Special Mention

Two strips of buildings close together and parallel, with an inner street in between, cut through the entire site, ending at a high-rise residential building.

The Team
Students: Uiko Nakamura, Fauve Snauwaert, Thomas Van Campenhout
Professor:Prof. Dr. Marc Dujardin, Tomas Ooms
School: Hogeschool voor wetenschap en kunst, Gent (Belgium)

The Idea
This project “keeps the void” on the site by compressing all the functions into two strips of buildings running parallel and in close vicinity to each other. The roofs of the buildings are vertically structured with varying heights. The space in between the strips is narrow and aims to evoke a dense urban experience replete with different functions.

The Project
The strips stretch from the eastern border to the Otto Wagner bridge, where a tall housing tower marks the end of the gigantic structure. The narrow lane between the buildings is an urban inner street that accommodates the slow traffic. The rest of the site is literally empty of any functions. The river Wien receives a flattened waterside promenade and nothing more – even here the sense of the title prevails.

The Jury Assessment
This entry was disqualified because the project report was missing. Moreover, the accessibility issue is not very clearly articulated. However, it was felt that the originality and self-confidence of the authors deserve special mention. Their sweeping architectural statement has convincing elements and certain freshness about it. The jury named the project “The Colossus of Gaudenzdorf”!