Master Studio: zwischen_raum – Architecture Meets the City
zwischen_raum – Architecture Meets the City
A Design/Build project as an urban intervention at the Danube Canal
How can architecture activate public space while contributing to a more sustainable city? With zwischen_raum, students of the Master’s programme Architecture – Green Building are developing and building an open, non-commercial space along the Danube Canal.
Conceived as a Design/Build project, zwischen_raum is an invitation to pause, meet, exchange ideas and reflect together on the future of our city. On selected days, the students actively use and programme the space themselves, engaging in dialogue with visitors and passers-by about housing, living and forms of coexistence in Vienna. Architecture is thus not only designed, but directly tested, experienced and put into practice as a form of social engagement.
The pavilion stands for a different approach to resources: flexible, resource-efficient and designed for reuse. A key element of the material concept is the reuse of timber from a roughly 100-year-old roof structure salvaged during a deconstruction. The traces and patina of the reused timber remain visible, giving the structure its distinctive character and atmosphere.
zwischen_raum is therefore more than a temporary pavilion. The project demonstrates how students can take responsibility for public space through designing, building and experimenting – and how sustainable architecture can be experienced directly. The Danube Canal becomes a laboratory for an open, resource-conscious and community-oriented city.
The project is part of HENNI+MILLI, an intervention along the Danube Canal developed in cooperation with the architecture and urban design office SuperWien, TU Wien and the University of Applied Arts Vienna. HENNI+MILLI creates a temporary, non-commercial space for free, inclusive and community-oriented activities.
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zwischen_raum is also part of the HCW MA27-research-project Bau:Kasten, funded by the City of Vienna.
all pictures: Emma Dworschak [projectlead zwischen.raum]
