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
On 31 October, the conference ‘Gemeinschaft(lich) Bauen – Dritte Orte für Stadt und Land’ will take place – together with international experts, concepts for so-called ‘third places’ will be discussed…
We are delighted to be invited to the conference_cusanus akademie brixen on the topic of ‘building and living’…
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
Extension by 2 groups and common rooms with 100% ecological building materials
The extension was designed continuing the dialog between flat and pitched roofs of the existing kindergarten with a two-story gable roofed building and a flat roofed structure. It connects in the north-eastern part of the property which was designed by architect Gutweniger Willy in 1976. The aim of the extension was a holistic ecological construction method from the start, with the annexe designed as a glue-free solid wood building with a wooden façade and green roofs. The solid wooden walls creating a pleasant indoor climate due to their mass and texture. Another consideration was the spatial integration of the open learning landscape shared by German and Italian speaking groups. The focus of the extension being on the encounter zones, opening up the possibility of togetherness.
Award: BIG SEE Wood Design Award, SVN
Category
Negotiated procedure
Location
Lagundo, IT
Completion
2022
Client
Municipality of Lagundo
GFA
1.269 m²
Pictures
David Schreyer
Extension by 2 groups and common rooms with 100% ecological building materials
The extension was designed continuing the dialog between flat and pitched roofs of the existing kindergarten with a two-story gable roofed building and a flat roofed structure. It connects in the north-eastern part of the property which was designed by architect Gutweniger Willy in 1976. The aim of the extension was a holistic ecological construction method from the start, with the annexe designed as a glue-free solid wood building with a wooden façade and green roofs. The solid wooden walls creating a pleasant indoor climate due to their mass and texture. Another consideration was the spatial integration of the open learning landscape shared by German and Italian speaking groups. The focus of the extension being on the encounter zones, opening up the possibility of togetherness.
Award: BIG SEE Wood Design Award, SVN
Category
Negotiated procedure
Location
Lagundo, IT
Completion
2022
Client
Municipality of Lagundo
GFA
1.269 m²
Pictures
David Schreyer
Kindergarten, primary school and canteen
The site is situated between an industrial area to the east and a nature park to the west. The wooden building ensemble mediates between the scenic contrasts of the streetscape and the riverside landscape. Towards nature the houses open up with diverse outdoor spaces and accessible roofs. This area with two yards, biotopes and educational gardens is an extended learning and playground for the children. The two-storey light-flooded library forms the heart of the elementary school. The spatial organisation of the school into three buildings connected through transparent bridges leads to clear orientation and enables visual relationship with as well as passages to nature. The building caters to the needs of children.
Cooperation Partner: Agence MW Architectes
Landscape Partner: Atelier Roberta
Category
Competition, 1st prize
Location
Strasbourg, FR
Planning start
2019
Client
City of Strasbourg
GFA
6.330 m²
Visualisation
expressiv
Kindergarten, primary school and canteen
The site is situated between an industrial area to the east and a nature park to the west. The wooden building ensemble mediates between the scenic contrasts of the streetscape and the riverside landscape. Towards nature the houses open up with diverse outdoor spaces and accessible roofs. This area with two yards, biotopes and educational gardens is an extended learning and playground for the children. The two-storey light-flooded library forms the heart of the elementary school. The spatial organisation of the school into three buildings connected through transparent bridges leads to clear orientation and enables visual relationship with as well as passages to nature. The building caters to the needs of children.
Cooperation Partner: Agence MW Architectes
Landscape Partner: Atelier Roberta
Category
Competition, 1st prize
Location
Strasbourg, FR
Planning start
2019
Client
City of Strasbourg
GFA
6.330 m²
Visualisation
expressiv
»… there is no break between the theoretical and experimental projects of feld72 and their designs for buildings: all of their work, irrespective of scale or means, investigates how the world is engaged and perceived through the lens of architecture. And there is an architectural lesson we can draw from this work, namely that the essence of architecture is nothing architectural.« – Kari Jormakka
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
Solo exhibition: SHIBAURA HOUSE Tokyo / Aedes Architecture Forum Berlin
The focus of the exhibition is set on social interaction in built structures and on recognising and activating their spatial potentials. It is about materiality, thus about the concrete implementation of concepts and strategies in architecture. In a chronological retrospective projects over roughly twenty years of practice demonstrate the variety of our work. Stickers with critical statements and questions about space in different scales and contexts permeate the exhibition and decoupled from the respective concrete projects – weave themselves into a fragmentary manifesto. David Schreyer visited some realised projects and interpreted them cinematically. The film sequences provide insights into the present, lived-in atmosphere of the houses, places created and captures contextual aspects. In “Zukunftsgespräche” (Conversations about the Future) we reflect together with experts from various disciplines on experiences with regard to currently pressing questions. The dialogue opens new perspectives and outlooks – not least with attention to the relevance of good design in the production of spaces. The setting of the exhibition is conceived as a temporary structure, a ‘space in a space’, completely removable and reusable, with recycled material.
Films by David Schreyer >> vimeo
“Zukunftsgespräche” with Ulrike Böker, Carlo Calderan, Jens Dangschat, Benedikt Erhard, Angelika Fitz, Bernhard Herzog, Daniele Karasz, Verena Konrad, Robert Korab, Andreas Krüger, Christian Kühn, Franziska Leeb, Elke Rauth, Christoph Reinprecht, Renée Tribble, Beate Weyland >> vimeo
Location
SHIBAURA HOUSE Tokyo, Japan / Aedes Architecture Forum Berlin, DE
Year
April 2024 / May – July 2023
Photos
SHIBAURA HOUSE, feld72, Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk
Solo exhibition: SHIBAURA HOUSE Tokyo / Aedes Architecture Forum Berlin
The focus of the exhibition is set on social interaction in built structures and on recognising and activating their spatial potentials. It is about materiality, thus about the concrete implementation of concepts and strategies in architecture. In a chronological retrospective projects over roughly twenty years of practice demonstrate the variety of our work. Stickers with critical statements and questions about space in different scales and contexts permeate the exhibition and decoupled from the respective concrete projects – weave themselves into a fragmentary manifesto. David Schreyer visited some realised projects and interpreted them cinematically. The film sequences provide insights into the present, lived-in atmosphere of the houses, places created and captures contextual aspects. In “Zukunftsgespräche” (Conversations about the Future) we reflect together with experts from various disciplines on experiences with regard to currently pressing questions. The dialogue opens new perspectives and outlooks – not least with attention to the relevance of good design in the production of spaces. The setting of the exhibition is conceived as a temporary structure, a ‘space in a space’, completely removable and reusable, with recycled material.
Films by David Schreyer >> vimeo
“Zukunftsgespräche” with Ulrike Böker, Carlo Calderan, Jens Dangschat, Benedikt Erhard, Angelika Fitz, Bernhard Herzog, Daniele Karasz, Verena Konrad, Robert Korab, Andreas Krüger, Christian Kühn, Franziska Leeb, Elke Rauth, Christoph Reinprecht, Renée Tribble, Beate Weyland >> vimeo
Location
SHIBAURA HOUSE Tokyo, Japan / Aedes Architecture Forum Berlin, DE
Year
April 2024 / May – July 2023
Photos
SHIBAURA HOUSE, feld72, Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk
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
Educational spaces are among our first formative encounters with space. As the “third educator”, these environments become, at their best, spaces of possibilities that support us in our development and promote our potential.
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
David Schreyer
Educational spaces are among our first formative encounters with space. As the “third educator”, these environments become, at their best, spaces of possibilities that support us in our development and promote our potential.
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
David Schreyer
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Visualisation
Janusch
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Visualisation
Janusch
Our exhibition contribution Caring Infrastructures – we have the response-ability for the exhibition Welcome to the Re_Public investigates the potential of the public space during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, while also aiming to encourage people to think about future uses of the urban street space in particular. The “new” normality is shaped by a retreat into the privacy of the home. At the height of the pandemic, public and cultural life was almost brought to a standstill, creating cityscapes shaped by empty streets and vacant public spaces. In the project Caring Infrastructures, the streetscape becomes a field of experimentation where structures for a new kind of solidarity can be developed in a time of social isolation. Which places of day-to-day interaction can support us in taking care of each other and our environment in this “new” normality? The Caring Infrastructures collection will be published on the website Catalogue of Possibilities and new ideas will be continually added in the course of an OPEN CALL.
Partners: Liebling Haus, Welcome to the Re_Public
Support: Austrian Cultural Forum; Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport; Municipality of Tel Aviv- Yafo; Tel Aviv Foundation; German Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community
Category
Exhibition & Open Call
Location
Liebling Haus, Tel Aviv
Exhibition
12/2020 – 09/2021
Photos
Kiebling Hays, Aviad Bar-Ness (Liebling Haus), Yael Schmidt (Exhibition)
Call for Ideas
PDF
Our exhibition contribution Caring Infrastructures – we have the response-ability for the exhibition Welcome to the Re_Public investigates the potential of the public space during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, while also aiming to encourage people to think about future uses of the urban street space in particular. The “new” normality is shaped by a retreat into the privacy of the home. At the height of the pandemic, public and cultural life was almost brought to a standstill, creating cityscapes shaped by empty streets and vacant public spaces. In the project Caring Infrastructures, the streetscape becomes a field of experimentation where structures for a new kind of solidarity can be developed in a time of social isolation. Which places of day-to-day interaction can support us in taking care of each other and our environment in this “new” normality? The Caring Infrastructures collection will be published on the website Catalogue of Possibilities and new ideas will be continually added in the course of an OPEN CALL.
