Linz
RUNNER UP PB143 – EIN ENSEMBLE IM PORTRÄT
Potocnik Lorenz (A) architect, urbanist; Sandra Gnigler (A), Wilhelm Gunar (A), architects/ Linz
The authors cleverly propagate the potential of the whole area by introducing a narrative of its single buildings making them a “group” that reflects on their overall becoming. The project carefully looks at different scales of context, combining existing potentials with prospective scenarios. To give ‘names’ to every building reinforces the importance of an interactive process which has to be directed by the city, not only carefully but also creatively. The “plan” might make completely disappear the “space”- on the other hand the project reintroduces the space in the form of the diagram which underlines the necessity of extending the discussion about the future spatial development, relating it to political, programmatic and socio-economic issues. Although the “thinking” is not elaborated enough in the diagrams the project offers to the city a manual for the elaboration of a strategy: where to be in 20 years? (excerpt & paraphrase of the jury minutes)