circles

http://pages.akbild.ac.at/ika/eleni

the bench
julia, hannah, ernst

http://pages.akbild.ac.at/ika/hanah

Testing Preconceptions in a shared Space

In a public space we observed a static point in a place of constant movement.
We analysed the rules that applied to it and how they can be manipulated.
The documentation exemplifies the following aspects:

- movement
- ways of use (ergonomic)
- interaction of users (language, visual, physical)
- privatisation (sitting down, placing objects)

thank you carlos!

FINAL PRESENTATION 06.10.2006
EXTREME LIVING_SHARING VIENNA

POST PRODUCTION

Thank you so much!
I enjoyed visiting Shared Vienna with you!
and you all did such good work!

Please, do upload the complete files, or any post-produced docs you may want to add over the week-end , to complete the blog

bye for now
carlos

shared & enlarged /pia/teresa/andrea

shared - space
or how to enlarge your apartment


living in an apartment-house, you have to share all corridors and staircases
with neighbours and visitors.
though it seems to be a quite intimate space,
even if you always pay your rent one time,
you can´t do as you please,
in the space between the front door and your own flat!

there are lots of written (and even more unwritten) rules to make live easier...



"welcome to the shared space around the door to your flat!
use it with common sense...
may we ask you to follow some rules

...or do as you please!! "

diversion _ steffi ada onur

by changing the possibility to enter our academy
the mensa became a shared place

http://pages.akbild.ac.at/ika/onur

st stephan's stage

the st. stephans place in the heart of vienna is one of the most crowded areas in the city. tourists, passerbys, differnt street artists and other sellers use that open public space. events like the break- dance- show on the picture abouve are the everyday live of st. stephans. this kind of spaces and events are created by a particular numer of strollers which are captured by a performence and stop to watch it. the larger the groupe gets the more space they occupy and the bigger the event gets. the passerbys become the audience which have the power to create variouse sizes of arenas. till suddenly the number of paticipants is so enourmouse that nobody can actually see the artist and people don't stop any more. in a short animation we tried to discribe the relation between passerbys and acters befor-, during-, and after- those events.

http://www.paulh.net/ws-sharedspace-02.swf

Julia Zechmeister, Alex Mayer, Marcel Grabher, Paul Hebenstreit

smoke barrier for non smokers

the initial situation was an event at the aula of the academy of fine arts, where the smokers had to leave the party and created a barrier of smoke for non smokers.

´Karl-Marx-Hof´

Wohnhausanlage ´Karl-Marx-Hof´
Having a sign of “shared space” in every form of living




hanging clothes out - border where public beginns ?












I was looking for “shared space” in a “klassischer Gemeindebau”













Impressions of the unity of the building is
Clear visible, because of signs of form of architecture form and colour – also showing that the parks are a part of the “Gemeindebau” taken blue limits on all “borders” .like blue gates lamps and so on

Blue gates and lights are everey where as a sign of border -

from whom?

to what ?

The questions I was looking for

- have the people living in these houses made signs public
put private signs outside
- have the public made signs of there presents in the buildings
- how far can I go forward to come in one of these closed complexes

the staircase is besind do the terssasses

windows from the flats are passing

















































place for clothes on a hoke in the staircase

impression of private live "from the other side"




coming to the border on the top of the house














comimg to the groud and .......










last but not least “after the tour”


shared space does exist !!!!

At places which are not really prepared for this

SchutzZone Karlsplatz...Protection Zone Karlsplatz

TEAM_19

Alexandre D´Aram

Sebastian Fischbeck

Rüdiger Suppin

Protection zone (Schutzzone Karlsplatz)

For many years the Viennese „Karlsplatz“ is one of the biggest attraction points for the local drug scene. Further more there is a primary school, a university, the “Karlskirche” as tourist attraction and a museum.

As well the “Karlsplatz” stands for a highly frequented transit space, because of the junctions of many public and private transport lines. Social and spatial circumstances led to the invention of this “Protection zone”.

The primary intention is the protection of the pupils from the influences of the drug scene.
Established in September 2006 it will last until December 2006.

