163 subsidized residential units with 100% climate-neutral energy system

Eight houses with various heights form a small-scale structure on the site. Open passages between the buildings connect the complex to the neighborhood. The housing estate offers diverse, affordable and flexible living for all generations and different lifestyle. Furthermore, the integration of social institutions (assisted living in community for teenagers with disabilities and apartments of the Vienna’s women’s refuges) adds to the multifaceted offering of housing. Two communal rooms, three roof gardens, artistically activated passages and a park strengthen neighbourly interactions. The residential complex is built in a modular construction method, which makes it possible to offer adaptable floor plans for changing living conditions. Energy is supplied entirely from a renewable, 100% climate-neutral energy system.

Landscape Partner: Karin Standler Landschaftsarchitektur
Art intervention: Melanie Ebenhoch

Event house with 60 subsidised apartment

Together with trans_city, we planned 5 buildings – an urban ensemble with high density and generous permeability. Our “Urban Hybrid” sets a significant prelude to the new quarter with its robust building structure. The city block focuses on cooperative living and working and offers flexibly adaptable spaces for this purpose. The active ground floor zone is understood as a space for exchange within the block. A wide range of apartment types, from micro-apartments to studio apartments, is speaking to an urban audience outside traditional family structures and to self-employed people working in cooperative networks – such as microbusinesses. The building structure of “the Event House” and the 2,8m ceiling height allows a high degree of flexibility of use and resilience.

Landscape Partner: Carla Lo
Social Sustainability: Martina Jauschneg

Collective Housing, subsidised housing with residential units

In search of the future of the village, Lans has launched an ambitious competition. The town – with currently just over 1.100 inhabitants and at the same time in direct proximity to Innsbruck – combines the advantages and challenges between town and country almost prototypically. We are planning a new neighborhood here – not just a residential area, but a lively quarter in which we will continue to think the vernacular structures that have evolved. As in a village centre, similar houses around a common area form a place to live and to work.

Landscape Partner: Erik Meinharter / PlanSinn

29 flats, 4 communal spaces, 3 offices, 1 dance studio and 2 communal terraces

The building emphasises its prominent location at the park with a high point at the corner. The staggering appearance gives the building significance and at the same time optimises the incidence of light. In typology, the building incorporates the characteristics of old town houses, which in the long term allows for a variety of uses: the public ground floor with the dance studio and the office floor above it form a lively base. The residential floors above are connected by a projecting and recessed transparent joint. This combines naturally lit access space with common rooms arranged one above the other. A modular construction structure allows architectural freedom and changeability in the life cycle of the building.

Awards: Schorsch, AT / State Award for Architecture and Sustainability (nomination), AT
Landscape partner: YEWO Landscapes, Susanne Kallinger

65 subsidised flats, 1 communal space and communal kitchen

On the site of the former Leopoldau gas works, the residential quarter Neu Leopoldau is being built along the theme of “Young Living”. At the entrance to the area, the monolithic building with its facade of prefabricated elements of fair-faced concrete sets an urbanistic accent. The design was based on the idea of creating an open and lively building. The so-called “plus spaces” — the zone between the glazed entrance doors and the apartments — play a special role. These transitional areas, with their openness to the staircase, promote communication within the building, which the residents themselves define — from a studio to a hairdressing salon to a home office. A common room as well as the summer kitchen, which is available to the entire quarter, create further meeting places for residents in the house.

Award: Callwey – Housing of the Year 2021, in the Innovative Facade category

Landscape Partner: Simma Zimmermann Landschaftsarchitektinnen
Cooperation Partner: Project development: raum & kommunikation / Sociology: Prof. Dr. Jens S. Dangschat

67 subsidised flats and 1 communal space around a communal courtyard

Eight houses in wood hybrid construction form an ensemble around a green inner courtyard. With the existing listed building the different dimensions and orientations of the buildings allow a variety of views of the surrounding mountainscape and strengthen the character of a grown village. An underground car park keeps the majority of the settlement car-free. The central inner courtyard with its playground as well as the new neighbourhood square are available to the entire neighbourhood as well as the residents. In addition to the varied open spaces a common room promotes living together within the settlement and beyond.

Awards: BIG SEE Wood Design Award – GRAND PRIX, SVN / European Collective Housing Award (Finalist), ES / Bauherrenpreis der HYPO Vorarlberg (Recognition), AT

Landscape Architecture: GRUBER + HAUMER

The house as a village

Four small tower houses are grouped around a common centre as one building. The house becomes a village: on the ground floor the small houses provide a place for communication and community. On the top floor a bridge connects the individual houses and their rooms, ensuring retreat and concentration. The lofty tower house leads to the terrace. The building is striking for its ambiguous play with the scale and with interior and exterior, which is reflected in the choice of material.  Heights and depths, wide and narrow spaces and the resulting outlooks and interplay of light define the house’s character and atmospheres.

160 flats, 1 kindergarten and 1 communal space

The residential building is located in the new Viola Park urban development area, in the direct vicinity of the new football stadium “Generali Arena”. The ensemble of L-type elements and a tower block is held together by a common base, which houses a kindergarten with six groups. It closes off to the stadium and street space towards the school campus and creates a sheltered inner courtyard that opens up to the adjacent park. Communication areas, play areas and a large common room support social exchanges. For football fans of FK Austria: You can’t live any closer to your team…

Landscape Architecture: Land in Sicht

23 cooperative flats and 1 communal space around a communal courtyard

The compact village structure typical of South Tyrol was adopted: five houses are grouped around a common green inner courtyard, as one knows it from hamlets or the so called Anger. The buildings are restrained and simple in form and expression. Diversity is created in the variation of the openings; room-high windows and structured ceiling bands structure the facades. Prefabricated and exposed concrete elements in warm earthy tones give the complex a sculptural character. The future residents were involved in the planning from the very beginning through a comprehensive participatory process.

Awards: Rassegna Architettura Arco Alpino, South Tyrol Architecture Award in the category Housing
Landscape Partner: PlanSinn

The clearly defined compact building with a car port in front is situated within a loose structure of detached houses. The heart of the family house is its extended, central, two-storey living room flooded with light from above, with variously arranged room sequences around it. Each room on the top floor has an “extension”, winning space and home-living quality either through a window nook, a balcony or a “projecting” bathtub.

Hanging Gardens for Berlin

High-quality housing especially in the densely populated urban context is developed in the end only in combination with multifaceted open space planning. The architectural formulation of the concept results in an evocative building cubature, which, on account of its scale, merges simultaneously and naturally with the surroundings. The tiered structure supports the development of expansive open spaces. Each apartment is given its own directly accessible “hanging garden”. “This unique architecture has engendered a new type of building which in a very special way promotes clear identification and prestige value. … As a whole, the work is an exceptionally innovative and fascinating contribution to the creation of new qualities in inner-city housing.” (Excerpt from the minutes of the jury)