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U2, 26A, 97A
aspern
VIENNA’S URBAN LAKESIDE
a project by
Wien 3420
Aspern Development AG
Rosthorngasse 5
A 1220 Vienna
T: +43 1 774 02 74 – 0
F: +43 1 774 02 74 – 99
E: office@wien3420.at
www.wien3420.at
www.aspern-seestadt.at
aspern Info Point
on the former Aspern Airfield
A-1220 Vienna
Information hotline: +43 1 33 66 00 99
By public transport: U2 to Aspernstrasse;
97A to An den Alten Schanzen; approx.
1 km on foot or by bike
By car: take Gross-Enzersdorfer Strasse out
of town; turn left at Lannesstrasse towards
the former runway of the Aspern Airfield
Hausfeldstraße
Löschniggasse
Aspernstraße
97A
Contact Info
walk-& cycleway
( ca. 1 km)
Opel Austria
Aspern
Target Area U2-Donaustadt /
aspern Urban Lakeside
MA 18 – Urban Development and Planning
Rathausstrasse 14-16
A-1082 Vienna
E: post@ma18.wien.gv.at
www.zielgebiete.wien.at
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PUBLISHER AND OWNER
Municipal Department 18 (MA 18)
Urban Development and Planning
Rathausstrasse 14–16
A 1082 Vienna
www.stadtentwicklung.wien.at
Wien 3420 Aspern Development AG
Rosthorngasse 5
A 1220 Vienna
www.wien3420.at
EDITORIAL TEAM
RaumUmwelt ® Planungs-GmbH
Sandra Kainz, Lukas Lang
Wien 3420 AG
Annemarie Hietler
GRAPHIC DESIGN & CONCEPT
Jan Hosa
Claudia Litschauer
PHOTO CREDITS
schreinerkastler.at
Lukas Beck
Ernst Herold
Luftbild Redl
ATP / renderwerk
Wien 3420 AG
Ludwig Schedl
lavaland / TH Treibhaus
Frank Helmrich
Wiener Linien
dadaX
Conny Zenk
TRANSLATION
Sigrid Szabó
© City of Vienna,
Urban Development and Planning,
Wien 3420 Aspern Development AG
Vienna, August 2011
citylab report #2
New edition
ready for downloading
from 27/10/2011
www.aspern-seestadt.at
Edition Nº 3
Status: 08/2011
The Project

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Vienna is a growing, vibrant city pushed
closer to the heart of Europe by the enlargement
of the European Union. It is estimated
that the city’s population in 2035 will
number around 2 million. This equals an
additional annual demand of approximately
7,500 to 8,000 housing units, mostly to be
built at the urban periphery. The 22nd municipal
district Donaustadt – where aspern
Vienna’s Urban Lakeside is emerging –
reflects this trend: between 1991 and 2001,
its number of inhabitants increased by 28%;
in 2007, it had grown by another 10% to
attain 150,000 inhabitants.
In this process, aspern has assumed strategic
potential for Vienna and, as part of the
target area U2 Donaustadt / aspern Urban
Lakeside, in fact constitutes one of 13 hot
spots of urban development.
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aspern
Viennas Urban Lakeside
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Danube Floodplains National Park
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Brno
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Lake Neusiedl
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BRATISLAVA
Vienna Growth Lakeside
Donaustadt
Michael Häupl
Mayor
of the City of Vienna
“aspern Vienna’s Urban
Lakeside in the Donaustadt
district is emblematic of the
future-oriented positioning of
the Austrian capital. Over the
next 20 years, a ‘city within
the city’ will emerge to offer
housing for 20,000 citizens as
well as the same number of
workplaces.”
Danube
D2
Budapest
aspern Vienna’s Urban Lakeside is one
of Europe’s biggest urban development
projects and sets new standards. The creation
of an attractive urban centre of short
distances that is close to all vital functions,
interacts intensely with its environs and
places a clear focus on public space results
in a project of supra-regional significance.
Urban development stands to improve the
overall supply quality for the local population
markedly. This growth district of
Vienna is thus provided with high-level
infrastructure and a strong centre.
