ARIANA Event Hall

In the midst of one of the largest urban development projects in Europe - the Lake-City Aspern (Aspern Seestadt) in the northeast of Vienna - the need of a large catchment area for a modern event hall has been satisfied. The ARIANA Event Hall takes advantage of the excellent infrastructure of the smart-city Seestadt aspern and positions itself as a place of assembly equipped with unique architecture as well as the latest technical features. Taking the currently prevailing pandemic into consideration, an extremely powerful ventilation system was installed. Within the framework of a competition in 2019, our project was able to prevail and convince by proposing simple cubatures, but a spectacular facade. The concise facade element protectively covers the building structure like a leaf of life and its angled supporting fabric is reminiscent of the veins of a leaf. The “leaf of life” becomes a shell and covers a generous threshold area between interior and exterior space, which is created by the recessed facade. This results in an interlocking and intermingling of the residents of Seestadt aspern and the visitors of the Event Hall. Underneath the VIP area, the only element set one floor higher, visitors are able to exit their means of transport in a protected area. The event hall itself can be divided into two areas and separated by an acoustic wall. The lobby and outdoor areas can easily be connected, allowing events from 30 to over 2000 people as well as an unobstructed view through the entire building.