Partners: Liebling Haus, Welcome to the Re_Public
Support: Austrian Cultural Forum; Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport; Municipality of Tel Aviv- Yafo; Tel Aviv Foundation; German Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community
Category
Exhibition & Open Call
Location
Liebling Haus, Tel Aviv
Exhibition
12/2020 – 09/2021
Photos
Kiebling Hays, Aviad Bar-Ness (Liebling Haus), Yael Schmidt (Exhibition)
Call for Ideas
PDF
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
New development of a mixed-use quarter: On the site of the former Esso Houses on Hamburg’s Spielbudenplatz, a small-scale mixture of residential, hotel, commercial and subcultural space is to be created for the St. Pauli district. The “St. Pauli Code”, which forms the basis for the planning process, was developed within the framework of a major citizens participation. BeL + NL architects were able to win the urban planning competition. On this basis, the area was divided into five building plots for the subsequent building competition. feld72 is responsible for the planning of building plot 2 and 5.
Building plot 2: Subculture Cluster – hostel, skater roof, club, bar and offices. The building is prominently positioned at the corner between Spielbudenplatz and the new neighbourhood street. On the roof of the building structure, the skater roof creates a consumptionfree, publicly accessible open space, which is connected via a bridge to the variously programmed roofscape of the other building plots. Users of the former Esso houses (Kogge und Molotow) are given space again on this building site.
Building plot 5: On this building site, the focus is on community living in overlap with subcultural, neighbourhood-related, social uses. Accompanying the neighbourhood street, the block development forms an urban base with the music cluster (studios) in the basement, the district canteen with outdoor area, the FabLab and a feminist sex shop on the ground floor. The 1st floor houses a social counselling office and an event room. On the floors above, the Baugruppe offers a varied range of living space with spacious, communal rooms and roof terraces.
Landscape Partner: TREIBHAUS Landschaftsarchitektur
Category
Invited competition,
1st prize
Location
Hamburg, DE
Planning start
2016
Client
Bayerische Hausbau
GFA
2.774 m² (building plot 2)
5.505 m² (building plot 5)
New development of a mixed-use quarter: On the site of the former Esso Houses on Hamburg’s Spielbudenplatz, a small-scale mixture of residential, hotel, commercial and subcultural space is to be created for the St. Pauli district. The “St. Pauli Code”, which forms the basis for the planning process, was developed within the framework of a major citizens participation. BeL + NL architects were able to win the urban planning competition. On this basis, the area was divided into five building plots for the subsequent building competition. feld72 is responsible for the planning of building plot 2 and 5.
Building plot 2: Subculture Cluster – hostel, skater roof, club, bar and offices. The building is prominently positioned at the corner between Spielbudenplatz and the new neighbourhood street. On the roof of the building structure, the skater roof creates a consumptionfree, publicly accessible open space, which is connected via a bridge to the variously programmed roofscape of the other building plots. Users of the former Esso houses (Kogge und Molotow) are given space again on this building site.
Building plot 5: On this building site, the focus is on community living in overlap with subcultural, neighbourhood-related, social uses. Accompanying the neighbourhood street, the block development forms an urban base with the music cluster (studios) in the basement, the district canteen with outdoor area, the FabLab and a feminist sex shop on the ground floor. The 1st floor houses a social counselling office and an event room. On the floors above, the Baugruppe offers a varied range of living space with spacious, communal rooms and roof terraces.
Landscape Partner: TREIBHAUS Landschaftsarchitektur
Category
Invited competition,
1st prize
Location
Hamburg, DE
Planning start
2016
Client
Bayerische Hausbau
GFA
2.774 m² (building plot 2)
5.505 m² (building plot 5)
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
A hybrid banking headquarters
The new Raiffeisenbank headquarters in St. Pölten is located on a prominent urban corner in the north of the city, not far from the railway station. The concept of the building allows for hybrid use and accommodates not only a bank branch and an advisory centre, but also a public restaurant and café, an event space, a co-working space and terraces on multiple floors. A formulated joint divides the building into two volumes. It marks the main entrance and contains the access to the four-storey building. The transparent and generous staircase allows views into the street space and the quiet inner courtyard. The façade oscillates between openness and closeness. Horizontal cornices made of glass-fibre concrete wrap around the building over several storeys, contrasting generous glass surfaces, which are rhythmically broken by pilaster strips.
Awards: Callwey – Best Workspaces, DE / Vorbildliche Bauten Niederösterreich, AT
Cooperation Partner: Studio Hoffelner Schmid
Project Management: M.O.O.CON
Lightning design: Designbüro Christian Ploderer
Guidance system design: buero bauer
Category
Competition, 1st prize
Location
St. Pölten, AT
Completion
2022
Client
Raiffeisenbank St. Pölten
GFA
5.250 m²
Art intervention
Andreas Fraenzl, Vilma Pflaum
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
A hybrid banking headquarters
The new Raiffeisenbank headquarters in St. Pölten is located on a prominent urban corner in the north of the city, not far from the railway station. The concept of the building allows for hybrid use and accommodates not only a bank branch and an advisory centre, but also a public restaurant and café, an event space, a co-working space and terraces on multiple floors. A formulated joint divides the building into two volumes. It marks the main entrance and contains the access to the four-storey building. The transparent and generous staircase allows views into the street space and the quiet inner courtyard. The façade oscillates between openness and closeness. Horizontal cornices made of glass-fibre concrete wrap around the building over several storeys, contrasting generous glass surfaces, which are rhythmically broken by pilaster strips.
Awards: Callwey – Best Workspaces, DE / Vorbildliche Bauten Niederösterreich, AT
Cooperation Partner: Studio Hoffelner Schmid
Project Management: M.O.O.CON
Lightning design: Designbüro Christian Ploderer
Guidance system design: buero bauer
Category
Competition, 1st prize
Location
St. Pölten, AT
Completion
2022
Client
Raiffeisenbank St. Pölten
GFA
5.250 m²
Art intervention
Andreas Fraenzl, Vilma Pflaum
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Cooperation Partner: AllesWirdGut
Landscape Partner: TH Landschaftsarchitektur Hamburg
Cooperation Partner: AllesWirdGut
Landscape Partner: TH Landschaftsarchitektur Hamburg
Kooperationspartner: ifau Berlin
Landschaftspartner: PlanSinn (BF1), DnD Landschaftsplanung (BF6b2)
Kooperationspartner: ifau Berlin
Landschaftspartner: PlanSinn (BF1), DnD Landschaftsplanung (BF6b2)
Masterplan for a new residential area
A sustainable and innovative model quarter for Constance is to be built on the site of the so-called “Christiani Wiesen”. The goal for the development of the new neighbourhood is to combine a high quality of living with increased space efficiency. The design focuses on six central themes: Sharing and service, social mix and mixed use, urban mobility (car-free neighbourhood with a convertible car park), climate and ecological quality, smart living (digitalisation concept with smart city solutions) and urban production.
Cooperation Partner: TH Landschaftsarchitektur Hamburg
Category
Invited competition, 1st prize
Location
Constance, DE
Planning Start
2018
Client
City of Constance
GFA
14.800 m²
Photos
City of Constance / Chris Danneffel
Masterplan for a new residential area
A sustainable and innovative model quarter for Constance is to be built on the site of the so-called “Christiani Wiesen”. The goal for the development of the new neighbourhood is to combine a high quality of living with increased space efficiency. The design focuses on six central themes: Sharing and service, social mix and mixed use, urban mobility (car-free neighbourhood with a convertible car park), climate and ecological quality, smart living (digitalisation concept with smart city solutions) and urban production.
Cooperation Partner: TH Landschaftsarchitektur Hamburg
Category
Invited competition, 1st prize
Location
Constance, DE
Planning Start
2018
Client
City of Constance
GFA
14.800 m²
Photos
City of Constance / Chris Danneffel
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
New corporate headquarters: renovation of the listed existing building, new office and commercial spaces
The building adopts the plot’s polygonal layout and develops it into a compact structure with two courtyards. The ensemble of the new building and the partly listed old building closes the gap with regards to urban development and blends subtly into its surroundings. A public passageway on the ground floor creates a new connection between Rochusmarkt and Grete-Jost-Park. At the interface between old and new, a multi-storey, light-flooded atrium serves as circulation space as well as meeting area. The rooms have been designed to allow for future alternative uses, thus ensuring long-term and flexible utilisation.
Awards: Austrian Federal Award, AT / Mies van der Rohe Award (Nomination), ES / best architects award, DE / AIT-Award, DE / Office of the Year Award, AT
Cooperation Partner: Schenker Salvi Weber Architekten
Landscape Partner: DnD Landschaftsplanung
Category
Open 2-phase competition, 1st prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Completion
2017
Client
Austrian Post AG
GFA
49.169 m²
Pictures
Lukas Schaller
New corporate headquarters: renovation of the listed existing building, new office and commercial spaces
The building adopts the plot’s polygonal layout and develops it into a compact structure with two courtyards. The ensemble of the new building and the partly listed old building closes the gap with regards to urban development and blends subtly into its surroundings. A public passageway on the ground floor creates a new connection between Rochusmarkt and Grete-Jost-Park. At the interface between old and new, a multi-storey, light-flooded atrium serves as circulation space as well as meeting area. The rooms have been designed to allow for future alternative uses, thus ensuring long-term and flexible utilisation.