Renate Brauner
Vice-Mayor
of the City of Vienna
M1
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BTS
“It is our goal to establish
Vienna sustainably as a
European top research hub.
aspern Vienna’s Urban Lakeside
constitutes an important
step in this direction, as it will
offer an attractive location
for demanding, innovative
enterprises and a total of
20,000 workplaces.”
St. Pölten
The twin cities Vienna and Bratislava form
the core zone of the European Region CENT-
ROPE. The CENTROPE concept has become
the symbol of a policy firmly supporting the
partnership-based development of a region
that may look back on centuries-old common
traditions and comprises several subregions
in neighbouring EU Member States.
On the strength of the aspern Vienna’s Urban
Lakeside project, the strategically important
Vienna-Bratislava axis will boast a multifunctional
city quarter with commercial,
research and education zones, highquality
housing and attractive open spaces
– a place for “The Full Life”.
Maria Vassilakou
Vice-Mayor
of the City of Vienna
Brno
Trnava
Vienna
Bratislava
Eisenstadt
Sopron Györ
Szombathely
Vienna
Vienna Europe
“Vienna is growing. aspern is
therefore an important development
project for the Austrian
capital to create new, high-quality
space for living and working.
The Urban Lakeside is efficiently
connected to the public transport
network and embodies
state-of-the-art environmental
standards. This makes aspern
Vienna’s Urban Lakeside a
place with high quality of living.“
Future distances from aspern
Vienna city centre 25 min
st. stephen’s square 27 min
Vienna Main station 17 min
Bratislava Main station 28 min
Vienna airport 15 min
Bratislava airport 30 min
Budapest 145 min
prague 55 min
Warsaw 85 min
sofia 100 min
skopje 100 min
paris 120 min
Madrid 175 min
Facts Figures
aspern Vienna’s Urban Lakeside
covers a total area of 2.4 million sq m
(the combined areas of the 7th and 8th
municipal districts of Vienna)
offers 8,500 housing units for
20,000 inhabitants
boasts 20,000 workplaces, of which
15,000 are planned for offices and
service providers and 5,000 for production
and commercial facilities, science
and research
will be a research, development and
education hub in Vienna
houses a 5-hectare lake set in a 9-hectare
central park as the heart of the project
will be gradually hooked up to the U2
Underground line, the local commuter
and regional train network (S80/R80), the
ÖBB railway line Vienna-Bratislava and
the A 23 motorway (2017), complemented
by trams and several bus lines.
Norbert Scheed
District Chairman of
Donaustadt
“For Donaustadt, the aspern
Urban Lakeside development
constitutes the highpoint so
far of a process that began
with the Donaucity project and
ever since has entailed steady
growth, permanent evolution
and the district’s positioning as
an innovative place to live and
work in.”

April 2003
Conclusion of SUPerNOW (German
acronym for “strategic environmental
impact assessment for Vienna’s northeastern
development zone”)
March 2004
Citizen surveys and nomination
of three citizens’ representatives
chosen for active participation
in the master plan process
December 2004
Establishment of Asperner Flugfeld
Süd Entwicklungs- und Verwertungs
AG (today: Wien 3420 Aspern
Development AG)
March 2005
The former Aspern Airfield is
singled out as one of 13 target
areas in the Urban Development
Plan 2005 (STEP 05) of the City
of Vienna
May 2007
“Early Green“: trees that will
adorn various public locations of
aspern Vienna’s Urban Lakeside
are planted; sunflowers and corn
are sown on future construction
lots
2003–
2006 2007 2008 2009
11 May 2005
EU-wide tender organised to
select a planning team to draft
a master plan
November 2005
The project by Swedish architect
Johannes Tovatt convinces the
evaluation commission
Spring 2006
Conclusion of a geomantic
study by Vienna University of
Natural Resources and Applied
Life Sciences
Summer 2006
A route is selected for the future
Underground line U2
Past
Future
25 May 2007
The master plan by Johannes
Tovatt is adopted unanimously
by the Vienna City Council
June 2007
Setting-up of the target area
co-ordination group “U2 Donaustadt/aspern
Urban Lakeside”
by the City of Vienna
14 September 2007
An information point takes up
operation on the former Aspern
Airfield
December 2007
Launch of “Nach aspern”,
a project on energy efficiency and
sustainability in urban development
January 2008
Launch of the Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS): the area
is analysed in depth over a period
of several months
May 2008
Real Vienna trade fair –
visitors are involved in the
brand decision
25 September 2008
Brand launch at Media Quarter
Marx: the name and vision for
the new city quarter aspern
Vienna’s Urban Lakeside are
officially presented
April - October 2008
The international competition
to design public space strategies
for the project is won by Gehl
Architects from Denmark
October 2008
International presentation of
the Urban Lakeside at the Expo
Real trade fair in Munich
October 2008 - February 2009
Design studio organised by
Vienna University of Technology
with star architect Manuelle
Gautrand: experimental architectural
typologies for aspern
05 December 2008
Children’s favourite St. Nicholas
visits the Urban Lakeside
December 2008
Future workshop “aspern
Urban Lakeside – Innovation.
