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    April 16th, 2023

    WILDGARTEN

    Planning of the new ‘Wildgarten’ 11 ha neighbourhood in Meidling (Vienna, Austria).

    COMPLETED (2018-2024).

    “Can’t something different emerge, in the architectural and urban planning sphere, from the existing mode of production, something that is born from its own contradictions and reveals them rather than covering them up?” (Lefebvre, 1985)

    After its launch as a winning proposal in the international Europan 10 competition, the first steps in developing the urban project arose from collaboration with local partners Mascha & Seethaler in February 2011. Negotiation was the basis of the work process. Instead of a pre-designed urban fabric, the project proposed an innovative process of transversal and democratic planning.

    For its development, a negotiation table was created that brought together various stakeholders involved in the city: the public entity and large developers, but also representatives of the citizenry and cooperatives, coordinated by a multidisciplinary team of technicians and experts. Together, we defined a collaborative plan, negotiated and subject to critique from different interests and demands. The result is a new urban fabric of eleven hectares that houses around eleven hundred homes in the Meidling neighborhood, southwest of the city.

    After a nearly five-year definition and drafting process, the Wildgarten urban project was finally approved by the Vienna City Council on September 23, 2015. Its urban development and the definition of the various architectural projects were gradually undertaken since then. The first residents moved in at the beginning of 2020, and the project will be completed by 2024, with the project currently 100% occupied.

    The example of Wildgarten presents an innovative practice of inclusive and democratic urbanism as an alternative to conventional models of city planning today, which often fail to manage the transformation of an increasingly complex and changing reality.


    . authors: arenas basabe palacios arquitectos, madrid + mascha & seethaler, viena

    . landscape: land in sicht, viena

    . mobility: traffix, viena

    . management: raum & co, viena

    . client: ARE austrian real estate gmbh

    >collaborators:

    . Marta Guedán, Paula Fernández, Almudena Cano, Kerstin Pluch, Maria Peñalver, Ana Conesa, Alba Sospedra, Helena de Sebastian, Eva de Miguel,Franca Sonntag, Lucía Leva, Miriam Alonso, Sai Ma, Anna Lindorfer.

    >consultants:

    . Coops: Einszuain architektur: Katharina Bayer & Markus Zilker

    . Energy: Patrick Jung

    . Photos: Kurt Hoerbst

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