The architecture of a “Paradigm Park” has been explored this semester, rethinking the future of urban spaces and city parks beyond mere beautification. Rather than static landscapes, urban parks are envisioned as catalysts for livability, vitality, and new layers of humanism within the city fabric. This project challenges truthfulness, nature, and materiality, creating a deliberate tension between form, program, and texture. Augarten Park is conceptually unwrapped, its historical and spatial layers restructured into a new reality. Instead of a fixed entity, the park is reimagined as an allusive composition, where diverse elements — from different times and realms — merge into a coherent whole. Through this synthesis, the park and its landscape are transformed into a dynamic continuum where memory, history, and contemporary interventions converge. The result is not a mere preservation of the past but an active reconfiguration of spatial narratives, shaping an evolving urban experience.
Professor: Hani Rashid
Team: Soroush Naderi, Saba Mahdavi, Anastasia Smirnova
Date: 2022
Location: Augarten, Vienna
Site | Augarten Park
METHODOLOGY
