Ar[T]ram

Supervisor: Lynn, Greg o.Univ.-Prof. Mag.arch. Teaching Assistants: Bence Pap, Kaiho Yu and Valeria Ospital
Students: Tomaž Roblek , Anna Salakhova, Luca Zanarini, Philipp Ma and Hao Wu

Vienna’s RingStrasse is famous for its 19th century tram rails and cultural facilities. The project Ar[T]tram focuses on the traditional museums on RingStrasse and extends the museum experience outdoors in a motional and dynamic way. The ambition is to transform Ring Street into a cultural and artistic hub that is constantly moving and inviting the public to gather and interact. It turns the urban mobility to a public space, where self-driving modular galleries and complementary museum programs travel along the street on the existing tram tracks. By adding to the existing transportation system, we get the opportunity to engage people with art while they are moving around the city, without signing up, to have a museum experience.

The project has been exhibited at Technoscape, The architecture of engineers, MAXXI, Rome.
https://www.maxxi.art/en/events/technoscape-larchitettura-dellingegneria/

Stop-Motion Film

Final Review

Urban Strategies

We focus on the 5 main cultural institutions located along the ring: the MAK, the museum of applied arts, the natural history museum and museum of art history, as well opera and BurgTheater.

On a masterplan level, mobility and pedestrianisation are being combined. We treat the Ringstreet as a running sushi table, where modular galleries and complementary museum programs travel along the Street via moving platforms on the existing tram tracks.

By adding to the existing transportation system, we get the opportunity to engage people with artworks, performing arts as well as complementary museum amenities while they are circulating through the city, creating a museum experience without having to sign up for it.

Architectural Program

We extract the interior experiences from 5 institutions. The Central Dome for Natural history, the gallery for ArtHistory, Central Atrium for MAK, Auditorium from Opera, and Grand stairs from BurgTheater. And other programs such as cafe, lecture room, shop and workshop for kids. Those programmatic modules are getting combined into a sequence of diverse spaces when put together and provide opportunity of collaborations between 5 cultural institutions, sharing their unique interior experiences to the street.to provide a preview for all 5 cultural institutions

There could be a performance tram, with modern dancing comparing with ballet, while you can also join the gallery to see the history of those performances; But also the possibility for a museum tram, filled with fossils, life sized stuffed animals, Rembrandt paintings and Erwin Wurm sculptures. Or a Tourism tram to provide a preview for all 5 institutions. These combinations create unusual curatorial possibilities where performances, objects and artworks that are otherwise not commonly brought together appear side by side.

Civic Experience

The preview of the institutions encourages people to get off their phones and join real life experiences. Each art tram provides a united but different interior experience of the respective cultural institution. We want to transform the ring into a cultural and artistic hub that is constantly moving and inviting the public to gather and interact.

It creates a new kind of contemplation and repose while connecting with the city. People can use the tram as transportation while they're on the way to work, or regard it as an extension of cultural experiences, when it docks on one of the cultural facilities.

Reconfiguration

The dynamism we explore is 'moveable by machines'. Modules are being lifted by KUKA KMP robots and placed on platforms moving on the 19th century tram rails. At cultural anchor points “art trams” reconfigure, exchange programs and continue moving towards the next destination. When to modules unite at an anchorpoint the previously open sections become an completed interior space.

Detail and Joints
Each module has 2 kinds of joints - rigid joints that connect the modules on their open side to complete their sections using extending and interlocking mechanical joints when they are put together at the cultural anchor points. And soft joints that connect modules in their longitudinal way which allow for bending when the tram is moving.

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Tomaž Roblek, MArch

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