Umgestaltung des Platz der Stadt Hof in Berlin-Neukölln
Die Leitidee ist die Gestaltung eines Platzes, der Freiraum im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes bildet, und nicht wie ein zu eng geschnittenes Korsett Möglichkeiten verhindert. Die vorgefundenen Elemente werden mit den neuen hinzugefügten verdichtet, und bilden einen neuen Brennpunkt am Platz: den sozialen Maschinist. Die Fläche wird freigeräumt. Die Platane als gestaltgebendes Element wird betont, und ihr wird ein funktionaler Gegenpol, der soziale Maschinist, als Dialogpartner gegenübergestellt. Das Leben am Platz spielt sich nun zwischen diesen beiden Polen ab: dem Ruhepol der schattenspendenden Platane, und den verschiedenen Aggregatszuständen des Sozialen Maschinisten, der einige Stücke spielen kann.
Kooperationspartner: Ton Matton
Category
Invited competition,
honorable mention
Location
Berlin, DE
Year
2010
Client
Bezirksamt Berlin-Neukölln
Umgestaltung des Platz der Stadt Hof in Berlin-Neukölln
Die Leitidee ist die Gestaltung eines Platzes, der Freiraum im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes bildet, und nicht wie ein zu eng geschnittenes Korsett Möglichkeiten verhindert. Die vorgefundenen Elemente werden mit den neuen hinzugefügten verdichtet, und bilden einen neuen Brennpunkt am Platz: den sozialen Maschinist. Die Fläche wird freigeräumt. Die Platane als gestaltgebendes Element wird betont, und ihr wird ein funktionaler Gegenpol, der soziale Maschinist, als Dialogpartner gegenübergestellt. Das Leben am Platz spielt sich nun zwischen diesen beiden Polen ab: dem Ruhepol der schattenspendenden Platane, und den verschiedenen Aggregatszuständen des Sozialen Maschinisten, der einige Stücke spielen kann.
Kooperationspartner: Ton Matton
Category
Invited competition,
honorable mention
Location
Berlin, DE
Year
2010
Client
Bezirksamt Berlin-Neukölln
The redevelopment of Schwedenplatz – clearly one of Vienna’s most important urban nodes – aims at creating a new zoning by determining five clearly defined segments. Emerging from the adjacent urban context, these areas emphasize the predominant local qualities.
A distinctive arrangement of tree rows as well as green recreational islands are tying together the square’s five areas while creating a clear zoning and orientation.
In addition, each of the segments receives a leafy pavilion or folly with a specific theme. The use of the five pavilions is manifold – they serve as meeting places, allow expansive views, integrate infrastructure or offer niches for insects and birds. These pavilions become the new landmarks of the Schwedenplatz.
Landscape Partner: 3:0 Landschaftsarchitektur
Category
Open competition
Location
Vienna, AT
Year
2015
Client
City of Vienna
The redevelopment of Schwedenplatz – clearly one of Vienna’s most important urban nodes – aims at creating a new zoning by determining five clearly defined segments. Emerging from the adjacent urban context, these areas emphasize the predominant local qualities.
A distinctive arrangement of tree rows as well as green recreational islands are tying together the square’s five areas while creating a clear zoning and orientation.
In addition, each of the segments receives a leafy pavilion or folly with a specific theme. The use of the five pavilions is manifold – they serve as meeting places, allow expansive views, integrate infrastructure or offer niches for insects and birds. These pavilions become the new landmarks of the Schwedenplatz.
Landscape Partner: 3:0 Landschaftsarchitektur
Category
Open competition
Location
Vienna, AT
Year
2015
Client
City of Vienna
Viennese city squares are normally planned out down to the smallest detail. We want to confront these squares with Südtiroler Platz, which gains its identity through a more open way of exploiting the potential of occupation and usage. We are creating a clear periphery and an open, unregulated green centre zone, which creates a relaxed and leisurely social environment. The periphery is defined by a wooden bench 250m long; it can be used in multifaceted ways and its course generates the most diverse spatial and social situations. Part of the funds for planning the square is used for activating the void, offering scope for new uses with a dynamism that reverberates onto the square. How the “wild” centre is filled is now up to the people.
