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.
Place
Rankweil, AT
Client
Private
Completion
2012
NFA
141 m²
Project partner
OBA Haller & Partner
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.
Place
Rankweil, AT
Client
Private
Completion
2012
NFA
141 m²
Project partner
OBA Haller & Partner
Townhouse with 13 apartments, 2 offices, 2 retail spaces
For decades, an unusual vacant lot in the Straußengasse shaped the cityscape of Vienna. The challenge was to find a suitable solution for the immense pressure of urban densification while appropriately considering the existing structure. feld72 developed a building that respectfully envelops the half-timbered house, closing the gap with elegant ease. As a result, the half-timbered house appears to stand alone in the street, creating a striking address. The typology of the productive townhouse, with a commercially used ground floor and studios in the courtyard wing, is adopted. The design focus is on the delicate façade of the new building, which features industrial accents referencing the existing structure. This façade conveys a sense of lightness and elegance. The added value of the buffer zone in front of the building encourages the spatial appropriation and allows the residents to individually manage light, climate conditions and visual permeability.
Award: architecture award “gebaut2023” by the City of Vienna, AT
Category
Direct commission
Location
Vienna, AT
Completion
2023
Client
AVEST Immobilien & MEGUS.STR14 Immobilien
GFA
2.349 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Townhouse with 13 apartments, 2 offices, 2 retail spaces
For decades, an unusual vacant lot in the Straußengasse shaped the cityscape of Vienna. The challenge was to find a suitable solution for the immense pressure of urban densification while appropriately considering the existing structure. feld72 developed a building that respectfully envelops the half-timbered house, closing the gap with elegant ease. As a result, the half-timbered house appears to stand alone in the street, creating a striking address. The typology of the productive townhouse, with a commercially used ground floor and studios in the courtyard wing, is adopted. The design focus is on the delicate façade of the new building, which features industrial accents referencing the existing structure. This façade conveys a sense of lightness and elegance. The added value of the buffer zone in front of the building encourages the spatial appropriation and allows the residents to individually manage light, climate conditions and visual permeability.
Award: architecture award “gebaut2023” by the City of Vienna, AT
Category
Direct commission
Location
Vienna, AT
Completion
2023
Client
AVEST Immobilien & MEGUS.STR14 Immobilien
GFA
2.349 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
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
Category
Competition, 1st prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Completion
2022
Client
KALLCO Development
GFA
13.875 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
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
Category
Competition, 1st prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Completion
2022
Client
KALLCO Development
GFA
13.875 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Visualisation
Janusch
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Visualisation
Janusch
72 subsidised flats, 1 Baugruppe with 39 flats, commercial units, kindergarten and SOS Children’s Village
The integration of a “Baugruppe” into a subsidised housing complex opens up new potential and synergies. They stimulate and strengthen each other. Public facilities such as a kindergarten, the SOS Children’s Village, gastronomy and co-working on the ground floor radiate further into the neighbourhood and create an open urban center. This dialogue creates identity. Different flat types, together with JUNO – Centre for Separated and Single Parents, meet the housing needs of all generations and living situations and promote a social diversity. In addition to the vertical greening of the arcades and the roof, the fresh air corridors and the south-facing arcades influence the microclimate and reduce overheating. The block is thus green on all levels; at its heart, the green center invites people to linger and creates a counterpart to the lively ground floor zone.
Cooperation Partner: einszueins architektur
Landscape Partner: Carla Lo
Category
Invited competition, 1st prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Planning Start
2020
Client
Schwarzatal
GFA
17.475 m²
Visualisation
Patricia Bagienski
72 subsidised flats, 1 Baugruppe with 39 flats, commercial units, kindergarten and SOS Children’s Village
The integration of a “Baugruppe” into a subsidised housing complex opens up new potential and synergies. They stimulate and strengthen each other. Public facilities such as a kindergarten, the SOS Children’s Village, gastronomy and co-working on the ground floor radiate further into the neighbourhood and create an open urban center. This dialogue creates identity. Different flat types, together with JUNO – Centre for Separated and Single Parents, meet the housing needs of all generations and living situations and promote a social diversity. In addition to the vertical greening of the arcades and the roof, the fresh air corridors and the south-facing arcades influence the microclimate and reduce overheating. The block is thus green on all levels; at its heart, the green center invites people to linger and creates a counterpart to the lively ground floor zone.
