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EM320

Das Projekt arbeitet mit der Spannung der Gegensätze, deren zeichenhafte Inszenierung die Bahngegend im Kontext mit der umliegenden Region verortet: eine Wand bildet eine “verbindende Grenze, die sich immer wieder zu Höfen ausweitet. Diese bilden einerseits urbane Brennpunkte, andererseits stellen sie als Sehmaschinen differenzierte Bezüge zur Umgebung her.

"The project provokes with a controversial starting point: to make a wall as a link. With the wall the project fixes the dimension of the area along the railway tracks. The response of the sensitive reading of the regional context is rather a work of art than an urban strategy, using, to give an example, literally the technique of screening in order to relate the place to its wider context.

The project can be seen as a work which is specifically made for the idea’s part of the Europan-competition, bringing topics on the table whose discussion enriches the perspectives of the place, working rather as an installation, addressing performance, temporariness and city festivals with “historical costumes”. 

The jury appreciates the productive historical dimension of the project, e.g. the proposal of an inside/out “castle” as a re-interpretation of the agricultural building types which now visit Amstetten, adapting their identities in order to cultivate the non-place of the Europan site." (excerpt & paraphrase of the jury minutes)