Awards: Austrian Federal Award, AT / Mies van der Rohe Award (Nomination), ES / best architects award, DE / AIT-Award, DE / Office of the Year Award, AT
Cooperation Partner: Schenker Salvi Weber Architekten
Landscape Partner: DnD Landschaftsplanung
Category
Open 2-phase competition, 1st prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Completion
2017
Client
Austrian Post AG
GFA
49.169 m²
Pictures
Lukas Schaller
Kindergarten for 2 groups
The kindergarten illustrates the local mesh of tradition, contemporary life and nature within the slowly grown village structure of Niederolang. The wooden building sits like a treasure chest within the solid surrounding wall and embraces the garden in a friendly gesture. The wall changes materiality and volume — it accommodates, frames, hides, invites to play and provides insights and views. The building itself remains clear and yet appears multi-layered. The rooms can be connected to form a coherent spatial structure or, alternatively, they can be used individually — the proposed spatial concept allows attractive variations in the implementation of the pedagogical model.
Awards: South Tyrol Architecture Award 2019 in the category Public Building, Medaglia d’Oro all’Architettura 2018, AIT-Award 2018 (3rd prize), Holzbaupreis Südtirol – archilegno 2018, Plan Award 2018 (honorable mention), Piranesi Award 2017 (honorable mention)
Category
Invited competition, 1st prize
Location
Olang, IT
Completion
2016
Client
Municipality of Olang
GFA
950 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Kindergarten for 2 groups
The kindergarten illustrates the local mesh of tradition, contemporary life and nature within the slowly grown village structure of Niederolang. The wooden building sits like a treasure chest within the solid surrounding wall and embraces the garden in a friendly gesture. The wall changes materiality and volume — it accommodates, frames, hides, invites to play and provides insights and views. The building itself remains clear and yet appears multi-layered. The rooms can be connected to form a coherent spatial structure or, alternatively, they can be used individually — the proposed spatial concept allows attractive variations in the implementation of the pedagogical model.
Awards: South Tyrol Architecture Award 2019 in the category Public Building, Medaglia d’Oro all’Architettura 2018, AIT-Award 2018 (3rd prize), Holzbaupreis Südtirol – archilegno 2018, Plan Award 2018 (honorable mention), Piranesi Award 2017 (honorable mention)
Category
Invited competition, 1st prize
Location
Olang, IT
Completion
2016
Client
Municipality of Olang
GFA
950 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Kindergarten, primary school and village library
The idea of the educational ensemble originated from a study in 2005, which involved the local community to develop a holistic concept for the village. Based on the original building of the 1970s, where the school and kindergarten were housed together, a concept developed over the years which allows both facilities more space. In 2010, the new kindergarten was completed. In 2017, the renovation of the existing school building and the integration of the village library followed.
Award: Mies van der Rohe Award (Nomination), ES
Category
Direct commission with prior study
Location
Terenten, IT
Client
Municipality of Terenten
Completion
2017
GFA
2.656 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Kindergarten, primary school and village library
The idea of the educational ensemble originated from a study in 2005, which involved the local community to develop a holistic concept for the village. Based on the original building of the 1970s, where the school and kindergarten were housed together, a concept developed over the years which allows both facilities more space. In 2010, the new kindergarten was completed. In 2017, the renovation of the existing school building and the integration of the village library followed.
Award: Mies van der Rohe Award (Nomination), ES
Category
Direct commission with prior study
Location
Terenten, IT
Client
Municipality of Terenten
Completion
2017
GFA
2.656 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Kindergarten for 3 groups
Building in the Alps has always been characterised by a search for the elementary, the simple and an intelligent treatment of its specific topography. The kindergarten was embedded in the slope — which is on the one hand a building, but on the other hand already an integral part of the surrounding landscape. The new building was created out of consideration for the village scale as well as for the perspective of the youngest children. On the inside a variety of spatial sequences promote the children’s own activity, orientation and communication, but also their social interaction and aesthetic awareness. In the sense of: the room is the third pedagogue.
Award: South Tyrol Architecture Award in the category Public
Category
Direct commission with prior study
Location
Terenten, IT
Client
Municipality of Terenten
Completion
2010
GFA
1.310m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Kindergarten for 3 groups
Building in the Alps has always been characterised by a search for the elementary, the simple and an intelligent treatment of its specific topography. The kindergarten was embedded in the slope — which is on the one hand a building, but on the other hand already an integral part of the surrounding landscape. The new building was created out of consideration for the village scale as well as for the perspective of the youngest children. On the inside a variety of spatial sequences promote the children’s own activity, orientation and communication, but also their social interaction and aesthetic awareness. In the sense of: the room is the third pedagogue.
Award: South Tyrol Architecture Award in the category Public
Category
Direct commission with prior study
Location
Terenten, IT
Client
Municipality of Terenten
Completion
2010
GFA
1.310m²
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
Master plan for a mixed-use quarter with a focus on innovative forms of living and working
A new urban quarter is to be created on the site of the former municipal slaughterhouse. The expansive open void, which has already been activated by the first temporary uses, has enormous urban and creative potential and must be preserved. A frame in the form of a compacted block edge is laid around the experimental area in a small-scale, step-by step development. Through a variety of mixed building typologies, living and working are connected in a new way. As part of the urban planning competition “Neu Marx – create together” five teams of architects were selected from across Europe to design the area and attract diverse user groups. MakerSpace Neu Marx is a breeding ground for ideas, a place for innovation, urban production, creativity, technology and knowledge transfer. This new quarter brings together established companies, startups, residents and visitors alike.
Landscape Partner: DnD Landschaftsplanung
Category
Invited competition
Location
Vienna, AT
Year
2016
Client
WSE Wiener Standortentwicklung, Raiffeisen Property International
GFA
375.000 m²
Visualisations
Janusch
Master plan for a mixed-use quarter with a focus on innovative forms of living and working
A new urban quarter is to be created on the site of the former municipal slaughterhouse. The expansive open void, which has already been activated by the first temporary uses, has enormous urban and creative potential and must be preserved. A frame in the form of a compacted block edge is laid around the experimental area in a small-scale, step-by step development. Through a variety of mixed building typologies, living and working are connected in a new way. As part of the urban planning competition “Neu Marx – create together” five teams of architects were selected from across Europe to design the area and attract diverse user groups. MakerSpace Neu Marx is a breeding ground for ideas, a place for innovation, urban production, creativity, technology and knowledge transfer. This new quarter brings together established companies, startups, residents and visitors alike.
Landscape Partner: DnD Landschaftsplanung
Category
Invited competition
Location
Vienna, AT
Year
2016
Client
WSE Wiener Standortentwicklung, Raiffeisen Property International
GFA
375.000 m²
Visualisations
Janusch
Urban planning framework
Starting from the basic idea of anchoring the school as a place of learning in the consciousness of the citizens, the question arises whether this is inevitably to be solved architecturally via a building (or a coherent building structure) or could a solution be presented via a network of relationships between several buildings in an urban context. We believe that by continuing to knit together existing urban planning patterns, the school can become part of the neighbourhood in an informal way. The aim is to create spaces of possibility that can react to the dynamic developments of today’s society. An interlocking of the school with the city always means an opening and a readiness to react to changes. Here, the degree of public and private sphere and its controllability is of great importance.
Cooperation Partner: PlanSinn
Category
Invited competition, 1st prize
Location
Cologne, DE
Year
2011
Client
City of Cologne, Montag Stiftungen
Urban planning framework
Starting from the basic idea of anchoring the school as a place of learning in the consciousness of the citizens, the question arises whether this is inevitably to be solved architecturally via a building (or a coherent building structure) or could a solution be presented via a network of relationships between several buildings in an urban context. We believe that by continuing to knit together existing urban planning patterns, the school can become part of the neighbourhood in an informal way. The aim is to create spaces of possibility that can react to the dynamic developments of today’s society. An interlocking of the school with the city always means an opening and a readiness to react to changes. Here, the degree of public and private sphere and its controllability is of great importance.
Cooperation Partner: PlanSinn
Category
Invited competition, 1st prize
Location
Cologne, DE
Year
2011
Client
City of Cologne, Montag Stiftungen
20 installations — 1 public space
The exhibition GeschichtenOrt Hofburg aims to attract increased interest to the urban space between Michaelerplatz and the MuseumsQuartier: as the cultural and historical centre of this country, where the historical meets the contemporary, where not only the history of dominance but also the history of democracy and emancipation movements were written; as a place of European politics but also as a place of urban everyday and leisure life.
Cooperation Partner: Maria Welzig and Ingrid Holzschuh (curators), Bueronardin (Graphic Design)
20 installations — 1 public space
The exhibition GeschichtenOrt Hofburg aims to attract increased interest to the urban space between Michaelerplatz and the MuseumsQuartier: as the cultural and historical centre of this country, where the historical meets the contemporary, where not only the history of dominance but also the history of democracy and emancipation movements were written; as a place of European politics but also as a place of urban everyday and leisure life.
Cooperation Partner: Maria Welzig and Ingrid Holzschuh (curators), Bueronardin (Graphic Design)
Summer School mit feld72 in Münster
Der öffentliche Raum ist zurück. Die letzten Jahre waren medial geprägt von einer Rückeroberung der physischen, öffentlichen Plätze als Austragungsorte des Politischen. Er ist aber nicht nur der Raum, wo Protest möglich wird, sondern vor allem jener, wo Praktiken des Alltags ihre Form und Ausdruck finden. Er ist im besten Falle ein großer Möglichkeitsraum.
