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130 DAMPFERANLEGESTELLE DDSG BY EUGEN WACHBERGER Year 1956 Status Demolished Material Lego Scale 1:100 Model maker Barbara Gruber The landing pier for the Austrian shipping company DDSG was designed by the architect Eugen Wachberger and completed in 1956. The pavilion was situated at the Donaulände 1 in Linz, next to the Danube. The building was placed slightly above the top of the flood protection wall. Like a draw bridge, the stairway that connected the waiting room inside the pavilion with the river bank could be raised and lowered. The building was demolished in 1999.1 The scale model of the building was an experiment to see whether it is possible to use toy bricks like Lego to build architectural models. While it was not possible to accurately transfer the original scaling and size relations due to the nature of the toy bricks, it was nonetheless possible to approximate the outside look and to reach a similar feeling to that of the original design. A benefit of using building bricks for architectural models is the quick and interactive building procedure. The one storey pavilion with glass walls on both sides, a waiting room, and a small bar inside was reconstructed with the help of only two photos, one of the outside and one of the inside view. 1 Architekturzentrum Wien (Ed.) (2016): Architektur in Österreich im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert. Zürich: Park Books. 143.