Fusion of two Cities
Peter Trummer
Design Research Project @ioud/2023
Content
CREDITS:
Peter Trummer with Jörg Stanzel
AND:
Ben Bogaczynski Can Ötzunc
Clemens Unterlechner
Daniel Eckelhofer
Henning Dörfler
Jasmin Wirth
Jean-Nicolas Tarnaud
Johanna Maurer
Jose Ferrufino
Julia Pfeiffer
Julia Ruprecht
Lea Mailänder
Lena Marie Jenn
Leonie Vogl
Marie Keppler
Maximilian Mooser
Michelle Nickels
Miriam Meyer
Nicola Kollreider
Sophie Elisabeth Gruner
Stefan Tiefentahler
Vera Blasbichler
Introduction
Content
Julia Pfeiffer | Johanna Maurer
Hannah Rainer | Can Ötzunc
Michelle Nickels
Julia Ruprecht | Leonie Vogl
Jasmin Wirth | Vera Blasbichler
Lena Marie Jenn | Sophie Elisabeth Grüner
Ben Bogaczynski | Jean-Nicolas Tarnaud
Anita Krause | Henning Jasper Dörfler
Chiara Koch | Theresa Riedmann
Maximilian Mooser | Jose Ferrufino
Nicola Kollreider | Lea Mailänder
Stefan Tiefentahler
Daniel Eckelhofer| Miriam Meyer
Introduction
The Hotel as a Model of Urbanization
When we talk today about our cities, particularly our urban environment, we use statistics on how humans behave within our built environment. We explain the tendency of our living by graphs to give measurements of our intentions, or we show some diagrams to prove how our urban behaviors relate. While we might have given quantitative data to every behavior, we don’t research the formal understanding of our human environment. While cities are built of buildings, streets, parks, and public spaces, we hardly discuss their forms. What we gave up to ask ourselves is the quality of the form we want to live in.
The design research project on the Hotel as a model of urbanization intends to develop expertise in formally understanding our urban environment within metropolitan areas and our countryside. What we investigate is the architectural knowledge of our human environment, which gives form to our quantitative data. The intention is to examine new architectural forms of living environments.
There is no content without a form.
If we look into the history of urban design and planning, especially in Europe of the 19th, the 20th Century, and more recently into the 1st decade of the 21st Century, two essential accepts of urban design and development belonged to each other. One was understanding our spatial behavior through statistics, and the other gave form to it. When our cities grew within the 19th Century, the grid became its urban expansion model, and the urban block gave its architectural form. We can see the variation of such urban blocks throughout all our cities based on the various cultural differences in land ownership and housing typologies. At the beginning of the 20th century, the single-slab building emerged on a free piece of land mainly owned by the city. This architectural type became the model of our urban settlement before and after the 2nd World War. Both urban forms
were highly influenced by city and state governments’ involvement to increase the quality of our living environment.
In late capitalism and definitely, within the last twenty years, urban developments are executed by project next to the project, development next to the development. The question of form became replaced by the problem of what to invest in. Cities have given away the formal control of their cities.
What we witness today is what historically is known as the liberal urbanism of the 19th Century, an urban development without formal consciousness. What we need is research into the forms under which our cities evolve. It is the form in which we live, not its data.
In the recently published statistic on the behavior of the Austrian population within their urban environments by APA/Statistik Austria, a tendency became visualized, which can be found nearly anywhere within the European landscape of historically developed modes of inhabitation. While many cities in Austria grew immensely, from 14.1% in the town of Eisenstadt, 12.9% in Graz to 9.3% in the metropolitan city like Vienna and 8,4% in Innsbruck, the city of the Alps, small size towns or villages within the immediate distance to growing urban areas even exploded in terms of population growth by up to 30%. There is an enormous magnetic tendency that attracts people to move towards large urban metropolitan areas, while at the same time, historically established villages in the countryside empty out. This tendency is similar throughout Europe and even globally, while in Central Europe, within the Alps area, this tendency took on a particular form. The villages decreased by twofold: not only did these villages decrease in size and populations, but at the same time, their population changed from permanent inhabitants, a generation of people that found their economic existences within the imitate context of the village, to temporary inhabitants, like tourist, second home citizens and weekend dwellers which work or study during the week in metropolitan areas and speed their weekend back home. It can be argued that the village is not sustainable anymore, neither socially, economically, or even spatially.
Its form will die.
At the same time, a new architectural form emerged within the tourist areas of the Alps, namely, the high-rise building. The high-rise emerged as a particular form within high-density urban environments like Chicago and New York. The reason for the emergence of high-rise buildings was not only its potential to increase density but also the necessity to profit from the increasing land values within metropolitan areas. Today, any architectural form has lost its context and even emerges within an alpine area, whereby
its real quality can be witnessed, namely the high-rise building as a hotel containing all the city facilities. Therefore, the high-rise can be seen as a form of a town, a building that includes the life of a city.