Future. Participation.” with decisionmakers
from the Vienna
City Administration
February 2009
Launch of the aspern Citylab
dialogue platform with an expert
discussion on public space
31 March 2009
Submission of the EIS for road
construction and urban development
in the southern section of
the Urban Lakeside by Wien 3420
AG and Municipal Department 28
(Road Management and
Construction)
April 2009
aspern Citylab workshop held
together with abutters to design
the eastern green tract (aspern
terraces)
05 June 2009
Official inauguration of the
aspern Urban Lakeside bike
and hike route
03 July 2009
Vice Mayor Renate Brauner
kicks off the demolition of the
old taxiways and runways
July 2009
Organisation of an architectural
competition for aspern IQ,
the first building construction
project of the Urban Lakeside
27 October 2009
Gehl Architects presents the planning
manual “The Public Space Score”
28 October 2009
Ground-breaking ceremony
for the Underground line U2

18 May 2010
The government of the Federal
Province of Vienna adopts the EIA
report on the south-western
section of the Urban Lakeside
31 May 2010
Adoption of the land-use and zoning plan
12 June 2010
aspern lake party – Mayor Michael Häupl
breaks the ground for the lake that will
become the heart of the new city
July 2010
Creation of aspern terraces
September 2010
Start of the design competition for the
lakeside park
2010-
2011
02 October 2010
The Underground line U2 takes up
operation from the Vienna Stadium
to Aspernstrasse
January 2011
Start of an international sales procedure for
the Innovation Quarter at the heart of the
Urban Lakeside
April 2011
First temporary, creative uses of the
Urban Lakeside. Launch of the culture
and communication programme
“aspern Seestadt PUBLIK”
April 2011
Launch of Vienna’s new housing
construction initiative
May 2011
Public presentation of the
results of the lakeside park
competition in an exhibition
June 2011
Start of construction work for the
first Urban Lakeside building
aspern IQ
Autumn 2011
Start of specific plan development for
1,000 dwellings under the municipal
housing construction initiative and
organisation of developers’ competitions
for another 800 housing units
Autumn 2011
Further development of the
master plan for the northern
section of the Urban Lakeside
Autumn 2011
Inauguration of aspern IQ
2012
Revision of the land-use and
zoning plan for the northern
section of the Urban Lakeside
2011–
2014
2013
Launch of EIA for the northern development
stage
2013
Completion of the nine-hectare lakeside
park and the neighbourhood park
Late 2013
The first Urban Lakeside residents
move into their flats
Late 2013
The U2 stations “Aspern” (to
the north) and “Seestadt” (to the
south) take up operation
2015
Gradual inauguration of the
school campus
2017 – 2030
The northern section of the Urban
Lakeside is constructed and taken
over by users and residents
aspern IQ PlusEnergy
The aspern IQ technology centre is the first
building to emerge in the Urban Lakeside
and at the same time Austria’s first commercial
PlusEnergy property. With aspern
IQ, the Vienna Business Agency creates a
state-of-the-art, bespoke working environment
for enterprises and research-oriented
institutions active in sustainable technology
development. With its PlusEnergy
design, the flagship project aspern IQ
www.aspern-iq.at
Online On-site
As of September 2011, investors and
business agencies find the full range of
plot types and sizes as well as information
regarding possible forms of use, zoning
requirements and infrastructure facilities
for their preferred lots at
www.aspern-seestadt.at/sales.
