Concurso Internacional CULBURB (Cultural Acupuncture Treatment for Suburbs)

Viena, Austria, 2012

FINALIST

 

How can we create community in the suburbs?

We have to rewrite the ownership structure. We propose a radical atomization of the property. Acting on public space Kongress Park, make available a network of gardens for rent, acting as objects in the public space of the park, in a dispersed and discontinuous manner, activating and revitalizing. Its design and management is based on three principles:

. Principle of minimizing the scale of intervention, which reduces the initial investment to increase the power of the user’s decision.

. Principle of a public space in the process: the gardens are programmed and reprogrammed in real time. They are of temporary private ownership. They can be rented by the locals. They are rented for days and hours, months and years, with the possibility of renewal. They do not have to be of single ownership. Just as one inhabitant can rent various ones, several neighbors can rent the same garden, creating micro-communities.

Principle of participation of users, who will be responsible in the origin and development of public space. The matrix of gardens will function as a collective pattern for individual interpretation. Each garden will be a real urban setting. It could be a traditional allotment, a fruit or flower garden, an outline, a canopy, winter garden or simply an outdoor room. There will not be any exogenous interventions, but ones based on the wishes of the community. Therefore, they will not be seen as invasive works, but as spaces of individual expression (micro-identity).

>collaborators: Salas Montes Mañas