IN(N)TERVALS ANNIKA // Design Studio '23

Design Studio '23

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The concept of a provocation: an intervention that, at first glance, turns away from its surroundings like the building facing it, closing itself off from people passing by. If you come from Museumstraße and walk towards the Hofgarten, only a few boxes can be seen. However, they open up on the other side, creating a place to linger. Each of the boxes is equipped with folding chairs that can be distributed at will on the square in front of Haus der Musik. If you go up the steps, you will find a kind of small stage, a place to read, a place to rest, a place to talk to friends. The boxes offer space that can be freely arranged according to one's mood, where one can freely decide how to use it - individual elements such as the folding table or the extendable benches show possibilities of use, but are not meant to interfere with creativity. In front of the Haus der Musik, a place is to be created that enhances the existing space as such and ascribes a use to it.

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"[...] However, town and city planners are increasingly realising that public places and urban spaces are most prosperous when they are designed around community-led initiatives. It boosts a community’s spirit, develops a culture and drives the economy. [...] A big part of urban development is the role of street furniture. Well-designed furniture makes an urban space more sociable, inclusive, safer, and boosts communities. [...]"

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Seeking to introduce improbability and to puncture the facade, Vito Acconci and Steven Holl challenged this symbolic border which underlines the exclusivity of the art world, where only those on the inside belong. Using a hybrid material comprised of concrete mixed with recycled fibers, Holl and Acconci inserted a series of hinged panels arranged in a puzzle-like configuration. When the panels are locked in their open position, the facade dissolves and the interior space of the gallery expands out on to the sidewalk.

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This highly influential film in architecture and planning circles by William H. Whyte analyzes the success and failures of urban spaces. Observing the natural order of spaces and the way people move through them, Whyte provides an intuitive critique of urban spaces and ways these spaces can be improved. —Luke Keller

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RFDInsel

Reich für die Insel (RFDINSEL) is a so-called offspace, a space that offers non-commercial and independent exhibition spaces. The focus is on performances, exhibitions or music presentations. So behind the not very conspicuous cube lies a far greater intention to engage with the people of Innsbruck and anyone else interested.

"An architecture that derives behaviour from becoming and being from behaviour is an architecture of interactions between form, material, structure and environment: a performative architecture." - Michael Hensel, Achim Menges

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Competition for the new House of Music, Innsbruck

The Innsbruck architect Erich Strolz won the competition for the new House of Music in Innsbruck. He prevailed against 125 other entries, second place went to another studio from Innsbruck, third place to a studio from Vienna.

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Bótharbuí

The Irish Architecture Foundation’s contribution to the 2008 Venice Biennale was an exhibition called “The Lives of Spaces”. Architects Patrick Lynch and Simon Walker contributed a collaborative project on the subject of Bótharbui, a holiday home in West Cork designed in the 1960’s by Simon’s father, Robin Walker.

They renovated three already existing cottages and built three new ones in addition. Lynch said described the cottages as "[...] a modern version of a traditional villa: a place for serious cultural exchange and play, a salon as much as a retreat."

"Following Robin Walker’s “design method”, Bótharbuí is not conceived as an objective, geometric composition, but as a happening, a confluence of physical and perceptual phenomena. It represents a multiplicity of microcosms, each one with its own distinct, topological attributes. Any single spatial understanding is broken down into a sequence of different autonomous structures and rooms, organized according to variable positions within the terrain. The site sets up a classical dynamic, a precarious, shifting relationship between the building and the mountainside."

"[...] the original cottage and stone sheds, which orients and guides the actions of the inhabitants. We can see that, in its juxtaposition of ancient and modern forms, Bótharbuí confronts the memory of the past with a new topological spatial order."