ORANJE LANDSCHAP
Contemporary Dutch Landscape Architecture
CITY OF THE
HIDDEN RIVERS
workshop, documentation
and forum discussion
Vienna Austria - September 1994
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An exhibition of the participating landscape designers accompanied
the workshops - the exhibited works were documented in the 1994
book and a report of the workshop was published in the 1995 edition
ORANJE
LANDSCHAP was organized in 1994 by Planbox landscape architects
Stefan Bernard, Anna Detzlhofer, Andrea Cejka, Bernadette Dilenta,
Christian Moser, Angela Salchegger, Alice Groessinge, John Richards,
Hannes Swoboda (foreword), Stefan Bernard, Heidemarie Mieser (translation)
in Vienna.
10 landscape architects (B+B, West8, Quadrat, H+N+S, Wilke Diekema)
and artist (Lucien den Arend) were invited to illustrate the difference
between the position of landscape architecture and design in The
Netherlands as compared to that in Austria.
The participating students came from Austria, Germany, The Netherlands
and Switzerland. They were divided into five groups and lead by
four landscape architects and Lucien den Arend - landscape artist
from The Netherlands.
A goal of the Workshops was it to find possibilities with which
one can react to the hidden rivers of the city Vienna in the form
of town planning and organization. The Wien (Vienna) river, one
of the few partly not covered rivers of the city, was offered as
study material for the planning of possibilities
to be highlighted and made explicit as an
historical landmark of Vienna. The River Wien was hidden
underground at the end of the nineteenth century to channel the
devastating flood which occur during heavy rains and the spring
snowmelt in the Wienerwald. Diseases resulted from people emitting
their sewage into the river. So 'hidden' is the right word. But
in our present time such an element can actually be an asset for
a city as Vienna. After the Oranje Landschap workshop had
also pointed the finger to this enormous opportunity to give Vienna
one of its most important attractions, a relief sewage system has
been made thirty meters underground - following the course of the
Vienna River. Also a bicycle path segment has been opened along
the concrete bed of the river - open from march to October. The
waiting is for more spectacular openings - figuratively, as well
as literally. After the 1949 movie The Third Man, which gave
the underground river its mysterious side effect. Hopefully one
day Vienna will be able to fully show the river which was named
after it.
to hear an excerpt from the
movie's theme song - click the map
heard enough? stop your player which will have opened
In the
Oranje Landschap documentation presents the results of the
Workshops and interviews of the Workshop leaders: (beard of fire
(office B+B/NL), Kathie Tedder and Marieke Timmermans (office Tedder/Timmermans/NL),
Lucien the Arend (landscape artist/NL), Han Beumer (office West8/NL)). |
