After successful completion of the course, students are able to determine, assess and highlight characteristics, deficits as well as potentials of a self-selected existing building at the Wiener Gürtel. On the basis of your analysis, you will be able to formulate measures aimed at structural preservation and improved use. In doing so, you will adopt an existence-conscious, resource-conserving and socially acceptable planning attitude.
Wiener Gürtel
Despite its subdivision into different sections and its varying shape, the Wiener Gürtel represents a coherent linear urban space. Due to its length of about 13 kilometres and the average street cross-section of 70 metres alone, it embodies one of the most distinctive areas of the city with its own identity.
Since the second half of the last century, however, it has also been characterised by a high volume of motorised individual traffic. The resulting problems were already addressed in initiatives and protests in the 1970s. The development of solutions has been the subject of various planning and urban renewal projects since the 1980s. However, a new division of public space that is more compatible and comprehensive for the residents has not yet been implemented. Despite this glaring and unresolved problem, the traffic and urban planning status quo should be regarded as a given (for the time being) in the context of the exercise. The focus of the exercise is rather on the individual building.
The heterogeneous buildings along the Wiener Gürtel, which are a reflection of the multi-layered development history, are classified as fundamentally worthy of preservation in their entirety. Therefore, buildings of different ages are to be deliberately dealt with in the framework of the exercise. Case-specific analysis and planning go hand in hand with the different building types. The overarching themes and challenges that all buildings on the Wiener Gürtel are confronted with form the cross-group bracket and the comparative element. The different buildings will demand differentiated responses, for example to noise and exhaust pollution, the lack of greening or insufficient ground floor use. The partially hidden potentials of the respective construction methods should be identified and highlighted in the planning process and serve as an important argument for preservation. Architectural upgrading is welcomed, but the proposed measures must be moderate, resource-conserving and in harmony with the interests of the existing users.
Beforehand, the study of the as-built plans and the historical, architectural and structural analysis and description of the building form the indispensable basis for the proposed measures to be elaborated later. In the initial selection, houses with deficits of a structural and/or use-specific nature should be taken into account.
Introduction: 10.10.2023, 14:00-16:00, seminar room 257 (Staircase 3, 2nd floor)
Dates weekly, Tuesdays from 14:00-16:00, seminar room 257
Attendance compulsory; in case of unexcused absence, places will be given to persons on the waiting list.
Teaching language: German
The task is worked on in groups of 2 and is examined with the preparation and submission of a joint written and drawn seminar paper. Participation and oral presentation of the work status or the results of the work at an interim and a final presentation are also part of the certificate of achievement.
The student has to be enrolled for at least one of the studies listed below