Projects already in planning or under
construction are shown on the interactive
construction information map at
www.aspern-seestadt.at/bauinfo.
contributes towards attaining the objectives
of Austria and the European Union in the
field of climate and energy policy.
During the first construction stage, multifunctional
areas for applied research and
the development of new technologies will
occupy approx. 7,000 sq m; in addition,
the technology centre will offer around 300
workplaces. By combining a wealth of individual
measures, more energy is produced
by the building in a year than is needed for
its indoor air-conditioning. The PlusEnergy
standard is made possible by integrated
photovoltaic elements and small-scale
wind turbines.
aspern IQ will serve as a beacon for the development
of other properties in the Urban
Lakeside.
The Urban Lakeside webcam is updated
hourly to provide a live close-up of the
aspern construction site.
www.aspern-seestadt.at/sales
www.aspern-seestadt.at/bauinfo

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Life Space
Cities are perceived through their public spaces. Consequently, emphasis must be placed on the design and practical usability of urban space. If urban variety
is a key goal, the functions and design of buildings must be closely linked to public space. Objectives such as vibrancy, short distances and social balance
call for a highly diversified mixed-use approach embedded in a robust and flexible spatial structure.
CITY QUARTERS + PUBLIC LIFE
The development of public space in the Urban Lakeside is based on the strategy paper “The
Public Space Score” by Gehl Architects. This guideline identifies four lines in the Urban Lakeside
that, similar to the chords of a musical instrument, generate impulses for public life.
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The ring road – the local boulevard experience
The ring road is a key element of the spatial structure of
aspern Vienna’s Urban Lakeside and presents a different
face in each of the quarters, with varying activities,
streetwalls and streetscape design. The ring road will be
more than just a traffic artery – it will offer atmospheric
quality and space for urban leisure activities.
Red chord – the lifeline of aspern
The red chord is mainly characterised by commercial and
cultural activities. Active ground-floor zones are essential
to ensure lively streets and squares. The red chord is the
place to go shopping, meet friends during the weekend or
watch vibrant city life while relaxing on a bench. It has the
potential to become the lifeline of aspern.
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Blue chord – the heart of the Urban Lakeside
The lake with its park and promenade embodies the
urbanistic concept of a centre that is open to all. In spring
2011, the entry submitted by the German planning team
of lavaland & TH Treibhaus won the international design
competition for the aspern Lakeside Park. This concept
interprets the entire park as an island landscape with
different activity zones for the neighbouring quarters –
from sports and exercise to relaxation and pleasure.
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Green chord – the link with the environs
The green chord is a sequence of locally embedded
green and open leisure zones linked to the superordinate
landscape network, the “Green Belt” of Vienna. aspern
is nestled between two large green areas. Numerous
footpaths and bikeways as well as landscaped zones with
high atmospheric appeal link the new urban quarters with
the surrounding settlements.
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THE FIRST QUARTERS WILL EMERGE IN THE SOUTHERN PROJECT SECTION UNTIL 2017:
The Urban Lakeside quarters may combine different building functions and are arranged in a starshaped
development structure.
Shopping around the corner from day one
The southern part of the “red chord” will form the first quarter
hub, offering a mix of local shopping, small businesses, communal
facilities and flats. Targeted measures are taken to support the
development of this commercial area: thus the ceiling height of
groundfloor storeys must be increased. A specially set-up company
ensures rental and management conditions that correspond to local
needs and ensure a lively mix of providers and services.
