DREIECKPLATZ
A TRIANGLE COHERES HOUSING, COMMERCIAL, AND SOCIAL FACILITIES
Location: Vienna
Collaboration: Artur Borejszo, Leena Cho, Andreas Karavanas
Scale: 2.2 ha
Client: city of Vienna, railway company
Awards: unanimous 1st prize
Located between the Vienna Ring and Vienna Woods, the site embraces the marks of both environments – urban and nature – as a basis for future development. Currently surrounded by houses with a large amount of private green space, what is needed in the site is a generous, quality public space that will invite and sustain diverse groups of community to gather, live and work by. Major forms of transit – bus, tram and bicycle – anchor three corners of the triangle-shaped plaza with an integrated train platform in the middle. Various residential, commercial and social programs both frame and spill out toward the public triangle and support its liveliness. Green space is maximized at all different scales, fostering health, education and social interactions, while each kind of nature – from ‘wild woods’ to herb garden – defines the atmosphere of individual housing zone.
DREIECKPLATZ
A TRIANGLE COHERES HOUSING, COMMERCIAL, AND SOCIAL FACILITIES
Location: Vienna
Collaboration: Artur Borejszo, Leena Cho, Andreas Karavanas
Scale: 2.2 ha
Client: city of Vienna, railway company
Awards: unanimous 1st prize
Located between the Vienna Ring and Vienna Woods, the site embraces the marks of both environments – urban and nature – as a basis for future development. Currently surrounded by houses with a large amount of private green space, what is needed in the site is a generous, quality public space that will invite and sustain diverse groups of community to gather, live and work by. Major forms of transit – bus, tram and bicycle – anchor three corners of the triangle-shaped plaza with an integrated train platform in the middle. Various residential, commercial and social programs both frame and spill out toward the public triangle and support its liveliness. Green space is maximized at all different scales, fostering health, education and social interactions, while each kind of nature – from ‘wild woods’ to herb garden – defines the atmosphere of individual housing zone.