Phenomena

Public space, which is normally defined through free access and free use, is defined in a new way.
An invisible, virtual boarder which excludes certain person and actions is created.
These do not necessarily have to be illegal to give the authority the right to expel persons from this public space. A new code accurse. A tendency of a society with total secureness gets a new spatial instance.

Shared Space

Various programs used or produced by various users define Shared Space.

The more diverse the program is (public - private; active - passive), the higher the potentials of conflict will be.

The potential of conflict stands in an inverse relation to the physical size of space.

changeover- public privat spce in housinggilbert berthold

shared- and private space:

my observations were about living and housing, to be more precise they were about the border between privacy and public.
I wanted to locate the changeover between public and private space
I thought of the normal houses in row construction in the center of vienna, where this changeover starts at the door in front of the staircase;
of the normal three or four storey high cottage community buildings (wohnsiedlungs-bauten), with attached private gardens or public grass surfaces where changeover still starts at the door in front of the staircase;
of the allotment houses (schrebergartensiedlungs-bauten) where fence and the garden door communicate a virtual border;
and of some special housing projects in vienna.
i focused on the atrium community building in pfarrgasse, inzersdorf planed by pruscha.
this building is situated in the form of an square, in the middle of other community buildings. on contrary to the other buildings it is braking the grid because its rotated with one side exactly to south.
around the square is a garden for the owners, but it is in no way indicated that the garden cant be visited by external persons.
the square is divided into four identical squares by two rectangular crossing ways. these with rows of trees planted ways are important to lead the owners to their flat, but it is still not sure if its private or public space on which you are moving. but a real strange feeling is occurring, if you enter on of the four tiny ways leading into one of the four identical squares. this tiny ways takes you in the center of one atrium bloc, inside one bloc are always two little (private, semi private or public?!?) yards with the access to the private flat, symbolized by an wooden door but if you look up you can see though the transparent balcony floors their arrangements of chairs and tables, plants and gymnastic bikes.

The Church_Stefan Vogt

The church is a place shared
by all the parishioners that
come to worship. It is open
to anyone under the condition
that the person who steps inside
accepts the rules. It offers a
number of identical seats,
according to the size of the
respective community, which
are all directed towards the altar,
where the priest is to be found
during the services.




What makes the church an examp-
ple for a kind of space sharing,
which is different than most of the
ones discussed in the workshop, is
the fact that the inhabitants also
share the same reason to be there.
The activity carried out with a ser-
vice is done together, that means
that everybody who is there at this
moment forms a group and doesn't
happen to be there by accident.




The act of sharing is precisly
figuring in one of the most
important moments of the
service. It is the one of the
holy communion, where on a
spiritual level, the lamb of
christ is being shared among all.
This is celebrated with a syblolic
act which underlines the notion
of sharing.The priest and the
servants are distributing the
altar bread from common cups
where each person has to pass,
who wants to make the communion.




The church as the place, where
the community comes together
and which integrates it, apears
in a very manifestant way in
the image you can see on the
right side. It shows a ground
floor plan of an old church in
Hartland, Ireland. It shows
every single seat with a red
point for a female and a blue
one for a male.
A list attached to it says to
whom it belongs, the seat num-
ber, the name, the age (the list
is of the year 1613), the proven-
ience, even a commentary about
him or her. So everybody is regis-
tered in the order, or the structure
of the church, and on the other hand
each one of them is an element,
not only of the religious community
but also of the church as a building.



On a more personal level the con-
fessional, a unique invention, is a
space where one can express
things that cannot be shared else-
where. And yet, everybody goes to
the same little cabin to share the
little sins of a religious live with a
human voice. We can imagine how
the priest of Hartland knew the deep
secrets of all the living souls of the
community.

public space to rent! cheap!

