After successful completion of the course, students are able to develop architectural solutions in their complexity of spatial, cultural, constructive, building-physical and atmospheric conditions. They can relate conceptual specifications to spatial principles and formulate these in architectural designs.
Through independent research, students can also record existing structures in architectural and planning terms and use these as a basis for developing conceptual and spatial solutions. They can establish interrelationships between the individual building and the urban and landscape spatial bodies and comprehend them through documentary analyses.
Based on their own research and concepts, they are able to create, discuss and comprehensively present design projects in plan, image, model and text.

THE CITY AS AN EXHIBITION
The apartment blocks built by the municipality of Vienna in the interwar years, such as the Karl-Marx-Hof, still shape the spatial perception of the city today. They are large-scale, oriented towards their courtyards and function with their landscaped interior worlds as independently organised artefacts within the city's morphology.
The apartment blocks can be read along the lines of Oswald Mathias Ungers' investigations as Viennese superblocks and cities within the city that form a city archipelago like islands. This idea of the city has its beginnings in the Renaissance and the rediscovery of ancient Rome. In mappings such as Piranesi's famous 18th-century Pianta di Roma, the city is depicted as an archipelago of significant artworks scattered in an isolated and detached manner across the urban landscape.
In the 20th century, these ideas were continued and supplemented by the Situationists around Guy Debord in 1957. In the Guide Psychogéographique de Paris, the urban body is broken down into compact and self-contained units that are loosely connected to each other by subjective arrows of movement. Similar to an exhibition, the city is mapped here into a collection of individual situations, into a museum landscape.

THE COURTYARD AS EXHIBIT AND DISPLAY
The Karl-Marx-Hof as an iconic exhibit of Vienna is considered and spatially analysed starting from its urban staging in the transition of the listed Heiligenstadt railway station and the forecourt along Boschstraße as well as in relation to the famous front façade on 12 February Square as an exhibit in the city.
The residential courtyard is at the same time an active living space in Vienna's 19th district. In this capacity, the task is to update the superblock as a place of neighbourhood in which new spaces for contemporary art and culture are created against the backdrop of its historical significance. In this way, the exhibit Karl-Marx-Hof becomes at the same time a display of contemporary culture.

TASK
Through an intervention in and around the laundromat on Halteraugasse, a place for contemporary art and culture is to be created in place of the existing exhibition. A strategy for dealing with the existing building, its re-functioning and a possible extension is to be found. The residential courtyard with the directly connected kindergarten plays a decisive role as an everyday space for the residents.
The new laundromat is to be thought of as a lively place of contemporary art experience in the residential courtyard and forms a space where individual everyday living overlaps with collective, cultural debate.
The Karl-Marx-Hof, as an exhibit of Viennese living, is to be viewed with a contemporary eye and integrated in the city contentwise in its significance and its present-day habitation.

As an integrative design, the course is based on the examination of architecture as a spatial, cultural, social, constructive and building physical-ecological phenomenon. The main focus of the conception is the design in dealing with the existing structure, as well as its application as a contemporary exhibition typology.
Based on a comprehensive analysis of the existing situation, architecture is understood as a process that explores and transforms morphological-typological contexts and social structures. By dealing with different scales, from urban morphology to the composition of concrete buildings, to the materialisation and construction development in detail and with regard to a meaningful continuation of building in the existing structure, architecture is understood and used as a multi-layered discipline in all dimensions.
In Integrative Design, individual work applies as a matter of principle. However, group work is still possible, provided that at least one project per person is developed in the group. In this way, different positions and theses on the set task can be developed together, which lead to synergies, dialogues or contrasts as projects among each other.

DATES AND ATTENDANCE
Appointments are generally on Thursdays from 09:00 to 15:00.

Special dates: Concept presentation on 03 and 04 November, design presentation on 01 and 02 December, final presentation on 09 and 10 February.

In addition to that two workshop weeks are planned for intensive work in a shared workspace atmosphere, as the exchange with colleagues is to be promoted through joint work on site. Attendance during these weeks is expected to be as continuous as possible.

WORKSHOP: 10.10 - 14.10
*** EXCHANGE AND DISCUSSIONS WITH RESIDENTS DIRECTLY ON SITE IN AN EVENT-SPACE OF THE KARL-MARX-HOF ***

WORKSHOP: 12.12 -16.12
EXCHANGE AT THE TU WITH STUDENTS OF THE STUDIOS GREEN MUSEUM FISCHER VON ERLACH and KUNSTHALLE IN DER RICHTERSCHULE

KICK-OFF followed by site visit on 06 October from 10:00 am at HS 7 Schütte-Lihotzky.

Link to the short Video Introduction:
https://tube1.it.tuwien.ac.at/w/qBQ7v8m4uvHu2Pras6fy64

Basic research into existing spatial and social structures and principles. Analyses of typological, cultural, constructive, building physics, spatial and atmospheric aspects. Basic research into aspects of museology in architecture. Evidence of research by means of a logbook kept throughout.
Planning, textual and graphic implementation of a subsequent concept and design in the various scales. Site plans, floor plans, sections, views, façade sections, details, spatial principle representations, perspectives, models.
The integrative part of the design is to be demonstrated in the project through the examination of the architecture and the concepts of the exhibition, as well as through the integration of constructive and building-physical solutions in all project phases.