After successful completion of the course, students are able to work independently, problem- and task-related in planning. The methodological and instrumental knowledge already acquired in the basic courses has been deepened, skills in conceptual, strategic, integrated and application-related planning have been acquired. Using a concrete planning area of a district or an urban region as an example, the students became familiar with fields of action in the interaction of politics, decision-makers, planning and the population and independently developed a development concept in groups, including a mission statement and lead projects as well as an implementation strategy. The results are presented in an understandable, comprehensible, graphically and textually appealing way.
Ambivalent development corridor of the city region
The Triester Straße stretches between historic city quarters, residential blocks of Red Vienna, office towers, recreation areas and motorway junctions, between industrial plants, car dealers, gas stations and the Shopping City Süd. A wide variety of uses and typologies alternate in rapid rhythm, creating a heterogeneous and ambivalent space in which the contours of the city disappear and a new understanding of urbanity is generated.
Since its origins in Roman times, the Triester Straße has already been impacted by many urban transformation processes. The road connection served as an important long-distance trade route in the Middle Ages and was extended to the port city of Trieste at the beginning of the 18th century. Most recently, the advent of the automobile in the previous century initiated profound changes that brought the perception and image of the roadway as a noisy thoroughfare to the fore.
From an urban development perspective, however, theTriester Straße should not be perceived solely as one of Vienna's most congested traffic axes, but above all as an essential development corridor whose re-urbanisation plays an important role in the polycentric city region. As one of Vienna's most important radial roads, it also has a strong influence on the urban structure and, as the "gateway" into the city, is of high identity-forming importance. With current developments, such as the Biotope City and Neues Landgut as new urban quarters, as well as the U2 extension via Matzleinsdorfer Platz to Wienerberg, new impulses are being set. Alsom, global trends and challenges, such as digitalisation and the climate crisis, demand to read and understnad the Triester Straße anew, and to discover its special features in order to develop future perspectives and concepts.
An image for the big picture
Based on the great importance of the Triester Straße as a development corridor of the city region, we deal with its ambivalent functions as a traffic connection, living space, place of leisure, recreation and production and generate new perspectives for future development. The aim of the Project 2 is to actively shape this development process through a holistic and overall spatial analysis and to create added value for all those involved. The task will be to create an integrated development concept from which objectives for settlement and business location development, mobility and climate issues can also be derived.
In order to make these concerns clear, images must be generated that are capable of renegotiating these interrelationships - ultimately, an understanding of the big picture is needed. All of this amounts to the creation of a spatial development concept in order to find a holistic approach for the urban space of Triester Straße.
A repertoire of qualitative and quantitative methods, techniques and tools are used to relate intuitive and emotional approaches to rational ones and theoretical models. By working with sketches, plans, models, diagrams, texts, photos and films, the urban space is recorded and analysed and, based on this, guiding principles and guiding projects are developed. Based on a joint "layer analysis", the structural-spatial, economic, social, ecological and cultural conditions are examined and presented for the respective subject areas. In developing the guiding principle, it is important to convey an image of the "big picture", to put the essentials in the foreground and to motivate action.
The iterative drafting process is supported and accompanied within the framework of intensive workshops and corrections. Additional inputs and discussion contributions from the supervisors and external experts provide inspiration and motivation. Presentations of the (interim) results with feedback and discussion are used to communicate the main ideas and to develop them further.