One of our recent research projects has been the investigation within the last couple of years of the possible merge of the idea of a village and the idea of a hotel as a model of urbanization. The design investigation of this design research mainly developed forms of high-dense living environments based on a one-family house. While villages are constituted by many single-family dwellings spreading along roads, the design challenges were related to how it is possible to keep the individual home alive while reducing their related outdoor spaces and their form of access. Such a design investigation has happened throughout the history of urban design. It has its precursors in Le Corbusier Villa-Immeubles from 1925, many research projects within northern European countries from the 1950s to 1970, and recent design research projects in Asia, especially Japan.
The research aims to understand urban transformations as a problem of forms. The forms investigated are highly dense urban fabrics. These fabrics are intended not only to reintroduce aesthetics into our political considerations when planning our cities but also as the primary architectural forms that can solve sustainability problems. To live socially, economically, and materially sustainable, we must live in dense urban environments. The investigation of such forms is what we, as an institute of design, have developed as our expertise.
Innsbruck 2024
Peter Trummer
Works
CIRCUS CIRCUS & ST. CHRISTINA
Julia Pfeiffer | Johanna Maurer
SAHARA & SAALBACH-HINTERGLEMM
Hannah Rainer | Can Ötzunc
HOTEL PLANET HOLLYWOOD & SERFAUS
Michelle Nickels
CIRCUS CIRCUS & SERFAUS UND FISS
Vera Blasbichler | Jasmin Wirth
ST. ANTON AM ARLBERG & HOTEL SAHARA
Julia Rupprecht | Leonie Vogl
CIRCUS CIRCUS & SERFAUS UND FISS
Sophie Elisabeth Gruner | Lena Marie Jenn
FALMINGO HOTEL & LECH AM ARLBERG
Ben Bogaczynski | Jean-Nicolas Tarnaud
SAHARA LAS VEGAS & SÖLDEN
Henning Jasper Dörfler | Anita Krause
PLANET HOLLYWOOD & ST. CHRISTINA
Chiara Koch | Theresa Riedmann
SANDS HOTEL LAS VEGAS & SÖLDEN
Maximilian Moser | Jose Ferrufino
PLANET HOLLYWOOD & ST.CHRISTINA
Nicola Kollreider | Lea Mailänder
SAHARA LAS VEGAS & SÖLDEN
Stephan Tiefenthaler
SANDS HOTEL LAS VEGAS & SÖLDEN
Daniel Eckelhofer| Miriam Meyer
CIRCUS CIRCUS & ST.CHRISTINA
Julia Pfeiffer | Johanna Maurer
St. Christina floorplan
ANALYSIS
Julia Pfeiffer | Johanna Maurer
Julia Pfeiffer | Johanna Maurer
D AGRAM
top: Cirscus Circus bottom: St.Christina
ANALYSIS
Julia Pfeiffer | Johanna Maurer
top: houses middle: streets bottom: terrain
ANALYSIS
Julia Pfeiffer | Johanna Maurer
Julia Pfeiffer | Johanna Maurer
terrain into circulation
Julia Pfeiffer | Johanna Maurer terrain into circulation
Julia Pfeiffer | Johanna Maurer
Julia Pfeiffer | Johanna Maure
Julia Pfeiffer | Johanna Maure
SAHARA & SAALBACH-HINTERGLEMM
Hanna Rainer| Can Ötzunc
ANALYSIS
Saalbach - Hinterglemm floorplan
Hanna Rainer| Can Ötzunc
Hanna Rainer| Can Ötzunc
ANALYSIS
Hanna Rainer| Can Ötzunc
Hotel Sahara Las Vegas
ANALYSIS
Hanna Rainer| Can Ötzunc
top: village middle: hotel bottom: circulation streets
properties
top: houses
Hanna Rainer| Can Ötzunc
Hanna Rainer| Can Ötzunc
CONCEPT
Hanna Rainer| Can Ötzunc
top: connecton 1 & 2
bottom: connection 3 & 4
detail chunk
TOWER
Hanna Rainer| Can Ötzunc
Hanna Rainer| Can Ötzunc
Hanna Rainer| Can Ötzunc
Hanna Rainer| Can Ötzunc
HOTEL PLANET HOLLYWOOD & SERFAUS
Michelle Nickels
ANALYSIS
Michele Nickels
Michele Nickels
Serfaus floorplan
