Vienna Projects 18 Created 15-Sep-10 By Manu Gonzalez Veglia, Cordoba, Argentina Spittelau Viaducts Vienna, Zaha Hadid s housing Gasometer City Vertically Landscaped Housing ma 48 Housing at Kaiserstrasse Students Guest House at the Viennese University Hundertwasserhaus LEE Residential Housing Vienna, Querkraft s housing Schlachthausgasse 12 T-Center St Marx 13 Branch Bank Building 14 Vienna, Günther Domenig housing, office 6 Loisium Hotel 15 Langenlois, Steven Holl hotel, spa, winery 7 Hotel Caldor 16 Münchendorf, Soehne & Partner Architekten hotel 8 Red Room 17 Vienna, Soehne & Partner Architekten bar, club 9 Vienna, Friedensreich Hundertwasser apartment, landmark, office 5 Vienna, baumschlager & eberle student housing 11 Vienna, Günther Domenig congress centre, office Vienna, gernerºgerner plus housing 4 Vienna, caramel architekten garage, office Paltramplatz Residential Building Vienna, Coop Himmelb(l)au housing, youth house Vienna, Neumann + Partner art, installation, office 3 Vienna, Geiswinkler & Geiswinkler Architekten housing Uniqa Tower Vienna, Delugan Meissl Associated s housing Vienna, Coop Himmelb(l)au apartment, office, renovation, shopping centre 2 Pallet House 18 Vienna, Gregor Pils private house 10 Haus mit Veranden 19 Vienna, Rüdiger Lainer + Partner housing http://wwwmimoaeu/users/manuel_gonzalez_veglia/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 Project is not public! 2006 Zaha Hadid s City of Vienna Bjorn_Utpott U-Bahn (underground) lines U4 and U6, exit at Spittelau station http://wwwmimoaeu/users/manuel_gonzalez_veglia/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/manuel_gonzalez_veglia/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 Project is not public! 2005 1400 m² Geiswinkler & Geiswinkler Architekten Genossenschaft Neues Leben Kirsten_Hannema photo: Geiswinkler & Geiswinkler Architekten http://wwwmimoaeu/users/manuel_gonzalez_veglia/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/manuel_gonzalez_veglia/guides/vienna/ 5
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/manuel_gonzalez_veglia/guides/vienna/ 6
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 Project is not public! 2005 2285 m² gernerºgerner plus CPB Beta Anlagen Leasing aplust photo: gernerºgerner plus http://wwwmimoaeu/users/manuel_gonzalez_veglia/guides/vienna/ 7
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 Project is not public! 2005 9023 m² baumschlager & eberle MIGRA GesmbH, OeAD aplust http://wwwmimoaeu/users/manuel_gonzalez_veglia/guides/vienna/ 8
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 Project is not public! 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/manuel_gonzalez_veglia/guides/vienna/ 9
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 Project is not public! 9-2004 1100 m² Querkraft s GPA - WBV pkrajewski_pl http://wwwmimoaeu/users/manuel_gonzalez_veglia/guides/vienna/ 10
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 Project is not public! 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/manuel_gonzalez_veglia/guides/vienna/ 11
photo: Michiel van Loon photo: Wojtek Gurak Schlachthausgasse Schlachthausgasse 30 1030 Vienna At the end of 1998, the Mautner-Markhof Children's Hospital in the 3rd district of Vienna was closed In 1999 the municipality explored alternative development possibilities for the vacant area A limited design competition was held, from which Coop Himmelb(l)au emerged as the winner The architects suggested to conserve to a large extent the valuable trees existing along the Kleingasse and set two slim building volumes in line with the street Slachthausgasse in order to return the urban block into it's previously defined form The complex now contains 82 apartments and approximately 12000 m2 of office space The 6+1-storey building is individually differentiated by sculpturally protruding building components In the so-called 'Head Building' oriented toward the south, a youth centre with own meeting spaces is the basement is integrated (text from website architects) Project is not public! 2005 21605 m² Coop Himmelb(l)au GPA - WBV / Kleingasse ProjektierungsGesmbH photo: Wojtek Gurak Michiel_van_Loon http://wwwmimoaeu/users/manuel_gonzalez_veglia/guides/vienna/ 12
