The event house – the Urban Hybrid
Five buildings form an urban ensemble with high density and generous permeability. Our “Urban Hybrid” – we also call it “the Event House” – sets a significant prelude to the new quarter with its robust building structure. The city block focuses on cooperative living and working and offers flexible and adaptable spaces for this purpose.
The active ground floor zone is understood as a space of negotiation, a place of mediation and a platform for exchange within the block. A wide range of apartment types (58 in total), from micro-apartments to studio apartments, is speaking to an urban audience outside traditional family structures: singles, couples, patchwork families and self-employed people working in cooperative networks – such as micro-businesses.
The building structure of “the Event House” and the 2.8m ceiling height allows a high degree of flexibility of use and resilience.
Landscape Architecture: Carla Lo Landschaftsarchitektur
Social Sustainability: Martina Jauschneg
Category
2-phase competition,
1st prize (building plot J)
Location
Vienna, AT
Planning start
2019
Client
Familienwohnbau
GFA
7.590,48 m²
Visualisation
expressiv
The event house – the Urban Hybrid
Five buildings form an urban ensemble with high density and generous permeability. Our “Urban Hybrid” – we also call it “the Event House” – sets a significant prelude to the new quarter with its robust building structure. The city block focuses on cooperative living and working and offers flexible and adaptable spaces for this purpose.
The active ground floor zone is understood as a space of negotiation, a place of mediation and a platform for exchange within the block. A wide range of apartment types (58 in total), from micro-apartments to studio apartments, is speaking to an urban audience outside traditional family structures: singles, couples, patchwork families and self-employed people working in cooperative networks – such as micro-businesses.
The building structure of “the Event House” and the 2.8m ceiling height allows a high degree of flexibility of use and resilience.
Landscape Architecture: Carla Lo Landschaftsarchitektur
Social Sustainability: Martina Jauschneg
Category
2-phase competition,
1st prize (building plot J)
Location
Vienna, AT
Planning start
2019
Client
Familienwohnbau
GFA
7.590,48 m²
Visualisation
expressiv
We are delighted to be part of the exhibition HUMAN SCALE REMEASURED at Aedes Architecture Forum Berlin with our joint project WoGen Quartiershaus.
On 24 December, the opening of the exhibition “Welcome to the Re_Public” will take place at the Liebling Haus in Tel Aviv. Among other works, our contribution “Caring Infrastructures” will be shown.
We are very pleased to present our new portfolio. The publication is available at press@feld72.at and also in stores MQ Wien – Buchhandlung Walther König!
»… 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Landscape Architecture: GRUBER + HAUMER
Category
Direct commission with prior study
Location
Bludenz, AT
Client
Wohnbauselbsthilfe
Completion
2019
GFA
7.420 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
65 subsidised flats, 1 communal space and communal kitchen
On the site of the former Leopoldau gas works, the residential quarter Neu Leopoldau is being built along the theme of “Young Living”. At the entrance to the area, the monolithic building with its facade of prefabricated elements of fair-faced concrete sets an urbanistic accent. The design was based on the idea of creating an open and lively building. The so-called “plus spaces” — the zone between the glazed entrance doors and the apartments — play a special role. These transitional areas, with their openness to the staircase, promote communication within the building, which the residents themselves define — from a studio to a hairdressing salon to a home office. A common room as well as the summer kitchen, which is available to the entire quarter, create further meeting places for residents in the house.
Landscape Partner: KSLA – Katja Simma Landschaftsarchitektur
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.
Landscape Partner: KSLA – Katja Simma Landschaftsarchitektur
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
Architektur
Urbane Strategien
Josefstädter Straße 74
1080 Wien
T +43 1 9240499
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Branch Schottenfeld
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1070 Vienna
Branch Feldkirch
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Architektur
Urbane Strategien
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39030 Olang (BZ)
T +43 1 9240499
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)
Living in Lans 2030 is more than just living
In search of the future of its 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 planing 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
3-phase competition,
1st prize
Location
Lans, AT
Planning start
2019
Client
Gemeinde Lans
GFA
9.520 m²
Visualisation
Janusch
Living in Lans 2030 is more than just living
In search of the future of its 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 planing 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
3-phase competition,
1st prize
Location
Lans, AT
Planning start
2019
Client
Gemeinde Lans
GFA
9.520 m²
Visualisation
Janusch
The new headquarter for the Raiffeisenbank located in the northern part of St. Pölten is more than just a bank building. In addition to the bank branch, an advisory center, several office levels, a restaurant and a connecting event center is planned. The building with its diverse services will thus become a new anchor point for the neighbourhood. Between two volumes, an airy atrium with an open staircase and connecting bridges markes the entrance. The bold and serene facade is made out of glass fiber concrete elements which wrap around the house and rhythmically divide the appearance with horizontal bands and vertically offset parts.
Cooperation partner: Studio Hoffelner Schmid
Location
St. Pölten, AT
Planning start
2018
Client
Raiffeisenbank Region St. Pölten
GFA
5.250 m²
Visualisation
expressiv
The new headquarter for the Raiffeisenbank located in the northern part of St. Pölten is more than just a bank building. In addition to the bank branch, an advisory center, several office levels, a restaurant and a connecting event center is planned. The building with its diverse services will thus become a new anchor point for the neighbourhood. Between two volumes, an airy atrium with an open staircase and connecting bridges markes the entrance. The bold and serene facade is made out of glass fiber concrete elements which wrap around the house and rhythmically divide the appearance with horizontal bands and vertically offset parts.
Cooperation partner: Studio Hoffelner Schmid
Location
St. Pölten, AT
Planning start
2018
Client
Raiffeisenbank Region St. Pölten
GFA
5.250 m²
Visualisation
expressiv
Cooperation Partner: AllesWirdGut
Landscape Partner: TH Landschaftsarchitektur Hamburg
Cooperation Partner: AllesWirdGut
Landscape Partner: TH Landschaftsarchitektur Hamburg
Kindergarten, primary school and canteen
The site is bordered by the Jean Mentelin street to the east and by the Mühlbach stream to the west. The organisation into three compact buildings with open passages leads to a clear address for each institution. The ensemble mediates between the contrasts of the street scape and the riverside landscape. Towards the nature, the building complex opens up with diverse open spaces and accessible roofs. The outdoor area with two yards, biotopes and educational gardens is an extended learning and play area for the children. Inside, the two-storey, light-flooded library forms the heart of the elementary school.
