Such is the case of the territory in the Viehofen flood plain, near St. Pölten city, where during the Second World War a forced labour camp once raised. In 1966, when Kurz-Kuefsteinsche Gutsverwaltung, the owner of the Jewish forced camp for labourers from Hungary decided to set up a sand and gravel quarry, seemed to carry out not only an economic activity but a social therapy job that would become that place a real haven of peace. Today the 19,8 hectares of land under the Viehofen Lake give the place a quiet and a hopefully present, full of leisure life and relaxing baths.

However, in the South of the lake, the history of the place where the forced camp for ‘labourers from the East European countries’ once stood remains unresolved. There is therefore a need of a history able to conceive the future urban agenda knitted with the invisible threads of time, offering this convoluted land a healing treatment.

As the Viehofen Lake peace, the architecture can make use of that water that floods the ruins and trees to overlap landscapes and times living together in the same space. It is then necessary to build a common thread that concedes every builder or team involved the freedom to act without changing the peace of this unique territory in St. Pölten.
 

The implementation system here suggested is accomplished by an infrastructure that not only encloses areas and provides a global vision to the place but ensures the establishment of the building structure, the urban heating ducts and the solar energy systems.
Houses, workshops and local stores are connected to this structure according to the growth of every plot. There are places where the construction of light structures is preferential. However, this system lets those places to be occupied without occupying their interior space. Sometimes, it also allows the integration of the old fences still remaining between the high trees around.