Youthful élan and innovative enterprises in a superlative location
aspern is the ideal site for innovative and demanding enterprises
that in addition to excellent traffic and transport connections
are also looking for a location with high development potential
and an attractive environment for their employees. The precise
definition of the individual parcels will involve a dialogue with
investors, developers and business agencies.
CITY + ENVIRONMENT
aspern Vienna’s Urban Lakeside is one of Austria’s first urban development projects awarded the
quality seal of an environmental impact assessment.
Intelligent construction site logistics
The building material flows generated by the Urban Lakeside are
intelligently managed. Excavated material is reused on-site for
terrain modelling and road construction. Additionally, railway
transports eliminate the need for tens of thousands of lorry trips.
A city of short distances
High-quality public space, short travel times to work and
shopping facilities, small-scale volumes, manifold ground-floor
zones with shops and smooth connections to the public transport
network make it easier for Urban Lakeside residents to forgo car
ownership. The mobility concept of the Urban Lakeside prioritises
cyclists and pedestrians. Services like car sharing or mobility
packages are to steer mobility behaviour towards sustainability.
Energy and climate
aspern Vienna’s Urban Lakeside wants to become a “climateneutral”
part of the city. Already today, an overall energy
concept has been drawn up for aspern to review energy
requirements as compared to potentials for alternative energy
production. The latter include photovoltaic power generation
and a geothermal project. “aspern+” (a guideline project of the
programme “Building of Tomorrow Plus”) is working towards
the first demonstration projects for building construction, thus
anticipating the future EU energy standard.

aspern Vienna’s Urban Lakeside is one of Europe’s biggest urban development
projects. It is firmly rooted in the tradition-steeped metropolis
Vienna and yet grows far ahead into the future. As an urban, vibrant
centre, it will add to the high quality of life typical of the Austrian capital.
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needs and professional requirements, business success and social
responsibility – all essential preconditions for “The Full Life”.
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Shared Values
Values are to become reality in aspern
Vienna’s Urban Lakeside. We define our
values so precisely to make sure that they
will be binding – for ourselves, our partners
and the future.
A CULTURE OF SHARING AND
COMMUNICATING
We can share what was formerly divided
and in this way create novel forms of community
and togetherness. Modern society
is discovering the value of new communities,
originally a by-product of the Internet:
differences thus not only divide us but can
also be something we enjoy to share.
A CITY IS A SHARED SPACE OF
INFINITE POSSIBILITIES
Cities are one of the most complex achievements
of human civilisation and culture.
They cannot be planned on a top-down basis
– a city of the future that is truly worth
living in can only be conceived and built
in co-operation with all its stakeholders.
It offers a framework for shared public
space, different forms of use and contrasting
needs, a format for potentials.
WORK AND LEISURE – INTEGRAL
ELEMENTS OF LIFE
It is the vision of the Urban Lakeside to
harmonise and balance the myriad facets
of life. There is a place for everything, and
all elements are efficiently connected or
detached as required. Project developers
hold a stake in vibrantly alive, functioning
public space. This is not a place of either/
or but of both/and.
INDIVIDUALITY IS RESPECTED
The role of the individual as the beginning
and end of all planning activities is integral.
Every planning measure starts from the
question of how it will affect the people
who live and work here. Urban quality
offers an individualist society an opportunity
for interchanging and balancing
different life models.
SHARING WITH FUTURE GENERATIONS
Sustainability is more than environmental
protection; rather, it is a form of intergenerational
awareness that informs resource
use all around. Construction and energy
technologies that save resources and do
not negatively impact the climate, farsigh-
ted social responsibility for a changing
society and long-term economic viability
are the three pillars of a sustainable city.
NATURE IS INDIVISIBLE FROM
URBAN QUALITY
City and nature are no longer mutually
exclusive: when a new urban centre is
built at the periphery of the metropolis,
green zones are part of it, and the city itself
becomes green space.
SHARED USE OF STREETS
AND SQUARES
Movement that respects human needs demands
shared road space, different speeds
and parallel means of transport that can be
flexibly combined. A leisurely pace prevails
– the Urban Lakeside is connected to
the Underground network and encourages
cycling and walking.
