The housing shortage of the post-war years and the new production techniques, guided by the model of modernity, brought forth new forms of housing and development. Today, these mono-functional row developments often represent islands in the rest of the urban structure and prove to be potential inner-city development areas due to their loose development.
Based on the principle of a 'site & services' program for Vienna, solutions are to be developed that support the transformation process of these monofunctional residential areas into an urban quarter as an urban, mixed and use-flexible structure.
'Site & services' is a housing strategy that emerged in the Global South. It targets those populations that are unable to access the formal housing market for economic and other reasons. The 'site & services' program aims to regulate the emergence of informal settlements by providing land (site) and infrastructure (services) for future users. This basic infrastructure and unit is then incrementally expanded by the respective residents according to their possibilities and needs. Through this model, the physical aspects of the informal city are made accessible to formal planning.
Through a critical examination of the status quo of social housing in Vienna, the design course explores informal potentials of living and appropriation of space by rethinking spatial, organizational and also legal structures, strategies and tactics in designs. Through the concept of 'site & services', designs will be created at concrete sites of post-war Viennese municipal housing that reinterpret existing sets of rules and combine a processual openness with new spatial qualities.
The approaches of the works can range from concrete architectural designs, planning approaches to action to temporary interventions.
in cooperation with Research Center New Social Housing (future.lab, TU Wien) und Wiener Wohnen (City of Vienna).
Experts: Peter Bauer (Professor at the Forschungsbereich Tragwerksplanung und Ingenieurholzbau)
Dragana Damjanovic (Professorin für Öffentliches Recht am Forschungsbereich Rechtswissenschaften)
Julia Girardi-Hoog (Head of Department Social Services, Wiener Wohnen)
KICK-OFF
Thursday 06.10.2022 09.00 am
WEEKLY MEETINGS
Thursdays 09.00 am - 02.00 pm
EXCURSION
Per Albin Hansson Siedlung with Julia Girardi-Hoog
WORKSHOPDAYS
08.11.2022 - 10.11.2022
APPLICATION
Tiss-pool application with portfolio
The start of the design process begins with an excursion in Wien, short assignments, basic analyses and accompanying lectures. The design is developed on the basis of plans and models of different scales, starting with the urban scale up to the detailed scale.