photo: Wojtek Gurak photo: Wojtek Gurak T-Center St Marx Rennweg 97-99 1030 Vienna http://wwwt-mobileat/unternehmen/daten_fakten/t_cente r/indexhtml The striking T-Center St Marx was designed and built by architect Günther Domenig Completed in 2004, the project has 119000 m2 of usable floor space and contains offices for 3000 employees Unusually proportioned, the building can be described as a reclining structure 60m high and 255m long with a 40m wing cantilevering out From a town-planning perspective this building represents the first step in the development of a new district on the site of the former St Marx abattoir and cattle sheds The T-Center St Marx is not only an office building for its owner, T-Mobile, it's also a large sculpture Domenig wanted to create a 280 meter long horizontal skyscraper and ended up with what is quite possibly the most unique office building in Vienna (text from Princeton ural Press and Michael Hierner) photo: Wojtek Gurak Public access unknown! 2004 134000 m² Associate architect Associate architect Günther Domenig Herfried Peyker Hermann Eisenköck T-Mobile Michiel_van_Loon http://wwwmimoaeu/users/manuel_gonzalez_veglia/guides/vienna/ 13
photo: Michiel van Loon photo: Michiel van Loon Branch Bank Building Favoritenstraße 118 1100 Vienna The functional interior space of the Branch Bank Building of the Z-Bank in Vienna can be read from outside The interacting, half-storey displaced floors are summarized in one single room, which connects the out-and-inside with its overhanging 'mouth' Veins of movement and rest areas are determing the general use The municipal use in the upper floors is elevated - 'the house with the kink' The shape of the roof is adding up to the whole of the building and links the sky to the ground Concrete, steel and metal are the dominating materials Each material appears in the way it was manufactured Construction and technical installations are displayed open All of these architectural elements are part of the design, linked to the whole appearance of the building and also to the neighbourhood The interaction of these parts is resulting in the complex unity of this kind of architecture (text from website architect) Project is public! 1979 1100 m² Günther Domenig Zentralsparkasse und Kommerzialbank Wien photo: Kornspeicher Michiel_van_Loon http://wwwmimoaeu/users/manuel_gonzalez_veglia/guides/vienna/ 14
photo: Bjorn Utpott photo: Michiel van Loon Loisium Hotel Loisium-Allee 2 3550 Langenlois http://wwwloisiumhotelat On the edge of the town of Langenlois, 60 minutes west of Vienna, on a gently south-sloping vineyard, a new wine center and visitors' facility is built celebrating the rich local heritage of a magnificent wine vault system This historic subterranean network, which includes stone passages that are 900 years old, underlies the urban plan of the town Earthlike materials and palette combined with the views of the surrounding landscape create a strong connection and relationship of the hotel to its context Public functions including the lobby, a wine themed restaurant, bar, cigar lounge, conference and meeting facilities, and wellness and spa area are located on the ground floor with views open to the surrounding vineyard An inviting courtyard and terrace provides outdoor seating 82 guest rooms are located in two upper floors While the ground floor is transparent and open, the upper floors are more private (text from website architect) photo: Bjorn Utpott Project is public! 2005 Steven Holl Loisium Hotelbetriebs GmbH & Co KG Michiel_van_Loon http://wwwmimoaeu/users/manuel_gonzalez_veglia/guides/vienna/ 15
photo: Serverin Wurnig photo: Serverin Wurnig Hotel Caldor Achauer Straße 3a 2482 Münchendorf http://wwwhotel-caldorat/ "This how you sleep today Self Check In around the clock No long waiting" This is how the Hotel Caldor, close to the City border of Vienna, promotes the Hotel A fallow land, just 8 minutes from the City border of Vienna City and very close to the biggest Shopping Centre of, gave the landlord the idea to create a Self Check In Hotel The site is next to a main road B16 The structure of the Hotel emerges along the road From the centre cross point the Hotel is buckling The buckling gives the Hotel a high profile from the main road - both directions At the cross point you find the lobby, the main access, the check in machine, etc The curtain wall is on hand the protection against weathering for the cross point On the other hand it also gives shade and shelter The perforation of the façade panels plays with the logo of the Hotel, abstract its Interesting spaces inside / outside are created which emphasizes the communication between them photo: Serverin Wurnig Project is public! 5-2009 Soehne & Partner Architekten soehne_partner +43 (0)664 44 66 705 office@hotel-caldorat 8 minutes from Vienna's city limits and just minutes from the shopping center SCS Of Vienna and Graz: A2 - Wiener Neudorf exit (Exit 9) - B11 direction Achau - B16 direction Munich village from S1: Departure Leopoldsdorf, Himberg, Achau - B16 direction Munich village from Eisenstadt: A3 (Exit 1) - Shuttle to highway B16 then towards Achau http://wwwmimoaeu/users/manuel_gonzalez_veglia/guides/vienna/ 16