Cooperation partner: Agence MW Architectes
Landscape partner: Atelier Roberta
Location
Strasbourg, FR
Planning start
2019
Client
City of Strasborg
GFA
6.330 m²
Visualisation
expressiv
Model
Mattweiss
Kindergarten, primary school and canteen
The site is bordered by the Jean Mentelin street to the east and by the Mühlbach stream to the west. The organisation into three compact buildings with open passages leads to a clear address for each institution. The ensemble mediates between the contrasts of the street scape and the riverside landscape. Towards the nature, the building complex opens up with diverse open spaces and accessible roofs. The outdoor area with two yards, biotopes and educational gardens is an extended learning and play area for the children. Inside, the two-storey, light-flooded library forms the heart of the elementary school.
Cooperation partner: Agence MW Architectes
Landscape partner: Atelier Roberta
Location
Strasbourg, FR
Planning start
2019
Client
City of Strasborg
GFA
6.330 m²
Visualisation
expressiv
Model
Mattweiss
Kooperationspartner: ifau Berlin
Landschaftspartner: PlanSinn (BF1), DnD Landschaftsplanung (BF6b2)
Kooperationspartner: ifau Berlin
Landschaftspartner: PlanSinn (BF1), DnD Landschaftsplanung (BF6b2)
Affordable and flexible living for all stages of life
The condominium offers diverse and varied living in 165 subsidised apartments. The integration of social uses (assisted living of young people and communal living for women) supports the social variety and extends the offer to all generations and ways of life. Eight compact structures are arranged and carefully staggered with respect to the surrounding heights in the ensemble.Diverse communal offers on the ground floor and on the roof surfaces support the development of neighbourhoods across sites. The ever-changing housing needs are met with a modular method of construction which enables flexible and needs-oriented living.
Landscape Architecture: Karin Standler Landschaftsarchitektur
Affordable and flexible living for all stages of life
The condominium offers diverse and varied living in 165 subsidised apartments. The integration of social uses (assisted living of young people and communal living for women) supports the social variety and extends the offer to all generations and ways of life. Eight compact structures are arranged and carefully staggered with respect to the surrounding heights in the ensemble.Diverse communal offers on the ground floor and on the roof surfaces support the development of neighbourhoods across sites. The ever-changing housing needs are met with a modular method of construction which enables flexible and needs-oriented living.
Landscape Architecture: Karin Standler Landschaftsarchitektur
Smart Wachsen: Qualität statt Quadratmeter auf den Christiani-Wiesen
Das neue Christiani-Quartier ist ein Modellquartier der Zukunftstadt Konstanz. Eine Zukunft der Stadt, für welche wir uns als Ziel einer Planung entschieden haben, ist eine Zukunft des Miteinanders. Eine Stadt von Menschen für Menschen. Wir starten von der Gemeinschaft und schaffen Spielregeln, wie diese sich räumlich ausdrucken kann, und sich Eigeninteressen und Gemeinschaftsinteressen nicht ausschließen oder behindern, sondern gegenseitig beflügeln. Nicht „weniger ist mehr“, sondern „mehr durch weniger“.
Kooperationspartner: TH Landschaftsarchitektur Hamburg
Kategorie
Geladener WB, 1. Preis
Ort
Konstanz, DE
Planungsbeginn
2018
Auftraggeber
Stadt Konstanz
BGF
14.800 m²
Fotos
Stadt Konstanz / Chris Danneffel
Smart Wachsen: Qualität statt Quadratmeter auf den Christiani-Wiesen
Das neue Christiani-Quartier ist ein Modellquartier der Zukunftstadt Konstanz. Eine Zukunft der Stadt, für welche wir uns als Ziel einer Planung entschieden haben, ist eine Zukunft des Miteinanders. Eine Stadt von Menschen für Menschen. Wir starten von der Gemeinschaft und schaffen Spielregeln, wie diese sich räumlich ausdrucken kann, und sich Eigeninteressen und Gemeinschaftsinteressen nicht ausschließen oder behindern, sondern gegenseitig beflügeln. Nicht „weniger ist mehr“, sondern „mehr durch weniger“.
Kooperationspartner: TH Landschaftsarchitektur Hamburg
Kategorie
Geladener WB, 1. Preis
Ort
Konstanz, DE
Planungsbeginn
2018
Auftraggeber
Stadt Konstanz
BGF
14.800 m²
Fotos
Stadt Konstanz / 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 (Nominatin), 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 (Nominatin), 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
Communal Living – Cooperative Working
The Quartiershaus, a mixed use building which focuses on communal living and cooperative working, is planned for development near the Central Station, a prominent urban development site in Vienna. The Quartiershaus consisits of the +house (feld72) and the cooperative building (transparadiso) which are connected via a hybrid urban zone and house an urban workshop within their souterrain. Living in the +house distinguishes itself through the cluster apartments and the space’s flexible utilisation – individually expandable residential space, generous room planning for shared living and additional rentable space. The concept is – less exclusive living space and more usable space for all residents.
Team: Client: Die WoGen / General Planner: raum & kommunikation / Architecture: feld72 and transparadiso / Landscape Architecture: Carla Lo / Structural engineering: Werkraum Ingenieure / Structural physics and fire protection: Röhrer Bauphysik
2-phase property developer competition
1st prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Planning start
2016
GFA
3.500 m²
Visualization
Janusch
Communal Living – Cooperative Working
The Quartiershaus, a mixed use building which focuses on communal living and cooperative working, is planned for development near the Central Station, a prominent urban development site in Vienna. The Quartiershaus consisits of the +house (feld72) and the cooperative building (transparadiso) which are connected via a hybrid urban zone and house an urban workshop within their souterrain. Living in the +house distinguishes itself through the cluster apartments and the space’s flexible utilisation – individually expandable residential space, generous room planning for shared living and additional rentable space. The concept is – less exclusive living space and more usable space for all residents.
Team: Client: Die WoGen / General Planner: raum & kommunikation / Architecture: feld72 and transparadiso / Landscape Architecture: Carla Lo / Structural engineering: Werkraum Ingenieure / Structural physics and fire protection: Röhrer Bauphysik
2-phase property developer competition
1st prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Planning start
2016
GFA
3.500 m²
Visualization
Janusch
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
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
MakerSpace NMX – Ein Experimentierfeld als Möglichkeitsraum
Das weitläufige Gelände in Neu Marx in Wien hat enormes städtebauliches und kreatives Potential. Offenheit, Größe und der gewünschte Experimentiercharakter bieten ideale Voraussetzungen. Es gilt, diesen „Spirit“ beizubehalten und zu verstärken. Innerhalb des städtebaulichen Wettbewerbs Neu Marx gemeinsam gestalten wurden fünf Architektenteams europaweit ausgewählt, um das Areal zu gestalten und verschiedene Nutzergruppen anzuziehen.
