber noch keine Stadt. Wir gehen nun genau dort hin, in die Peripherie, in die Wiesen und machen das Experiment, dort unsere jeweiligen Stadtbausteine zu entwickeln, um dann in einem weiteren Schritt durch eine räumliche Setzung von Repetition und Differenz einen Teil von Stadt entwickeln zu können.
Wir sehen das Entwerfen als Think- und Do-Tank, wo wir neben dem „body of knowledge“ der Architektur vor allem auch gemeinsam mit ExpertInnen verschiedenster Disziplinen der Frage nach der Zukunft unseres Wohnens und Arbeitens nachgehen werden.
The start of the design process begins with short assignments, basic analyses and accompanying lectures. The design is developed on the basis of plans and models of different scales, starting with the urban scale up to the detailed scale.
TERMINE:
Kick-Off 07.10.2021 10:00 / Zoom
Meeting Thursday 09:00-14:00 / Projektraum 3
Kick-Off workshop 14.10. - 18.10.2021 / Seminarraum Argentinierstraße
Intensive phase 18.11 - 22.11.2021
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