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stefan

public swimming

POST PRODUCTION

Thank you so much!
I enjoyed visiting shared Vienna with you!

and please, if you want to post all the information during the weekend, the blog will be complete
bye for now
carlos

searching for methods, privatising parts of the public space.
stefan

sharing_escalatorspace

A subway/railway station (in this chase "westbahnhof") is one of the most frequented
points of the city. There is a permanent flow.
Is it possible to interrupt the flow by a new defined - private - space.
How will the pedestrians react?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcbevZBnkY0

A public private livingroom

Hello Guys, Come and join us in our livingroom.
Have a break.
Get some free cake.
Sit down for a chat.
Leave a message.
Your hosts Franz, Martin, Stefan

privacy expander | peter jellitsch

EKH Vienna

EKH

The building in the Wielandgasse was built in the twenties of Czech workers as a school. 1945 the object changed into possession of the communist party of Austria. At the time of occupation by radically left-wing, autonomous artists and activists of the Turkish association ATIGF a majority of the building was already for years unused. 1990 the occupying gutters named the House after the anti-fascist and KZ survivor Ernst Kirchweger.

The principle of living together in the EKH bases on the principle of community. The, to the overheads reduced rent is paid from a community –account which is made up of solidary contributions; who has less, can pay less. An internal Organisation cares about emigrants and refugees. Several house –rules align the everyday live but moreover it is assumed that everyone is proactive for the purpose of community. Several “interest –collectives” take care of various projects, like, for example, an internal studio, which interested artists can use against operating costs. Furthermore there is a concert area, a library, weekly political discussions, film demonstrations and a monthly published newspaper. Weekly meetings ensure an internal collective coordination of all the projects and offer the possibility to clear different questions jointly. Neither there is an administration nor a hierarchy. Every of the resulting tasks is carried out voluntarily and unpaid. None of the events of the EKH are commercial; entrances or proceeds from advertisement just serve the overheads of the different institutions.

In the EKH it seems that there is no division between private and collective space. People live together as well as they work together, but although they are united by their ideas, everyone has the ability to evolve in and with a multi-cultural creative atmosphere. So the EKH itself can be seen as a constantly evolving and self regulating system, in which every individual takes part in designing the lifestyle. As an effect of reflecting to this surroundings and the constantly intervention of the occupants a continuous process forms the community.

DISTANCES_ clemens, jadwiga, roxy

cash machine

method:
snapshot people at the place they're sitting, standing, laying,...
mark the position of their feet with a chalk
measure the distances between them

we tested the method at a fountain, at a bench, at a snack bar, at a chash machine and nearby an artist on a square

the distances give information about in how far people share "their own" private public space with others

we discovered that it depends on what they're doing and their relationship among each other. other aspects: gender, nationality, age,...

living underground

New kids on the blogg

breaking unwritten rules

Some thirty inches from my nose
The frontier of my person goes,
And all the untilled air between
Is private pagus or demesne.
Stranger, unless with bedroom eyes
I beckon you to fraternize,
Beware of rudely crossing it:
I have no gun, but I can spit.

W.H.Auden “Prologue: The Birth of Architecture”

http://pages.akbild.ac.at/ika/grga

intimacy

bumping

stand right

stand in line

GrgaBasic, Matthäa Ritter, Johanna Werschnig

INTIMACY ISLAND

PEEP SHOW – CHANGING ROOM – CONFESSIONAL

By our definition shared spaces are public environments that can be used by everybody and become temporarily private as soon as they are occupied. We chose three examples of similar spatial conditions that allow a high degree of intimacy: such as peep-show cabins, changing rooms and confessionals in roman-catholic churches. The dimension of all three cabins is approximately 1 sqm, they can be closed and from the outside it’s visible if they are occupied or not. All activities need these intimate spaces as they take place in the public. The connection to the outside is given on various levels: observing yourself in the mirror while checking your style, talking and listening to the priest to get rid of your sins and watching the striptease dancer to satisfy your sexual needs.

christian haid, nuray karakurt, michael klein, christina lenart, elisabeth srajer, lukas staudinger

GRUPPE 6 / Isi, Peter, Tonko, Erwin

invisible barriers:

Through a series of actions in a dense open public space we tried to explore and analyse methods of manipulating circulation. In these experiments our group used and abused different unwritten laws and codes the change the flow of the people by invisible (non physical) barriers.