MakerSpace NMX ist ein Nährboden für Ideen und ein Ort um etablierte Firmen, Start-Ups sowie BewohnerInnen und BesucherInnen Wiens gleichermaßen zusammen zu bringen. MakerSpace NMX ist gedacht für Menschen, neue Ideen und Do-It-Yourself-Projekte.
Landschaftspartner: DnD Landschaftsplanung
Kategorie
2-stufiger offener europaweiter Wettbewerb
Ort
Wien, AT
Jahr
2016
Auslober
WSE Wiener Standortentwicklung, Raiffeisen Property International
BGF
375.000 m²
Visualisierung
Janusch
MakerSpace NMX – Ein Experimentierfeld als Möglichkeitsraum
Das weitläufige Gelände in Neu Marx in Wien hat enormes städtebauliches und kreatives Potential. Offenheit, Größe und der gewünschte Experimentiercharakter bieten ideale Voraussetzungen. Es gilt, diesen „Spirit“ beizubehalten und zu verstärken. Innerhalb des städtebaulichen Wettbewerbs Neu Marx gemeinsam gestalten wurden fünf Architektenteams europaweit ausgewählt, um das Areal zu gestalten und verschiedene Nutzergruppen anzuziehen.
MakerSpace NMX ist ein Nährboden für Ideen und ein Ort um etablierte Firmen, Start-Ups sowie BewohnerInnen und BesucherInnen Wiens gleichermaßen zusammen zu bringen. MakerSpace NMX ist gedacht für Menschen, neue Ideen und Do-It-Yourself-Projekte.
Landschaftspartner: DnD Landschaftsplanung
Kategorie
2-stufiger offener europaweiter Wettbewerb
Ort
Wien, AT
Jahr
2016
Auslober
WSE Wiener Standortentwicklung, Raiffeisen Property International
BGF
375.000 m²
Visualisierung
Janusch
Urban planning framework
Based on the basic idea of anchoring the school in civilian awareness as site for learning, the question arises as to whether this must perforce be solved through a building (or coherent building structure), or an urbanistically generated network of several buildings in the urban context. We believe that by continuously spinning out the existing patterns of urban planning, the school can become part of the district in an unforced and natural way. The goal is to create scope for options capable of reacting to the dynamic developments of today’s society. Moreover, dovetailing the school with the city always means opening things up and a readiness to react to changes.
Cooperation Partner: PlanSinn
Invited competition
Preselection, 1st prize, Masterplan
Location
Cologne, DE
Year
2011
Client
City of Cologne, Montag Stiftungen
Urban planning framework
Based on the basic idea of anchoring the school in civilian awareness as site for learning, the question arises as to whether this must perforce be solved through a building (or coherent building structure), or an urbanistically generated network of several buildings in the urban context. We believe that by continuously spinning out the existing patterns of urban planning, the school can become part of the district in an unforced and natural way. The goal is to create scope for options capable of reacting to the dynamic developments of today’s society. Moreover, dovetailing the school with the city always means opening things up and a readiness to react to changes.
Cooperation Partner: PlanSinn
Invited competition
Preselection, 1st prize, Masterplan
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: for it is the cultural and historic centre of this country, where history meets the contemporary, where not only history of power but also the one of democracy and emancipation have been made, and where European policies take place as well as urban everyday life and leisure time activities.
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: for it is the cultural and historic centre of this country, where history meets the contemporary, where not only history of power but also the one of democracy and emancipation have been made, and where European policies take place as well as urban everyday life and leisure time activities.
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
Playable scultpure park
feld72 designs the first of overall 12 minigolf courses of MQ Amore on the foresquare of MuseumsQuartier Wien. In a setting of 38 red minigolf balls the real playing ball becomes an obstacle, “losing” itself because of its interchangeability. The artists have signed the work in braille formed out of golf balls. This makes the camouflaged authorship itself an element of the playful environment. The materials used in the minigolf course, Muschelkalk stone and brass, are a clear reference to the architecture of the Leopold Museum, which nominated feld72, making the installation a prominently placed artifact representing its institution.
Artists: feld72 (Leopold Museum), Anastasiya Yarovenko (Kunsthalle Wien), heri&salli (Architekturzentrum), PLOP – Bernd und Thomas Oppl (Q21), Bildstein | Glatz (MuseumsQuartier)
Playable scultpure park
feld72 designs the first of overall 12 minigolf courses of MQ Amore on the foresquare of MuseumsQuartier Wien. In a setting of 38 red minigolf balls the real playing ball becomes an obstacle, “losing” itself because of its interchangeability. The artists have signed the work in braille formed out of golf balls. This makes the camouflaged authorship itself an element of the playful environment. The materials used in the minigolf course, Muschelkalk stone and brass, are a clear reference to the architecture of the Leopold Museum, which nominated feld72, making the installation a prominently placed artifact representing its 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.
Living in the financial district
In the Neutorgasse, in the first district of Vienna, a representative mid 19th century Gründerzeithaus is being renovated and converted to a very high standard. During the course of its substantial re-development, the building is renovated, extended and returned to its original residential and commercial use. Due to the importance of the building to the surrounding municipal ensemble (protected zone), particular attention is paid to the careful addition of the attic extension. The new attic conversion added below the original roof is set apart from the existing facade and the edge of the coronation cornice via a fugue.
Cooperation Partner: Schenker Salvi Weber Architekten
More information: Cotton Residence
Open 2-phase competition
1st prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Planning start
2014
Client
Neutorgasse 7 Projektentwicklungs AG & Co OG
GFA
9.400 m²
Visualization
JAMJAM
Living in the financial district
In the Neutorgasse, in the first district of Vienna, a representative mid 19th century Gründerzeithaus is being renovated and converted to a very high standard. During the course of its substantial re-development, the building is renovated, extended and returned to its original residential and commercial use. Due to the importance of the building to the surrounding municipal ensemble (protected zone), particular attention is paid to the careful addition of the attic extension. The new attic conversion added below the original roof is set apart from the existing facade and the edge of the coronation cornice via a fugue.
