Das Kabelwerk Free Objects Residential Service Property Management Das Kabelwerk Objects Location & Infrastructure History & Development Architecture & Identification Culture Company Team Contact History & project development The trimmings manufacturer Otto Bondy founded a factory in the Viennese suburb of Penzing in 1882 for the production of insulated wires and cables of all kinds. With the expansion of the company, a new factory was built in Meidling, Oswaldgasse 33, in 1903. Kabel- und Drahtwerke AG was one of the most important companies in Meidling for 100 years . Not only was it the most important employer in the district , its type, structure and location also made it a very special reference factor for the population. The area is bordered by Grießergasse, Altmannsdorfer Friedhof, Thorvaldsengasse and Oswaldgasse. After the destruction in World War II, the factory was rebuilt with funds from the Marshall Plan. This initiated a steep upward trend. For decades, KDAG was a flourishing company with over 700 employees until Siemens Austria took over the shares. After the KDAG was finally closed in December 1997, not only a large unused area arose, but an "identification gap ". Reason enough for a large-scale planning and public participation process with the involvement of representatives of the district, the city of Vienna, the city council, external experts and the neighbors. The project Due to the high local identification value of the former KDAG reasons, it was important to include the population in considerations about future use from the start. Those primarily affected, i.e. those living near the area, were invited to a first information event on May 30, 1996, before the factory was finally closed. Taking into account the first results of the basic research, the population was informed and invited to participate in this "workshop". There was the opportunity to discuss with politicians from the city administration and the district, as well as representatives of the magistrate. The results of the 1996 Millennium Workshop with experts from transport planning, spatial planning, ecology and sociology with a closing event were presented to the population as part of an exhibition (September 17, 1996). At the same time, an exhibition on these results was opened in the Architekturzentrum Wien, Museumsquartier. In 1998, a public participation process was initiated in which residents of the 12th district were called upon to submit suggestions for the use of the KDAG area. Participation was brisk and the best designs were awarded prizes. Many suggestions and suggestions from the citizens were included in the planning. An urban development competition in 1998 set the focus of the task with regard to an innovative urban development. Suggestions were asked for the flexibility, variability and changeability of living, for the close connection between living and working and their small-scale networking, for the variety and density of use, for the changing rhythms of life and overlapping functions, taking into account any new means of communication and order systems. It was therefore not the development of a concrete draft for the redesign of the KDAG reasons, but innovation, experiment, vision and "concrete utopia" in the foreground. For the time being, a working group was formed under the leadership of Univ.Prof. Rüdiger Lainer, whose task was to be the central information, discussion and control instrument for planning. It networked all the key players without having to have formal legal competence. This core group, which expanded slightly in the course of the process, but did not fluctuate in its composition, met every 14 days (at shorter intervals if necessary). Within this working group - on the basis of the winning project - a guiding concept was drawn up, which should give the intentions a realizable form. Depending on the need, consultants from various specialist areas and municipal departments were contacted again and again in order to analyze problem areas and look for possible solutions. At the same time as the design of the guiding concept was - on an interdependent basis - an urban planning support group led by Univ. Prof. Thomas Sieverts from Bonn brought into being. Within this support group, which, as an accompanying - superordinate discussion forum, dealt with findings and suggestions that were developed by the working group, the planning debate was brought to a broader level in order to create a corrective for the working group on the one hand and to provide impulses from "outside" on the other. to give the development process an additional dynamic. This support group turned out to be one of the most important instruments of the entire process, as the steering effect was an extremely positive one, provided that developments went in a direction that could have ended in one or the other planning dead end. At the same time, the dates on which the accompanying group met also served as important milestones and were therefore of eminent importance for the implementation of the planned time horizon. The mediation success of these events was a very important aspect of the entire procedure. Turbulence and contrasts that had built up during the discussions in the working group were calmed down and reduced in the course of the meeting of the urban planning support group. The zoning and development plan was unanimously approved by the local council in July 2002. After detailed planning of the properties, the property advisory board gave a positive recommendation for the entire project in the spring of 2003. Working group Management and moderation Prof. DI Rüdiger Lainer, Rudolf Kohoutek Representative of the magistrate DI Herbert Buchner, DI Volkmar Pamer Developer representatives Mag. Michaela Mischek, DI Manfred Wasner, DI Walter Koch, DI. Markus Spiegelfeld Competition winner DI Rainer Pirker and Mag. Florian Haydn Purchases Office Hermann & Valentiny DI .Martin Wurnig Second award winner DI Evelyn Wurster, DI Christoph Lammerhuber (office pool) Architects Mag. Arch. Hubert Hermann (BüroHermann&Valentiny), Mag. Arch. Christian Mascha und Mag. Arch. Christian Seethaler (Büro Mascha&Seethaler), D.I. Gressenbauer (Büro Schwalm-Theiss-Gressenbauer), D.I. Martin Wurnig Grün- und Freiraumplanung D.I. Heike Langenbach Städtebauliche Begleitgruppe Leitung Prof. Thomas Sieverts (Bonn) Arbeitsgruppe: siehe oben Magistratsdirektion-Stadtbaudirektion Bereichdirektor Prof. Dr. Arnold Klotz, OSR D.I. Horst Berger, D.I. Otto Frey, D.I. Eva Kail, D.I. 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