To gain interesting results we used a crowded dense urban area with a high movement rate.

In the first sets we used two dimensional (group) structures to test different behaviours. With the help of well know suggestions we manipulated, changed or blocked the paths of different people.

In the next series of test we tried to occupy more and more space for our group.
This time we used acoustic or visual signs to mark our territory (conversation / identification).

Using these different tests let us recognise which accepted and unwritten laws change the flow of the crowds. To get out measurable results (distance and dimension) we build the test systematically up.

VIRTUAL SPACE

To analyse the changing of public space when it is shared by different people we went to the Prater. We were specialising on game halls.

We took short sequences of film and pictures.

In interviews with the people playing, we found out that during they were playing they were completely identifying themselves with the game figure. They also were totally enclosed in their own virtual world. Their private world could be entered easily by strangers.

Oliver Märki. Laura Hochhäusl. Sophie Hochhäusl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTqAphfzmYU

marie-theres, eleni, christina ......... experiment


idea: creating my own private space within a public setting

confrontation: testing their awareness of ownership, tracing their pathway, manipulation of their direction of walking, exchange of information, invitation to join a private space for free, integration

phases: invisible limits of private space, narrow circle, expanding structure and add another private space in bigger circle, add another circle to offer, as soon as occupied, create another one.
developing a continuous pattern of a temporary living situation within moving crowds.

The church is a place shared
by all the parishioners that
come to wor- ship. It is open
to anyone under the condition
that the person who steps inside
accepts the rules. It offers a
number of identical seats,
according to the size of the
respective community, which
are all directed towards the altar,
where the priest is to be found
during the services.

What makes the church an example
for a kind of space sharing, which
is different than most of the one
discussed in the workshop, is the
fact that the inhabitants also share
share a common idea, a faith. The
activity carried out with a service
is done together, that means that
everybody who is there at this
moment forms a group.

The act of sharing is precisly
figuring in one of the most
important moments of the
service. It is the one of the
holy communion, where on a
spiritual level, the lamb of
christ is being shared among all.
This is celebrated with a syblolic
act which underlines the notion
of sharing.The priest and the
servants are distri- buting the
altar bread from common cups
where each person has to pass,
who wants to make the communion.




The church as the place, where
the community comes together
and which integrates it, apears
in a very manifestant way in
the image you can see on the
right side. It shows a ground
floor plan of an old church in
Hartland, Ireland. It shows
every single seat with it's re-
presentative holder of the
community. Meaning that
each member of the communi-
ty had a fix seat in the church
which was registered as the
image shows. Attached to the
plan I also found the list with
all the seat owners on it, indi-
cating the seat number, the

names, the age (it is the list of
specific year, 1613), the prove-
nience, even a commentary on
the person.

On a more personal level, the confes-

sional, a unique invention, is a space
where one can share secrects that
cannot be expressed elsewhere.
Every church has got one and the
same little cabin is used by everybody.
We can imagine how the priest of
Hartland knew the deep grounds of
the all the living souls of the

community. In this sense again, it is
the device for a virtual space, that
everybody shares. Like the great
wall of complayning in Jerusalem,
only that it gives the possibility to
talk, which can be a strong relief.

My private Picknick

Museumsquartier Vienna

The MuseumsQuartier Wien is one of the ten largest cultural complexes in the world. It offers a big range of institutions, museums, bars, restaurants, library and accommodations. These different utilisations have different security needs as well as different demands on density, circulation, noise, etc.

The MQ is a shared space, which pretends to be public. In fact the whole area is owned by the state, but ran by a private society which is commissioned by the state. This paradox situation allows the state to tighten rules in public space, what means that the public space is not secured by the police, it is controlled by a private security company. This fact decreases the wide range of different social groups, to a non representative society. The expelling of homeless people or junkies makes sure, that the mostly young and hip audience is able to enjoy their elitist status.

A controlled ´shared space´.

Is a public space provided by privates better than a state-ran public?