Cooperation Partner: einszueins architektur
Landscape Partner: Carla Lo
Category
Invited competition, 1st prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Planning Start
2020
Client
Schwarzatal
GFA
17.475 m²
Visualisation
Patricia Bagienski
Renovation and attic extension with 25 flats and commercial spaces
In the former textile quarter in the inner city of Vienna (“Fetzenviertel”) a representative mid-19th century Gründerzeithaus was renovated and extended. With the name Cotton Residence, the house has now been given its original use as a residential and commercial building. Due to the importance of the building for the urban ensemble (protection zone), special attention was paid to the preservation of the historic façade as well as to the careful insertion of the roof extension. On the courtyard side the building shows its present appearance with spacious terraces and balconies. By lowering the ceiling above the 4th floor an additional 5th full floor with a generous panoramic view could be created.
Awards: architecture award “gebaut2020” by the City of Vienna, AT / db »Respekt und Perspektive. Bauen im Bestand«, DE
Cooperation Partner: Schenker Salvi Weber Architekten, FCP Fritsch Chiari & Partner
Kategorie
Invited competition, 1st prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Completion
2020
Client
Neutorgasse 7 Projektentwicklungs AG & Co OG
GFA
9.400 m²
Pictures
Lukas Schaller
Renovation and attic extension with 25 flats and commercial spaces
In the former textile quarter in the inner city of Vienna (“Fetzenviertel”) a representative mid-19th century Gründerzeithaus was renovated and extended. With the name Cotton Residence, the house has now been given its original use as a residential and commercial building. Due to the importance of the building for the urban ensemble (protection zone), special attention was paid to the preservation of the historic façade as well as to the careful insertion of the roof extension. On the courtyard side the building shows its present appearance with spacious terraces and balconies. By lowering the ceiling above the 4th floor an additional 5th full floor with a generous panoramic view could be created.
Awards: architecture award “gebaut2020” by the City of Vienna, AT / db »Respekt und Perspektive. Bauen im Bestand«, DE
Cooperation Partner: Schenker Salvi Weber Architekten, FCP Fritsch Chiari & Partner
Kategorie
Invited competition, 1st prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Completion
2020
Client
Neutorgasse 7 Projektentwicklungs AG & Co OG
GFA
9.400 m²
Pictures
Lukas Schaller
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
Category
Competition, 1st prize (building plot J)
Location
Vienna, AT
Planning start
2019
Client
Familienwohnbau
GFA
6.400 m²
Visualisation
expressiv
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
Category
Competition, 1st prize (building plot J)
Location
Vienna, AT
Planning start
2019
Client
Familienwohnbau
GFA
6.400 m²
Visualisation
expressiv
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
Category
Competition, 1st prize
Location
Lans, AT
Planning start
2019
Client
Municipality of Lans
GFA
9.520 m²
Visualisation
Janusch
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
Category
Competition, 1st prize
Location
Lans, AT
Planning start
2019
Client
Municipality of Lans
GFA
9.520 m²
Visualisation
Janusch
Kooperationspartner: ifau Berlin
Landschaftspartner: PlanSinn (BF1), DnD Landschaftsplanung (BF6b2)
Kooperationspartner: ifau Berlin
Landschaftspartner: PlanSinn (BF1), DnD Landschaftsplanung (BF6b2)
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
Category
2-phase competition, 1st prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Year
2018
Client
KALLINGER Bauträger
GFA
4.485 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
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
Category
2-phase competition, 1st prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Year
2018
Client
KALLINGER Bauträger
GFA
4.485 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
A place for communal living and cooperative working
The building complex consists of the cluster house (feld72) and the cooperative house (transparadiso), which are connected by a commercially used city base zone. Offerings for living arrangements outside the traditional family system are a focal point. In addition to apartments, offices, commercial and workshop space, the cluster house offers 3 residential clusters that combine several self-sufficient studios equipped with bathrooms and small kitchens, communal kitchens and common areas to form a contemporary flatshare community. The city base zone with urban workshop is aimed at entrepreneurs looking for shared use of infrastructures in a communicative and innovative working environment. The urban balcony above connects the two buildings and links all uses and functions in a semi-public open space.
