After successful completion of the course, students are able to formulate an urban-spatial and socially relevant position in the form of an architectural design with a concrete program. Based on a critical analysis of existing spatial and social framework conditions, students are able to consider questions relevant to building construction and a resource-saving planning approach as an integrative component of the architectural concept after completing the design course.
The clear requirement of what is to be created in this design work is: poetics and beauty.
The author and journalist Günther Nenning proclaimed years ago that "Beauty is a Human Right". If one takes that literally, one comes across plenty of Human Rights violations every day. Our country and our cities are getting uglier by the year - where are the poetry and the euphony?
Based on the annual theme "Trespassing Grounds", possible tasks will be discussed and defined and corresponding plots and places in the greater Vienna area will be sought (and/or vice versa):
1 - elite spaces: Areas that are occupied but not accessible to everyone and that have a very narrow understanding of the city.
2 - undefined urban spaces: areas that have not yet been developed and areas between different dedications.
3 - used spaces: existing objects whose uses have an expiry date (e.g. multi-storey car parks whose construction volume is to be reclaimed due to the slowly progressing mobility transition).
Forward-looking and flexible urban development concepts broaden the basis of interventions and changes in the structure of a city, interim uses set impulses.
J. W. v. Goethe or F. Schiller once said "Architecture is frozen Music" (in German, of course). The interplay of different actors and clever utilisation scenarios as an impulse generator of urban development is one thing, but without "frozen Music", poetics and design quality, this will not succeed.
(Excerpts from texts by Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergie, Michael Müller and Regula Lüscher were used in the text).
Joint city excursions. Discussion of the course content in a workshop lasting several days (to be determined in more detail) and project discussions. Independent research and processing of a task (with sketches, working models, project studies, etc.), preparation of plans in all scales relevant to building construction and a spatial model. Group work.
Conceptual + structural idea, complete representation of the project by sketch / plan (scale of the elaboration in consultation with the supervisors), structural engineering elaboration incl. static and building services concept / considerations, façade section + details, spatial / atmospheric representation of the project qualities, working and presentation models.
