Room to Go
TEAM: Yildiz Tavacioglu, Cansu Berksan, Mia Krezic, Betül Küpeli – Technical University of Vienna, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
need a sleeping? – just pull it
This project lays its focus on the strategies of the accommodation for people who are looking for a temporary housing. Room to go proposes a spatial strategy for Vienna, which can be a prototype for other cities. In order to understand the dynamics and aspects which must be re-thought from the perspective of a social architec- ture and urban planning, we should re-think the aspect of sleeping.
Our main concept reflects the policy in Austria on spatial condi- tions and considers the issue using urban and spatial approaches. The nation-wide system, the urban context, the interior design and self-organization to provide an unconventional accommodation are main areas of our thought. In search of new accommodation strategies during the conceptualization this project establishes a differentiated spatial system that may be constituted from different spaces of privacy.
The contemporary city despite its problems (such as the impacts of hardcore neoliberalism, privatization, population growth, unaf- fordable housing, peripheries which grow into ghettos etc.) provides a great potential with its infrastructure and network. Therefore the use and appropriation of standing empty spaces/ vacancy with its diversity and complexity are treated on multiple levels: spatial , legal and organizational. The fact that Austria has no verified vacancy System this project could open a plattform to provide data counts. Room to go can be placed in any open or closed space. According to §71 in the building regulations accommodations can be placed temporarily.
The rising rents make the access to affordable rooms impossible for people who are in the creative sector and in precarious situations. In addition, questions for creative uses of social, cultural and artis- tic groups have also to be questioned. Our starting point was the questioning of the existing housing structures. In order to find a new way of handling with the topic of sleeping, we designed a light structured mobile sleeping accommodation.
Our design is light structured in two ways, the first one is the materi- al choice, which means aluminium panels held with an plasticified aluminium construct. The second meaning refers to the handling of the room itself, which you can see in the functional diagrams. The portable sleeping room offers 6m2 in its closed form, and 9m2 in its full developed shape. Both, Room to go and the rent place can be chosen and booked via an application. It can be delivered or collected by the customer.