ESC
ECOLOGY | SUSTAINABILITY | CULTURAL HERITAGE
THEATRE OF EPHEMERALITY
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design project LOCATION VIENNA AUSTRIA
INTEREST TRANSIENCE EPHEMERALITY CONSERVATION
METHODE GROUP RESEARCH INDIVIDUAL DESIGN
GROUP CLEMENS ANISER MICHAEL GLECHNER CENK GÜZELIS STASA KOLAKOVIC ANNA KRUMPHOLZ PAUL SONNLEITNER KAI TRAUSENEGGER
The former Z-Bank building by the Austrian architect Günther Domenig is a very strong and in itself cohesive building. The design proposal should act as a partner for conversation or as an opponent to get in balance. The building appears like a dead and conserved body that is not allowed to decompose. Therefore the design is inspired by a story by Oscar Wilde, the story of Dorian Grey and his portrait, which is aging instead of him and revealing his true personality. The project is a critical reflection, a personal portrait of the former Z-Bank building (as it appears to me). As a location for the project the site opposite the street was chosen. Inspired by the story by Oscar Wilde, topics like transience, ephemerality and the unnaturalness of conservation had been examined through experiments. The design should act as a stage for ephemerality and the former Z-Bank acts both as an observer as well as an stage scenery. The form of the opponent structure was created through mirrored imitation and mutation with a process inspired by natural growth and decay. Therefore the design appears as an artificial ruin or the decomposing body of the former Z-Bank. The design is facing the original building by Günther Domenig to create a conflict and raise the question - “ how natural is conservation?”
RIGHT VISUALIZATION OF DESIGN PROPOSAL (INDIVIDUAL WORK)