Wien
WINNER DP306 – DREIECKSPLATZ
Artur Borejszo (POL) architect/ Rotterdam
Contributors:
Leena Cho (US) landscape architect, Jason Hilgefort (US) architect urbanist, Andreas Karavanas (GR) architect urbanist
The project gives to the city and the site owner a promising spatial concept which is “robust” enough to be adapted in phases and its respective parts by multiple authors.
The quality of the project is the striking simplicity of the idea of the triangular space which is both public space and organizing principle ; it succeeds in linking both sides of the railway without elaborate engineering.
The idea to group three different “landscapes” of housing around this square must be followed because it is their very differences, that ensures a “malleable richness” for the future development.
The way how the project deals with the level crossing could trigger new ways of integrating infrastructure in the local tissue: conflict points between different sorts of mobility systems are crucial nowadays. The quality of the winning project is exactly to make a proposition of how to „de-instrumentalize“ the usual spatial regulations. Regarding the benefits of a successful integration the city planning department should explore this innovative concept, finding ways to negotiate its implementation. In this way the project would become a pilot, contributing to necessary transformations of existing planning regulations.
Concerning the proposed types of housing the jury appreciates their variety. The fact that the architectural development is open to adaptation when it comes to density, the question of limits, and typological elaboration demonstrates its quality (excerpt & paraphrase of the jury minutes).
