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Project to Redesign the district of Graz Wetzelsdorf (Austria) 2001
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Project to Redesign the district of Graz Wetzelsdorf (Austria) 2001
The project for the Graz
Wetzelsdorf area faces the problem of redesigning the spread-out city. A city
which tends to sprawl out into the suburbs very quickly. Neither city nor
countryside.
The theme of the project
was to restructure the area emphasizing the countryside dimension, the slopes,
the views, the relationship between the green areas and the buildings, between
the high and the low, between internals and externals. Without imposing
pre-established priorities, involving equally the countryside dimension, the
social dimension and the functional dimension.
The project envisaged
intervening in an urban situation characterized by a state of semi-abandonment
and stagnation (suburbs, industrial plots,…). In such a situation the
architectural and urban project can play a leading role in development, change
and making hybrid conditions more dynamic. It can, by means of research and
clarification of an “energy differential” between urban areas, identify a
strategic point (a starting point) in a malfunctioning situation, but above all
full of planning possibilities.
Although it is the
solution to an urban context without place or origins, the project, faced with
irregularities, waste, a “city spread-out and confused”, conceived of an urban
environment in which to live, work, think, walk, circulate and meet and fall in
love, a model of a city seen as a space of multiple experiences, without
absolute models, with not just one shape but inclusive, open, free, changing
and heterogeneous.
The project envisaged
architectural forms determining the potential of the urban area itself, delimiting
the internal and external spaces which become attuned to both the natural and
the built up environments, linking public and private spaces…. Redefining the
concepts of distance, proximity, connections, like the ideas of limit or of the
passage between private and public, the intimate and the social, local
interests or community interests and interests in general.
Starting from a
re-interpretation of the row house, the isolated building, the square, the
park, the space and the public building, all of types of the efficient, dynamic
urban lay-out which interprets our time, the project sought to integrate the
different functions: residential, services, commercial activities, receptive,
productive, for cultural activities, recreation and for leisure time. Both
dignity and visibility were given to the work area.
Open spaces and internal
spaces were integrated in a fluid and dynamic continuum.
The project proposed
interprets the dynamism and fluidity of the contemporary. The purpose of the
typological research carried out and realized in the project was to reflect on
the consolidation of the area, with the idea of rendering the extension of the
suburbs economically viable, and avoiding the impoverishment of the inter-city
fabric.
It is a synthetic idea giving
rise to a global strategy, which sets off a transformation based on
permeability, on the quality and diversity of the spaces, in an attempt, by
means of architecture and the town hierarchies, to reestablish a new centrality
in a hybrid fabric.
The project, working on
the relationship with the surrounding fabric, tried to join it together and
recompose it in an urban image and tried, in prefiguring a built-up space, to
define the instruments, the dimensions, the distributions and the shapes most
suitable to transpose, to a contemporary context, the places of the territory
and the articulation of the global with the local, how the global is inserted
into the local and how the global must necessarily take into account the local,
if it is to take root.
Mobility, Permanence,
Distance, Promiscuity, Distribution, Sense, Re-composition, Nature, History,
Urban continuity, Polarity, Intensity, Density, Interstices, Intervals, Public
Spaces, Town Planning, Information, Communication, Health, Global scale and
local attention, Scenographic images of urban spaces, Nature in the built-up
city, Organization, Continuity, Narration, Transformation, Transfiguration,
Reflection, Synthesis: these are the key words to this project.
Wetzelsdorf area faces the problem of redesigning the spread-out city. A city
which tends to sprawl out into the suburbs very quickly. Neither city nor
countryside.
The theme of the project
was to restructure the area emphasizing the countryside dimension, the slopes,
the views, the relationship between the green areas and the buildings, between
the high and the low, between internals and externals. Without imposing
pre-established priorities, involving equally the countryside dimension, the
social dimension and the functional dimension.
The project envisaged
intervening in an urban situation characterized by a state of semi-abandonment
and stagnation (suburbs, industrial plots,…). In such a situation the
architectural and urban project can play a leading role in development, change
and making hybrid conditions more dynamic. It can, by means of research and
clarification of an “energy differential” between urban areas, identify a
strategic point (a starting point) in a malfunctioning situation, but above all
full of planning possibilities.
Although it is the
solution to an urban context without place or origins, the project, faced with
irregularities, waste, a “city spread-out and confused”, conceived of an urban
environment in which to live, work, think, walk, circulate and meet and fall in
love, a model of a city seen as a space of multiple experiences, without
absolute models, with not just one shape but inclusive, open, free, changing
and heterogeneous.
The project envisaged
architectural forms determining the potential of the urban area itself, delimiting
the internal and external spaces which become attuned to both the natural and
the built up environments, linking public and private spaces…. Redefining the
concepts of distance, proximity, connections, like the ideas of limit or of the
passage between private and public, the intimate and the social, local
interests or community interests and interests in general.
Starting from a
re-interpretation of the row house, the isolated building, the square, the
park, the space and the public building, all of types of the efficient, dynamic
urban lay-out which interprets our time, the project sought to integrate the
different functions: residential, services, commercial activities, receptive,
productive, for cultural activities, recreation and for leisure time. Both
dignity and visibility were given to the work area.
Open spaces and internal
spaces were integrated in a fluid and dynamic continuum.
The project proposed
interprets the dynamism and fluidity of the contemporary. The purpose of the
typological research carried out and realized in the project was to reflect on
the consolidation of the area, with the idea of rendering the extension of the
suburbs economically viable, and avoiding the impoverishment of the inter-city
fabric.
It is a synthetic idea giving
rise to a global strategy, which sets off a transformation based on
permeability, on the quality and diversity of the spaces, in an attempt, by
means of architecture and the town hierarchies, to reestablish a new centrality
in a hybrid fabric.
The project, working on
the relationship with the surrounding fabric, tried to join it together and
recompose it in an urban image and tried, in prefiguring a built-up space, to
define the instruments, the dimensions, the distributions and the shapes most
suitable to transpose, to a contemporary context, the places of the territory
and the articulation of the global with the local, how the global is inserted
into the local and how the global must necessarily take into account the local,
if it is to take root.
Mobility, Permanence,
Distance, Promiscuity, Distribution, Sense, Re-composition, Nature, History,
Urban continuity, Polarity, Intensity, Density, Interstices, Intervals, Public
Spaces, Town Planning, Information, Communication, Health, Global scale and
local attention, Scenographic images of urban spaces, Nature in the built-up
city, Organization, Continuity, Narration, Transformation, Transfiguration,
Reflection, Synthesis: these are the key words to this project.
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