Workshop 12: Quality through cooperation
Tuesday, 27 November 2012, 14.00-18.00 (followed by cocktail)
Wolke 19, Ares-Tower, Donau-City-Straße 11, 1220 Vienna

The workshop theme
Public housing in Vienna is characterised by high quality-standards: Housing in Vienna has to be - if it wants to receive public subsidies - first-class architecturally, ecologically and socially sustainable as well as affordable - and this all at once. Well-established structures and processes, like the housing developer competitions and the "Grundstücksbeirat", play a significant role in securing those qualities. Economic developments in recent years are demanding more than ever a constant evaluation und from time to time an experimental advancement of these processes.
A number of recent projects from the Vienna Housing Research deal with specific aspects of this topic and in doing so particularly took an in-depth look on the results of the "Wohnbauinitiative" (= housing initiative) in Aspern - Vienna's urban lakeside:

• Was the "Wohnbauinitiative" successful in securing qualities despite not being embedded in the "classical" structures and processes?
• How much cooperation - between developers and city, architecture and landscape planning - is necessary when planning and realising large scale projects?
• Which role does social and ecological sustainability play in these projects?
• Is competition and control required to secure quality-standards? Or to put it in another way: Which conclusions can be drawn from the results of the "Wohnbauinitiative" for the advancement of the developer competitions?
• And: Which connection does at all exist between the individual quality-criteria of public housing and the costs?

As part of the workshop an exhibition of the "wohnfonds wien" about the results of the first developer competitions with SMART-flats - in the "Sonnwendviertel" and in the "Lorenz-Reiter-Straße" - was presented.

Programme
Tuesday, 27 November 2012

14.00 Welcome and presentation of the publication "Vienna Housing Research 2005-2012"
Michael Ludwig, Executive City Councillor for Housing, Housing Construction and Urban Renewal

Moderation
Wolfgang Förster, City of Vienna, MA 50, Department for Housing Research and International Relations

14.15 Innovation
SMART living "Sonnwendviertel" - presentation of the winner-projects
Franz Sumnitsch, BKK-3 Architektur ZT-GmbH, Wien
Markus Geiswinkler, Geiswinkler & Geiswinkler Architekten ZT GmbH, Wien

14.30 Cooperation
Guest lecture: More than living - an innovation-lab for non-profit housing
Andreas Hofer, Archipel Planung und Innovation, Zurich

Aspern - Vienna's urban lakeside - the cooperation-progarmm of the "Wohnbauinitiative".
An evaluation
Joachim Brech, Architect and social scientist, Landsberg am Lech / ViennaDiscussion
 
15.45 Film-presentation: The redevelopment of the Vienna "Werkbundsiedlung"
 
16.00 Coffee break

16.30 Quality
A comparative analyse of offered qualities and standards between projects of the "Wohnbauinitiative" and the developer competition in Aspern - Vienna's urban lakeside
Herbert Liske, Consultant for spatial planning and land use regulation, Vienna

Parameters for design and planning for affordable housing in Vienna
Leopold Dungl, ArchiMedia ZT GmbH, Wien
 
17.30 Debate: Qualities in housing - offer and demand
Günther Ogris, SORA Institute for Social Research and Consulting, Wien
Peter Neundlinger, Wohnservice Vienna
 
18.00 Networking & cocktail