Hotel Planet Hollywod
ANALYSIS
Michelle Nickels
top: scale
middle: public spaces
bottom: main circulation
ANALYSIS
Michelle Nickels
CONCEPT
Michelle Nickels detail
top: apartments - circulation, garden space bottom: filling the volume
CONCEPT
Michelle Nickels
Michele Nickels
PARIS & HOUSE STEINER
Julia Rupprecht | Leonie Vogl
St. Anton am Arlberg floorplan ANALYSIS
Julia Rupprecht | Leonie Vogl
Julia Rupprecht | Leonie Vogl
ANALYSIS
Julia Rupprecht | Leonie Vogl
Hotel Sahara
ANALYSIS
Julia Rupprecht | Leonie Vogl
Hotel Sahara
top: staircase block middle: street block
Julia Rupprecht | Leonie Vogl
Julia Rupprecht | Leonie Vogl
CIRCUS CIRCUS & SERFAUS UND FISS
Vera Blasbichler | Jasmin Wirth
SerfauserLandesstraße
Serfaus floorplan
Fiss floorplan
ANALYSIS
ANALYSIS
Vera Blasbichler | Jasmin Wirth
Vera Blasbichler | Jasmin Wirth
top: Circus Circus middle: circulation functions
ANALYSIS
ANALYSIS
Vera Blasbichler | Jasmin Wirth
Vera Blasbichler | Jasmin Wirth
top: circus circus bottom: form
top: circus circus bottom: floors + circulation
Vera Blasbichler | Jasmin Wirth
Vera Blasbichler | Jasmin Wirth
Vera Blasbichler | Jasmin Wirth
Vera Blasbichler | Jasmin Wirth
Vera Blasbichler | Jasmin Wirth
detail chunk Fis
CONCEPT
Vera Blasbichler | Jasmin Wirth
CIRCUS CIRCUS & SERFAUS UND FISS
Sophie Elisabeth Gruner | Lena Marie Jenn
ANALYSIS
ANALYSIS
middle: properties
bottom: properties
Lech am Arlberg floorplan
top: properties Lech Center
Oberlech
Stubenbach
Sophie Elisabeth Gruner | Lena Marie Jenn
ANALYSIS
Sophie Elisabeth Gruner | Lena Marie Jenn
ANALYSIS
Sophie Elisabeth Gruner | Lena Marie Jenn
middle: number 2 CONCEPT
top: number 1
Sophie Elisabeth Gruner | Lena Marie Jenn detail
Sophie Elisabeth Gruner | Lena Marie Jenn
FLAMINGO HOTEL & LECH AM ARLBERG
Ben Bogaczynski | Jean Nicolas Traud
Lech am Arlberg floorplan
ANALYSIS
Ben Bogaczynski | Jean Nicolas Traud
Lech - circulation
ANALYSIS
Ben Bogaczynski | Jean Nicolas Traud
top: casino bottom: hotel
Ben Bogaczynski | Jean Nicolas Traud
left: circulation hotel
right: circulation Lech
Ben Bogaczynski | Jean Nicolas Traud
Ben Bogaczynski | Jean Nicolas Traud
Ben Bogaczynski | Jean Nicolas Traud
top: chunk detail 1 bottom: chunk detail 2
CONCEPT
Ben Bogaczynski | Jean Nicolas Traud
top: chunk detail 3 bottom: chunk detail 4
CONCEPT
Ben Bogaczynski | Jean Nicolas Traud
SAHARA LAS VEGAS & SÖLDEN
Henning Dörfler |Anita Krause
ANALYSIS
Henning Jasper Dörfler | Anita Krause
Sölden floorplan
Henning Jasper Dörfler | Anita Krause
Henning Jasper Dörfler | Anita Krause
Hotel Sahara Las Vegas
ANALYSIS
Henning Jasper Dörfler | Anita Krause ground floor plan Hotel Sahara
ANALYSIS
living space functions
living space functions
living space functions
casino, lobby, shops, spa
casino, lobby, shops, spa
casino, lobby, shops, spa
supermarket, church, school, o ce property line
supermarket, church, school, o ce
supermarket, church, school, o ce property line
village + village typology
middle: hotel + hotel typology
bottom: village + hotel
Henning Jasper Dörfler | Anita Krause
top: hotel
bottom: village
Henning Jasper Dörfler | Anita Krause
top:
top: casino middle: hotel
Henning Jasper Dörfler | Anita Krause
top: intersection middle: level increase
Henning Jasper Dörfler | Anita Krause
project arrangement
project arrangement
CONCEPT
Henning Jasper Dörfler | Anita Krause
CONCEPT
Henning Jasper Dörfler | Anita Krause
Henning Jasper Dörfler | Anita Krause
Henning Jasper Dörfler | Anita Krause
