Keiserschnitten Wien_ july 11

SOCIAL FILL IN_ Schönbrunn

Keiserschnitten Workshop TUWIEN_ Olesja Lami/ Rezart Struga/ Mamica Burda/ Lorin Çekrezi
Schönbrunn (Royal Castle) is one of the most famous tourist attractions in Vienna. During the year it is visited by 3000 tourists.

First impression_ Site Visit
Our area is located in front of Schönbrunn castle, including the metro station, the existing parking lot, some vast land and a pawed area in front of the royal complex’s entrance. This space is one of the most frequented areas while heading towards the castle. This is related directly with the number of the tourists, but beside the castle’s attraction we noticed a considerable amount of problems. To number the main one’s, what we choose to follow on making this projects are:
1. The first and most problematic fact was the absence of Vienna’s inhabitants
2. A vast and unused land plus a huge unorganized parking lot
3.The partial information that tourists get about Vienna’s character
4.Lack of facilities for tourists and inhabitants
5. Zero frequentation near the river side (Wiental)
After the first analysis we ended up on compiling a diagram about the usage of space by age groups (kids, teenagers, youth, middle age and old age). As we mentioned above the areas that gathered a hugger amount of people (mostly tourists) was the metro station, a path that leads to the castle and its main entrance, beside that there was also a natural park, on the other side of the river frequented by Vienna’s inhabitants. What was very evident was the absence of all groups of ages near the river side.

How to bring Vienna’s inhabitants to the area in front of Schönbrunn?
The first thing we did was an analysis of successful plazas in Vienna. We picked up Naschmark, Stephanplatz, Museum Quartier, Kunsthale and Danube River Side. The aim was to make somehow a mirror effect of their Spacial Success, such a way creating a small scale city in Schönbrunn. We saw that success has to do with the way that space was fragmented, social interaction and clash of age groups.
To underline was the Naschmarkt success, where space was planned as a informal area, thought to bring people close to one-another and offer them facilities that make the Market specifics.
Analyzing this way all the plazas the result was a list of key words as follows: Fragmentation, Hybridization, Informal Formality, Small Scale City, Casual Interaction, Self-Organization, Culture Layering and Modules.

SPACE Proposal
To jump once again inside the project area, there is a vast void space that is located between the Schönbrunn complex and the Park behind the Wiental river. The solution was to treat this area as a transition from the castle toward the park, where events and facilities will be located. To reach this goal we implemented the Fragmentation that came out from the analysis. The area was covered with a grid where a program was overlaid. It would have function by implementing functional and spacial perceptions, amplifying the events and feelings according to the program.
Space would be fragmented permanently and temporarily. The permanent fragmentation would be the creation of platforms, big as much as the events that are planned to be located to happen there. Beside that is the temporarily intervention which will be achieved by using some modules.

MODULE’s Characteristics
The modules will be the temporal boxes that will change shape according to the program. They will be flexible (easy to merge with one-another), economic, dynamic (movable inside the area), multiple choices (functions, configurations), sustainable (recyclable materials).
The different modules configurations will create different perceptions. As it is seen in the diagram first the modules are grouped together, creating compositions from 1 to 3 couples together. After the first accompany they will gather with other groups such a way creating compositions of space (cross cut, gatherings, transit paths, linear continuity, inner plazas and final destinations). These space compositions are related directly with the perceptions mirrored by the Viennese plazas.

Project Proposal
To make the plan of the project, first of all was chosen a program, Museum Quartier Perception. There is quite evident the relationship between platforms and modules. These platforms do cross the river as bridges, and mostly lay over the river by making possible the exposing of the river toward the people. By being in a site of the World Heritage we chose to intervene on the river only visually, by projecting in the walls videos and images about Vienna. In the sections are seen as well some other interventions, having to do with the mobility, where we put below ground the motorway that now is crossing in front of Schönbrunn, and also the underground location of the new parking lot. Beside that are visible the platforms and the bridge that is hosting programs. The existing park still stands behind the river, but now connected through this “program” bridge.
The temporal solutions bring a diversity of space configurations, every time responding to different events and needs of the inhabitants and tourists. Beside that it gives the possibility of actually keeping the area untouched by permanent and harsh interventions and preserving the World Heritage objects by visual intrusions.

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