MORPHOLOGY - A grid of gardens structures
initially the area. Built can be around each of
these gardens. The building area concentrates
on the north part, remaining open to the south.
FLOATING FSI - One garden contains initially
360m2 build-ability, but this amount can be
altered by buying more to the neighbours, or
selling it if it is not needed. The area becomes
gradually more dense, but in a heterogeneous form,
always adapted to its population's needs.
ACTORS - The city is developed by different
actors, with different or even contradictory
interests and potentials, and therefore
different levels of control and influence over the city
development. A city is proposed, in which different
amounts of investment and scales of intervention are
possible and can live together.
garten>HOFhousing development in viena
EUROPAN 10
first prize*
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WHICH IS THE PLANER’S ROLE in the
configuration of a city, that shows itself
always more as an extremely complex and
changeable reality? this work aims to give an answer,
in which the planning of [sub]urban contexts is
understood as the generation of supports, not only for
buildings but especially for the many processes that
constitute the city.
THE PROJECT’S SITE - In Viena’s southwest,
surrounded by the railway, the southwest
cementery and the Sonnental ‘schrebergärten’,
the site appears as a paradigmatic suburban situation.
PROCESS ORIENTED URBANISM - Conventional
planning thinks of the city on its final stage, as
an inert entity. But the city is an open process,
with a highly changeable context of necessities and
opportunities. Instead of a pre-designed tissue, a
controlled growth process is proposed:
which s whole its consolidation ,
able to self-adapt into any contextual change.
a liquid city
work as a in all stages
URBAN LAYOUT
.Total sqm 49.500 sqm
.Total housing units (@ 70sqm) . . . . . . . . 620 units
.Total parking units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 795 units
.Initial collective housing sqm . . . . . . . . 13.900 sqm
.Collective housing units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 units
.No of private gardens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 units
.Private gardens’ buildability . . . . . . . . 35.640 sqm
.Expected units in pr. gardens. . . . . . . . . 440 units
>gardens>playgrounds
>infrastructure>parking
>URBAN ELEMENTS
INITIAL INVESTMENT - An initial stage is proposed, in
which 8 housing blocks colonize the
area. At this very firs point, the rest of the site is
already a park, where the rest of the buildings can
gradually be built in a controlled developement
process.
(etwa 160 units)
>CONTEXT
>CONCEPT
>DIVERSITY
>LAYOUT
>TISSUE
>PROCESS oriented
>PRODUCT oriented
>urban situation example:
municipal barbecue site in donauinsel
>LIVING IN A PARK
>COLONIZATION
>LIQUID LANDSCAPE
1b
2b
3b
4b
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>division of areas
>living in a park
>initial stage as a park
>end stage as a park
PARK - Garten>HOF is at the same time a
residential neighbourhood and a highly
qualified public space. Buildings, gardens
and ‘urban situations’ colonize the area, acting
as objects in the public space, and keeping it
alive at any time of the day.
PRIVATE PROPERTY appears as the
supreme suburban value. Fences and
objects seem to structure contemporary
city developements. In garten>HOF the private is
extremely objectualized, and this way also
downplayed: It assumes a value as urban object,
and becomes somehow responsible for the public.
IN PROCESS - -housing environment
has to and
garden in
, where plazas and
ways play a bigger role.
The park
work from its very first day, adapt
itself from an extensive layout to a
more and more focused one
garten>HOFhousing development in viena
EUROPAN 10
first prize*
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>CATALOGUE OF OBJECTUAL URBAN SITUATIONS
>PUBLIC SPACE
OBJECT BASED LANDSCAPING - An amount
of objectual, standardized urban
situations are introduced into the park,
and program it in an highly flexible way. They are
movable, adaptable and interchangeable.
CATALOGUE - The 3x3 standarized urban
situations colonize the non built areas and
structure the public urban space. They are
easily transportable, interchangeable and
removable.
ADAPTABILITY - The result is a ‘liquid
landscape’, an environment which is
always adapted to the current
necesities, a public space which works properly
on all stages of densification.