Vienna Projects 11 Created 13-Apr-08 By Marco Duran, Clermont-Ferrand, France Spittelau Viaducts Zaha Hadid s housing Gasometer City Vertically Landscaped Housing DO & CO hotel 4 ma 48 8 Students Guest House at the Viennese University 9 Hundertwasserhaus 10 Friedensreich Hundertwasser apartment, landmark, office 5 LEE Residential Housing 11 Querkraft s housing 6 Hans Hollein hotel Housing at Kaiserstrasse baumschlager & eberle student housing Neumann + Partner art, installation, office 3 Geiswinkler & Geiswinkler Architekten housing Uniqa Tower gernerºgerner plus housing Coop Himmelb(l)au apartment, office, renovation, shopping centre 2 Paltramplatz Residential Building 12 Delugan Meissl Associated s housing 7 caramel architekten garage, office http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marco_duran/guides/vienna/ 1
photo: Bjorn Utpott photo: Bjorn Utpott Spittelau Viaducts Spittelauer Lände 1090 Vienna The project is part of a revitalization initiative undertaken by the city of Vienna for the Wiener Guertel, an over-dimensioned, ring-formed slice through the urban fabric The site is formed via the culmination of densely overlapping infrastructural elements: the Spittelauer Leande is one of Vienna s most highly traveled roadways; the Danube Canal connecting Germany to Hungary The housing is built along the Donaukanal, over Otto Wagner s elevated metro viaduct photo: Bjorn Utpott 2006 Zaha Hadid s City of Vienna Bjorn_Utpott U-Bahn (underground) lines U4 and U6, exit at Spittelau station http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marco_duran/guides/vienna/ 2
photo: Dirk Verwoerd photo: Dirk Verwoerd Gasometer City Guglgasse 6 1110 Vienna http://wwwwiener-gasometerat/indexhtmlen These 4 gas holders, known as gasometer were built in 1896 as part of the gasworks at Simmering After they were closed down, the 4 historic towers were renovated, converted into apartments, shopping malls and offices and reopened in 2001 When they were built, the gasometers were the largest in Europe They are listed by the country s heritage ministry as outstanding examples of industrial architecture The renovation goal was to reuse the external façades of the existing buildings, avoiding total demolition of the building and minimizing the generation of demolition waste The gigantic size of this construction project is illustrated by the fact that Vienna's Giant Ferris Wheel would easily fit into each of the four 75-metre high gasometers Project is public! 2001 42880 m² Main designer, Coop Himmelb(l)au Jean Nouvel Manfred Wedhorn Wilhelm Holzbauer City of Vienna Bjorn_Utpott photo: Dirk Verwoerd There are very different opening hours for different functions, like the cinema, shopping malls, offices to see it all, visit http://wwwgasometerat/ From Westbahnhof take U-bahn U3 directly to the Gasometer, with direction Simmering (about 20 min) http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marco_duran/guides/vienna/ 3
photo: Geiswinkler & Geiswinkler Architekten Vertically Landscaped Housing Hardtmuthgasse 68 A-1100 Vienna On a corner plot in Vienna, Geiswinkler & Geiswinkler Architekten built a compact block of 17 apartments Balancing the high density of the project are the spacious communal amenities on the ground floor (workshop, hobby room, children?s room), the public roof garden and the private?gardens? in front of every living room In order to bring coherence to the large façade areas, including the curved soffits of the loggias, the architects opted for a corrugated aluminium sheeting that could be applied without seams The result is powerful and homogeneous But it?s an unconventional choice of material for a residential project where brick, wood or concrete tend to be the preferred option That surprise effect is precisely what the architects were aiming for In choosing corrugated aluminium they were also setting themselves the challenge of showing that a material they claim usually evokes negative associations can deliver an elegant building with a congenial atmosphere 2005 1400 m² Geiswinkler & Geiswinkler Architekten Genossenschaft Neues Leben Kirsten_Hannema photo: Geiswinkler & Geiswinkler Architekten http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marco_duran/guides/vienna/ 4
photo: Werner Huthmacher photo: Werner Huthmacher Uniqa Tower Untere Donaustrasse 21-23 1020 Vienna http://toweruniqaat/index_towphp Whereas in the past a head office might have been 'lit up' by means of illuminated logos, ads or spotlights, the advent of 'media façades' has greatly expanded the possibilities - not to everyone's delight, however, because when not careful the city can easily turn into a fairground where buildings vie for attention So when Licht Kunst Licht were commissioned to make a lighting plan for the Uniqa Tower, they were determined to use light 'in an artistic and sophisticated manner that would be techically 'state-of-the-art' They put 182000 individually controllable RGB LED video pixels in the cavity of the building's double façade, enough pixels to turn the 75-metre high sculptural tower into one big, continuous screen The artists group Mader Stublic Wiermann developed the artistic video "twists and turns" running on the video system that processes the video system processes 25 images per second, so the light play flows smoothly and makes the screen a 'second skin' Public access unknown! 2006 Main designer, Artist Supplier Lighting designer Neumann + Partner Mader, Stublic, Wiermann Barco Licht Kunst Licht Uniqa Tower Kirsten_Hannema photo: Nazar Leskiw http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marco_duran/guides/vienna/ 5