Mit Arbeiten von:
Kanade Hamawaki, Naima Hartmann, Florian Hummer, Jonas Kerner, Rachel Kress, Lukas Kopf, Alex Maitz, Mathias Manglus, Kim Müller, Franziska Schink, Barbara Seyerl, Pascal Simon, Karin Stoeckl
Location
Münster, DE
Date
10. – 20. August 2017
Host
Freihaus ms
Pictures
Jan Kampshoff / Freihaus ms and feld72
Summer School mit feld72 in Münster
Der öffentliche Raum ist zurück. Die letzten Jahre waren medial geprägt von einer Rückeroberung der physischen, öffentlichen Plätze als Austragungsorte des Politischen. Er ist aber nicht nur der Raum, wo Protest möglich wird, sondern vor allem jener, wo Praktiken des Alltags ihre Form und Ausdruck finden. Er ist im besten Falle ein großer Möglichkeitsraum.
Mit Arbeiten von:
Kanade Hamawaki, Naima Hartmann, Florian Hummer, Jonas Kerner, Rachel Kress, Lukas Kopf, Alex Maitz, Mathias Manglus, Kim Müller, Franziska Schink, Barbara Seyerl, Pascal Simon, Karin Stoeckl
Location
Münster, DE
Date
10. – 20. August 2017
Host
Freihaus ms
Pictures
Jan Kampshoff / Freihaus ms and feld72
In Shenzhen in China as part of the Biennale for Urbanism and Architecture organised by Shenzhen / Hong Kong in 2010 a primary series of PublicTrailers© was set up to expand the city’s public space with new components that transcend commerce, and at the same time to continue the tradition of informal tactics in the Asian urban environment. The mobile Speakers’ Corner sees itself as homage to the possibility of free speech in the public space; PublicKaraoke is a mobile analogue karaoke unit exploiting the medium’s success in order to dynamise underdeveloped urban districts. UrbanBoxing is an instrument that aspires on the one hand to divert the latent aggression of a society – officially based on harmony – in a spirit of fair play, and also to acknowledge the great tradition of martial arts in the Chinese urban environment.
Location
Shenzen, CN
Year
2009
Client
Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale für Städtebau/Architektur
In Shenzhen in China as part of the Biennale for Urbanism and Architecture organised by Shenzhen / Hong Kong in 2010 a primary series of PublicTrailers© was set up to expand the city’s public space with new components that transcend commerce, and at the same time to continue the tradition of informal tactics in the Asian urban environment. The mobile Speakers’ Corner sees itself as homage to the possibility of free speech in the public space; PublicKaraoke is a mobile analogue karaoke unit exploiting the medium’s success in order to dynamise underdeveloped urban districts. UrbanBoxing is an instrument that aspires on the one hand to divert the latent aggression of a society – officially based on harmony – in a spirit of fair play, and also to acknowledge the great tradition of martial arts in the Chinese urban environment.
Location
Shenzen, CN
Year
2009
Client
Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale für Städtebau/Architektur
Minigolf sculpture park
feld72 designed the first of a total of 12 miniature golf courses for the sculpture park “MQ Amore” on the forecourt of the MuseumsQuartier, Wien. In a setting of 38 red minigolf balls the actual game ball itself becomes an obstacle that “loses” its interchangeability. The work was signed in Braille formed from balls. Thus the camouflaged authorship itself becomes an element of the playful environment. With the materials used — Danube shell limestone and brass — the minigolf course makes a reference to the architecture of the Leopold Museum, which nominated feld72 for the design. The installation itself thus becomes an artefact in the forecourt of the institution.
Artists: feld72 (Leopold Museum), Anastasiya Yarovenko (Kunsthalle Wien), heri&salli (Architekturzentrum), PLOP – Bernd und Thomas Oppl (Q21), Bildstein | Glatz (MuseumsQuartier)
Minigolf sculpture park
feld72 designed the first of a total of 12 miniature golf courses for the sculpture park “MQ Amore” on the forecourt of the MuseumsQuartier, Wien. In a setting of 38 red minigolf balls the actual game ball itself becomes an obstacle that “loses” its interchangeability. The work was signed in Braille formed from balls. Thus the camouflaged authorship itself becomes an element of the playful environment. With the materials used — Danube shell limestone and brass — the minigolf course makes a reference to the architecture of the Leopold Museum, which nominated feld72 for the design. The installation itself thus becomes an artefact in the forecourt of the institution.
Artists: feld72 (Leopold Museum), Anastasiya Yarovenko (Kunsthalle Wien), heri&salli (Architekturzentrum), PLOP – Bernd und Thomas Oppl (Q21), Bildstein | Glatz (MuseumsQuartier)
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
Umgestaltung des Platz der Stadt Hof in Berlin-Neukölln
Die Leitidee ist die Gestaltung eines Platzes, der Freiraum im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes bildet, und nicht wie ein zu eng geschnittenes Korsett Möglichkeiten verhindert. Die vorgefundenen Elemente werden mit den neuen hinzugefügten verdichtet, und bilden einen neuen Brennpunkt am Platz: den sozialen Maschinist. Die Fläche wird freigeräumt. Die Platane als gestaltgebendes Element wird betont, und ihr wird ein funktionaler Gegenpol, der soziale Maschinist, als Dialogpartner gegenübergestellt. Das Leben am Platz spielt sich nun zwischen diesen beiden Polen ab: dem Ruhepol der schattenspendenden Platane, und den verschiedenen Aggregatszuständen des Sozialen Maschinisten, der einige Stücke spielen kann.
Kooperationspartner: Ton Matton
Category
Invited competition, honorable mention
Location
Berlin, DE
Year
2010
Client
Bezirksamt Berlin-Neukölln
Umgestaltung des Platz der Stadt Hof in Berlin-Neukölln
Die Leitidee ist die Gestaltung eines Platzes, der Freiraum im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes bildet, und nicht wie ein zu eng geschnittenes Korsett Möglichkeiten verhindert. Die vorgefundenen Elemente werden mit den neuen hinzugefügten verdichtet, und bilden einen neuen Brennpunkt am Platz: den sozialen Maschinist. Die Fläche wird freigeräumt. Die Platane als gestaltgebendes Element wird betont, und ihr wird ein funktionaler Gegenpol, der soziale Maschinist, als Dialogpartner gegenübergestellt. Das Leben am Platz spielt sich nun zwischen diesen beiden Polen ab: dem Ruhepol der schattenspendenden Platane, und den verschiedenen Aggregatszuständen des Sozialen Maschinisten, der einige Stücke spielen kann.
Kooperationspartner: Ton Matton
Category
Invited competition, honorable mention
Location
Berlin, DE
Year
2010
Client
Bezirksamt Berlin-Neukölln
Als eines der höchsten Gebäude Bozen sichtbar in der Stadt, und durch seine großzügige Platzbildung erlebbar auf Fußgänger-Niveau wird das neue Hauptquartier zum wichtigen Impuls in der neuen zentrumsnahen Stadtentwicklungszone rund um das große Bahnhofsareal.
Die bereits für die von feld72 geplante Markas Zentrale in Österreich in St.Pölten entwickelte Corporate Identity fand auch in diesem Gebäude ihre Kontinuität. Transparenz und Offenheit als auch die flache Hierarchiestruktur des Unternehmens mit ca. 7.000 Mitarbeitern finden hier ihre räumliche Ausprägung.
Projektpartner: ITB, Energytech, gbd GFE und Lichtraum2
Als eines der höchsten Gebäude Bozen sichtbar in der Stadt, und durch seine großzügige Platzbildung erlebbar auf Fußgänger-Niveau wird das neue Hauptquartier zum wichtigen Impuls in der neuen zentrumsnahen Stadtentwicklungszone rund um das große Bahnhofsareal.
Die bereits für die von feld72 geplante Markas Zentrale in Österreich in St.Pölten entwickelte Corporate Identity fand auch in diesem Gebäude ihre Kontinuität. Transparenz und Offenheit als auch die flache Hierarchiestruktur des Unternehmens mit ca. 7.000 Mitarbeitern finden hier ihre räumliche Ausprägung.
Projektpartner: ITB, Energytech, gbd GFE und Lichtraum2
The dense coexistence of sex workers, refugees, idyllic street life, homeless, families and so on in some corners becomes concentrated into something that is specifically St. Pauli. But what matters here is less the place than the special atmosphere of “live and let live”. The core issue is the search for urban structure, which also makes room for contradictory neighbourhoods. Apart from the structural settlements, the concept shapes the conditions for a process-based appropriation, organisation and design of public, semi-public and semi-private spaces through the respective users.
More information: PlanBude
Landscape Partner: PlanSinn
Cooperation Partner: Prof. Dr. Jens S. Dangschat (Sociology)
Category
invited Competition, 3rd prize
Location
Hamburg, DE
Year
2015
Client
Bayerische Hausbau
GFA
28.000 m²
Visualization
Zero Division
The dense coexistence of sex workers, refugees, idyllic street life, homeless, families and so on in some corners becomes concentrated into something that is specifically St. Pauli. But what matters here is less the place than the special atmosphere of “live and let live”. The core issue is the search for urban structure, which also makes room for contradictory neighbourhoods. Apart from the structural settlements, the concept shapes the conditions for a process-based appropriation, organisation and design of public, semi-public and semi-private spaces through the respective users.
