Zentrum Europaplatz is a winning proposal by Coop Himmelblau designed in 1990. It is located in Sankt Pölten Austria in an urban setting. Its scale is extralarge. The concept of linear block is explored.

Monofunctional structures do not correspond to the architecture and the urban development of the 21st century. Future urban development will mirror the complexity of people’s intellectual and material lives. This is why not only the media represent the urban culture of tomorrow, but architecture does too. The Europaplatz center situated on the western edge of the old part of St. Pölten might act as an ideal counterbalance vis-à-vis the new government sector. Both areas, as centers of gravity, would turn into fields of crystallization triggering different developments. “When locating the building volumes on the lot, the radials of the existing water veins were simulated on the model by pumping in air. The objects were displaced by the air, and the resulting arrangement became the point of departure for the design”.

0714-COO-AT-1990 — Posted in 2013 — Explore more projects on masterplan and public space — Climate: continental and temperate — Views: 3.775