Most of the visitors do not know about this privatisation. Should the visitors be more sensitive?

Does public space need a corporate identity?

By staging our own privacy we were questioning the real nature of this shared space.

With our own properties we re-enacted a typical living-room situation in the centre of the complex.

My private Picknick

Visualization - brainstorm

Smoke barrier for non smokers

Ekh

Bank, post office: levels of privacy, in between spaces, 24 hrs zone, metal detecting barriers (sally port)

Photo booth, kiosks

The effect of time in the mensa space: different service, different action, different spatial arrangemento

Designing for vandals, do vandals oblige?

Improvised theatres, the phenomena of crowds (“Crowds and Power”, Elias Canetti)

Kitchenette in a long range aircraft

Capsules of personal space and virtual reality (headphones in the underground, cars…)

Personal distance: measuring people per say 100 sqm. Variations: function, age, gender….

Living underground

Laundry situations.

Smell, sound, light, the privatisation of air.

Ottakring

Hietzing

Favoriten

Visualization

You have experienced life outside your standard pattern.
We have discussed and verbalized some shared spaces in Vienna.
You can think up some others.
NOW we are to visualize them: contracts, codes, limits, activities, agents and controversy.

Think that to visutalize limits or codes it is most efficient to break them and to register the effect of the trespass.
do something and register the effect

Tomorrow at 10:00 am we meet and discuss what you have been doing/thinking/producing.

In the final presentation we only see stuff that may be visualiyed throug the blog, be it directly or through a link

Brainstorm 05-october-2006

Sharing space in Vienna

Museumsquartier. Ok but apart from the “public service aspect” what sharing is going on
museums as public spaces
Intermediate situations users
museum restaurants open ant night, how do you go through the closed museum?
People working, visiting

Territories

Underground, bicycles

Streets, zebra crossings, pedestrian zones
Behaviour important
Narrow streets
Conflict situations, how are they solved?

Elevators
Public transport

Bars, restaurants

Public toilets
Rules about privacy
Signs - relating to function ?
Smell
Noise – hiding actions / privacy
Unisex toilets
Separating functions, features

Train stations
Commercial centres
Meaning
Connection and distribution
Flow of people and items
Behaviour reflects users

Shops / street
Border inside outside
Transition
Pubic / private

Bar
Codes for users

Public pools
Rules

Beaches
Separation public private
Sea is public
Spain: 300m from waterline is public

Open spaces in Vienna
Are parks public / private?
Augarten – different habits in different entrances
Geography of park determined by closing times of entrances
Mappings, who stays, why, what they do, feelings
Oberlaa: some entrances open, others closed – selecting users

Graveyards
Used to be romance places, place to meet secretly, alone
London: without paying graveyard will be removed

Airports
Duty free zones
Security
Shops – expanding influence areas
Light, sounds, smells spread into public space

Issue of acoustic
Influences communication

Sargfabrik
Shared facilities responding to new organisation of society
Pool, kitchen, party room
Domestic environment expanding to public spaces
No specialisation of rooms

Housing
What is shared? swimming pool, entrance 8post box, water meters, bicycle shed special contract
Few condominiums in london
Either individual housing
Hardly sharing of properties
Different ways of participation
Situation in Vienna currently – make catalogue of shared spaces and types of contracts people have around their housing

Public Transport


NOW
Visualize: contracts, codes, limits, activities and agents.

Informing our study of URBAN STRUCTURE AND WAYS OF LIFE we may define a privacy gradient to frame the infinite intermediate situations between public and private.
Between the public square and the bedroom, there is a whole array of examples that question the traditional divide, the black and white conception of public and private.

This leads us to the study of

SHARING SPACE

Public square – temporarily privatized public space with no contract – benches on the street – licensed occupation – open-air cafés – kiosks – advertising – privately-owned public access space – shopping centres with piazzas and streets – the tube – accessible spaces with admission reserves – open shops – self-service – closed shops – shops with a bell – public buildings and services – libraries – publicly-owned restricted access space – pay-to-enter accessible space – residences – urban communities – gated communities with shops and services – co-ownership – shared systems – shared leisure – swimming-pools – tennis – crèche – portal – media – virtual space – shared flats– grouped units – clans– families – friends – symbiosis – internet – wikipaedias – from the bedroom to cyberspace and back again.