Cooperation Partner: Schenker Salvi Weber Architekten
More information: Cotton Residence
Open 2-phase competition
1st prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Planning start
2014
Client
Neutorgasse 7 Projektentwicklungs AG & Co OG
GFA
9.400 m²
Visualization
JAMJAM
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 / adhered to: 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 / adhered to: 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 redevelopment of Schwedenplatz – clearly one of Vienna’s most important urban nodes – aims at creating a new zoning by determining five clearly defined segments. Emerging from the adjacent urban context, these areas emphasize the predominant local qualities.
A distinctive arrangement of tree rows as well as green recreational islands are tying together the square’s five areas while creating a clear zoning and orientation.
In addition, each of the segments receives a leafy pavilion or folly with a specific theme. The use of the five pavilions is manifold – they serve as meeting places, allow expansive views, integrate infrastructure or offer niches for insects and birds. These pavilions become the new landmarks of the Schwedenplatz.
Landscape Partner: 3:0 Landschaftsarchitektur
Category
Open competition
Location
Vienna, AT
Year
2015
Client
City of Vienna
The redevelopment of Schwedenplatz – clearly one of Vienna’s most important urban nodes – aims at creating a new zoning by determining five clearly defined segments. Emerging from the adjacent urban context, these areas emphasize the predominant local qualities.
A distinctive arrangement of tree rows as well as green recreational islands are tying together the square’s five areas while creating a clear zoning and orientation.
In addition, each of the segments receives a leafy pavilion or folly with a specific theme. The use of the five pavilions is manifold – they serve as meeting places, allow expansive views, integrate infrastructure or offer niches for insects and birds. These pavilions become the new landmarks of the Schwedenplatz.
Landscape Partner: 3:0 Landschaftsarchitektur
Category
Open competition
Location
Vienna, AT
Year
2015
Client
City of Vienna
The urban concept is a continuation of the comb structure, defined in the urban planning model of Prohaska / Hoffmann. The project has the aim, despite the heterogeneity of the construction law requirements, to create and strengthen a sense of togetherness and a feel of commonality. The regular technical scope (utilization of the plot) is optimally utilized in favor of all the residents (and neighbors), made artistically visible and livable felt. Special attention in terms of building modeling and program is made because of the importance of the public entrance in the Kirschblütenpark.
Cooperation partner: AllesWirdGut, Landscape partner: 3:0
Place
Wien, AT
Client
Wohnfonds Wien
Competition
2. Prize
Year
2015
GFA
12.481 m²
Visualization
Zero Division
The urban concept is a continuation of the comb structure, defined in the urban planning model of Prohaska / Hoffmann. The project has the aim, despite the heterogeneity of the construction law requirements, to create and strengthen a sense of togetherness and a feel of commonality. The regular technical scope (utilization of the plot) is optimally utilized in favor of all the residents (and neighbors), made artistically visible and livable felt. Special attention in terms of building modeling and program is made because of the importance of the public entrance in the Kirschblütenpark.
Cooperation partner: AllesWirdGut, Landscape partner: 3:0
Place
Wien, AT
Client
Wohnfonds Wien
Competition
2. Prize
Year
2015
GFA
12.481 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)
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)
Invited competition
3rd prize
Location
Hamburg, DE
Year
2015
Client
Bayerische Hausbau
GFA
28.000 m²
Visualization
Zero Division
Die Entwurfsstrategie für die neue Wohnbauzone Edlrauth basiert darauf, das Prinzip der Gruppierung von einfachen Baukörpern zu kleineren dorfbaulichen Einheiten von Burgstall aufzunehmen, und das dorfbauliche Muster nicht durch eine Großform zu stören. Das neue Ensemble besteht aus einer Gruppe von 8 Baukörpern, die sich um einen klar definierten Freiraum artikulieren, der Identität stiftet und ein gemeinschaftliches Wohnen unterstützt. Die Bebauung berücksichtigt die Topographie und den Kontext, und versucht durch Blickbeziehungen und das Aufnehmen der Qualitäten vor Ort (wie z.B. der Bezugnahme zu dem Wasserkanal) eine eigene Atmosphäre für die Siedlung zu schaffen. Edlrauth soll zum selbstverständlichen Teil von Burgstall werden.
Landscape Partner: Erik Meinharter / PlanSinn
Invited competition
1st prize
Location
Burgstall, IT
Client
Municipality of Burgstall
Planning start
2017
GFA
3.510 m²
Model
Mattweiss
Die Entwurfsstrategie für die neue Wohnbauzone Edlrauth basiert darauf, das Prinzip der Gruppierung von einfachen Baukörpern zu kleineren dorfbaulichen Einheiten von Burgstall aufzunehmen, und das dorfbauliche Muster nicht durch eine Großform zu stören. Das neue Ensemble besteht aus einer Gruppe von 8 Baukörpern, die sich um einen klar definierten Freiraum artikulieren, der Identität stiftet und ein gemeinschaftliches Wohnen unterstützt. Die Bebauung berücksichtigt die Topographie und den Kontext, und versucht durch Blickbeziehungen und das Aufnehmen der Qualitäten vor Ort (wie z.B. der Bezugnahme zu dem Wasserkanal) eine eigene Atmosphäre für die Siedlung zu schaffen. Edlrauth soll zum selbstverständlichen Teil von Burgstall werden.
Landscape Partner: Erik Meinharter / PlanSinn
Invited competition
1st prize
Location
Burgstall, IT
Client
Municipality of Burgstall
Planning start
2017
GFA
3.510 m²
Model
Mattweiss
ASRM 2015
Acht internationale Teams auf der Suche nach städtebaulichen Ideen und Konzepte, die die Potentiale der Region aufspüren und daraus übergeordnete Ideen und Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten für die Metropolregion aufzeigen.
2 Konzepte der großflächigen Strategie von feld72 für RheinMainCity wurden umgesetzt: Ein neuer Kommunikationsraum zwischen Frankfurt und Offenbach, und die Idee einer RheinMainCity-App, die ein identitätsstiftendes Bewusstsein für die Vernetzung und Verknüpfung der Region schafft (Umsetzung: Scholz&Volkmer)
Teilnehmende Teams: AWP, Paris // feld72, Wien // KCAP, Rotterdam // Lola landscape architects, Rotterdam // Magma Architecture, Berlin // Superpool, Istanbul // Urbed, Manchester & London // Thomas Sieverts & S.K.A.T., München
ASRM 2015
Acht internationale Teams auf der Suche nach städtebaulichen Ideen und Konzepte, die die Potentiale der Region aufspüren und daraus übergeordnete Ideen und Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten für die Metropolregion aufzeigen.
