Fritzi-Massary-Park

The Fritzi-Massary-Park is located in Vienna's 2nd district between the Prater and the Danube, on the corner of Offenbachgasse and Engerthstrasse. The project was initiated by Social Design of the University of Applied Arts and aims to offer people in the neighbourhood more open spaces close to their homes with quality of stay and recreational character, thus contributing to the promotion of neighbourliness and living together.

The structural redesign of the park is based on the principles of the circular economy and thus encourages a sustainable design of public space. Many material resources from the existing stock (e.g. historic bricks, steel fences, granite blocks) were recombined, recycled or reused in the planning process. Steel tubes from discarded standard park benches were reimagined as modular elements, creating a growing variety of sustainable street furniture.

As Re-Sourcing Commons, the project won second place at the New European Bauhaus Prizes 2024 in the category "Shaping a circular industrial ecosystem and supporting life-cycle thinking".

Project Info

Status
completed

Award

2nd place, New European Bauhaus Prizes 2024

Year
2020–2022

Location
Vienna, AT

TYPE
commission

category
landscape

client
University of Applied Arts Vienna (Social Design), City of Vienna

Team
Natascha Peinsipp, Felix Steinhoff

Link

New European Bauhaus Prizes

Seating corner on the existing brick wall with a recycled-plastic table and a round noticeboard on a steel frame asphalt kollektiv

Lounger with curved wooden slats on steel tubes, with a small side table made of recycled plastic asphalt kollektiv

Low wooden benches on bent steel tubes, a reused granite block and noticeboards in the redesigned park asphalt kollektiv

New wooden bench on a historic wall of stamped bricks, beside a stool with a recycled-plastic top asphalt kollektiv

process

Hands pressing a moist earth mix into a wooden mould to make recycled bricks asphalt kollektiv

Recycled brick prototypes drying on wooden boards in the workshop asphalt kollektiv

Discarded green and grey park bench tubes stacked on a pallet at a municipal depot asphalt kollektiv

Refurbished galvanised steel tubes and round frames on pallets, ready for assembly asphalt kollektiv

Before

Fritzi-Massary-Park

As Re-Sourcing Commons, the project won second place at the New European Bauhaus Prizes 2024 in the category "Shaping a circular industrial ecosystem and supporting life-cycle thinking".