More information: PlanBude
Landscape Partner: PlanSinn
Cooperation Partner: Prof. Dr. Jens S. Dangschat (Sociology)
Category
invited Competition, 3rd prize
Location
Hamburg, DE
Year
2015
Client
Bayerische Hausbau
GFA
28.000 m²
Visualization
Zero Division
Sommerakademie Salzburg – Public Space
Die TeilnehmerInnen unseres Kurses an der Internationalen Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst in Salzburg untersuchten an spezifischen Übergangszonen der Stadt, wie Salzburg zwischen einem Ausnahmezustand der Festpielzeit und dem gewohnten Alltag fluktuiert. Dabei verwandelte sich das ehemalige Barockmuseum zum ersten Museum for Public Space, in dem die diversen im öffentlichen Raum Salzburgs umgesetzten Arbeiten der Studierenden gezeigt wurden.
Participants
Oliver René Alunovic, Constanta Dohotaru, Petra Göbel, Zuzana Kleinerová, Julia Liedel, Juliana Lindenhofer, Lado Lomitashvili, Galina Romanova, Sarah Schoberleitner, Thomas Sommerauer, Mihai Teodorescu, Stephan R. Thierbach
Location
Salzburg, AT
Date
20 July – 8 August 2015
Teachers / Co-teachers
Michael Obrist, Anne Catherine Fleith / Ana Patrícia Gomes, Antoine Turillon
Pictures
Antoine Turillon, Participants, Isabella Hager, Pia Streicher
Sommerakademie Salzburg – Public Space
Die TeilnehmerInnen unseres Kurses an der Internationalen Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst in Salzburg untersuchten an spezifischen Übergangszonen der Stadt, wie Salzburg zwischen einem Ausnahmezustand der Festpielzeit und dem gewohnten Alltag fluktuiert. Dabei verwandelte sich das ehemalige Barockmuseum zum ersten Museum for Public Space, in dem die diversen im öffentlichen Raum Salzburgs umgesetzten Arbeiten der Studierenden gezeigt wurden.
Participants
Oliver René Alunovic, Constanta Dohotaru, Petra Göbel, Zuzana Kleinerová, Julia Liedel, Juliana Lindenhofer, Lado Lomitashvili, Galina Romanova, Sarah Schoberleitner, Thomas Sommerauer, Mihai Teodorescu, Stephan R. Thierbach
Location
Salzburg, AT
Date
20 July – 8 August 2015
Teachers / Co-teachers
Michael Obrist, Anne Catherine Fleith / Ana Patrícia Gomes, Antoine Turillon
Pictures
Antoine Turillon, Participants, Isabella Hager, Pia Streicher
Artistic redesign of the ticket office
At the town hall square in St. Pölten the major theatres are united in one ticket office. The redesign of the premises plays with the elements and materiality of the theatre. The large inviting glass front evokes the drama of a stage situation through the curtain that defines the interior. In the perception of spectators from outside, the visitors thus become random actors on the stage of everyday life. Theatre swivel chairs on the forecourt support this ambiguous function as multi-functional seating furniture. The new canopy roof writes the names of Lower Austrian cultural institutions on the square with delicate shadows. The entire new spatial setting creates a stage situation in the public space in which the roles of “audience” and “actors” merge and converge.
Category
Direct commission
Location
St. Pölten, AT
Completion
2013 inside / 2015 outisde
Client
Landestheater & Public Art Niederösterreich
GFA
112 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus, Wolfgang Woessner
Artistic redesign of the ticket office
At the town hall square in St. Pölten the major theatres are united in one ticket office. The redesign of the premises plays with the elements and materiality of the theatre. The large inviting glass front evokes the drama of a stage situation through the curtain that defines the interior. In the perception of spectators from outside, the visitors thus become random actors on the stage of everyday life. Theatre swivel chairs on the forecourt support this ambiguous function as multi-functional seating furniture. The new canopy roof writes the names of Lower Austrian cultural institutions on the square with delicate shadows. The entire new spatial setting creates a stage situation in the public space in which the roles of “audience” and “actors” merge and converge.
Category
Direct commission
Location
St. Pölten, AT
Completion
2013 inside / 2015 outisde
Client
Landestheater & Public Art Niederösterreich
GFA
112 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus, Wolfgang Woessner
Exhibition satellites and photo competition about public space
Accompanying the exhibition “Baukultur — Think your city differently”, feld72 developed nonconform and inspirin exhibition satellites at five locations in Vienna, where questions about urban living space were publicly addressed. The starting point for discussion and reflection were the following questions: How does the city bring us together? Do you also live in your city? Do you move through your city? What does your city teach you? What does your workplace look like? Within the framework of a photo competition under the motto “Have a seat in your city”, examples were collected of how the residents would like to use their city differently. The interventions were an impulse for a critical examination of our built environment and for the active appropriation of public urban space.
Cooperation Partner: inspirin, nonconform
Location
Vienna, AT
Year
2014
Client
MA 19, City of Vienna
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Graphics
zunder zwo
Exhibition satellites and photo competition about public space
Accompanying the exhibition “Baukultur — Think your city differently”, feld72 developed nonconform and inspirin exhibition satellites at five locations in Vienna, where questions about urban living space were publicly addressed. The starting point for discussion and reflection were the following questions: How does the city bring us together? Do you also live in your city? Do you move through your city? What does your city teach you? What does your workplace look like? Within the framework of a photo competition under the motto “Have a seat in your city”, examples were collected of how the residents would like to use their city differently. The interventions were an impulse for a critical examination of our built environment and for the active appropriation of public urban space.
Cooperation Partner: inspirin, nonconform
Location
Vienna, AT
Year
2014
Client
MA 19, City of Vienna
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Graphics
zunder zwo
Ein fahrendes Wahllokal zu öffentlichem Raum und Architektur im Rahmen des Kulturherbst Neubau 2017. Aktuelle Tendenzen der Architektur und Stadtentwicklung werden als utopisch/dystopische Mini-Szenarios weitergedacht und in eine konkrete Maßnahme für den 7. Bezirk formuliert. In der Wahlkabine haben PassantInnen auf der Mariahilfer Straße für eine Stunde die Möglichkeit den Grad ihrer Zustimmung zu vermitteln.
Wie sieht die Stadt der Zukunft aus?
Was wünscht du dir für den 7. Bezirk?
Was möchtest du vermeiden?
Ort
Mariahilfer Straße, Wien, AT
Datum
28.09.2017
Im Rahmen von
Kulturherbst Neubau 2017
kuratiert von Oliver Hangl
Ein fahrendes Wahllokal zu öffentlichem Raum und Architektur im Rahmen des Kulturherbst Neubau 2017. Aktuelle Tendenzen der Architektur und Stadtentwicklung werden als utopisch/dystopische Mini-Szenarios weitergedacht und in eine konkrete Maßnahme für den 7. Bezirk formuliert. In der Wahlkabine haben PassantInnen auf der Mariahilfer Straße für eine Stunde die Möglichkeit den Grad ihrer Zustimmung zu vermitteln.
Wie sieht die Stadt der Zukunft aus?
Was wünscht du dir für den 7. Bezirk?
Was möchtest du vermeiden?
Ort
Mariahilfer Straße, Wien, AT
Datum
28.09.2017
Im Rahmen von
Kulturherbst Neubau 2017
kuratiert von Oliver Hangl
Wine-selling, bar, lounge and degustation
At the entrance to the village of Kaltern, a new sales outlet was built for the winery cooperative which at the same time became a landmark along the South Tyrol Wine Route. The monolithic angular structure spans an inner courtyard to the existing buildings and acts as a mediator through its height development. Tension is created between the perception of the uniform shell made of glass fibrereinforced concrete and the only large interior space it encloses, in which a sculptural landscape of terraces unfolds. Its height development alone creates a complex sequence of atmosphere and spatial impressions.
Award: The Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award, USA
Category
invited Competition, 1st prize
Location
Kaltern, IT
Completion
2006
Client
Kellerei Kaltern
GFA
1.300 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Wine-selling, bar, lounge and degustation
At the entrance to the village of Kaltern, a new sales outlet was built for the winery cooperative which at the same time became a landmark along the South Tyrol Wine Route. The monolithic angular structure spans an inner courtyard to the existing buildings and acts as a mediator through its height development. Tension is created between the perception of the uniform shell made of glass fibrereinforced concrete and the only large interior space it encloses, in which a sculptural landscape of terraces unfolds. Its height development alone creates a complex sequence of atmosphere and spatial impressions.
Award: The Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award, USA
Category
invited Competition, 1st prize
Location
Kaltern, IT
Completion
2006
Client
Kellerei Kaltern
GFA
1.300 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Artistic walkabout and Intervention
The site of the project is the estuary area of the Isonzo near the industrial town of Monfalcone, which on the one hand is a nature reserve, and on the other hand is characterised by an illegally established pile-dwelling settlement. This testimony to an anarchistic building culture, which is threatened with disappearance, becomes, together with the nearby shipyard, the backdrop for artistic interventions on the themes of migration, speculation and whitecollar crime and the starting point of a journey into “informal” Italy.
Artistic walkabout and Intervention
The site of the project is the estuary area of the Isonzo near the industrial town of Monfalcone, which on the one hand is a nature reserve, and on the other hand is characterised by an illegally established pile-dwelling settlement. This testimony to an anarchistic building culture, which is threatened with disappearance, becomes, together with the nearby shipyard, the backdrop for artistic interventions on the themes of migration, speculation and whitecollar crime and the starting point of a journey into “informal” Italy.
