SECOND ROUND

TEAM REPRESENTATIVE:
Theresa Krenn (AT) – architect
 
BASED IN:
Wien– Österreich
 
EMAIL:
theresakrenn@hotmail.com
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FOXES & HEDGEHODGS

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“The fox knows a lot of things but the hedgehog only knows one big thing” – the project translates this quote from an ancient Greek text in a typological strategy: fox-buildings are carpet-type-buildings, open for a variety of programs; Hedgehogs are multi-storey point types, specialized on housing.

It looks like a chess game of figures which does not result in an urban plan, rather providing an additive and random collection of urban types. Although the In-between spaces are described, they are absent in the plan, showing the in-between as a big white surface, which is left over.

The project does not respond to the condition of the noise. If one considers that the brief asks only for a built-intervention on the western side of the road, the remnants of foxes and hedgehogs do not establish a concept any more, losing the critical mass which they would need in order to understand the intention of the project.

(excerpt & paraphrase of the jury minutes)