Cooperation Partner: transparadiso
Landscape Partner: Carla Lo
Category
Competition, 1st prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Completion
2023
Client
Österreichisches Volkswohnungswerk ÖVW (2022-2023, Die WoGen (2016-2022)
General Planner
raum & kommunikation
GFA
3.500 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
A place for communal living and cooperative working
The building complex consists of the cluster house (feld72) and the cooperative house (transparadiso), which are connected by a commercially used city base zone. Offerings for living arrangements outside the traditional family system are a focal point. In addition to apartments, offices, commercial and workshop space, the cluster house offers 3 residential clusters that combine several self-sufficient studios equipped with bathrooms and small kitchens, communal kitchens and common areas to form a contemporary flatshare community. The city base zone with urban workshop is aimed at entrepreneurs looking for shared use of infrastructures in a communicative and innovative working environment. The urban balcony above connects the two buildings and links all uses and functions in a semi-public open space.
Cooperation Partner: transparadiso
Landscape Partner: Carla Lo
Category
Competition, 1st prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Completion
2023
Client
Österreichisches Volkswohnungswerk ÖVW (2022-2023, Die WoGen (2016-2022)
General Planner
raum & kommunikation
GFA
3.500 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
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
Category
2-phase competition, 1st prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Completion
2019
Client
SCHWARZATAL
GFA
5.400 m²
Pictures, Visualization
Hertha Hurnaus, RIVIERA | MORETTI
Art intervention
PERKUP, SKIRL, RUIN
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
Category
2-phase competition, 1st prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Completion
2019
Client
SCHWARZATAL
GFA
5.400 m²
Pictures, Visualization
Hertha Hurnaus, RIVIERA | MORETTI
Art intervention
PERKUP, SKIRL, RUIN
450 flats, 5 communal spaces, a midwifery practice, city forest
The “Kapellenhof” in Vienna’s 22nd district offers affordable housing with a high quality of life. A perforated block perimeter with a spacious inner courtyard is reminiscent of traditional Viennese municipal housing. Bright rooms, far-reaching views and green spaces are offered by the apartments whilst the courtyard in the heart of the complex is an open playground, offering fluid transition between areas of retreat and places that encourage social interaction. Courtyard-facing entrances together with communal rooms and terraces complete this inviting ensemble. A raised plinth, that grounds the body of the building, the stringent structure of the French window, polygonal balconies and the colorfulness of the different architectural elements create homogeneity in a heterogeneous environment.
Award: architecture award “gebaut2020” by the City of Vienna, AT
Cooperation Partner: AllesWirdGut
Landscape Partner: Carla Lo Landschaftsarchitektur
Social Sustainability: Mag. Sonja Gruber
Category
Competition, 1st prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Completion
2019
Client
MIGRA / Neues Leben / WOGEM
GFA
51.680 m²
Pictures
tschinkersten fotografie
450 flats, 5 communal spaces, a midwifery practice, city forest
The “Kapellenhof” in Vienna’s 22nd district offers affordable housing with a high quality of life. A perforated block perimeter with a spacious inner courtyard is reminiscent of traditional Viennese municipal housing. Bright rooms, far-reaching views and green spaces are offered by the apartments whilst the courtyard in the heart of the complex is an open playground, offering fluid transition between areas of retreat and places that encourage social interaction. Courtyard-facing entrances together with communal rooms and terraces complete this inviting ensemble. A raised plinth, that grounds the body of the building, the stringent structure of the French window, polygonal balconies and the colorfulness of the different architectural elements create homogeneity in a heterogeneous environment.
