After successful completion of the course, students are able to work on complex design tasks in the field of architecture and urban planning – autonomously, systematically and with an original contemporary design approach on the basis of a precise architectural language. They will be skilled at recognising areas of intervention in the urban context and developing appropriate urban planning solutions. Students carry out their own research and establish the basic principles that are relevant to the specific subject. They draw up design concepts, illustrate these comprehensively in the form of design and detailed drawings and learn to present these convincingly.
“Airport City Vienna. Spatial Interventions“
Presentation: https://portal.tuwien.tv/View.aspx?id=9976~4F~icjpEgen Marc Augé regards airports as “non-places” – places of the placeless that enjoy no individual identity, have no shared past and create no social relationships. These are transit spaces, where the focus is on the functional. And their urban surroundings are also non-places that we are now looking to upgrade in architectural and spatial terms. Airport City Vienna is the piece of city next to the airport that is being transformed from a threshold space into a new urban centre. The objective of the project is to develop places and spaces that offer potential opportunities for exchange and communication. Another objective of the process is to reinvent (post-) public space and to overturn habitual ways of thinking. We will use the example of Airport City to investigate whether the private space of Flughafen Wien AG is capable of opening up this discussion.“Airport City. Spatial Interventions” is seeking strategies for focussing on people and their needs. Spatial, architectural and landscape interventions should penetrate and reinterpret the boundary between public and private space. We will use the existing spaces and facilities as the starting point for the development of a range of new spaces that encourage a sense of community and address the needs of the people in Airport City, return greenery to the city and create liveable places. In the course of the project, the students will develop and install performative, spatial and architectural interventions at Airport City and present these for discussion on the site. The experiences and impacts of these performative interventions on the space will then be retrospectively incorporated and documented in the projects. LocationAirport City Vienna is located at the heart of Vienna International Airport and offers office space in the immediate vicinity of the terminal, the Cargo Center Vienna logistics and freight handling centre and the future east & west zones. A new economic hub covering a total of 360,000 m2 is being created. 230 companies with a total of over 20,000 employees are currently located at the airport. By 2025, 1,400 hotel rooms will be available. Hence, Airport City Vienna is standing on the threshold of huge changes. Austria’s Eastern Region and the Vienna Airport Region are benefitting from these changes due to their locational qualities and outstanding infrastructure. No longer just the headquarters of Vienna International Airport, Airport City Vienna has developed into an attractive office and administrative location. The pandemic, which brought air traffic to a standstill, played a key role in demonstrating the importance of the Airport City office location as a stabilising factor. ObjectivePeople come together at the airport for many different reasons. Some are departing or arriving. Others remain, work and go home before returning again. These flows occur at different speeds and demand different ways of using the public realm. People need exchange, communication and community. Architecture creates the parameters for supporting this community. Such places are often defined functionally – meeting rooms, rest areas and canteens. But we need far more than these monofunctional spaces. We need places in which we can meet each other and spend time together. The threshold between external and internal spaces is particularly significant in this context, because this determines whether we feel welcome or would rather remain outside, whether we define ourselves as part of society and feel comfortable in the public realm. Such spaces are the “airfield” for all passers-by, the people who work in Airport City Vienna and those who only linger there awhile. We are seeking spatial concepts that will give Airport City Vienna a sustainable form and ensure that people enjoy being there rather than just seeing it as a place of transit.
