After successful completion of the course, students are able to...

students will be able to apply the acquired skills to analyses of socio-spatial contexts. The focus is on a close combination of research and simultaneous translation into cartographic/graphical forms of representation. These, in turn, serve the decision-making process in architectural design as well as external communication.

Infrastructure is a prerequisite for the supply and use of a city, enabling the flow of people and goods. However, "human infrastructures" are also involved in the supply, some of which are rhythmically organised (e.g. as parcel or food delivery staff, cleaning staff, tram drivers, etc.) and contribute to the functioning of the city. If one takes urban street spaces, infrastructures of different sizes overlap here. In the street space as well as within buildings, spatial nodes of regional as well as supra-regional road networks are formed. These nodes can in turn become spaces for encounters, as well as places where the public is created, where they can sometimes be cancelled.

The Wallensteinstrasse in Vienna is a good example of this. If it is extended at its ends, its extensions of Alserbachstrasse and Traisengasse extend from the 9th district to the Handelskai on the Danube. Based on the famous study "Learning from Las Vegas", the street in the seminar is conceived as a "strip" which, extended to adjacent (interior) spaces, consists of a great variety and overlapping of functions, infrastructures and social spaces. In the immediate vicinity of Wallensteinstrasse there are areas and building typologies such as: Subway station, guest apartment, fast food franchise, migrant/ethnic business, logistic terminal, urban development area and cultural centre, cruise ship landing stage, etc.

On the basis of an intensive graphic examination, spatial and semiotic elements, specific spatial qualities and situations are tracked down, depicted and translated into architectural designs in relation to the Wallensteinstrasse headquarters. At the end of the process, large-format assemblages drawn by hand are brought together in a "Drawing Room", making the street appear as an ambiguous, internationally networked urban space.

The participants will be taught different forms of mappings and drawings as conceptual analysis tools and media for the representation of spatial situations. For this purpose, we will deal with Taborstraße on several levels and across different orders of magnitude, using the technique of zooming: We begin with actor-related mappings that depict selected buildings and areas along the streets as intersections of individual travel and transport routes. In a further step, we immerse ourselves deeper into the architectural form, especially with the help of sectional drawings, we deal with the spatial and structural peculiarities. In a further zoom we analyse the significance of the locations as social nodes for encounters, whereby special importance is also attached to means of transport – conceived as 'vessels'.

The course will be held as a blocked workshop.

Fri, 18.10.
10h to 13h Introduction and Input
Presentation of reference examples of graphic spatial analysis and different representation methods
Location: TU Vienna, Project Room 15
14h to 17h Tour and exchange on the recent history and present of the heterogeneous urban structure along Vienna's Wallensteinstrasse

Tue, 19.11. to Fri, 22.11.
each from 10h to 18h Workshop Block
Assemblages: collecting, drawing, translating
Location: Drawing Room in Tracing Spaces LAB at Nordwestbahnhof, Nordwestbahnstraße 16, A-1200 Vienna

Fri, 22.11.
from 18h presentation of results
Location: Drawing Room in Tracing Spaces LAB at Nordwestbahnhof, Nordwestbahnstraße 16, A-1200 Vienna

Presence, commitment and cooperation, quality and expressiveness of the cartographic and graphic representations made in the seminar.

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