2 Konzepte der großflächigen Strategie von feld72 für RheinMainCity wurden umgesetzt: Ein neuer Kommunikationsraum zwischen Frankfurt und Offenbach, und die Idee einer RheinMainCity-App, die ein identitätsstiftendes Bewusstsein für die Vernetzung und Verknüpfung der Region schafft (Umsetzung: Scholz&Volkmer)
Teilnehmende Teams: AWP, Paris // feld72, Wien // KCAP, Rotterdam // Lola landscape architects, Rotterdam // Magma Architecture, Berlin // Superpool, Istanbul // Urbed, Manchester & London // Thomas Sieverts & S.K.A.T., München
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
The major theatres of the capital city of the Federal Land unite on the Rathausplatz in St. Pölten in a ticket office. The remodelling of the facility plays on the elements and properties of the theatre. The curtain as principle element of the wall design embodies the separation of two worlds. The velvet curtain partly hides and shows what is concealed behind it. The ticket sales counter is in the front area and the “box” is at the rear, so to speak a grand circle situation for personal advising, also accoutred with props alluding to the world of the theatre.
Place
Sankt Pölten, AT
Client
Landestheater Niederösterreich Betriebs GmbH
Completion
2013
GFA
112 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Wolfgang Wössner
The major theatres of the capital city of the Federal Land unite on the Rathausplatz in St. Pölten in a ticket office. The remodelling of the facility plays on the elements and properties of the theatre. The curtain as principle element of the wall design embodies the separation of two worlds. The velvet curtain partly hides and shows what is concealed behind it. The ticket sales counter is in the front area and the “box” is at the rear, so to speak a grand circle situation for personal advising, also accoutred with props alluding to the world of the theatre.
Place
Sankt Pölten, AT
Client
Landestheater Niederösterreich Betriebs GmbH
Completion
2013
GFA
112 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Wolfgang Wössner
In 2007 Gilberto Kassab with one law changed the perception of the public space and the possibilities of architecture in a city of 11 million people (20 millions in the greater metropolitan area). The Mayor of São Paulo with the “Lei Cidade Limpa” (The law for the clean city) re-defined the rule of advertisement in public space, and in fact he banned it. Empty billboards have become the fragile remains of a formerly overexposed city, but it is in the night, when the main difference between the present and the past is evident:
No memories of Time-Square, no global competition against Tokyo´s Ginza, no evocation of Bladerunner. A city where light has just been reduced again to illuminate, and not to communicate. A city full of beauty farms and cosmetic surgery, but no billboard with seduction through advertisement of the perfect female body …
Text
Michael Obrist
Veröffentlichung
SPACEMATTERS Chronicles,
(Hrsg. Lukas Feireiss),
Springer Verlag
In 2007 Gilberto Kassab with one law changed the perception of the public space and the possibilities of architecture in a city of 11 million people (20 millions in the greater metropolitan area). The Mayor of São Paulo with the “Lei Cidade Limpa” (The law for the clean city) re-defined the rule of advertisement in public space, and in fact he banned it. Empty billboards have become the fragile remains of a formerly overexposed city, but it is in the night, when the main difference between the present and the past is evident:
No memories of Time-Square, no global competition against Tokyo´s Ginza, no evocation of Bladerunner. A city where light has just been reduced again to illuminate, and not to communicate. A city full of beauty farms and cosmetic surgery, but no billboard with seduction through advertisement of the perfect female body …
Text
Michael Obrist
Veröffentlichung
SPACEMATTERS Chronicles,
(Hrsg. Lukas Feireiss),
Springer Verlag
Communication strategy in the public space
As part of the City of Vienna’s guidelines for building culture, an exhibition and a strategic master plan were conceived for communication to the city’s inhabitants – organised for the first time as a collective project by a team of curators, architects, open space planners and architecture educationalists in coordination with the MA 19 of the City of Vienna.
feld72, nonconform and inspirin developed a series of themes on building culture in five locations in the public space, which were enacted in partnership with the photographer Hertha Hurnaus.
Cooperation Partner: inspirin, nonconform
Location
Vienna, AT
Year
2014
Client
MA19 of the city of Vienna
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Graphics
zunder zwo
Communication strategy in the public space
As part of the City of Vienna’s guidelines for building culture, an exhibition and a strategic master plan were conceived for communication to the city’s inhabitants – organised for the first time as a collective project by a team of curators, architects, open space planners and architecture educationalists in coordination with the MA 19 of the City of Vienna.
feld72, nonconform and inspirin developed a series of themes on building culture in five locations in the public space, which were enacted in partnership with the photographer Hertha Hurnaus.
Cooperation Partner: inspirin, nonconform
Location
Vienna, AT
Year
2014
Client
MA19 of the 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
Viennese city squares are normally planned out down to the smallest detail. We want to confront these squares with Südtiroler Platz, which gains its identity through a more open way of exploiting the potential of occupation and usage. We are creating a clear periphery and an open, unregulated green centre zone, which creates a relaxed and leisurely social environment. The periphery is defined by a wooden bench 250m long; it can be used in multifaceted ways and its course generates the most diverse spatial and social situations. Part of the funds for planning the square is used for activating the void, offering scope for new uses with a dynamism that reverberates onto the square. How the “wild” centre is filled is now up to the people.
Cooperation Partner: Hans Schabus
Category
Invited Competition, 2nd prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Year
2014
Client
Stadt Wien
Viennese city squares are normally planned out down to the smallest detail. We want to confront these squares with Südtiroler Platz, which gains its identity through a more open way of exploiting the potential of occupation and usage. We are creating a clear periphery and an open, unregulated green centre zone, which creates a relaxed and leisurely social environment. The periphery is defined by a wooden bench 250m long; it can be used in multifaceted ways and its course generates the most diverse spatial and social situations. Part of the funds for planning the square is used for activating the void, offering scope for new uses with a dynamism that reverberates onto the square. How the “wild” centre is filled is now up to the people.
Cooperation Partner: Hans Schabus
Category
Invited Competition, 2nd prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Year
2014
Client
Stadt Wien
Wine-selling, bar, lounge, degustation
Along the wine road in South Tyrol a new point of sale was set up for the cooperative winery in Kaltern, the Kellereigenossenschaft that is based as much on the mobile awareness of the twenty-first century as it is on local identity. A charged tension is generated between the visual impression of the uniform shell made of glass fibre-reinforced concrete and the single, large-scale interior it envelops. Here, a sculptural terraced landscape unfolds, which, through its elevation alone, yields a complex sequence of atmospheres and spatial impressions.
