EISENSTADT
RUNNER-UP BA238 – PHILEMON & BAUCIS
Adrian Untaru (RO), Andrei Serbescu (RO), Bogdan Bradateanu (RO), Irina Bancescu (RO), Sebastian Serban (RO), architects
The project addresses the whole Oberberg/Unterberg area as a zone of enhanced hospitality, being revitalized by specific infrastructural elements, public facilities, „rurban“ clusters and special „didactic“ programmes. The intervention on the Meierhof site relates to the scale of the existing housing in Oberbereg/Unterberg, yet it does not take in consideration the existing differentiation and coexistence between more urban types of housing and the suburban house. By splitting the developmentin 2 areas with the public poles in the southern part at the Castle Park the projects reduces the housing development strongly to the surburban setting. This is seen problematic due to the attractive location of the site which has an important interface along its western border where Unterberg with its cultural institutions stretches out. On the other hand the project provides a valuable tool for the city of Eisenstadt by a convincing set of interventions for the improvement of the whole study site, including inventive elements (such as the horse ride-tram) and integrating strongly the Castle Park as a central public landscape which should be intensified by special programs (temporary pavilion, re-use of stadium for children’s race course, ...) On an urban scale the extended program of living is well integrated in the set of interventions in the study-site-area participating actively in the restructuring of the local fabric. This rich proposal on urban interventions, actions and renewal- strategies would allow the city of Eisenstadt different entering points in its urban revitalization-programme. (Excerpt from jury report)