DESIGN COURSE ONLY IN COMBINATION WITH SONDERMODUL MEMUD (260.555)
Excursions are funded. The number of participants limited to 16 students.
Keywords: urban development/ infrastructure/ transport/migration/ territorial planning/ strategic design research/ mapping/ documentation/visualization.
The studio fucuses on research and documentation through mappings as well as on the design of spatial strategies what role these hubs could take in the European urbanized environment.
Cities and metropolitan areas are zones of a constant flux, an exchange of people and goods.
Mobility and transport hubs such as train stations, bus stations or freight terminals serve as vital nodes of congested urbanity for the historic as much as for the contemporary city. What at first sight appears as the mere exchange of persons incoming and departing turns out as complex urban infrastructures in logistic, economic and social sense. While locally, they provide the infrastructures for passengers, some hubs also generate touristic infrastructures, they drive residential and office prices in the near surrounding or act as nodal points for large-scale networks. They are connected to the routes of travellers, migrants and hometown residents alike.
Therefore, the hub is not to be understood as the simple architecture of a single building. It is to be read as a territorial machine which relates to far-reaching roles of transport and exchange even beyond the national scale. The studio investigates a selection of urban hubs in Vienna and its sourrounding on various scales in the middle-to south-eastern European context and its spatial, economic and social role for the contemporary city.
Course Description and Dates:
The design studio involves 3 intense workshop weeks: one in Vienna, one in Ljubljana (SLO), one in Split (CRO) for researching and discussing the topic with teams from other universities. Travelling and stay will be funded. Students are encouraged to use the trips for researching their investigated modes of transport and the networks and hubs related to them. (E.g. Bus stations are related to networks of tourist and working migrations)
1. Workshop / seminar week - LJUBLJANA: 01.-05. April 2019
2. Workshop / seminar week - SPLIT: 06.-10. Mai 2019
3. Workshop / seminar week – VIENNA: 24.-28. Juni 2019
LANGUAGE:
English, German