Invited competition
1st prize
Location
Kaltern, IT
Completion
2006
Client
Kellerei Kaltern
GFA
1.300 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Wine-selling, bar, lounge, degustation
Along the wine road in South Tyrol a new point of sale was set up for the cooperative winery in Kaltern, the Kellereigenossenschaft that is based as much on the mobile awareness of the twenty-first century as it is on local identity. A charged tension is generated between the visual impression of the uniform shell made of glass fibre-reinforced concrete and the single, large-scale interior it envelops. Here, a sculptural terraced landscape unfolds, which, through its elevation alone, yields a complex sequence of atmospheres and spatial impressions.
Invited competition
1st prize
Location
Kaltern, IT
Completion
2006
Client
Kellerei Kaltern
GFA
1.300 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Artistic Encounter and Installation
Scene 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, on the other remarkable for an illegally erected lake dwelling settlement. This witness to an anarchistic building culture is threatened with extinction, but together with the nearby shipyard will set up an arena for artistic interventions on the themes of migration, speculation and white-collar crime – the starting point of a journey into the “art informel” of Italy.
Artistic Encounter and Installation
Scene 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, on the other remarkable for an illegally erected lake dwelling settlement. This witness to an anarchistic building culture is threatened with extinction, but together with the nearby shipyard will set up an arena for artistic interventions on the themes of migration, speculation and white-collar crime – the starting point of a journey into the “art informel” of 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
Based on the piano compositions of Erik Satie a spatial installation was conceived that gives rise to a special experience: Satie demanded his work be played 840 times consecutively and at a slow tempo so as to bring out its meditative character. This means that the entire performance lasts 21 hours. The audience is immersed into an extraordinary game with space, time and repetition. Themselves part of the installation, all visitors are invited as audience and actors to perform action instructions parallel to the live piano music and to sound out personal levels of perception.
Place
Vienna, AT
Client
ImPulsTanz
Completion
2009
Production
gravityhappens.
Artistic concept, Piano
Kerstin Kussmaul, Jan Burkhardt
Pictures
Laurent Ziegler, feld72
Based on the piano compositions of Erik Satie a spatial installation was conceived that gives rise to a special experience: Satie demanded his work be played 840 times consecutively and at a slow tempo so as to bring out its meditative character. This means that the entire performance lasts 21 hours. The audience is immersed into an extraordinary game with space, time and repetition. Themselves part of the installation, all visitors are invited as audience and actors to perform action instructions parallel to the live piano music and to sound out personal levels of perception.
Place
Vienna, AT
Client
ImPulsTanz
Completion
2009
Production
gravityhappens.
Artistic concept, Piano
Kerstin Kussmaul, Jan Burkhardt
Pictures
Laurent Ziegler, feld72
Follow-up use of an ex-Nato area
In the midst of the mountains, a relic of the Cold War. For decades an inaccessible zone, in its seclusion and impenetrability a place engendering myths. Today, a place waiting for a new purpose. Instead of a commercial re-usage, we propose in a manifesto to retain the unique feature of the Zone: 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. The Zone opens its doors to the general public just for a short time each year to show what it has developed during this time. A new myth dawns.
Place
Natz-Schabs, IT
Prize
Competition, 1. Prize
Follow-up use of an ex-Nato area
In the midst of the mountains, a relic of the Cold War. For decades an inaccessible zone, in its seclusion and impenetrability a place engendering myths. Today, a place waiting for a new purpose. Instead of a commercial re-usage, we propose in a manifesto to retain the unique feature of the Zone: 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. The Zone opens its doors to the general public just for a short time each year to show what it has developed during this time. A new myth dawns.
Place
Natz-Schabs, IT
Prize
Competition, 1. Prize
Official Building of Lower Austria
The NHK – Landesamtgebäude Krems (Regional Authorities Building) is less a building than an urban module. The building volume demanded by the spatial programme of the largest passive office building in Austria doesn’t take shape as a total form that negates its context, but fuses into the small-scale plot structure of the location. The typical urban development pattern of Krems’s historic centre – alleyways, bridges between buildings, passages and inner courtyards – are transposed into the present time, and the idea of the building as urban community is also sustained in the interior routing.
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
Official Building of Lower Austria
The NHK – Landesamtgebäude Krems (Regional Authorities Building) is less a building than an urban module. The building volume demanded by the spatial programme of the largest passive office building in Austria doesn’t take shape as a total form that negates its context, but fuses into the small-scale plot structure of the location. The typical urban development pattern of Krems’s historic centre – alleyways, bridges between buildings, passages and inner courtyards – are transposed into the present time, and the idea of the building as urban community is also sustained in the interior routing.
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
Can you build a hotel in 24 days?
How can we boost the micro-economy of a remote region that is seeing a decline in its population? When we were first invited to come to Prata Sannita, a village in the Matese regional park close to Naples, we asked ourselves: couldn´t we perceive this shrinking, 1500-person village as a large, scattered hotel that still had rooms available: the abandoned spaces? In just one month we we able to recruit up to 40 volunteers to work with us on site. Using very straightforward methods, we excavated spaces from the abandoned architecture of the medieval village, reactivating them as “hotel rooms” and a special “bathroom”, which can be used by the Pratesi as an extension of the public space during the “off-season”. “The Million Donkey Hotel” in Prata Sannita shows how a situationist-typee-project can bring life back to an entire village – even in the long run.“
Prize: Contractworld Award, Hotel category, 1. Prize
Place
Prata Sannita, IT
Client
paesesaggio workgroup
Completion
2006
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Can you build a hotel in 24 days?
