Raumpark Vienna (2)

City design is also climate design – and vice versa. RAUMPARK stands for a new typology of cities in the era of the New Climatic Regime. The effects of climate change on cities will dominate urban planning and design in the coming decades. RAUMPARKS are urban expansions and densifications in the form of populated green spaces and forests above – and interlinked with – existing cities. They have the potential to reformulate the ecological function of architecture and cities fundamentally. Specifically designed urban spaces, building structures, and urban infrastructure systems, combined with the flora and fauna of a new 'urban wilderness', will form large-scale apparatuses for controlling and regulating urban climates.

The project builds upon the research project Raumpark Vienna – the city in times of the New Climatic Regime, which was funded by the Immobilien Privatstiftung (see final report, July 2023). While basic research was carried out in that project phase (including the development of the parametric Applied Shading Probability Tool now in use), this project phase aims to conduct a case study on the scale of an urban neighbourhood for a specific location in the city of Vienna. In terms of scale and objectives for communicating how the structure works, the format is comparable to an urban development study, with partial elaboration on a project scale.