Perception tool for public space
“urbanism — for sale” was the contribution to the Austrian exhibition by feld72 at the 7th Architecture Biennale in São Paulo, Brazil. The project takes the 2007 ban on advertising for the entire urban space of São Paulo as an opportunity to address consumer mechanisms and the question of public and private space. Does public space even still exist? Where do the boundaries between public and private blur? 20,000 magenta-coloured stickers with 15 different questions and statements were distributed during the exhibition. Visitors were invited to place the stickers all over the city, thereby appropriating the public space. The snapshots as evidence of public territorial markings could be published on an online photo platform.
Category
Direct commission
Location
São Paulo, BR
Year
2007
Client
BMUKK (Federal Ministry of Education, the Arts and Culture, Art Division – Departement 1)
Curator
Lilli Hollein
Perception tool for public space
“urbanism — for sale” was the contribution to the Austrian exhibition by feld72 at the 7th Architecture Biennale in São Paulo, Brazil. The project takes the 2007 ban on advertising for the entire urban space of São Paulo as an opportunity to address consumer mechanisms and the question of public and private space. Does public space even still exist? Where do the boundaries between public and private blur? 20,000 magenta-coloured stickers with 15 different questions and statements were distributed during the exhibition. Visitors were invited to place the stickers all over the city, thereby appropriating the public space. The snapshots as evidence of public territorial markings could be published on an online photo platform.
Category
Direct commission
Location
São Paulo, BR
Year
2007
Client
BMUKK (Federal Ministry of Education, the Arts and Culture, Art Division – Departement 1)
Curator
Lilli Hollein
Artistic redesign of the ticket office
At the town hall square in St. Pölten the major theatres are united in one ticket office. The redesign of the premises plays with the elements and materiality of the theatre. The large inviting glass front evokes the drama of a stage situation through the curtain that defines the interior. In the perception of spectators from outside, the visitors thus become random actors on the stage of everyday life. Theatre swivel chairs on the forecourt support this ambiguous function as multi-functional seating furniture. The new canopy roof writes the names of Lower Austrian cultural institutions on the square with delicate shadows. The entire new spatial setting creates a stage situation in the public space in which the roles of “audience” and “actors” merge and converge.
Category
Direct commission
Location
St. Pölten, AT
Completion
2013 inside / 2015 outisde
Client
Landestheater & Public Art Niederösterreich
GFA
112 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus, Wolfgang Woessner
Artistic redesign of the ticket office
At the town hall square in St. Pölten the major theatres are united in one ticket office. The redesign of the premises plays with the elements and materiality of the theatre. The large inviting glass front evokes the drama of a stage situation through the curtain that defines the interior. In the perception of spectators from outside, the visitors thus become random actors on the stage of everyday life. Theatre swivel chairs on the forecourt support this ambiguous function as multi-functional seating furniture. The new canopy roof writes the names of Lower Austrian cultural institutions on the square with delicate shadows. The entire new spatial setting creates a stage situation in the public space in which the roles of “audience” and “actors” merge and converge.
Category
Direct commission
Location
St. Pölten, AT
Completion
2013 inside / 2015 outisde
Client
Landestheater & Public Art Niederösterreich
GFA
112 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus, Wolfgang Woessner
Exhibition satellites and photo competition about public space
Accompanying the exhibition “Baukultur — Think your city differently”, feld72 developed nonconform and inspirin exhibition satellites at five locations in Vienna, where questions about urban living space were publicly addressed. The starting point for discussion and reflection were the following questions: How does the city bring us together? Do you also live in your city? Do you move through your city? What does your city teach you? What does your workplace look like? Within the framework of a photo competition under the motto “Have a seat in your city”, examples were collected of how the residents would like to use their city differently. The interventions were an impulse for a critical examination of our built environment and for the active appropriation of public urban space.
Cooperation Partner: inspirin, nonconform
Location
Vienna, AT
Year
2014
Client
MA 19, City of Vienna
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Graphics
zunder zwo
Exhibition satellites and photo competition about public space
Accompanying the exhibition “Baukultur — Think your city differently”, feld72 developed nonconform and inspirin exhibition satellites at five locations in Vienna, where questions about urban living space were publicly addressed. The starting point for discussion and reflection were the following questions: How does the city bring us together? Do you also live in your city? Do you move through your city? What does your city teach you? What does your workplace look like? Within the framework of a photo competition under the motto “Have a seat in your city”, examples were collected of how the residents would like to use their city differently. The interventions were an impulse for a critical examination of our built environment and for the active appropriation of public urban space.
Cooperation Partner: inspirin, nonconform
Location
Vienna, AT
Year
2014
Client
MA 19, City of Vienna
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Graphics
zunder zwo
Artistic walkabout and Intervention
The site of the project is the estuary area of the Isonzo near the industrial town of Monfalcone, which on the one hand is a nature reserve, and on the other hand is characterised by an illegally established pile-dwelling settlement. This testimony to an anarchistic building culture, which is threatened with disappearance, becomes, together with the nearby shipyard, the backdrop for artistic interventions on the themes of migration, speculation and whitecollar crime and the starting point of a journey into “informal” Italy.
Artistic walkabout and Intervention
The site of the project is the estuary area of the Isonzo near the industrial town of Monfalcone, which on the one hand is a nature reserve, and on the other hand is characterised by an illegally established pile-dwelling settlement. This testimony to an anarchistic building culture, which is threatened with disappearance, becomes, together with the nearby shipyard, the backdrop for artistic interventions on the themes of migration, speculation and whitecollar crime and the starting point of a journey into “informal” Italy.
