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

+b

>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.