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GRAZ (AT) — RUNNER-UP
AUTHOR(S) — Eva Mair (AT), Johannes Paar (AT), Architects
CONTACT — Mair-Paar Office for Architecture
CONTRIBUTOR(S) — Sophia Garner (AT), Giorgi Kharitonashvili
Gaussplatz 4, A-1200 Wien (AT)
(GE), Students in architecture; Elisabeth Weber (AT), Architect
+43 69918288675 / office@mair-paar.eu / www.mair-paar.eu
TEAM POINT OF VIEW — A productive city is a city of flows.
Flows of resources, materials, goods, people, labour, knowledge, water, energy, wind, etc. communicate and influence each other. MÜHLGANG HUB acts as a connecting point amongst Graz’ productive flows, enhancing the mill stream’s potentials as a productive vein. The new centre becomes a space, where ideas, materials, food and energy are created, disassembled, repaired, recycled, processed, stored, sold, communicated and fed into cycles. The existing hall is transformed into a public inner courtyard. It is a meeting point, a market place, a workshop, a storage space, a passage, a delivery zone and a gallery. While the daily business is bustling, various production cycles are running in the flat base structure and micro-businesses are working in the towers above. MÜHLGANG HUB becomes a dynamic centre in a city of flows. JURY POINT OF VIEW — The jury highly appreciates the internal
square and the intelligent adaption of the existing building, thereby creating a new typology of space in the productive landscape. The semi-covered plaza allows productive uses to be combined with public activities and in that, offers a spatial potential hardly found in the city: an open, in-between space without a label, able to evolve and suitable for the area. The strength of the project is clearly its proposal of a new typology of public space in an industrial area and the sensible approach of reusing and redeveloping the existing building.
