CSC Design Studio :: Sample House Project Details

Close-up view of the railway station. The rails create a cut through the urban fabric.
Arial view from the southeast, overlooking the Shoenbrun Palace.
View of the new railway station.
Top view of the model.
Section through the hill. The inner hill facilitates larger spaces and the exterior facilitates human-scale development. Coupled Pan Space Frame visible as structure.
Street study getting more detailed into the facade variations. Coupled Pan Space Frame visible as structure.
Similar sloped street study in an earlier phase..

Main platz design.

Smaller courtyard study.
Early elevation study.
Early platz study.
Sloped street study.
Sloped street study.

Westbahnhof Sustainable Urban Implantation

A series of three commissions over five years from the Vienna Division of Urban Development and the National Bank of Austria for an ecological overbuilding of the main rail terminal yard in the city of Vienna with a new urban neighborhood. The Sustainable Urban Implantation was developed to heal the wound in the urban fabric created by the tracks with a dense sustainable neighborhood that would partner with a nearby rural town to provide for its food and energy. This project is one a number of Sustainable City-as-a-Hill urban models developed by the CSC Design Studio for commissions and competitions. Originally inspired by the dense human-scaled urban fabric of medieval hilltowns, this new urban model creates a walkable, pedestrian-oriented town, which requires few vehicles, and creates abundant public spaces such as markets, streets and squares. Whereas its medieval counterpart was a city built on a hill, the new urban model becomes a city built as a hill, using the Coupled Pan Space Frame, with the inner “hill” being comprised of the many large scale industrial and commercial buildings, mass transit and infrastructure that is needed for the operation of a modern city.

PAPER: "What is Sustainable about the Westbahnhof Sustainable Urban Implantation?"

PAPER: "The Coupled Pan Space Frame: A Structural Framework for Solar Conserving Buildings"