Vienna: reconstructing in the in/between

The changes taking place in Vienna led the city in 2016 to start analysing future scenarios and experimenting design methodologies to draw up a city development plan: STEP 2025 Urban development Plan Vienna. The project’s thought is nourished by the productive and imaginative force of memory, intervening on a terrain treated not as an inert ground, but as a layerd system of signs, traceable and measurable through an operative inventory. The starting point is the Planungskonzept Wien elaborated in the years 1958-1961 by Roland Rainer whose ideas for the city of Vienna are incredibly current, and just as unexpected is the absolutely sustainable vocation that the same plan for reconstruction reveals. The plan is proposed as a valid tool to face future challenges for the city.