This spectrum of intermediate situations covers almost everything, and yet, it is little studied. We still operate under the false impression of the radical separation between private and public.
The aim of this exercise is to verbalise, visualise, get to know these places as they are now, and to create a set of tools to control and design shared space in future projects.

akbild arch / extremes of living / wese 06/07 / workshop / Heidi Pretterhofer / 25.09.2006 /
Extremes of Living / Workshop
First task: Living Extreme

Switch of your well known image of Vienna, forget your identity and go on an expedition to unknown living patterns in the boroughs of Vienna, outside of the Gürtel.

Look for places and situations where you would like to spend the night and collect the qualities and criterias of it. Look for “Shared Space” as Carlos Arroyo names it.

Timetable: 8 hours of extreme living
start: wed 4th oct 2006, 22:00 (after the lecture)
end: thur 5th oct 2006, 06:00 (go home take a shower and a break)
presentation of the expedition thur 5th oct 14:00 R211

Teams: 2 students

Location: Vienna
10. Favoriten
11. Simmering
12. Meidling
13. Hietzing
14. Penzing
15. Rudolfsheim-Fünfh
16. Ottakring
17. Hernals
18. Währing
19. Döbling
20. Brigittenau
21. Floridsdorf
22. Donaustadt
23. Liesing

Movement:
Public transport
Bike
On Foot

Equipment:
Comfortable shoes
Comfortable clothes
Index cards
Zip-bags
10 Euro maximum (don´t spend more money)
Camera

Conditions:
Spend the night in “your” borough
If you have friends or families there, don´t visit them
Don´t spend your night in hotesl, bars, clubs …

Methods:
Making friends
Making connections
Making spaces

Output:
Report of the expedition
Lost property (give it in zip-bags and make a note: title, place, time)
Sketches
Maps
Notes
Photos

SOS:
If you are in troubles and you don´t know what to do, the magic words are “self organisation” and “improvisation”.

Enjoy and good luck!!!

Extremes of Living - 4th- 6th October 2006

Workshop

“On Living” will be the topic of the winter term at the Institute for Art and Architectur at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

The workshop “Extremes of Living”at the beginning of the semester should be an intensive startingpoint, questioning the relations of living and housing. What are the conditions and references of extreme living? Is it Andy Warhol and his factory, or living without apartment in the city, living enclosed in a prison or in a movie? Where we will live how and with whom?

“Extremes of Living” should adress issues of living beyond the questions of squaremeters and typologies, the aim is to get a specific awarness of living conditions. There should be different entrances (or exits) to the topic of living

- timetable

Wed, 4th Oct 2006

11.00h: Introduction with Antje Lehn und Heidi Pretterhofer (Room 211)

14.00h: "Nobody Knows" Film, 141min Japan (Stadtkino, Schwarzenbergplatz)

19.00h: "Million Donkey Hotel", lecture Feld 72, Vienna (EG Nord, Atelierhaus)

22:00 - 06:00: “Living Extreme” (1:1 experience. for students only!!! see programm)

Thur, 5th Oct 2006

14.00h: "Living Extreme" presentation of the expetition (Room 211)

15.00h: "Shared Space" workshop with Carlos Arroyo and IKA staff (Room 211)

20.00h: "Shared Space" lecture Carlos Arroyo, Madrid (EG Nord, Atelierhaus)

Fri, 6th Oct 2006

10.00h: "Shared Space" workshop with Carlos Arroyo and IKA staff (Room 211)

17.00h: Student presentation with Carlos Arroyo + Feld 72 + IKA staff (Room 211)

- location:

Room 211, 2^nd floor

Institute for Art and Architecture, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Wien

- information:

Antje Lehn, Heidi Pretterhofer

coming soon

The Sharing Vienna workshop will begin shortly