The final design thesis explores architecture’s capacity to respond to climate change through the concept of entropy and terrain vague — two ideologies explored during my exchange semester in Landscape Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Set against the backdrop of extreme climate events in Vienna in the summer of 2024—record-breaking heat waves followed by sudden flooding—the project investigates how architecture might not resist, but coexist with natural forces, adapting and evolving through disruption.

The selected site, Nussdorf, is situated at the confluence of the Danube River and Danube Canal—a gateway where river cruises arrive into the city. With the presence of the Austrian architect Otto Wagner’s historic Jugendstil style weir and concentration of hydraulic infrastructures around the area, the site offers a symbolic and constructive setting to test a new architectural typology: one that embraces impermanence and fluidity with technological practicality .

Drawing from Robert Smithson’s notion of entropy—not merely as decay, but as transformation—this thesis asks: What comes after climate change? Can architecture act as a catalyst for regeneration, rather than a monument to stability?

A raised 200-meter-long multifunctional bridge emerges as the central proposal—hovering above ground, yet rooted in place. It aims to function as a hybrid hub for water research, education, and recreation, weaving together existing institutions, water engineering works and the surrounding river landscape.

While the technical challenge lies in how to support such an extensive structure, a structural solution will define its architectural character. The project explores a modular, adaptable system that is demountable and reusable— as a contemporary interpretation of technology in dialogue with the site’s historical context.

Ultimately, the thesis reframes flooding not as failure, but as a temporal and constantly growing condition—an agent of change. It envisions a resilient architecture that embraces disorder, collaborates with time, and finds beauty in the unpredictable forces of nature.