Principles of Design WS25

Poet: Green* Open_

This summer semester, the fundamentals of design, urban design, and landscape architecture focused on the theme of denser, greener, open (existing) cities. This year's quadrant is located in Vienna's 20th district, Brigittenau, north of the Nordwestbahnhof area.

In addition to residential areas, production, supply, and waste disposal infrastructures, as well as green and blue infrastructures of all kinds, are essential to the urban organism. Let us consider the post-industrial city beyond housing, services, knowledge, and the economy:

The city is more than just a place to live and consume. In a circular, mixed-use city, the coexistence of production, consumption, and disposal, living, working, and leisure in harmony with natural systems is essential. All of this becomes even more relevant when we consider that we ourselves are a small but very disruptive part of natural systems and can only be successful if we reintegrate these natural systems into the urban organism.

The design process follows the principles of further developing existing, established, or built urban potential. The focus is on creating new qualities under sustainable conditions such as mixed use, resource conservation, climate sensitivity, sustainability, participatory/collaborative negotiation, and social balance.