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Vienna blooming - new student project!

Luca Bierkle and Tobias Reisenbichler, TUW students from the Spatial Planning and Development programme, have developed a new AI application!

Photo of Vienna's Getreidemarkt (current state)

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Vienna's Getreidemarkt seen from the centre of the street. Wilhelminian style buildings to the left and right. The street is four-lane.

Visualisation of Vienna's Getreidemarkt (dream scenario)

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Vienna's Getreidemarkt with Wilhelminian-style buildings. A park-like strip the width of two lanes, with one lane with a permeable surface to the left and one to the right.

photo of Vienna's Heldenplatz (current state)

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Vienna's Heldenplatz: An equestrian monument in the middle of a car park with a road leading to it. National Library on the left.

Visualisation of Vienna's Heldenplatz (dream scenario)

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Vienna's Heldenplatz, view of an equestrian monument and the National Library to the left. Around the equestrian monument a park landscape with meadow and pink flowers. A narrow path with natural stones leads to the monument.

Photo of Vienna's Schleifmühlgasse (current state)

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Schleifmühlgasse in Vienna, Gründerzeit buildings, paved and with parked cars

Visualisation of Vienna's Schleifmühlgasse (desired scenario)

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Schleifmühlgasse in Vienna, Wilhelminian style development. The street is paved, pots with green plants to the side, a framed water basin on the left, a tree behind it. Green plants entwine along the ground floor zone on the right

The desire for a green city

Especially in summer, when it is hot and record temperatures are once again being measured in overheated cities, we dream of cooler green spaces. "Vienna blooming, opens an external URL in a new window" is a kind of wish machine that makes these dreams come true. But how?

With the help of an AI (artificial intelligence) application, busy, paved Viennese streets and alleyways are unsealed and freed from cars. Instead, flower meadows, new parks and lovely little streams invite you to linger.

Behind the project are two students from the Institute of Spatial Planning at TU Wien: Luca Bierkle(who also works at our MOVE research unit) andTobias Reisenbichler. With their vision, they want to emphasise the importance of urban space and make the greening and quality assurance of Vienna's urban space tangible.

We are delighted by their dedication, congratulate them and wish them all the best for the future of the project!