SMALL-SCALE STRUCTURES
AND AMPLE SPACES
The quality of a city is partly derived from
its size and spaciousness and partly stems
from its variety and small-scale structures.
aspern Vienna’s Urban Lakeside blends
both principles by mixing, organising and
varying different spaces and forms of use,
thereby creating tension and vibrancy.
OPEN SPACES ARE PART
OF THE PLAN
Urban space must be planned smartly and
yet offer scope for freedom. There must be
leeway for thinking and designing,
for flexibility and participation. Both
tranquil and animated open spaces must
be safeguarded as well as private and
public, empty and intensively used,
designed and uncontrolled zones – styled
as terraces or balconies of flats, as
meadows or parks between buildings,
as a square and lake at the centre.
IDENTITY GROWS
FROM PARTICIPATION
aspern Vienna’s Urban Lakeside is an invitation
to participate, to engage in dialogue,
to embrace the new. Our objective is a culture
of shared values, joint activities and
mutual respect in a multi-faceted living
environment. This approach embodies our
vision of an urban identity that is capable
of shaping the future.
Generate Value
Gain Value
investing in aspern means building the future on
a foundation inspired by quality and reliability in
decision-making. this is why aspern Vienna’s
urban lakeside follows basic principles that
highlight its general direction and purpose. this is
why the City of Vienna and wien 3420 ag have
defined an essential framework. Yet the concrete
outlook of aspern is created by people.
Basis Vision
MASTERPLAN
On 25 May 2007, the Vienna City Council
unanimously adopted the master plan
submitted by the Swedish studio Tovatt
Architects & Planners. Key elements include
the functional arrangement of different
forms of use and a spatial design that fuses
minor and major urbanistic gestures in one
universal urban concept.
Consult the full master plan text at
www.aspern-seestadt.at/downloads.
CITYBRANDING
The brand concept for aspern Vienna’s
Urban Lakeside is the emotional guideline
for all actors concerned. Every action
contributes towards the creation of a city
that balances work and life. aspern is a
fulcrum for infinite possibilities; it is not
a place of either/or but of both/and.
For the aspern brand book, please go to
www.aspern-seestadt.at/downloads.
Quality Dialogue
It’s all about the people who live, work,
study, relax, build ties, strike up friendships,
mourn and celebrate in aspern – it’s
about The Full Life, certainly not about a
competition of planning disciplines. As a
result, the different fields of planning converge
harmoniously in this large-scale
project, despite their concurrent activities.
Dialogue platforms like the urban development
laboratory aspern Citylab provide
input for planning tasks and enable joint
project design together with experts, citizens,
investors and developers.
All plots of the Urban Lakeside are sold,
rented and managed by Wien 3420 AG as the
prime contact point for all actors. Quality
assurance is based on four pillars:
EIA AND zONING PLAN
The environmental impact assessment is
a quality seal for this location – very few
developers, if any, are likely to know as
much about a potential construction site
as about the Urban Lakeside. The land use
and zoning plan for the Urban Lakeside
deliberately leaves leeway for design and
flexible development.
GUIDELINE DOCUMENTS FOR BUILDING
DESIGN
In addition, there are certain qualities
stipulated for every plot that are essential for
the overall development of the new urban
quarter but also leave room for individual
interpretation. The guideline documents
define the admissible scope for design and
provide a comprehensive and clearcut view
of the project as a whole.

since late 2010, the aspern advisory board has been
monitoring project development for the Urban Lakeside.
This young family is part of the community housing
initiative B.r.O.T. aspern.
PROJECT SELECTION AND MONITORING
To safeguard high quality of the projects, they
are monitored from selection to implementation
via a co-operative process by Wien
3420 AG and an independent advisory board.
ASPERN ADVISORY BOARD
Since late 2010, the development of the
Urban Lakeside is being monitored by an
interdisciplinary team. It is the task of the
advisory board to advance the urbanisation
process through committed, technically
accomplished work and to assist the individual
projects, thus ensuring that the quality
standards of the Urban Lakeside will be met.