photo: DO & CO photo: DO & CO DO & CO hotel Stephansplatz 12 1010 Vienna http://wwwdococom/ DO & CO started as Attila Dogudan s Viennese empire of restaurants and luxury catering, but now includes an architecturally adventurous and sybaritic hotel experience in downtown Vienna Located across from St Stephen s Cathedral, the Haas Haus building was designed by Pritzker-prize winner Hans Hollein; later, in an unusual move, it was retrofitted to its present incarnation by Hollein himself Four floors of the steel-and-glass building have been transformed into 43 unique cone-shaped guest rooms offering majestic views of Stephansplatz, Graben and the Kärtnerstrasse Extravagant accommodations feature teak woodwork and stone integrated into a futuristic vision of modern design Bathrooms offer two-square-meter showers, flat-screen televisions and one suite has private fitness equipment (Design hotels) Project is public! 12-2005 Hans Hollein DO & CO Hotel Vienna Naomi photo: DO & CO http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marco_duran/guides/vienna/ 6
photo: Hertha Hurnaus photo: Hertha Hurnaus ma 48 Lidlgasse 5 1170 Vienna There are not just "service buildings", but structures that create a sense of identity The strong lines of the compact cubic structures are enhanced by flush windows and anthracite-coloured cladding made of copper-titanium-zinc alloy The very dark colour of the velvety metal sheets gives solid presence to the building, and slight surface irregularities add an element of liveliness An important contrasting design feature is the large floor-to-ceiling window on the top floor The clear run of glass up to the top line of the building creates a cut-out effect The inset roll-up doors on the ground floor provide visual tension, as they are the only planes that are not flush with the exterior building wall photo: Hertha Hurnaus Project is public! 8-2004 3500 m² caramel architekten caramel_architekten http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marco_duran/guides/vienna/ 7
Housing at Kaiserstrasse Kaiserstrasse 68 1070 Vienna This intervention involves an interesting compacting of the dense city since it takes over the traditional inner patio of the 19th urban development and considerably increases residential and population density in an already dense area The authors of the work explain the goodness of the building, whose most debatable aspect is its outer façade 2005 2285 m² gernerºgerner plus CPB Beta Anlagen Leasing aplust photo: gernerºgerner plus http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marco_duran/guides/vienna/ 8
Students Guest House at the Viennese University Molkereistrasse 1 A-1020 Vienna This hall of residence is added to an existing block The insertion of student residences in consolidated fabrics of cities, where housing costs hinder this group of the population from easily finding housing, promotes the rejuvenation of these kinds of neighbourhoods while bringing up the residential density This students guest house will be used to host 278 Erasmus students It is the first Viennese 'Passiv house' The façade design is based on a single window type bringing natural daylight into the students apartments The technical infrastructure of the building consists of a mechanical ventilation system, which is based on geothermics and heat recovery photo: Eduard Hueber 2005 9023 m² baumschlager & eberle MIGRA GesmbH, OeAD aplust http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marco_duran/guides/vienna/ 9
photo: Lucian Ilica Hundertwasserhaus Kegelgasse 34-38 1035 Vienna http://wwwhundertwasserhausinfo/ The Hundertwasserhaus is an apartment complex in Vienna,, designed by n artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser It was built between 1983 and 1986 by architects Joseph Krawina and Peter Pelikan Hundertwasser was not paid, stating that it was worth it, to prevent something ugly from being erected The house features a very organic design, with its uneven floors and plentiful flora Its roof is covered in grass and trees are grown from within, their limbs extending from the windows There are 52 apartments, four offices, 16 private terraces and three communal terraces, and a total of 250 trees and bushes There are also artificial trees; the columns that can be seen reminded Hundertwasser of trees The windows and mosaic tiles are laid out not in a grid, but in a more playful organic way, with crooked angles 3-1986 1092 m² Main designer, Artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser Joseph Krawina Peter Pelikan Robin photo: Evgenia Kononova The Hundertwasserhaus is walking distance from the Wien Mitte train station and Landstraße subway station which is served by lines U3 and U4 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marco_duran/guides/vienna/ 10
photo: Piotr Krajewski LEE Residential Housing Leebgasse 46 A-1100 Vienna This is a housing block with an open plan and essentially organised shell: the living division of which can be freely chosen by the client The orientation of the house can be decided by whoever uses it Morning sun, afternoon sun and a new orientation are all possible The service spaces are all compactly organised in the core, which makes room for an enormous bathroom An elementary, comfortable window bench invites you to take a seat This bench lies on the same level as the balcony Sunlight streams in through the elevated timber balcony deep into the house photo: Piotr Krajewski 9-2004 1100 m² Querkraft s GPA - WBV pkrajewski_pl http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marco_duran/guides/vienna/ 11
photo: Piotr Krajewski Paltramplatz Residential Building Paltramplatz 7 1100 Vienna The appearance of the Paltramplatz Residential Building is that of a crisp-edged cube into the matte black surface of which an irregular relief pattern of ribbon windows and loggias have been embedded These windows and loggias make the compact monolith seem like a cabinet with drawers that can be pulled out at will The apartment building with its 22 units fills the gap in the heterogeneous fabric of its surroundings in an utterly natural and unspectacular way Forming an exciting contrast to the static tranquillity of the basic shape of the building is the trapezoidal cantilevered, rotated-off-axis, dynamic roof construction Here, holes have been made for illumination purposes This perforated, polygonal shed roof seems to hover over the building, creating an original and distinctive closure 7-2002 1550 m² Lighting designer Delugan Meissl Associated s Christine Hax pkrajewski_pl photo: Piotr Krajewski Located in Favoriten, Vienna s 10th district http://wwwmimoaeu/users/marco_duran/guides/vienna/ 12