Interior design for a group room
The adapted rooms were extended with installations that can be used in different ways, thus giving the youngest visitors a new, differentiated perception of space. The cloakroom becomes a theatre, a hole in the wall — a slide and peephole into the group, the storage room a reading cave. The children’s space becomes a richly varied landscape with quiet and noisy areas.
Category
Direct commission
Location
Montal, IT
Completion
2013
Client
Gemeinde St. Lorenzen
GFA
250 m²
Pictures
David Schreyer
Interior design for a group room
The adapted rooms were extended with installations that can be used in different ways, thus giving the youngest visitors a new, differentiated perception of space. The cloakroom becomes a theatre, a hole in the wall — a slide and peephole into the group, the storage room a reading cave. The children’s space becomes a richly varied landscape with quiet and noisy areas.
Category
Direct commission
Location
Montal, IT
Completion
2013
Client
Gemeinde St. Lorenzen
GFA
250 m²
Pictures
David Schreyer
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
Space installation for a dance performance
Based on the piano compositions of Erik Satie a spatial installation was conceived that enables a special experience: Satie demanded his work be played 840 times consecutively and at a slow tempo in order to experience its meditative character. This leads to a total duration of 21 hours. The audience is immersed in an extraordinary play with space, time and repetition. Being part of the installation itself, all visitors, as recipients and actors, are invited to play with instructions for action parallel to the live piano music and to sound out personal levels of perception.
Location
Vienna, AT / Milan, IT / Stolzenhagen, DE
Year
2009
Client
ImPulsTanz
Artistic concept, Piano
Jan Burkhardt, Kerstin Kussmaul
Production
gravityhappens
Collaborator
Eva Dietrich
Pictures
Laurent Ziegler
Space installation for a dance performance
Based on the piano compositions of Erik Satie a spatial installation was conceived that enables a special experience: Satie demanded his work be played 840 times consecutively and at a slow tempo in order to experience its meditative character. This leads to a total duration of 21 hours. The audience is immersed in an extraordinary play with space, time and repetition. Being part of the installation itself, all visitors, as recipients and actors, are invited to play with instructions for action parallel to the live piano music and to sound out personal levels of perception.
Location
Vienna, AT / Milan, IT / Stolzenhagen, DE
Year
2009
Client
ImPulsTanz
Artistic concept, Piano
Jan Burkhardt, Kerstin Kussmaul
Production
gravityhappens
Collaborator
Eva Dietrich
Pictures
Laurent Ziegler
Follow up of a former NATO area
In the middle of the mountains, a relic of the Cold War. For decades an inaccessible area, in its seclusion and impenetrability a place of mythmaking. Today a place awaiting a new destiny. Instead of a commercial re-use, we propose, on the basis of a manifesto, to maintain the uniqueness of the area: its seclusion. The idea of enacting a temporary project in situ is the only way to give (maverick) thinkers, artists, do-it yourself experimenters, developers etc. access to the Zone for a specific time in order to celebrate the paradox of freedom latent in the seclusion. Only for a short time each year the Zone opens its doors to the general public to show what has developed in it during this time. A new myth is created.
Category
Open idea competition, 1st prize ex aequo
Location
Natz-Schabs, IT
Year
2012
Client
Municipality of Natz-Schabs, IT
Follow up of a former NATO area
In the middle of the mountains, a relic of the Cold War. For decades an inaccessible area, in its seclusion and impenetrability a place of mythmaking. Today a place awaiting a new destiny. Instead of a commercial re-use, we propose, on the basis of a manifesto, to maintain the uniqueness of the area: its seclusion. The idea of enacting a temporary project in situ is the only way to give (maverick) thinkers, artists, do-it yourself experimenters, developers etc. access to the Zone for a specific time in order to celebrate the paradox of freedom latent in the seclusion. Only for a short time each year the Zone opens its doors to the general public to show what has developed in it during this time. A new myth is created.
Category
Open idea competition, 1st prize ex aequo
Location
Natz-Schabs, IT
Year
2012
Client
Municipality of Natz-Schabs, IT
Office building for the district administration, state departments and the chamber of commerce
(NHK) is less a building than an urban module. The building volume required for the spatial programme is not implemented as a large form that negates the context, but is integrated into the small-scale plot structure of its location. The typical urban patterns of Krems’ historic centre such as alleys, bridges between buildings, passages and inner courtyards are translated into the present day. The idea of the house as a city is also continued in the routing inside. At the time of its construction the building was classified as Austria’s largest passive office building and set new standards in ecological office construction.
Awards: State Award for Architecture and Sustainability, AT / Recognition in the 2012 Lower Austrian Architecture Award, AT / klima:aktiv – for innovative, sustainable building, AT / green building award, largest passive office building, AT
Cooperation Partner: AllesWirdGut, FCP
Location
Krems, AT
Client
LIG NÖ
Completion
2011
GFA
18.294 m²
Pictures
Rupert Steiner
Aerial view
W. Scheibenpflug
Office building for the district administration, state departments and the chamber of commerce
(NHK) is less a building than an urban module. The building volume required for the spatial programme is not implemented as a large form that negates the context, but is integrated into the small-scale plot structure of its location. The typical urban patterns of Krems’ historic centre such as alleys, bridges between buildings, passages and inner courtyards are translated into the present day. The idea of the house as a city is also continued in the routing inside. At the time of its construction the building was classified as Austria’s largest passive office building and set new standards in ecological office construction.
Awards: State Award for Architecture and Sustainability, AT / Recognition in the 2012 Lower Austrian Architecture Award, AT / klima:aktiv – for innovative, sustainable building, AT / green building award, largest passive office building, AT
Cooperation Partner: AllesWirdGut, FCP
Location
Krems, AT
Client
LIG NÖ
Completion
2011
GFA
18.294 m²
Pictures
Rupert Steiner
Aerial view
W. Scheibenpflug
Vacancy activation through participation
The empty spaces of this shrinking village in the south of Italy with hardly more than 1500 inhabitants was seen as potential: the multitude of empty rooms were perceived as possible rooms of a scattered hotel. Within a month, with the help of more than 40 volunteers from the village — the “local heroes” and a material budget of 10.000 Euro, several bedrooms and a bathroom were built. One year later the hotel was extended by an amphitheatre, a terrace and a bar, which are used by the Pratesi as an extension of their public space. The Million Donkey Hotel is now run by an association of “local heroes” — a situationist approach has developed into a sustainable project that takes local resources and economics into account.
Awards: Contractworld Award, Hotel category, 1. Prize, DE / AR Emerging Architecture awards (Top 25), UK
Category
Direct commission
Location
Prata Sannita, IT
Client
Paesesaggio Workgroup, Region Campania
Completion
2006
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Vacancy activation through participation
The empty spaces of this shrinking village in the south of Italy with hardly more than 1500 inhabitants was seen as potential: the multitude of empty rooms were perceived as possible rooms of a scattered hotel. Within a month, with the help of more than 40 volunteers from the village — the “local heroes” and a material budget of 10.000 Euro, several bedrooms and a bathroom were built. One year later the hotel was extended by an amphitheatre, a terrace and a bar, which are used by the Pratesi as an extension of their public space. The Million Donkey Hotel is now run by an association of “local heroes” — a situationist approach has developed into a sustainable project that takes local resources and economics into account.
Awards: Contractworld Award, Hotel category, 1. Prize, DE / AR Emerging Architecture awards (Top 25), UK
Category
Direct commission
Location
Prata Sannita, IT
Client
Paesesaggio Workgroup, Region Campania
Completion
2006
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Exhibition contribution and new module for the Million Donkey Hotel
As part of the exhibition “Re-cycle – Strategies for architecture, city and planet” a new module for the Million Donkey Hotel was conceived in cooperation with the craftsmen of PrataSannita: a PublicLibrary, which as analogue library collects together all publications about the Million Donkey Hotel and the topic of travel and (e)migration. After the exhibition the installation is being brought to PrataSannita, where it will be incorporated into the small amphitheatre as library and seating furniture. If necessary it can be transformed into a special hotel bed for adventurers.
Place
Prata Sanitta, IT
Year
2011
Exhibition contribution and new module for the Million Donkey Hotel
As part of the exhibition “Re-cycle – Strategies for architecture, city and planet” a new module for the Million Donkey Hotel was conceived in cooperation with the craftsmen of PrataSannita: a PublicLibrary, which as analogue library collects together all publications about the Million Donkey Hotel and the topic of travel and (e)migration. After the exhibition the installation is being brought to PrataSannita, where it will be incorporated into the small amphitheatre as library and seating furniture. If necessary it can be transformed into a special hotel bed for adventurers.
Place
Prata Sanitta, IT
Year
2011
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
New Austrian coorporate headquarters for a facility service company
In order to offer a high-quality working environment in a faceless industrial area in St. Pölten, it was important to create a separate, self contained world with great interior qualities — as in a hortus conclusus. In keeping with the corporate culture, the office space is organised on just one level on the upper floor. The resulting hierarchical spatial organisation between open and closed offices is intended to promote communication. The pixelation and materialisation of the façade takes away from the scale of the building and creates a multi-faceted, complex game with the perception of the building and its context.
