After successful completion of the course, students are able to develop architectural solution strategies that take the complexity of building in existing contexts into account. They can form a design synthesis from the complex requirements of the space, the exhibition, the architectural exhibit as well as the structural framework conditions such as building physics, load-bearing structure and sustainability.Through independent research, students can architecturally record existing building structures, represent them in terms of planning and in analytical models, and develop conceptual spatial solutions on this basis. They can understand the interrelationship between architecture as an urban and interior-spatial exhibit and its transformation into a background for exhibiting through documentary analyses. Students are able to create concepts and design projects in plan, image, model and text on the basis of their own research, to situate them in the professional discourse, to discuss and present them.
EXHIBIT ARCHITECTUREThe conversion of existing buildings for museum purposes has a long history. Buildings that have lost their original purpose and are at the same time significant in terms of urban space, architecture and history for the collective memory are secured in their continued existence through subsequent use by accommodating museum uses.This transformation raises complex architectural issues that oscillate between the spatial, curatorial and functional requirements of the intended exhibition operation and the architectural artefacts worthy of preservation: the historical building is to provide a backdrop for exhibits and cultural activities and at the same time is an architectural exhibit of itself. GREEN MUSEUM HOFSTALL BUILDINGUsing the example of Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach's Hofstall building on Museumsplatz, which was built in 1723 and is today a component, address and central access point of Vienna's MuseumsQuartier, strategies for dealing with the existing buildings and spaces will be developed in the Integrative Design course Green Museum Fischer von Erlach, with special consideration of decolonisation and the decarbonisation of the museum landscape. The first floor zone of the monumental front on Museum Square is to be adapted in the sense of an updated museum concept. Today's transitory access space, including the attached tourist and operational infrastructure as well as the two-story installations with booths for art production and mediation, will be transformed into a low-threshold access to contemporary cultural interaction. The first floor zone of the former horse stables, the crossing access axes and the adjacent courtyard- and square-side exterior space are redefined as a coherent public zone of culture. The baroque longitudinal axis is transformed into a sequence of exhibition areas of different conditioning ̶ outdoor climate, mid-door climate, conditioned interior – with integrated islands of use for bookstore, café and retail. The adaptation reflects the requirements of the Green Museum in terms of minimizing structural and operational energy use, the life cycle of building elements, and materiality in the context of the continued construction of the existing building.
Based on the strategy of a transformation of the existing buildings and spaces instead of their musealisation, the architectural-spatial potential of that which already exists and its traces of time are discursively examined and placed in the context of a new museum concept (postcolonial, performative) and sustainability (decarbonisation). The basis of the concept development is a precise spatial and material inventory analysis as well as reading and describing the significant elements and traces of the existing building as an architectural exhibit. Development of an action-oriented documentation on a new museum practice and on sustainable building strategies in existing buildings. The approach to the existing interior space and the architectural dialogue between the curatorial requirements of a newly understood museality and the baroque spatial structure is carried out using conceptual and working models. The investigation of the urban interface to the public space, i.e. the Museum Square vis-à-vis the Semper buildings of the 19th century and the inner space of the Museum Quarter with the Ortner buildings of the 20th century is carried out equivalently.
DATES AND ATTENDANCESupervision appointments every Thursday from 09:00 to 13:30. In addition, two workshop weeks are planned for intensive work in a shared workspace atmosphere, as the exchange with colleagues is to be promoted through joint work on site. Attendance during these weeks is expected to be as continuous as possible. Workshop I: 10 - 14 October 2022 Workshop II: 12 - 16 December 2022Special dates: Concept presentation on 03 and 04 November 2022 Draft presentation on 01 and 02 December 2022 Final presentation on 26 and 27 January 2023Kick-off event on 06 October from 10:00, followed by site visit.
Detailed research into the spatial existing structures, the principles of exhibiting against the background of the postcolonial museum, the questioning of architecture as exhibit and the sustainability concepts for the existing buildings in the context of decarbonisation. Evidence of the research by means of a logbook kept throughout.Planning, pictorial, graphic and textual realisation of a concept and design developed from this at scales of 1:2,000 to 1:1. Site plans, floor plans, sections, views, façade section, details, conceptual principle representations, pictorial representations, models.
