E16 Sites - Graz (AT)

"Trading the Big and the Small"

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Location Graz, Austria
Scale L, urban and architectural
Site Family Recovery - Stimulating Interfaces
Commission after competition architectural project

How Must Metabolism and Inclusivity Be Developped and Connected?
The “City Park” in Graz, a substantial shopping agglomeration with parking garages and accompanying streetscape, is in a truly central spot. Due to its expansive volume and its focus on cars, it appears somewhat of an “alien giant” sitting in a neighbourhood of much smaller scale. The shopping mall area will be transformed substantially within the next couple of years. […] The goal of the E16 site will be to negotiate and to synergize, thereby weaving all the parts together. Its bridging act will not only be of a spatial manner; it will also need to mediate the social and the digital by interpreting future trade strategies and valorising the local potential.