Award: Nomination Bauherrenpreis 2011
Location
St. Pölten, AT
Completion
2011
Client
Markas Service GmbH
GFA
1.560 m2
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
New Austrian coorporate headquarters for a facility service company
In order to offer a high-quality working environment in a faceless industrial area in St. Pölten, it was important to create a separate, self contained world with great interior qualities — as in a hortus conclusus. In keeping with the corporate culture, the office space is organised on just one level on the upper floor. The resulting hierarchical spatial organisation between open and closed offices is intended to promote communication. The pixelation and materialisation of the façade takes away from the scale of the building and creates a multi-faceted, complex game with the perception of the building and its context.
Award: Nomination Bauherrenpreis 2011
Location
St. Pölten, AT
Completion
2011
Client
Markas Service GmbH
GFA
1.560 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
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
PublicTribune and PublicScreen are versatile mobile platforms and a projection facility developed for the project “Hyperolympics” as part of the 2010 London Festival of Architecture; its purpose was to investigate the transformation of the public space through the approaching Olympics and the constant surveillance of London’s public environment.
Location
London, UK
Year
2010
Client
London Festival of Architecture
PublicTribune and PublicScreen are versatile mobile platforms and a projection facility developed for the project “Hyperolympics” as part of the 2010 London Festival of Architecture; its purpose was to investigate the transformation of the public space through the approaching Olympics and the constant surveillance of London’s public environment.
Location
London, UK
Year
2010
Client
London Festival of Architecture
A temporary festival centre for the steirische herbst
Is it possible to establish a maximum of attention and concrete new possibilities of use and play for an existing location — the Forum Stadtpark — in a resourcesaving way? Yes, with a re-usable deposit and return object, infinitely available, with enormous potential: the Euro pallet. Diverted from its normal purpose it becomes the component for temporary architecture just as well as the brick for a durable house. The architecture with expiry date crosses and breaks the existing building, spatially, typologically and aesthetically. A productive disturbance. Especially in its ephemerality it strives for great presence.
Award: Steirischer Holzbaupreis, AT
Category
Invited competition, 1st prize
Location
Graz, AT
Completion
2010
Client
steirischer herbst
Area
450 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
A temporary festival centre for the steirische herbst
Is it possible to establish a maximum of attention and concrete new possibilities of use and play for an existing location — the Forum Stadtpark — in a resourcesaving way? Yes, with a re-usable deposit and return object, infinitely available, with enormous potential: the Euro pallet. Diverted from its normal purpose it becomes the component for temporary architecture just as well as the brick for a durable house. The architecture with expiry date crosses and breaks the existing building, spatially, typologically and aesthetically. A productive disturbance. Especially in its ephemerality it strives for great presence.
Award: Steirischer Holzbaupreis, AT
Category
Invited competition, 1st prize
Location
Graz, AT
Completion
2010
Client
steirischer herbst
Area
450 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Mobile Bike Units for the Public Space
PublicTrailer© is an armada of special bike trailers developed for specific urban situations. Ecological and flexible, they can react and be adapted vey easily to all kinds of conditions on site. They open up hidden areas of the urban space as arenas of activity with a new poetry of everyday life. In combination with each other they are more than the sum of their individual parts and through the dynamism of their users create a piece of urban life.
Location
Milan, IT
Year
2010
Client
Public Design Festival, Salone del Mobile
Mobile Bike Units for the Public Space
PublicTrailer© is an armada of special bike trailers developed for specific urban situations. Ecological and flexible, they can react and be adapted vey easily to all kinds of conditions on site. They open up hidden areas of the urban space as arenas of activity with a new poetry of everyday life. In combination with each other they are more than the sum of their individual parts and through the dynamism of their users create a piece of urban life.
Location
Milan, IT
Year
2010
Client
Public Design Festival, Salone del Mobile
Artistic walkabout and Intervention
In the middle of Europe zones of oblivion are emerging — villages in the border area of Italy, Austria and Slovenia that have been abandoned in recent decades. On the way from Moggio Udinese at the entrance to the Aupa Valley to Mogessa di La, a remote village without road connection, memories are gathered: together the audience transports fragments of a story whose context is only constructed at the end of the procession. On arrival at the destination, the audience is transported to a Blackbox (camera obscura), a place of reflection and imagination. By providing a retrospective view, it serves as collective memory.
Location
Mogessa di Lá, IT
Client
UNIKUM, Universitätskulturzentrum Klagenfurt
Curator
Inge Vavra
Year
2009
Artistic walkabout and Intervention
In the middle of Europe zones of oblivion are emerging — villages in the border area of Italy, Austria and Slovenia that have been abandoned in recent decades. On the way from Moggio Udinese at the entrance to the Aupa Valley to Mogessa di La, a remote village without road connection, memories are gathered: together the audience transports fragments of a story whose context is only constructed at the end of the procession. On arrival at the destination, the audience is transported to a Blackbox (camera obscura), a place of reflection and imagination. By providing a retrospective view, it serves as collective memory.
Location
Mogessa di Lá, IT
Client
UNIKUM, Universitätskulturzentrum Klagenfurt
Curator
Inge Vavra
Year
2009
Development of a manual for the public sphere in the new Vienna urban development area of Aspern Seestadt with 40,000 inhabitants.
We went to Aspern and asked ourselves: who is going to move here? The planners’ answer: Young families and creative people. People like us. Would we move to Aspern? Or, to be more precise: what does it take to make us move to Aspern?
Cooperation Partner: Dr. Peter Arlt (Urban Sociologist)
Category
Competition, 1st Prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Client
Wien 3420 Aspern development AG
Year
2008
GFA
2.400.000 m²
Development of a manual for the public sphere in the new Vienna urban development area of Aspern Seestadt with 40,000 inhabitants.
We went to Aspern and asked ourselves: who is going to move here? The planners’ answer: Young families and creative people. People like us. Would we move to Aspern? Or, to be more precise: what does it take to make us move to Aspern?
Cooperation Partner: Dr. Peter Arlt (Urban Sociologist)
Category
Competition, 1st Prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Client
Wien 3420 Aspern development AG
Year
2008
GFA
2.400.000 m²
Village square design of Paasdorf
Village square and parking lot are not separated into monofunctional zones, but are merged into a multi-layered, readable and usable whole. Depending on requirements, which vary greatly over the course of a day as well as seasonally, the square changes its appearance depending on its use. Almost every parking space is different in its state of not being used — from a wooden terrace, to a water basin, a playing field or a seating area. A landmark and at the same time an information compass for the “cultural landscape Paasdorf” is the bus stop Wolkon, which has been transformed into a public balcony.
Location
Mistelbach-Paasdorf, AT
Completion
2007
Client
Municipality of Paasdorf, Public Art Niederösterreich
Area
1.590 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Village square design of Paasdorf
Village square and parking lot are not separated into monofunctional zones, but are merged into a multi-layered, readable and usable whole. Depending on requirements, which vary greatly over the course of a day as well as seasonally, the square changes its appearance depending on its use. Almost every parking space is different in its state of not being used — from a wooden terrace, to a water basin, a playing field or a seating area. A landmark and at the same time an information compass for the “cultural landscape Paasdorf” is the bus stop Wolkon, which has been transformed into a public balcony.
Location
Mistelbach-Paasdorf, AT
Completion
2007
Client
Municipality of Paasdorf, Public Art Niederösterreich
Area
1.590 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Forecourt design of the Vienna Chamber of Labour
The staircase is the most urban module in the square design. An architectural element evoking hierarchy and authority is transformed into a new landmark. It stands for an “open” institution. The now merged areas create a zone for hangingout, for utilisation and encounter. By “exaggerating” its characteristics, an ambiguous element is created, which undermines the former monofunctionality and allows multiple uses. A stairway is a stairway is a stairway?
Lighting design: Christian Ploderer
Category
Invited competition, 1st prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Completion
2008
Client
Vienna Chamber of Labour
Area
1.400 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Forecourt design of the Vienna Chamber of Labour
The staircase is the most urban module in the square design. An architectural element evoking hierarchy and authority is transformed into a new landmark. It stands for an “open” institution. The now merged areas create a zone for hangingout, for utilisation and encounter. By “exaggerating” its characteristics, an ambiguous element is created, which undermines the former monofunctionality and allows multiple uses. A stairway is a stairway is a stairway?
Lighting design: Christian Ploderer
Category
Invited competition, 1st prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Completion
2008
Client
Vienna Chamber of Labour
Area
1.400 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
“The work of feld72 explores the intersection between architecture, applied urbanism and art. From the very beginning the collective has examined the issues surrounding the use and perception of public space with a series of self-initiated projects called “Urban Strategies”. These 1:1 projects that form the basis for a “theory through practice” have been implemented across Europe and deal with very different types and situations of public space. The examination of space as a social form is also a focal theme in their built architecture projects that have already received several awards as well as in their successful competition entries for major projects, which are now in the construction phase.” – Lilli Hollein
The Installation is a reflection on that experimental search for an architecture that could response to a broader world-view (“Weltanschauung”), and is itself a view on that world (“Weltbild”). World in progress…
Location
Giardini padiglione, IT
Client
La Biennale di venezia
Year
2008
“The work of feld72 explores the intersection between architecture, applied urbanism and art. From the very beginning the collective has examined the issues surrounding the use and perception of public space with a series of self-initiated projects called “Urban Strategies”. These 1:1 projects that form the basis for a “theory through practice” have been implemented across Europe and deal with very different types and situations of public space. The examination of space as a social form is also a focal theme in their built architecture projects that have already received several awards as well as in their successful competition entries for major projects, which are now in the construction phase.” – Lilli Hollein
The Installation is a reflection on that experimental search for an architecture that could response to a broader world-view (“Weltanschauung”), and is itself a view on that world (“Weltbild”). World in progress…
Location
Giardini padiglione, IT
Client
La Biennale di venezia
Year
2008
Hoogvliet Outside-in uses the temporary emptiness of big housing blocks within the satellite town of Hoogvliet as part of a strategy to fight the apathy in this area. The individual apartments in the half empty housing blocks are understood as spaces that should be utilised by artists and the population of Hoogvliet with full awareness of their slow but imminent destruction. The intention is that the buildings, as multi-functional units, should become small bastions of exchange of opinion and of positive excess that makes the choice between boredom and criminality obsolete. The units distributed throughout Hoogvliet become a temporary subversive system of possibilities of expression. If everything in outdoor space in the Netherlands is regulated, then indoor space becomes the last utopia.
