Hotel Margarita is an ongoing project that understands hospitality as a tool with which to cultivate exchange and trust in our fragile society and explores strategies for community-oriented spatial production. It reveals the impact on and relevance of hospitality in our built and unbuilt environment regarding issues of relation, ground, public and space. This work is a critical response to current developments in architectural practice, institutions and spatial distribution.
A shared studio space in Margareten, Vienna's fifth municipal district, serves as a 1:1 scale case study. Previously vacant, over the past three years this ground-floor shop has been gradually and collectively renovated in a self-build process and now reveals the potential of the existing framework to activate social networks through spatial interventions. By hosting various events in our collective workspace — from collective kitchens to exhibitions and concerts — we pursue an alternative approach to building materials and participatory design methods.
We explored different strategies and creative positions on how to renegotiate the spaces for elementary human needs through architecture and hospitality. Here, the “hotel” is not a conventional touristic concept but rather reveals a hospitable environment for creative encounters and unconventional coexistence, free from institutional restrictions. Each intervention offers an opportunity to encourage collaboration based on reciprocity between guest and host. This creates a repository of memories, knowledge and skills — not only in our workplace but also in the form of magazine-style publications that serve as an expanded space for exchange.
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