It became clear early on in the course of the semester that Linz's INDIVIDUAL TRANSPORT would play a MAJOR ROLE in COMPARISON with PUBLIC TRANSPORT as the BACKGROUND to almost all PROJECTS and in the very SPECIFIC CASES of quite some individual projects of the Studio “Interregnum I: Urban Agencies & Dei Ex Machina”.
From NORTH to SOUTH on the LINZ CITY PLAN, a SUCCESSION of projects EMERGED, some of them directly ADJACENT to each other, which essentially – SELF-CONFIDENT and NOT WILLING to be TALKED OUT OF THINGS - completely EXCLUDE Linz's individual traffic from THE CITY’S TRANSPORT NETWORK:
>> „Mobilität ändern – Stadt verbinden“ (Urfahr, Nibelungenbrücke)
Johanna Brunner
>> „ALT_PARK“ (Nibelungenbrücke, Donaulände, Brückenkopf)
Leon Schlesinger
>> „Hauptplatsch“ (Brückenkopf, Hauptplatz)
Dominik Rechberger
>> „Hereinspaziert!“ (Wiener Straße)
Özlem Demir, Jasmin Steinberg
>> „Barrikadenplatz“ (Bulgariplatz)
Victoria Holzinger
The respective students endeavored until the end to let their projects CORRESPOND with each other and to base their respective MEASURES on a COMMON IDEA of a coming NEW LINZ TRAFFIC CONCEPT. Especially among younger, aspiring architects and urban planners, the view is increasingly SPREADING that it is time to develop PLANNING SCENARIOS and to stop giving the public the IMPRESSION that the STATUS QUO can be MAINTAINED in the face of the already PRESSING CHALLENGES. One of their MAIN ARGUMENTS was to point out that, according to the VCÖ, around 70 PERCENT OF CO2 EMISSIONS from transport in Austria must be SAVED by 2030. In ADDITION to the INVENTION of new RAILWAY LINES (MAIN STATION south of DANUBE to URFAHR in the north), the students envisaged the INTRODUCTION of a CIRCULAR TRAM LINE in the CITY CENTER, which had been freed from individual traffic (as were the CENTRAL AREAS south of the main station).
This project is a result of the studio “Interregnum I: Urban Agencies & Dei Ex Machina”. Concept and teaching: c/o now - Andrijana Ivanda & Tobias Hönig + Markus Rampl, Paul Reinhardt, Duy An Tran, Ksenija Zdešar
From NORTH to SOUTH on the LINZ CITY PLAN, a SUCCESSION of projects EMERGED, some of them directly ADJACENT to each other, which essentially – SELF-CONFIDENT and NOT WILLING to be TALKED OUT OF THINGS - completely EXCLUDE Linz's individual traffic from THE CITY’S TRANSPORT NETWORK:
>> „Mobilität ändern – Stadt verbinden“ (Urfahr, Nibelungenbrücke)
Johanna Brunner
>> „ALT_PARK“ (Nibelungenbrücke, Donaulände, Brückenkopf)
Leon Schlesinger
>> „Hauptplatsch“ (Brückenkopf, Hauptplatz)
Dominik Rechberger
>> „Hereinspaziert!“ (Wiener Straße)
Özlem Demir, Jasmin Steinberg
>> „Barrikadenplatz“ (Bulgariplatz)
Victoria Holzinger
The respective students endeavored until the end to let their projects CORRESPOND with each other and to base their respective MEASURES on a COMMON IDEA of a coming NEW LINZ TRAFFIC CONCEPT. Especially among younger, aspiring architects and urban planners, the view is increasingly SPREADING that it is time to develop PLANNING SCENARIOS and to stop giving the public the IMPRESSION that the STATUS QUO can be MAINTAINED in the face of the already PRESSING CHALLENGES. One of their MAIN ARGUMENTS was to point out that, according to the VCÖ, around 70 PERCENT OF CO2 EMISSIONS from transport in Austria must be SAVED by 2030. In ADDITION to the INVENTION of new RAILWAY LINES (MAIN STATION south of DANUBE to URFAHR in the north), the students envisaged the INTRODUCTION of a CIRCULAR TRAM LINE in the CITY CENTER, which had been freed from individual traffic (as were the CENTRAL AREAS south of the main station).
This project is a result of the studio “Interregnum I: Urban Agencies & Dei Ex Machina”. Concept and teaching: c/o now - Andrijana Ivanda & Tobias Hönig + Markus Rampl, Paul Reinhardt, Duy An Tran, Ksenija Zdešar