Cooperation Partner: Hans Schabus
Category
Invited Competition, 2nd prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Year
2014
Client
Stadt Wien
Viennese city squares are normally planned out down to the smallest detail. We want to confront these squares with Südtiroler Platz, which gains its identity through a more open way of exploiting the potential of occupation and usage. We are creating a clear periphery and an open, unregulated green centre zone, which creates a relaxed and leisurely social environment. The periphery is defined by a wooden bench 250m long; it can be used in multifaceted ways and its course generates the most diverse spatial and social situations. Part of the funds for planning the square is used for activating the void, offering scope for new uses with a dynamism that reverberates onto the square. How the “wild” centre is filled is now up to the people.
Cooperation Partner: Hans Schabus
Category
Invited Competition, 2nd prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Year
2014
Client
Stadt Wien
A town square is always defined by its margins – should there be scope for usages on the margins of the square they automatically flow into it. Since the context of the Magnago Square does not offer any usage options such as cafés, etc., it will always be a place that defines itself through its respectful and constantly refillable „emptiness” as a potent space spread out in front of the institutions. The square is determined on the one hand by the everyday routine, yet on the other by special usage for festivities and as a „politically symbolic space”, representing the „public sphere”. In homage to the political person of Silvius Magnago and thus to the right of assembly and freedom of speech of every individual in the public sphere, a „Speakers’ Corner” will be set up on the square as a special feature of its design.
Category
Invited competition
Location
Bolzano, IT
Year
2012
Client
Provincial Administration Bolzano
GFA
4.000 m²
A town square is always defined by its margins – should there be scope for usages on the margins of the square they automatically flow into it. Since the context of the Magnago Square does not offer any usage options such as cafés, etc., it will always be a place that defines itself through its respectful and constantly refillable „emptiness” as a potent space spread out in front of the institutions. The square is determined on the one hand by the everyday routine, yet on the other by special usage for festivities and as a „politically symbolic space”, representing the „public sphere”. In homage to the political person of Silvius Magnago and thus to the right of assembly and freedom of speech of every individual in the public sphere, a „Speakers’ Corner” will be set up on the square as a special feature of its design.
Category
Invited competition
Location
Bolzano, IT
Year
2012
Client
Provincial Administration Bolzano
GFA
4.000 m²
Village square design for Paasdorf / Paasdorf cultural landscape
The design for a village square with landmark as part of the Paasdorf cultural landscape is a synergetic alignment of two dominant polarities: everyday routine and signal effect. The square is designed to change its appearance according to purpose and greatly fluctuating needs. Village square and parking area are not monofunctionally separated but fuse into a complex whole that is both logical and practical. Its degree of public usage always depends on its users. The signal landmark is the bus stop, remodelled into a public balcony, the Wolkon.
Place
Mistelbach-Paasdorf, AT
Client
Community of Paasdorf, Public Art Lower Austria
Year
2007
GFA
1.987 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Village square design for Paasdorf / Paasdorf cultural landscape
The design for a village square with landmark as part of the Paasdorf cultural landscape is a synergetic alignment of two dominant polarities: everyday routine and signal effect. The square is designed to change its appearance according to purpose and greatly fluctuating needs. Village square and parking area are not monofunctionally separated but fuse into a complex whole that is both logical and practical. Its degree of public usage always depends on its users. The signal landmark is the bus stop, remodelled into a public balcony, the Wolkon.
Place
Mistelbach-Paasdorf, AT
Client
Community of Paasdorf, Public Art Lower Austria
Year
2007
GFA
1.987 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
(Kunst am Bau – percent for art) Vienna Chamber of Labour
The steps arrangement is the most urban module in the forecourt design. An element connoting hierarchy and authority, it is transformed into a new landmark. It stands for an “open” institution. Diffuse areas are now fused together, creating a zone for lingering, for celebration, and for encounter. The “superelevation” inherent in the character of the steps creates an ambivalent element subverting previous monofunctionality and permitting multiple uses. A stairway is a stairway is a stairway?
Place
Wien, AT
Client
Vienna Chamber of Labour
Completion
2008
GFA
1.600 m²
Prize
invited competition: 1st prize
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
(Kunst am Bau – percent for art) Vienna Chamber of Labour
The steps arrangement is the most urban module in the forecourt design. An element connoting hierarchy and authority, it is transformed into a new landmark. It stands for an “open” institution. Diffuse areas are now fused together, creating a zone for lingering, for celebration, and for encounter. The “superelevation” inherent in the character of the steps creates an ambivalent element subverting previous monofunctionality and permitting multiple uses. A stairway is a stairway is a stairway?
Place
Wien, AT
Client
Vienna Chamber of Labour
Completion
2008
GFA
1.600 m²
Prize
invited competition: 1st prize
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
