Club Hybrid - A Demonstrativ Building in Graz
Heidi Pretterhofer
In the south of Graz, where commerce, industry and single-family homes meet – Club Hybrid constructs and performs a place for experimentation, display and discourse. With guests and a daily programme, Club Hybrid is workshop and stage in the urban fog zone. Scientific, artistic and activist formats test working and living practices and discuss aspects of urban participation, urban development and hybridity.
Infrastructure issues are playing a central role; supply and disposal facilities such as the junkyard, a small river and the central cemetery are in the immediate vicinity, at the same time the area is optimally connected to public transport. Living, working, learning, exercising, praying and handcrafts are not mutually exclusive here. The former nursery on the site of Herrgottwiesgasse 161 is placed in the Gries district, the building materials store on the opposite side of the street is already situated in the district of Puntigam. The neighbour to the west is the Islamic Cultural Centre Graz. This unnoticed spot of Graz’s urban space, a heterogeneous mixed-use area, is the appropriat place to work on urban necessities and possibilities.
The architecture we build is a hybrid, an in-between, something mixed! We are building a large table, the scale is dimensionless. The table provides shelter and shade for many summer activities and a canteen. On top of the table is a simple wooden object with very specific spatial qualities open for use. This architecture is a model that has the capacity to change over time, to expand or relocate, to change place. A structure that demonstrates the process of architecture, urban context and public need. The Club’s playground is around 4,000m², more than 200m² of which is weather-protected. 36 steel columns support a hybrid platform made of steel and wood, on which a half, two-story wooden house with 110m² of usable space stands.
www.clubhybrid.at
As part of Graz Kulturjahr 2020
Planning partners: Michael Rieper
Client: Graz Kulturjahr 2020
Category: Art and Culture
Project Gallery
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Heidi Pretterhofer AT
http://www.prearq.at
Schottenfeldgasse 72/2/8 | 1070 Vienna