Öocation
Rotterdam, NL
Client
Ton Matton & WIMBY (Welcome Into My Backyard)
Completion
2007
Hoogvliet Outside-in uses the temporary emptiness of big housing blocks within the satellite town of Hoogvliet as part of a strategy to fight the apathy in this area. The individual apartments in the half empty housing blocks are understood as spaces that should be utilised by artists and the population of Hoogvliet with full awareness of their slow but imminent destruction. The intention is that the buildings, as multi-functional units, should become small bastions of exchange of opinion and of positive excess that makes the choice between boredom and criminality obsolete. The units distributed throughout Hoogvliet become a temporary subversive system of possibilities of expression. If everything in outdoor space in the Netherlands is regulated, then indoor space becomes the last utopia.
Öocation
Rotterdam, NL
Client
Ton Matton & WIMBY (Welcome Into My Backyard)
Completion
2007
Perception tool for public space
“urbanism — for sale” was the contribution to the Austrian exhibition by feld72 at the 7th Architecture Biennale in São Paulo, Brazil. The project takes the 2007 ban on advertising for the entire urban space of São Paulo as an opportunity to address consumer mechanisms and the question of public and private space. Does public space even still exist? Where do the boundaries between public and private blur? 20,000 magenta-coloured stickers with 15 different questions and statements were distributed during the exhibition. Visitors were invited to place the stickers all over the city, thereby appropriating the public space. The snapshots as evidence of public territorial markings could be published on an online photo platform.
Category
Direct commission
Location
São Paulo, BR
Year
2007
Client
BMUKK (Federal Ministry of Education, the Arts and Culture, Art Division – Departement 1)
Curator
Lilli Hollein
Perception tool for public space
“urbanism — for sale” was the contribution to the Austrian exhibition by feld72 at the 7th Architecture Biennale in São Paulo, Brazil. The project takes the 2007 ban on advertising for the entire urban space of São Paulo as an opportunity to address consumer mechanisms and the question of public and private space. Does public space even still exist? Where do the boundaries between public and private blur? 20,000 magenta-coloured stickers with 15 different questions and statements were distributed during the exhibition. Visitors were invited to place the stickers all over the city, thereby appropriating the public space. The snapshots as evidence of public territorial markings could be published on an online photo platform.
Category
Direct commission
Location
São Paulo, BR
Year
2007
Client
BMUKK (Federal Ministry of Education, the Arts and Culture, Art Division – Departement 1)
Curator
Lilli Hollein
Redesign and interior furnishings of a Raiffeisen Bank branch next to the Winecenter
Location
Kaltern, IT
Completion
2006
Client
Kellerei Kaltern, Raifeissenkassa Überetsch
GFA
194 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Survivalkit for traffic victims
FILEkit© is a project tackling a veryunpleasant everyday problem: traffic congestion, “file” in Dutch. The project was part of the first International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam with the focus on the theme of mobility. In addition to a permanent installation in the exhibition space of the Biennale, the project FILEkit© also includes a series of events on the motorways around Rotterdam. FILEkit© encourages drivers to go beyond the physical and mental limits of their own vehicles and communicate with the unexpected, the unknown.
Awards: Karl-Hofer-Award of the University of the Arts Berlin, DE / Nominee for the Communication Award the Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, NL / Bauhaus Award 2004, Recognition prize – Dessau, DE
Location
Rotterdam, NL
Client
1st International Architecture Biennale of Rotterdam
Cooperation Partner
ARTGINEERING, D+.NL Ole Schilling
Year
2003
Survivalkit for traffic victims
FILEkit© is a project tackling a veryunpleasant everyday problem: traffic congestion, “file” in Dutch. The project was part of the first International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam with the focus on the theme of mobility. In addition to a permanent installation in the exhibition space of the Biennale, the project FILEkit© also includes a series of events on the motorways around Rotterdam. FILEkit© encourages drivers to go beyond the physical and mental limits of their own vehicles and communicate with the unexpected, the unknown.
Awards: Karl-Hofer-Award of the University of the Arts Berlin, DE / Nominee for the Communication Award the Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, NL / Bauhaus Award 2004, Recognition prize – Dessau, DE
Location
Rotterdam, NL
Client
1st International Architecture Biennale of Rotterdam
Cooperation Partner
ARTGINEERING, D+.NL Ole Schilling
Year
2003
Sign and Guidance System for the Museum Quarter Vienna
Challenged to find an iconic entry building and guidance system for the Museum Quarter (MQ) we proposed the human body as the most authentic and convincing image. The SERVUS as personalised MQ identity gets in direct personal interaction with passengers, showing its potential as immediate, flexible and sensitive communicator. The changing of SERVUS-guards with its red uniforms wearing a strange hat modeled after the museum facade would add another spectacle tot he cultural offering – and becoming a new Vienna-Cliché by itself.
Location
Wien, AT
Client
MQ – Museumsquartier
Year
2004
Cooperation Partner
Charlotte Spitzer (sociologist)
Sign and Guidance System for the Museum Quarter Vienna
Challenged to find an iconic entry building and guidance system for the Museum Quarter (MQ) we proposed the human body as the most authentic and convincing image. The SERVUS as personalised MQ identity gets in direct personal interaction with passengers, showing its potential as immediate, flexible and sensitive communicator. The changing of SERVUS-guards with its red uniforms wearing a strange hat modeled after the museum facade would add another spectacle tot he cultural offering – and becoming a new Vienna-Cliché by itself.
Location
Wien, AT
Client
MQ – Museumsquartier
Year
2004
Cooperation Partner
Charlotte Spitzer (sociologist)
Perception tool for public space (as part of the exhibition “MEGA – Manifeste der Anmaßung”)
How can people make the transformations of public space visible and leave comments and suggestions on them in specific places? The sticker is becoming a medium able to make some of the invisible parameters that define and strongly changed the public space visible; parameters that have already changed it significantly in recent decades and to deal with these changes in a playful and subversive way. 20,000 stickers with 15 different statements were placed in the respective exhibition rooms for free removal and were left by the visitors at the corresponding rooms in the city. A network of meanings became visible.
Award: State Award for Experimental Tendencies in Architecture, AT
Location
Vienna, AT
Client
Künstlerhaus Wien
Curator
Jan Tabor
Cooperation Partner
Lorenz Potocnik
Year
2002
Perception tool for public space (as part of the exhibition “MEGA – Manifeste der Anmaßung”)
How can people make the transformations of public space visible and leave comments and suggestions on them in specific places? The sticker is becoming a medium able to make some of the invisible parameters that define and strongly changed the public space visible; parameters that have already changed it significantly in recent decades and to deal with these changes in a playful and subversive way. 20,000 stickers with 15 different statements were placed in the respective exhibition rooms for free removal and were left by the visitors at the corresponding rooms in the city. A network of meanings became visible.
Award: State Award for Experimental Tendencies in Architecture, AT
Location
Vienna, AT
Client
Künstlerhaus Wien
Curator
Jan Tabor
Cooperation Partner
Lorenz Potocnik
Year
2002
Temporary forecourt occupation of the MuseumsQuartier
The forecourt of the MuseumsQuartier is a large and perfectly located open space in the heart of Vienna — although so far it has been so far underestimated. feld72 temporarily cultivated the previously unused forecourt as a private allotment garden settlement. The provision of appropriate equipment such as deck chairs, parasols or paddling pools evoked the use of this fallow area. Passers-by and residents were thus encouraged to become actors in the urban space. The weeklong installation was accompanied by discussions with invited guests on the topic of public space. The short term “privatisation” created the paradox of a public sphere that had never existed before.
Award: State Award for Experimental Tendencies in Architecture, AT
Location
Vienna, AT
Year
2002
Cooperation Partner
Lorenz Potocnik, nan architects & landscapes
Pictures
Julia Lorber
Temporary forecourt occupation of the MuseumsQuartier
The forecourt of the MuseumsQuartier is a large and perfectly located open space in the heart of Vienna — although so far it has been so far underestimated. feld72 temporarily cultivated the previously unused forecourt as a private allotment garden settlement. The provision of appropriate equipment such as deck chairs, parasols or paddling pools evoked the use of this fallow area. Passers-by and residents were thus encouraged to become actors in the urban space. The weeklong installation was accompanied by discussions with invited guests on the topic of public space. The short term “privatisation” created the paradox of a public sphere that had never existed before.
Award: State Award for Experimental Tendencies in Architecture, AT
Location
Vienna, AT
Year
2002
Cooperation Partner
Lorenz Potocnik, nan architects & landscapes
Pictures
Julia Lorber
