AA nanotourism Visiting School Wörthersee, Carinthia Architecture Photos, Austrian Building
AA nanotourism Visiting School at Wörthersee
10 March 2022
All-Year-Round Cultural Campus for London’s Architectural Association School of Architecture, UK
Location: Sekirn on Wörthersee, southern Austrian state of Carinthia, Austria

Photos by Paul Sebesta / AA nanotourism archive
AA nanotourism Visiting School, Wörthersee, Austria
Vienna Boys? Choir Summer Residence, Wörthersee, Austria
AA nanotourism Visiting School 2021
Over two weeks, students design and build a series of three architectural interventions to address and critique the hyper-privatised nature of Austria?s Lake Wörthersee.
Wörthersee has 83% of its shoreline inaccessible to the public. At the same time, located on the lake?s south shore, the Vienna Boys? Choir Summer Residence is an underused property and one of the last remaining places with an opportunity to open up for the people.
The project critically addresses the lake?s wild privatisation and the current unawareness of the cultural presence of the Vienna Boys? Choir in the local community.
The three interconnected interventions: ?Exchange Fence?, ?Stare!? and ?Sound Cannon?, offer tools for a new cultural exchange between the Boys? Choir community and the local general public, capable of addressing the future transformation of the Vienna Boys Choir Campus into an all-year-round cultural venue.
Context
Wörthersee is one of Austria’s most p...