Location | Graz A |
Client | City of Graz |
Commission | International two stage competition 1997, ranking among the 6 finalists |
Architects | Graber & Steiger Architekten with Steiger & Kraushaar Architekten |
The Graz Schlossberg cuts into the urban body and dissects it. At the same time, an existing system of tunnels inside the mountain introduces the potential factor of connection. The project uses that opposition and is developed outwards from inside the mountain. Interconnections between the mountain, city and the cave-like tunnels are occasionally occupied by crystalline bodies that act as entrances and exhibition spaces, creating a museum landscape that can be utilized in a diverse way. This establishes an interaction between pausing and continuing that is ideal for museum operation. The transparent pavilion on Schlossbergplatz acts as an entrance to the art museum and the system of tunnels. It refers to its function as an exhibition space, while the material expresses the art museum and the glass bodies inside the mountain. In this way, the activities and exhibitions that take place at Schlossbergplatz have a prominent public presence. The art venue develops upwards in the narrow gap between the foot of the mountain and the old town development. The slightly greater height than the surrounding rooftop landscape gives it an appearance that can be perceived from afar in the urban space.
As a part of “Adda Collective” we are selected to participate in the „Korail Residency 2024“, which is embedded in the “Korail City of Culture” initiative in Dhaka/Bangladsh.
The project „Korail City of Culture“, which focuses on Dhaka's largest informal settlement, is a sustainable urban development initiative supported by the Creative Economy Programme of the Federal Foreign Office in Germany, in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Bangladesh and its local counterpart, Paraa, and international partner, Floating e.V.. The project aims to support cultural practitioners and producers living, working, and playing in Korail in establishing sustainable cultural practices, and to feed this knowledge back into processes of global and local learning and teaching on sustainable urban development.
The projects and works that are developed during the Korail residency program shall be part of the „Maja-Kori“ Design Festival in and around Korail Basti in December 2024.
Adda Collective is a multidisciplinary and mutinational team formed around „Adda Space“ Dhaka/Bangladesh and Graber & Steiger Architects, Lucerne/Switzerland. For further information you may also check Instagram @grabersteiger @adda.dhaka.
Image: Goethe Institute Bangladesh