How can we boost the micro-economy of a remote region that is seeing a decline in its population? When we were first invited to come to Prata Sannita, a village in the Matese regional park close to Naples, we asked ourselves: couldn´t we perceive this shrinking, 1500-person village as a large, scattered hotel that still had rooms available: the abandoned spaces? In just one month we we able to recruit up to 40 volunteers to work with us on site. Using very straightforward methods, we excavated spaces from the abandoned architecture of the medieval village, reactivating them as “hotel rooms” and a special “bathroom”, which can be used by the Pratesi as an extension of the public space during the “off-season”. “The Million Donkey Hotel” in Prata Sannita shows how a situationist-typee-project can bring life back to an entire village – even in the long run.“
Prize: Contractworld Award, Hotel category, 1. Prize
Place
Prata Sannita, IT
Client
paesesaggio workgroup
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)
Place
Berlin, DE
Client
Bauart zweite Beteiligungs GmbH & Co
GFA
9.412 m²
Prize
Competition, 1. Prize
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)
Place
Berlin, DE
Client
Bauart zweite Beteiligungs GmbH & Co
GFA
9.412 m²
Prize
Competition, 1. Prize
In order to offer a high-quality working environment for a facility service firm in what is in fact a faceless industrial estate in St. Pölten, value was placed on creating a self-enclosed world apart that has great qualities as an interior – like a hortus conclusus. The office zones are organised on only one level on the upper floor, in accordance with the firms’ entrepreneurial identity and culture. The ensuing hierarchy-free spatial organisation between open and closed offices will foster communication. Pixeling and materialising the façade divests the building of its scale and gives rise to a richly faceted and complex interplay between 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
In order to offer a high-quality working environment for a facility service firm in what is in fact a faceless industrial estate in St. Pölten, value was placed on creating a self-enclosed world apart that has great qualities as an interior – like a hortus conclusus. The office zones are organised on only one level on the upper floor, in accordance with the firms’ entrepreneurial identity and culture. The ensuing hierarchy-free spatial organisation between open and closed offices will foster communication. Pixeling and materialising the façade divests the building of its scale and gives rise to a richly faceted and complex interplay between 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
Festival headquarters steirischer herbst
Can a maximum of signal effect and practical options for new usage and presentation facilities be conceived for an already existent location – the Forum Stadtpark? Yes, with a re-usable deposit and return object, infinitely available, with enormous potential: the Euro pallet. Diverted from its normal purpose it can form the module for temporary architecture just as well as the brick for a durable building. Architecture with an expiration date thwarts and disrupts the existing building, whether in terms of space, typology, or aesthetics – a productive disruption. Especially in its ephemerality it strove after an aura of massive solidity.
Prize: Steirischer Holzbaupreis
Place
Graz, AT
Client
steirischer herbst
Completion
2010
GFA
562 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Festival headquarters steirischer herbst
Can a maximum of signal effect and practical options for new usage and presentation facilities be conceived for an already existent location – the Forum Stadtpark? Yes, with a re-usable deposit and return object, infinitely available, with enormous potential: the Euro pallet. Diverted from its normal purpose it can form the module for temporary architecture just as well as the brick for a durable building. Architecture with an expiration date thwarts and disrupts the existing building, whether in terms of space, typology, or aesthetics – a productive disruption. Especially in its ephemerality it strove after an aura of massive solidity.
Prize: Steirischer Holzbaupreis
Place
Graz, AT
Client
steirischer herbst
Completion
2010
GFA
562 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
Zones of oblivion are emerging in the middle of Europe – villages in the border zone of Italy, Austria and Slovenia, which were abandoned in recent decades.
Memories are compiled on the way from MoggioUdinese at the entry to theAupa Valley to Mogessa di là, a lost world of a village without any road connection. the people collectively transport fragments of a history, the context of which is not construed until the end of the procession. On arrival at the destination, a BLACKBOX (camera obscura) is set up and thus a place of reflection and imagination. In making a retrospective view possible it serves as collective memory.
Place
Mogessa di Lá, IT
Client
UNIKUM, Universitätskulturzentrum Klagenfurt
Curator
Inge Vavra
Year
2009
Artistic walkabout and intervention
Zones of oblivion are emerging in the middle of Europe – villages in the border zone of Italy, Austria and Slovenia, which were abandoned in recent decades.
Memories are compiled on the way from MoggioUdinese at the entry to theAupa Valley to Mogessa di là, a lost world of a village without any road connection. the people collectively transport fragments of a history, the context of which is not construed until the end of the procession. On arrival at the destination, a BLACKBOX (camera obscura) is set up and thus a place of reflection and imagination. In making a retrospective view possible it serves as collective memory.
Place
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: Urban Sociologist: Dr. Peter Arlt
2-phase competition
substitute winner of 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: Urban Sociologist: Dr. Peter Arlt
2-phase competition
substitute winner of 1st prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Client
Wien 3420 Aspern development AG
Year
2008
GFA
2.400.000 m²
Village square design for Paasdorf / Paasdorf cultural landscape
The design for a village square with landmark as part of the Paasdorf cultural landscape is a synergetic alignment of two dominant polarities: everyday routine and signal effect. The square is designed to change its appearance according to purpose and greatly fluctuating needs. Village square and parking area are not monofunctionally separated but fuse into a complex whole that is both logical and practical. Its degree of public usage always depends on its users. The signal landmark is the bus stop, remodelled into a public balcony, the Wolkon.
Place
Mistelbach-Paasdorf, AT
Client
Community of Paasdorf, Public Art Lower Austria
Year
2007
GFA
1.987 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Village square design for Paasdorf / Paasdorf cultural landscape
The design for a village square with landmark as part of the Paasdorf cultural landscape is a synergetic alignment of two dominant polarities: everyday routine and signal effect. The square is designed to change its appearance according to purpose and greatly fluctuating needs. Village square and parking area are not monofunctionally separated but fuse into a complex whole that is both logical and practical. Its degree of public usage always depends on its users. The signal landmark is the bus stop, remodelled into a public balcony, the Wolkon.
Place
Mistelbach-Paasdorf, AT
Client
Community of Paasdorf, Public Art Lower Austria
Year
2007
GFA
1.987 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
(Kunst am Bau – percent for art) Vienna Chamber of Labour
The steps arrangement is the most urban module in the forecourt design. An element connoting hierarchy and authority, it is transformed into a new landmark. It stands for an “open” institution. Diffuse areas are now fused together, creating a zone for lingering, for celebration, and for encounter. The “superelevation” inherent in the character of the steps creates an ambivalent element subverting previous monofunctionality and permitting multiple uses. A stairway is a stairway is a stairway?
Place
Wien, AT
Client
Vienna Chamber of Labour
Completion
2008
GFA
1.600 m²
Prize
invited competition: 1st prize
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
(Kunst am Bau – percent for art) Vienna Chamber of Labour
The steps arrangement is the most urban module in the forecourt design. An element connoting hierarchy and authority, it is transformed into a new landmark. It stands for an “open” institution. Diffuse areas are now fused together, creating a zone for lingering, for celebration, and for encounter. The “superelevation” inherent in the character of the steps creates an ambivalent element subverting previous monofunctionality and permitting multiple uses. A stairway is a stairway is a stairway?
