NIX FIX Ebelsberg

The City as Workshop. Ebelsberg as Laboratory. Urban Expansion as a Perpetual Experiment.


The idea is to have a paradigm shift toward an affordable mixed city accompany development, ranging from measures beyond current methods to an on-site urban workshop. Disengaged from classic density targets, the future framework conditions for the urban district “Ebelsberg” were created in a collaborative process with all involved parties. Eschewing zeitgeisty marketing catchwords like “smart city,” the project NIX FIX Ebelsberg deals with exemplary multifunctional urban development. In interplay with nonprofit builders, utilization scenarios are developed that integrate knowledge from the segregation problems of the SolarCity.

32 hectares + 1,500 residents = SUBURBAN 
32 hectares + 6,000 residents + social mixing = URBAN, DIVERSE CITY

Year 2017
Address Hillerkaserne, Linz Ebelsberg, 4030 Linz
Cooperative procedureApplication, 2. round
Type Architecture, Competitions, Urbanism
MVD Helene Schauer, Madlyn Miessgang, Michael Rieper