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