WU Wien Mensa

University dining hall

The dining hall for the new Vienna University of Economics and Business occupies a large, ground floor space in the Hörsaalzentrum. The conceptual springboard for a design that aims to reference the natural world both atmospherically and in the sense of spatial freedom was an image of a vintage Airstream camper in the forest, surrounded by trees. The camper represents the social activities that bring people to the dining hall. The forest, meanwhile, is the vast space surrounding to be explored.