Meet the members of the advisory board!
www.aspern-seestadt.at/mitgestalteninvestieren/aspern-qualitaetsversprechen/
Living Working
It is the objective of the Urban Lakeside to
create a multifaceted living environment.
Right from the beginning, an even balance of
living and working spaces is aimed for.
ASPERN IQ AND RESEARCH TUB
Research and development in the fields
of environmental, energy and production
technologies will be given a first impulse
through the construction of a central service
infrastructure: aspern IQ. This incentive
by the Vienna Business Agency is further
The winning concept of lavaland and TH Treibhaus for
the central lakeside park.
The winners of the lakeside park competition: lavaland
& TH Treibhaus.
boosted by research TUb GmbH, a joint
venture of Vienna University of Technology,
Vienna Business Agency and Wien 3420
AG that views its task in the profitable
networking of research and industry (see
also “aspern IQ + PlusEnergy”).
www.aspern-iq.at | www.researchtub.at
LIVING IN ASPERN
Planning work for the first flats in aspern is
due to begin in autumn 2011. Around 1,000
units will be developed under Vienna’s
housing construction initiative; another
800 flats will be built following developers’
competitions. In the case of both models,
project quality will be evaluated by independent
advisory boards. Apart from architectural
characteristics, the use of renewable
energy carriers, innovative mobility concepts,
affordability, social sustainability and
a good functional mix will count in favour of
project entries.
COMMUNITY HOUSING INITIATIVES
An attractive area for a total of 170 flats,
situated opposite the future school campus
and right beside a neighbourhood park, was
set aside for community housing initiatives.
In July 2011, a total of seven interested
owner/user partnerships applied to the
municipal housing construction and urban
renewal fund wohnfonds wien for the
two-tier awarding procedure. The first such
initiatives will move to the Urban Lakeside
in late 2013.
The central lake is the core of urban development. The
excavation work for the first section has already been
concluded.
Vice-Mayor renate Brauner and District Chairman
norbert scheed on the future platform of the U2 station
“aspern”.
SCHOOL CAMPUS
Childcare and education from toddler to
secondary-school graduate, all under one
roof: the school campus will open its doors
over several stages starting in autumn 2015.
Infrastructure
Sustainability
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
In the Aspern-Essling area, water strata
suited for geothermal use can be found
at a depth of 5,000 m. Autumn 2011 will
mark the beginning of construction work
for a geothermal plant that will supply the
entire Urban Lakeside with environmentally
friendly thermal energy.
U2
In 2013, the urban development area will be
connected to the Vienna Underground line U2
with the stations “Aspern” and “Seestadt”;
the line is already under construction.
ASPERN LAKESIDE PARK
The aspern lakeside park will be created
concurrently with the first residents moving
in. The international design competition for
the park was won by the young planning team
of lavaland & TH Treibhaus. Their central concept
for the park proposes a lakescape that not
only radiates high atmospheric quality but also
constitutes an international USP of park design.
The art and culture programme “aspern seestadt
pUBLIK” is a research station for the future of
the Urban Lakeside.
Kids as urban gardeners in the aspern Urban
Lakeside garden.
Participation
Pioneering Spirit
aspern Vienna’s Urban Lakeside defines itself
as a space for possibilities whose design
options are open to co-operative exploration.
ASPERN SEESTADT PUBLIK
The art, culture and communication
programme “aspern Seestadt PUBLIK”
provides glimpses of the future of the Urban
Lakeside and a springboard for thematic
discussions. The programme developed by
content.associates transforms part of the
construction site into a place where people
can exchange and test their utopian ideas
about a new city in a fun, informal manner
– e.g. as spatial pioneers in tents or as urban
gardeners.
blog.aspern-seestadt.at
ASPERN INFO POINT
On weekends and holidays, a staffed info
point offers interested locals and visitors the
latest news about the urban development
project.
(opening hours: Fri 2-6 p.m., Sat, Sun and
holidays 10 a.m.-6 p.m.)