The Remembered City
towards reclaiming a collective ground within Vienna’s inner city
M. Michl (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
Daniel Rosbottom – Mentor (TU Delft - Situated Architecture)
WM Pimlott – Mentor (TU Delft - Situated Architecture)
K. Mulder – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Architectural Technology)
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Abstract
Based in Vienna, Austria, the project deals with the possibilities a new type of public interior has for a gradually flattened historic city centre, concentrating on the role of derelict spaces such as abandoned shop spaces, aggressively demolished building plots or undervalued topographies in this instance an underground car parking have once integrated back into the grain of the city.
The project proposes a new type of urban institution, a network of rooms, reinterpreting and adapting aspects from typologies that local residents would be familiar with such as the ‘Wiener Kaffeehaus’, the ‘Durchhaus’ or the ‘Bildungsgrätzl’ to create a sequence of spaces and rooms that carry a sense of familiarity and intimacy for the users. Situated in the Ruprechtsviertel, one of Vienna’s most historic but underappreciated neighbourhoods, the project questions the means through which architecture can help appropriate a new public interior and reclaim spaces that are currently underutilised. Through this, it hopes to invite local communities and new publics to reclaim a sense of the qualities the city centre had for communal life all these years and continue its legacy through it.