Space installation for a dance performance
Based on the piano compositions of Erik Satie a spatial installation was conceived that enables a special experience: Satie demanded his work be played 840 times consecutively and at a slow tempo in order to experience its meditative character. This leads to a total duration of 21 hours. The audience is immersed in an extraordinary play with space, time and repetition. Being part of the installation itself, all visitors, as recipients and actors, are invited to play with instructions for action parallel to the live piano music and to sound out personal levels of perception.
Location
Vienna, AT / Milan, IT / Stolzenhagen, DE
Year
2009
Client
ImPulsTanz
Artistic concept, Piano
Jan Burkhardt, Kerstin Kussmaul
Production
gravityhappens
Collaborator
Eva Dietrich
Pictures
Laurent Ziegler
Space installation for a dance performance
Based on the piano compositions of Erik Satie a spatial installation was conceived that enables a special experience: Satie demanded his work be played 840 times consecutively and at a slow tempo in order to experience its meditative character. This leads to a total duration of 21 hours. The audience is immersed in an extraordinary play with space, time and repetition. Being part of the installation itself, all visitors, as recipients and actors, are invited to play with instructions for action parallel to the live piano music and to sound out personal levels of perception.
Location
Vienna, AT / Milan, IT / Stolzenhagen, DE
Year
2009
Client
ImPulsTanz
Artistic concept, Piano
Jan Burkhardt, Kerstin Kussmaul
Production
gravityhappens
Collaborator
Eva Dietrich
Pictures
Laurent Ziegler
A temporary festival centre for the steirische herbst
Is it possible to establish a maximum of attention and concrete new possibilities of use and play for an existing location — the Forum Stadtpark — in a resourcesaving way? Yes, with a re-usable deposit and return object, infinitely available, with enormous potential: the Euro pallet. Diverted from its normal purpose it becomes the component for temporary architecture just as well as the brick for a durable house. The architecture with expiry date crosses and breaks the existing building, spatially, typologically and aesthetically. A productive disturbance. Especially in its ephemerality it strives for great presence.
Award: Steirischer Holzbaupreis, AT
Category
Invited competition, 1st prize
Location
Graz, AT
Completion
2010
Client
steirischer herbst
Area
450 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
A temporary festival centre for the steirische herbst
Is it possible to establish a maximum of attention and concrete new possibilities of use and play for an existing location — the Forum Stadtpark — in a resourcesaving way? Yes, with a re-usable deposit and return object, infinitely available, with enormous potential: the Euro pallet. Diverted from its normal purpose it becomes the component for temporary architecture just as well as the brick for a durable house. The architecture with expiry date crosses and breaks the existing building, spatially, typologically and aesthetically. A productive disturbance. Especially in its ephemerality it strives for great presence.
Award: Steirischer Holzbaupreis, AT
Category
Invited competition, 1st prize
Location
Graz, AT
Completion
2010
Client
steirischer herbst
Area
450 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
“The work of feld72 explores the intersection between architecture, applied urbanism and art. From the very beginning the collective has examined the issues surrounding the use and perception of public space with a series of self-initiated projects called “Urban Strategies”. These 1:1 projects that form the basis for a “theory through practice” have been implemented across Europe and deal with very different types and situations of public space. The examination of space as a social form is also a focal theme in their built architecture projects that have already received several awards as well as in their successful competition entries for major projects, which are now in the construction phase.” – Lilli Hollein
The Installation is a reflection on that experimental search for an architecture that could response to a broader world-view (“Weltanschauung”), and is itself a view on that world (“Weltbild”). World in progress…
Location
Giardini padiglione, IT
Client
La Biennale di venezia
Year
2008
“The work of feld72 explores the intersection between architecture, applied urbanism and art. From the very beginning the collective has examined the issues surrounding the use and perception of public space with a series of self-initiated projects called “Urban Strategies”. These 1:1 projects that form the basis for a “theory through practice” have been implemented across Europe and deal with very different types and situations of public space. The examination of space as a social form is also a focal theme in their built architecture projects that have already received several awards as well as in their successful competition entries for major projects, which are now in the construction phase.” – Lilli Hollein
The Installation is a reflection on that experimental search for an architecture that could response to a broader world-view (“Weltanschauung”), and is itself a view on that world (“Weltbild”). World in progress…
Location
Giardini padiglione, IT
Client
La Biennale di venezia
Year
2008
Hoogvliet Outside-in uses the temporary emptiness of big housing blocks within the satellite town of Hoogvliet as part of a strategy to fight the apathy in this area. The individual apartments in the half empty housing blocks are understood as spaces that should be utilised by artists and the population of Hoogvliet with full awareness of their slow but imminent destruction. The intention is that the buildings, as multi-functional units, should become small bastions of exchange of opinion and of positive excess that makes the choice between boredom and criminality obsolete. The units distributed throughout Hoogvliet become a temporary subversive system of possibilities of expression. If everything in outdoor space in the Netherlands is regulated, then indoor space becomes the last utopia.
Öocation
Rotterdam, NL
Client
Ton Matton & WIMBY (Welcome Into My Backyard)
Completion
2007
Hoogvliet Outside-in uses the temporary emptiness of big housing blocks within the satellite town of Hoogvliet as part of a strategy to fight the apathy in this area. The individual apartments in the half empty housing blocks are understood as spaces that should be utilised by artists and the population of Hoogvliet with full awareness of their slow but imminent destruction. The intention is that the buildings, as multi-functional units, should become small bastions of exchange of opinion and of positive excess that makes the choice between boredom and criminality obsolete. The units distributed throughout Hoogvliet become a temporary subversive system of possibilities of expression. If everything in outdoor space in the Netherlands is regulated, then indoor space becomes the last utopia.
Öocation
Rotterdam, NL
Client
Ton Matton & WIMBY (Welcome Into My Backyard)
Completion
2007