photo: Alexander Koller photo: Alexander Koller Red Room Stubenring 20 1010 Vienna http://wwwred-roomat/ Continuing its previous work for the Comida Restaurant in Vienna, Söhne & Partners transformed the basement of the eatery into a modestly decorated space-age club: the Red Room Cloaked entirely in one shade of red velvet, Red Room's walls, ceiling and furniture merge into one another, connecting the different areas and providing a stark contrast to the club's polished white flooring and several other white features, including the bar and DJ deck Influenced by the 1968 science-fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey, a classic co-written and directed by Stanley Kubrick, the interior radiates an air of calmness enhanced by a sense of sheer lightness Söhne & Partner clad nearly all surfaces of the club in velvet to add character to the interior design Adding a dimension of flexibility to the seating arrangement, red poufs scattered liberally throughout the club float like globules of blood on the translucent grid of white glass photo: Alexander Koller Project is public! 12-2005 125 m² Interior architect Soehne & Partner Architekten Sunshine Enterprises soehne_partner 2100-0200 Tram: 1 or U3 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/manuel_gonzalez_veglia/guides/vienna/ 17
photo: Gregor Pils photo: Gregor Pils Pallet House Karlsplatz Vienna Pallets are available worldwide and used in different ways, eg for transport with railway cars, ship containers and trucks At the end of their life cycle -after transportation- they are usually burned Hence, it is of global concern to find a follow-up use for them For building a 60m2 pallet house, 900 reconditioned pallets are needed The pallet is used as detachable façade element, ceiling element, wall element, as blind and as sunscreen The space between the pallets contains beams, insulation, cables and lighting Due to the use of 900 recycled pallets for the basic structure and of cellulose or sand as insulation, the building is highly ecological and sustainable The need for other materials is reduced to a minimum Pallet houses could replace low-cost shelters in slums and in refugee camps, which could be built easily by locals with local materials Today popular for transport only, in the future pallets could additionally become a construction element for poor and for rich photo: Gregor Pils Project is public! 2009 60 m² Main designer, Associate architect Associate architect Gregor Pils Andreas Claus Schnetzer Karin Stieldorf Pekka Janhunen ana_struna_bregar http://wwwmimoaeu/users/manuel_gonzalez_veglia/guides/vienna/ 18
photo: Frankss photo: Frankss Haus mit Veranden Buchengasse 157 1100 Vienna This "Haus mit Veranden" (house with verandas) consists of 250 apartments organized in a remarkable setting From a 1 and 2 story plinth carved with open spaces and private patio courtyards, the upper building is formed, drawing back from the lower, differentiated block edge The detached buildings are grouped by their terracing, cuts and projecting individual porches This approach offers the residents and neighbours open space, views and day light, despite the high density The principle of the floor plan is based on a simple module system that allows a collage of versatile floor plans A wide range of shared open spaces of different qualities and organization enrich the residential oasis, such as gardens, hot tub and sauna on the roof, playgrounds and introverted loggias Project is public! 6-2008 32037 m² Building physics consultant Technical engineer Contractor Structural engineer Rüdiger Lainer + Partner Hans Dworak Schmidt Reuter Strabag Vasko+Partner Ingenieure Heimbau/Eisenhof Franks photo: Frankss Take tram 6 (direction: Zentralfriedhof) and get off at tram stop Quellenstraße/Knöllgasse Walk in southern direction and you will cross Buchengasse The project is one block to your left http://wwwmimoaeu/users/manuel_gonzalez_veglia/guides/vienna/ 19