TyrolCITY

TyrolCITY has developed land in the mountains to form a coherent urban configuration. The Inntal valley and the valleys to either side of it are described as a settlement zone with all the features of an urban conglomeration. While the historic centres are frozen, business parks, industrial and residential parks have been spreading in the zones in-between.

The group YEAN (Young European Architects Network), which consists of 6 young architects from Vienna, Rotterdam and Bordeaux, describes this regional development in a study. The information is conveyed in graphical representations to provide a radically modified image: TirolCITY as a high-density urban conglomeration.
The publication ‘TirolCITY. Neue Urbanität in den Alpen’ (TyrolCITY. New Urbanity in the Alps) was produced in the course of the study along with a film by Rob Gijsbers that showed the future of the countryside in the Tiroler Landesausstellung 2005, and documents a virtual tour of the lively urban space of TyrolCITY.

A brief book presentation and a screening of the TyrolCITY Film (20 mins.) are to be followed by a panel discussion on the topic.

Panel:

Jens Dangschat, Vienna University of Technology, Faculty for Architecture and Zoning
Silvia Eiblmayr, Galerie im Taxispalais
Stefan Mayr, YEAN
Erich Raith, Vienna University of Technology, Institute for Urban Development, Landscape Architecture and Design
Michael Zinganel, architecture theorist
Moderated by:Dietmar Steiner, director of the Architekturzentrum Wien