European Agriculture

European Agriculture & Energy Park Graz

The project strategy is to assess the area as a new model for peripheral areas which suffer from landscape diffusion and a lack of identity. The idea is to develop a “productive landscape” that enters into a specific dialogue with buildings: as a significant, large-scale object, each building offers a specific programme which is linked to the productive landscape. These specific buildings share the same skin, thus generating a sequential visual series along the longitudinal development of the landscape: the heterogeneity of the area encounters the homeogeneity of the skin, causing an attractive tension between similarity and difference. As the one identifying feature, the Mur river thus finds its echo in the study area as a whole, where landscape intertwines with large-scale production, integrating agricultural, industrial and recreational uses.