Europan 10

Eisenstadt, Austria

Europan 10 competition 2009, second prize

Gross area: ~4.500 m²

Inventing Urbanity, regeneration, revitalisation, colonization

Any rehabilitation process should aim at

re-creating the adequate modality of reaction and reacting

, which would be able to normalize, bring back the equilibrium, be in control of the situation and, ultimately, create the appropriate conditions for releasing the

self-adjustment

.

Thus, our project is not planning big gestures

; it tries instead to use

a series of small-scale interventions

, to search for ways of gradually bringing back

the “lost urbanity” of the place

.

In Haydn’s town, the metaphor of Philemon and Baucis’ hospitality speaks of the relation from human to human and, further on, facilitates the

exposure of a new form of inhabiting and

co-habiting

. In a dense

mix of small, affordable housing units

, the whole new housing programme is organised around the triangle – old people, students and young families with children.

PROJECT TEAM:

Architects

Andrei Șerbescu

Adrian Untaru

Bogdan Brădățeanu

Irina Băncescu

Sebastian Șerban