Award: architecture award “gebaut2020” by the City of Vienna, AT
Cooperation Partner: AllesWirdGut
Landscape Partner: Carla Lo Landschaftsarchitektur
Social Sustainability: Mag. Sonja Gruber
Category
Competition, 1st prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Completion
2019
Client
MIGRA / Neues Leben / WOGEM
GFA
51.680 m²
Pictures
tschinkersten fotografie
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
Category
Direct commission with prior study
Location
Bludenz, AT
Client
Wohnbauselbsthilfe
Completion
2019
GFA
7.420 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
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
Category
Direct commission with prior study
Location
Bludenz, AT
Client
Wohnbauselbsthilfe
Completion
2019
GFA
7.420 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
25 cooperative flats around a play street
The housing estate with eight houses takes up various patterns of older agglomerations in Kaltern and interprets them in a participatory planning process to create a contemporary, new settlement in a rural context. The architecture appears familiar, simple and clear. Nevertheless, in its spatial use and movement it reveals its complexity and surprises. Nature and architecture merge seamlessly at certain points. A residential and play street forms the heart of the complex and becomes the defining element of the social space. Small paths surround the complex and, together with the residential street and natural corridor, form a complex network of paths, which both expose the most diverse (semi) public spaces for communication and interaction, as well as invite people to retreat.
Award: South Tyrol Architecture Award, IT
Landscape Partner: PlanSinn
Category
Invited competition, 1st prize
Location
Kaltern, IT
Completion
2010
Client
Arche KVW Bozen
GFA
5.400 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
25 cooperative flats around a play street
The housing estate with eight houses takes up various patterns of older agglomerations in Kaltern and interprets them in a participatory planning process to create a contemporary, new settlement in a rural context. The architecture appears familiar, simple and clear. Nevertheless, in its spatial use and movement it reveals its complexity and surprises. Nature and architecture merge seamlessly at certain points. A residential and play street forms the heart of the complex and becomes the defining element of the social space. Small paths surround the complex and, together with the residential street and natural corridor, form a complex network of paths, which both expose the most diverse (semi) public spaces for communication and interaction, as well as invite people to retreat.
Award: South Tyrol Architecture Award, IT
Landscape Partner: PlanSinn
Category
Invited competition, 1st prize
Location
Kaltern, IT
Completion
2010
Client
Arche KVW Bozen
GFA
5.400 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
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.
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
Category
Direct commission with prior study
Location
Vienna, AT
Client
KIBB Immobilien
Completion
2019
GFA
19.750 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
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
Category
Direct commission with prior study
Location
Vienna, AT
Client
KIBB Immobilien
Completion
2019
GFA
19.750 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
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
Category
Invited competition, 1st prize
Location
Eppan, IT
Completion
2015
Client
Arche im KVW
GFA
5.163 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
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
Category
Invited competition, 1st prize
Location
Eppan, IT
Completion
2015
Client
Arche im KVW
GFA
5.163 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
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)
Category
Competition, 1st Prize
Lacation
Berlin, DE
Client
Bauart zweite Beteiligungs GmbH & Co
GFA
9.412 m²
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)
Category
Competition, 1st Prize
Lacation
Berlin, DE
Client
Bauart zweite Beteiligungs GmbH & Co
GFA
9.412 m²
121 subsidised flats and 1 communal space
Working with concepts of urban development and architecture, hERZberg creates a structure on an urban planning and architectural level that combines a multitude of different housing for the most diverse forms of living into one neighbourhood — for singles, (patchwork) families, and supervised flatsharing for young people. From an urban planning point of view, the residential complex acts as a mediator between the different dimensions of the adjacent developments and offers a variety of open space. The colour scheme of the building reunites the resulting diversity into an identity-forming neighbourhood.
Cooperation Partner: AllesWirdGut
Landscape Partner: DnD
Category
Competition, 1st prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Completion
2011
Client
EGW Heimstätte + ÖVW
GFA
20.212 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
121 subsidised flats and 1 communal space
Working with concepts of urban development and architecture, hERZberg creates a structure on an urban planning and architectural level that combines a multitude of different housing for the most diverse forms of living into one neighbourhood — for singles, (patchwork) families, and supervised flatsharing for young people. From an urban planning point of view, the residential complex acts as a mediator between the different dimensions of the adjacent developments and offers a variety of open space. The colour scheme of the building reunites the resulting diversity into an identity-forming neighbourhood.
Cooperation Partner: AllesWirdGut
Landscape Partner: DnD
Category
Competition, 1st prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Completion
2011
Client
EGW Heimstätte + ÖVW
GFA
20.212 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus