A project for the good life at home.
Under the motto S T A Y C A T I O N - daily pleasure infrastructures, we are looking for new programs and possible infrastructures to reactivate places that were thought to be lost and (so far) inaccessible space reserves. Public space must remain public and accessible to ALL. In this sense, it must be occupied and its qualities demonstrated - the possible must be created. Architecture is our means of choice for this.
Staycation is an architectural-urbanistic idea and sees itself at least as an ecological concept. Beyond that it is generally politically - socially motivated: S T A Y C A T I O N puts the (still) valid time concept of our working society up for discussion - as long as vacation means only the restoration of working power, the project of the good life has not yet succeeded. We want a permanent, everyday quality: facilities and places for the general good with a public program for the post-consumer society - the focus is on pleasure, joy, casual being.
S T A Y C A T I O N settles on the Danube Canal, Vienna's waterway in a privileged location, where commercial use, shipping and supposedly dirty water dominate. We regard the canal as a valuable reserve of space; here we want to exemplify the inner-city potential for an everyday vacation at home.
The kanalWAL is a response to the demands formulated by S T A Y C A T I O N for the further development of public space. The kanalWAL sees itself as a constructive-artistic object whose strength lies in the non-ordinary nature of its appearance. For passers-by along the Danube Canal, it emphasizes a restful place, a place to linger and to escape imaginatively from everyday life. As a link between land and water, it invites pedestrians and swimmers alike to use the space freely. Free of commercial use, its use remains largely open and dependent on the participation and creativity of the users. Its - at first glance - programlessness is by no means non-functional. The kanalWAL makes an offer, but gives little - it sees itself as a possible strategy to generate and activate public space.
Location
Donaukanal, Höhe Rotundenbrücke, 1020 Wien
Gallery
Further Information
The kanalWal is a project from the master draft S T A Y C A T I O N of the research area Structural Engineering - Construction and Design (E 253/5) of the Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Planning of the TU Vienna.
Concept and Management:
Silke Fischer * 1979 Meiningen (DE), lives and works in Vienna.
Elisabeth Weiler * 1984 Hall in Tirol (AT), lives and works in Vienna and Innsbruck
Structural engineering calculation:
Peter Bauer (ITI, TU Wien / Werkraum Ingenieure ZT GmbH)
Blueprint, Planning and Execution:
Students: Deniz Bernhard, Tobias Blind, Lea Bradenbrink, Ece Erdogan, Caridad Flicker, Michaela Fodor, Timo Gassner, Sarah Gold, Dominik Hütter, Elisabeth Möller, Mire Neumann, Katharina Pany, Katja Pitschieler, Fabian Quiring, Moira Ruppert, Markus Rupprecht, Gilles Schneider, Julia Stanzel, Laurenz Steixner, Fabian Tinhof, Caroline Weber, Thomas Wimmer.
Guests and collaboration: Melanie Hammerschmidt, Andreas Heim, Alenka Korenjak,
Bianca Gamser, Johannes Fandl
S T A Y C A T I O N // kanalWALStudents of the Master's program in Architecture at the Vienna University of Technology
Time Period
June 14 to July 4, 2021
In cooperation with DI Wilhelm Sedlak GmbH, TU Wien, Research Department Structural Engineering - Construction and Design (HB2), AK Wien, Bezirkskulturförderung Leopoldstadt, OBI Baumarkt, Aqua Innovation GmbH, Farmsolutions GmbH and Generali Versicherung AG.
Education - Events
- Kollektives Whale Watching #1 Wednesday, June 23, 2021 / at 05:00 PM
- Kollektives Whale Watching #2 Wednesday, June 30, 2021 / at 05:00 PM
- Finissage Sunday, July 4, 2021 / from 05:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Education - Printed matters
Press
Links
Forschungsbereich Hochbau – Konstruktion und Entwerfen
kanalWAL on Instagram
kanalWAL on Facebook
Publikation