“Care + Repair,” a public workspace by the Architekturzentrum Wien in the context of the Vienna Biennale 2017, is on view at Nordbahn-Halle, Vienna.The exhibition establishes a public workspace on the former railway territory of the Nord-bahnhof grounds, one of the largest inner-city development zones in Vienna. The question examined through this show is how we can repair the future and how architecture and urbanism contribute to this. The project is a trial run on the Nordbahnhof, as an exemplary slice of urban space, with its old and new neighbors and impressive overgrown grounds. Six international architectural teams (a-works – Cristian Stefanescu/Bergen, Gabu Heindl/Vienna, Zissis Kotionis+Phoebe Giannisi/Volos, Rotor/Brussels, Meike Schalk/Stockholm and Rosario Talevi/Berlin) have been invited to develop proposals for Care + Repair prototypes with a multi-disciplinary approach. The Architekturzentrum Wien public workspace is located in a former warehouse, the Nordbahn-Halle, next to the water tower, to be used on a temporary basis by Care + Repair with partners in the long-running Mischung: Nordbahnhof research and development project. It is to become an inviting location with a mix of trial uses for the new city district. Care + Repair is part of a three-year long Mischung: Nordbahnhof research and development project which involves the following partners: Department Housing and Design and Department of Spatial Planning/Sociology, Vienna University of Technology (Lead), Erste gemeinnützige Wohnungsgesellschaft Heimstätte, STUDIOVLAY, imGrätzl.at. The project is funded by the Austrian Climate and Energy Fund and realized as part of the Smart-Cities-Initiative.The exhibition that started on June 21 will run through July 31, 2017 at Nordbahn-Halle, (next to the Wasserturm), corner of Leystrasse/Taborstrasse, Nordbahnhof Vienna, 1020 Vienna.For details, visit: https://www.azw.at/startpage.phpClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.
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