Tarp _ The Airport City Research Project was launched in 2018 with the objective of investigating and further developing Airport City Vienna as a location. Airport City Vienna AG organises the administrative, office, hotel and logistics areas of VIE Vienna International Airport. The exchange with representatives of Airport City will support our work.From the starting point of a spatial analysis of the location and the existing buildings and research into selected examples, you will develop a concept that envisages the creation of a flexibly usable place for exchange and communication. You will work in teams to produce initial planning information and spatial analyses as a means of recording the existing and preparing the basis for the project. Then, you will work in groups to define an innovative and needs-based spatial programme that is derived from the spatial situations on the site. The objective is to develop a spatial programme that facilitates and encourages communication and collaborative exchange. Examples of such spaces could include quiet areas, exercise facilities, restaurants, areas for sport and movement, temporary spaces for special gatherings or platforms for events.You will then work individually on the development of a scenario that promotes community, creates room for new ideas and meets special needs. You will develop a selected space in more detail. The design project work is divided into phases and passes through a number of scales.The project will be developed with the help of physical models. Selected spaces can be presented and simulated on location in the form of performative interventions. The design is an integrative project for bachelor and master students with special focuses in the areas of scenario, structure and landscape. ScenarioOn the basis of the analysis of the existing you will develop a scenario for a range of different users of the public realm and plan strategies for communicating the notion of the airport as not just an infrastructure hub but as a living environment. StructureYou will develop the structurally important load-bearing elements of your design. These could include temporary canopies or roofs, platforms, retaining walls, walkways, bridges or steps. Structural variants should be designed and investigated, with a special focus on bracing, dimensioning and assembly, etc. LandscapeThe transformation of the public space is also accompanied by the development of areas of greenery. Water management, the planting of trees and the sponge city concept are changing our green spaces, impacting upon the microclimate and increasing biodiversity. These are an integral part of the public realm. In such places, in which many interests collide, fair distribution plays an important role because public spaces should be open to all. Additional coursesThe following additional courses are offered as part of the design project. Exercises in the Spatial Laboratory: LV253.G73 4 ects. Excursions: LV 253.365 2 ects. By working in situ, students are better able to intensely address the concrete conditions and exchange with various groups. This type of cooperation intensifies the discussion between students and teachers and encourages a climate of exchange and collaboration. We are looking for engaged students, who are prepared to address both the realities of architectural practice and visions of the future. By getting to know a range of perspectives and preparing in this way for their work as an architect they will be able to gain experience and sound out their future profession. Airport City Vienna CompetitionThe section Spatial and Sustainable Design at the Institute of Architecture and Design, Vienna University of Technology is organising the Airport City Vienna competition. Prizes will be awarded to students whose work was produced as part of a course at Vienna University of Technology during the academic year 2023/24. Exhibition and publicationThe projects will be presented to the public in situ. The exhibition will be accompanied by performative interventions at the project location. A publication will document the projects.
Programme Meetings every Thursday at TU Wien or on Zoom. Practice takes place on Tuesday Thu 5.10.2023 13:00 Presentation Seminarraum AA 03 - 1 - CEE Karlsplatz 13, Stiege 1, 3.Stk. Thu 9.11.2023 9:30 Concept presentation Thu 14.12.2023 9:30 Design presentation Thu 25.1.2024 9:30 Submission
Thu 1.2.2024 9:30 Presentation Thu 14.3.2024 9:30 Exhibition Teaching staff Kottbauer, Anton; Ass.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn., Research Unit Spatial DesignMüller, Vanessa Joan; Univ.Lektorin Dr.in, art historian and exhibition curator Trolf, Norbert; Senior Scientist Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn., Research Unit Landscape Architecture and Landscape PlanningTavoussi, Kamyar; Senior Scientist Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn., Research Unit Structural DesignPichler, Günter; Senior Scientist Arch. Dipl.-Ing., Reseach Unit Spatial Design Questions: anton.kottbauer@tuwien.ac.at Accompanying courses: 253.365 Excursion Spatial Design, 2 ects253.E82 Excursion Art.Space, 2 ects253.G73 Exercises in the Spatial Laboratory, 4 ects Recommended courses:253.364 Module Art.Space, 15ects253.364 Module Spatial Design, 15ects Registration with a portfolio is encouraged. Required courses:253.G65 Spatial Design
Continuous assessment: Sub-tasks will be documented in steps in the RG Dropbox. The submission of the design is planned as an analogue presentation. Students are expected to comprehensively illustrate their project in plans, models and documents in analogue and in digital form in the RG Dropbox and participate in publications and exhibitions.
