Meidline Vienna is a proposal by MOON Architektur for City of Vienna designed in 2024. It is located in Wien Austria in a railway setting. Its scale is medium with a surface of 4.090 sqm an estimated budget of 35.000.000 € and a ratio of 8.557 €/sqm. Key materials are concrete metal and vegetal. IMG bureau collaborated as visualizer. Concepts such as urban transformation connection organic renaturalization and stair are explored.

For us the unique aspect of the task lies not in designing a purely functional structure to connect two points. While there is indeed a start and a finish, the space between them unfolds into diverse spatial potentials, all expressed in a consistent design language. The context is characterized by the urban aesthetics of the railway line on one hand, and the lush greenery of the adjacent parks on the other. Based on the contextual analysis and the goal of preserving existing qualities, we take these qualities as a base and augment them with an additional layer of public open spaces in the third dimension. It was important to us not only to consider the quality of the new bridge itself but also to address the spaces adjacent to and beneath it. Following this idea, we developed a concept for the entire course of the Meidline. We propose a curved, «floating» line, a light, slender bridge structure. At certain positions, this line expands, creating specific spatial situations. Along the railway line, the new Meidline moves at the interface with the adjoining parks. These parks are largely preserved, and their qualities become accessible from a new perspective in the form of a «tree top walkway.» The slim design avoids creating unpleasant undersides along the bridge’s path. The sealing of existing surfaces is minimized, and where possible, existing sealed surfaces are unsealed. The existing greenery is enhanced and supplemented with new trees. In the area of the railway line, greenery becomes denser directly on the Meidline itself.

A pathway through the green emerges!

0701-MON-VIE.AT-2024 — Posted in 2025 — Explore more projects on bridge and public space — Climate: continental and temperate — Coordinates: 48.173528, 16.328972 — Team: Sebastian Brunke, Philip Beckmann, Paul Neuböck — Consultant: Delta Pods Architects, Bartenbach — Structural engineer: wh-p Ingenierue — Landscape: Rabe Landschaften — Views: 231