After successful completion of the course, students are able to work on complex design tasks in an existing context. Their competence ranges from the recognition of fields of action in the urban context and the development of appropriate urban planning solutions to the solution of technical details for existing buildings. Students are able to conduct independent research and collect topic-related basic information. They are able to create design concepts and to present them comprehensively in form of draft and detailed plans.

Baroque, intoxication, flesh, madness, excess, lust...Vienna has an enormous atmospheric potential that (still) slumbers within the city body.

The urban promise of freedom, excitement and progress can only partly be fulfilled by the SMART-City, proclaimed as the "City of the Future". The rationalisation of everyday life and infrastructural optimisation that can be achieved through digitisation are confronted with open questions about future social, political and building aspects that enable specific qualities such as diversity, accessibility and openness.
The fruitful conflictualness threatens to be levelled out, the SMART-City system strives for standardised spaces and standardised urbanity - there is thus a need for irritation.

In the coming semester we want to explore how Viennese nodes, as infrastructural hubs within the existing urban fabric, can be the driving force behind Vienna's transformation into a "wild metropolis".
How can infrastructural, structural, functional and social superpositions be used to create points of density that set pinpricks for a progressive development of Vienna into a post-capitalist metropolis?
How can this density of urban and private space be used to create enabling spaces for the multi-socio-cultural, the anonymous, the different, the bulky - even the wild?
What diverse typologies of housing can develop in this metropolitan millieu and contribute to an inclusive, equal, open, diverse and ultimately "exciting" urban society?

The introduction to the design process begins with short tasks, basic analyses, accompanying lectures and an excursion. The design is developed on the basis of plans as well as models in different scales, starting with the urban development scale and ending with the focus scale.

Proof of performance is provided by active participation in the analysis phase, contributions to discussions in the joint design meetings and the final presentation with (multimedia) project documentation and model.