PLANET HOLLYWOOD & ST. CHRISTINA
Chiara Koch | Theresa Riedmann
ANALYSIS
Chiara Koch | Theresa Riedmann
St. Christina floorplan
Chiara Koch | Theresa Riedmann
Chiara Koch | Theresa Riedmann
top: hotel form bottom: hotel floors
ANALYSIS
Chiara Koch | Theresa Riedmann
hotel circulation
ANALYSIS
Chiara Koch | Theresa Riedmann
top: hotel first floor bottom: hotel secon floos
ANALYSIS
Chiara Koch | Theresa Riedmann
hotel section
ANALYSIS
Chiara Koch | Theresa Riedmann
top: street arrangement bottom: St. Christina
CONCEPT
Chiara Koch | Theresa Riedmann
top: house and street arragement bottom: St. Christina
CONCEPT
Chiara Koch | Theresa Riedmann
top: public arrangement bottom: hotel part
CONCEPT
Chiara Koch | Theresa Riedmann
top: project arrangement bottom: hotel part
CONCEPT
SANDS HOTEL LAS VEGAS & SÖLDEN
Maximilian Mooser | Jose Ferrufino
Sands Hotel floorplan left: private and public housing middle: arrangement right: including circulation
ANALYSIS
CONCEPTS
Maximilian Mooser | Jose Ferrufino
Maximilian Mooser | Jose Ferrufino
top: Cirscus Circus bottom: St.Christina
ANALYSIS
Julia Pfeiffer | Johanna Maurer
top: houses middle: streets bottom: terrain
ANALYSIS
Julia Pfeiffer | Johanna Maurer
top: Cirscus Circus bottom: St.Christina
ANALYSIS
Julia Pfeiffer | Johanna Maurer
top: houses middle: streets bottom: terrain
ANALYSIS
Julia Pfeiffer | Johanna Maurer
PLANET HOLLYWOOD & ST. CHRISTINA
Nicola Kollreider | Lea Mailänder
Nicola Kollreider | Lea Mailänder
St. Christina floorplan
Fischburg
Nicola Kollreider | Lea Mailänder
Nicola Kollreider | Lea Mailänder
top: Luxor Hotel Rooms
bottom: side view ANALYSIS
Gastronomy
Nicola Kollreider | Lea Mailänder
Luxor Hotel circulation
ANALYSIS
Nicola Kollreider | Lea Mailänder
top: modification houses and hotel rooms bottom: collection
CONCEPT
Nicola Kollreider | Lea Mailänder house and street arrangement
CONCEPT
CONCEPT
method
new arrangement CONCEPT
Nicola Kollreider | Lea Mailänder building
Nicola Kollreider | Lea Mailänder
Nicola Kollreider | Lea Mailänder
Nicola Kollreider | Lea Mailänder
SAHARA LAS VEGAS & SÖLDEN
Stefan Tiefntahler
Stefan Tiefentahler
Saalbach properties
Saalbach streets
ANALYSIS
ANALYSIS
Stefan Tiefentahler
HOTELROOMS
CIRCULATION
MAIN ENTRENCE
CASINO COLLOSEUM
SHOPS
Stefan Tiefentahler
Cesar Palace
ANALYSIS
Stefan Tiefentahler
circulation volume
ANALYSIS
Stefan Tiefentahler
Stefan Tiefentahler
CONCEPT
CONCEPT
top: serpentines Saalbach
bottom: street section Saalbach
Stefan Tiefentahler
top: serpentine integration project
bottom: street section integration project
Stefan Tiefentahler
top: spublic spaces
middle: stair system
bottom: street system
CONCEPT
Stefan Tiefentahler
Stefan Tiefentahler
SANDS & SAALBACH-HINTERGLEMM
Miriam Meyer | Daniel Eckelhofer
Miriam Meyer | Daniel Eckelhofer
Saalbach floorplan
Saalbach streets & housing
ANALYSIS
ANALYSIS
Miriam Meyer | Daniel Eckelhofer
Miriam Meyer | Daniel Eckelhofer
Cesar Palace
ANALYSIS
Miriam Meyer | Daniel Eckelhofer
ANALYSIS
private propertie arrangement bottom: including circulation
top:
CONCEPT
Miriam Meyer | Daniel Eckelhofer
Miriam Meyer | Daniel Eckelhofer
top: including public space bottom: elevation
CONCEPT
Miriam Meyer | Daniel Eckelhofer
Miriam Meyer | Daniel Eckelhofer
IMPRESSUM
2023
IOUD
Institute of Urban Design / Universtität Innsbruck
Univ.-Prof. Peter Trummer
Technikerstraße 21c
6020 Innsbruck AUSTRIA
This book has been financed by the Institute of Urban Design –IOUD, University of Innsbruck. lou.d
