TANIA MARQUES ARCHITECT

The Aspern Linked Pockets project is based on the Aspern Vienna Urban Lakeside masterplan for the 240 hectares of Aspern Airfield – formerly an airport, later an extension area for a factory manufacturing engines and gearboxes - on the outskirts of Vienna.

 

The masterplan proposes a sustainable development that will transform this area on the banks of the Danau river into an open-minded city. Aspern boasts both urban and country appeal, offering lots of public zones and ample open spaces, and it creates an urban focus along the train line between Vienna and Bratgislava. The centre and tranquil heart of aspern is the Lakeside Park, which links all other sections of the project.

 

Following this preliminary study we presented a new urban approach proposal that takes into account detailed social and urban analyses and the principles of overall sustainability, and also responds to the ambitious goals of a “full connected” society.

 

Our objective consists in integrating the district’s and Aspern’s future residents by linking the district’s wishes and concerns with sustainable and profitable design experiments. Our purpose is to create integrative places for people of any age from the surrounding areas as well as for the Wien 3420 agency’s intended future residents.

 

Our vision is about creating public spaces which extroversively radiate a locational attraction. The Ringstrasse serves as an unprecedented circle which exhales an activating centrifugal force and an appealing centripetal force. In this way Aspern acts like an impulse generator which activates and simultaneously attracts its surrounding areas.

Following this purpose, we developed a urban space network that could link the surrounds with the centre of the new city. Each one of these strategic public areas called “pockets” focus on a different aspect related with the new society to be growth.