The approach of understanding Vienna’s history was through creative art. Starting with the ways people creatively express themselves reflects that time or the consciousness of the time. Later, mapping this extracting of people in these performance scenarios and the act of being in the urban space. Music being a recorded document, but there needed to be a study of the experience of the space within a performance, the actual moment. This created a language of the informal temporal arts which captures how the audience responds to the space of a performer at different scales. Though this language is where the archifact model tried to understand it further. The archifact model is where the study of performative spaces and their spatial relationship occurred through elevations. Through this study, one can infer how the higher levels become more exclusive to the actual performer in an urban setting.
The design behind the final form, took the skeleton of the St Stephen’s and it was mirrored onto the streets of Vienna. Its location thrives from the density of tourism, therefore by St. Stephen’s. This space is for performative purposes allowing the performer to occupies its stage in the air, removing this “formal design” of floors (stages).Therefore performers would be suspended at different levels. The levels are defined by the performer rather than the architect. The intimacy between performer and audience is left up to the performer’s choice-making this clear distinction between performer and audience from the same plane. Tying back to the study of typology where people act in particular ways when there is a performance going on, therefore they occupy the space differently when there is a performer. People’s gatherings take shape for informal activities, like sidewalks become seating or a monument. When there is an informal event people subconsciously make space and designate certain spaces to be occupied or not. Through this performative enhancement creates a space of escapism which has the purpose of coping with Vienna’s dark history.