Place
Wien, AT
Client
Vienna Chamber of Labour
Completion
2008
GFA
1.600 m²
Prize
invited competition: 1st prize
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…
Place
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…
Place
Giardini padiglione, IT
Client
La Biennale di venezia
Year
2008
The design proposes a three-storey, clearly defined building, lower than the surrounding trees, which is integrated in the park structure of the adidas World of Sports in Herzogenaurach, southern Germany. The individually designed internal courtyards and the roof surface – which is completely usable – offer visitors to and staff of the MOM a maximum of leisure time quality and the chance to identify with their own workplace. There is a huge semi-roofed skater park at the entrance. This forecourt is connected via the foyer and a generously dimensioned outdoor stairs with the roofscape. The large running track on the roof addresses the myth of movement, just as the Lingotto in Turin did it its time.
Cooperation Partner: AllesWirdGut
Closed Competition
1st Prize
Location
Herzogenaurach, DE
Year
2007
Client
Adidas
GFA
76.000 m²
The design proposes a three-storey, clearly defined building, lower than the surrounding trees, which is integrated in the park structure of the adidas World of Sports in Herzogenaurach, southern Germany. The individually designed internal courtyards and the roof surface – which is completely usable – offer visitors to and staff of the MOM a maximum of leisure time quality and the chance to identify with their own workplace. There is a huge semi-roofed skater park at the entrance. This forecourt is connected via the foyer and a generously dimensioned outdoor stairs with the roofscape. The large running track on the roof addresses the myth of movement, just as the Lingotto in Turin did it its time.
Cooperation Partner: AllesWirdGut
Closed Competition
1st Prize
Location
Herzogenaurach, DE
Year
2007
Client
Adidas
GFA
76.000 m²
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.
Place
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.
Place
Rotterdam, NL
Client
Ton Matton & WIMBY (Welcome Into My Backyard)
Completion
2007
Biennale Exhibition Contribution
2007 – The boundaries between the commercial and the public space are becoming more and more blurred. Our immediate environment, whether architectural or media-based, is dominated by advertising and thus by promises of another life. “urbanism – for sale” is taking the prohibition of advertising issued in 2007 for the entire conurbation of São Paulo as impetus to tackle the theme of consumerist mechanisms and reap benefits from this for constructing another world. We are confronting a world of mere promise and never-to-be achieved potential with a world of real experience lived out in the – social – environment: the exhibition area will be the shop window of a concept store of a completely different kind.
Place
Sao Paulo, BR
Client
7th Sao Paulo International Architecture Biennale
Year
2007
Biennale Exhibition Contribution
2007 – The boundaries between the commercial and the public space are becoming more and more blurred. Our immediate environment, whether architectural or media-based, is dominated by advertising and thus by promises of another life. “urbanism – for sale” is taking the prohibition of advertising issued in 2007 for the entire conurbation of São Paulo as impetus to tackle the theme of consumerist mechanisms and reap benefits from this for constructing another world. We are confronting a world of mere promise and never-to-be achieved potential with a world of real experience lived out in the – social – environment: the exhibition area will be the shop window of a concept store of a completely different kind.
Place
Sao Paulo, BR
Client
7th Sao Paulo International Architecture Biennale
Year
2007
Different libraries once scattered through Bolzano will be combined under a single roof, thus creating an efficient new cultural centre, that brings together the three language groups German, Italian and Ladin. The new library centre will be an extension of the public/urban space of an open society. Here it is intended to present the different identities of South Tyrol in a European context to create a public forum. The spatial imprint of this process is an open system of spaces that encourages cooperation while yet preserving individuality.
Place
Bozen, AT
Invited Competition
2006
Client
Autonomous Province Bolzano
GFA
21.250 m²
Prize
2nd Prize
Different libraries once scattered through Bolzano will be combined under a single roof, thus creating an efficient new cultural centre, that brings together the three language groups German, Italian and Ladin. The new library centre will be an extension of the public/urban space of an open society. Here it is intended to present the different identities of South Tyrol in a European context to create a public forum. The spatial imprint of this process is an open system of spaces that encourages cooperation while yet preserving individuality.
Place
Bozen, AT
Invited Competition
2006
Client
Autonomous Province Bolzano
GFA
21.250 m²
Prize
2nd Prize
Redesign and interior furnishings of a Raiffeisen Bank branch next to the Winecenter
Credit institute = money * time * trust / π (3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 8214808651 3282306647 0938446095 5058223172 5359408128 4811174502 8410270193 8521105559 6446229489 5493038196 4428810975 6659334461 2847564823 3786783165 2712019091 4564856692 3460348610 4543266482 1339360726 0249141273 7245870066 0631558817 4881520920 9628292540 9171536436 7892590360 0113305305 4882046652 1384146951 9415116094 3305727036…)
Location
Kaltern, IT
Completion
2006
Client
Kellerei Kaltern, Raifeissenkassa Überetsch
GFA
194 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Redesign and interior furnishings of a Raiffeisen Bank branch next to the Winecenter
Credit institute = money * time * trust / π (3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 8214808651 3282306647 0938446095 5058223172 5359408128 4811174502 8410270193 8521105559 6446229489 5493038196 4428810975 6659334461 2847564823 3786783165 2712019091 4564856692 3460348610 4543266482 1339360726 0249141273 7245870066 0631558817 4881520920 9628292540 9171536436 7892590360 0113305305 4882046652 1384146951 9415116094 3305727036…)
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 very unpleasant everyday problem: traffic congestion, “file” in Dutch. The project was part of the First International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam with the focus on mobility. Besides a permanent installation in the Biennale exhibition facilities, the project FILEKit© also plans a series of events on the motorways surrounding Rotterdam. FILEKit© encourages motorists to transcend the physical and mental barriers of their own vehicle and to communicate with the unexpected, the unfamiliar.
Place
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 very unpleasant everyday problem: traffic congestion, “file” in Dutch. The project was part of the First International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam with the focus on mobility. Besides a permanent installation in the Biennale exhibition facilities, the project FILEKit© also plans a series of events on the motorways surrounding Rotterdam. FILEKit© encourages motorists to transcend the physical and mental barriers of their own vehicle and to communicate with the unexpected, the unfamiliar.
Place
Rotterdam, NL
Client
1st International Architecture Biennale of Rotterdam
Cooperation Partner
ARTGINEERING, D+.NL Ole Schilling
Year
2003
Sign and Guidance System fort he 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.
Place
Wien, AT
Client
MQ, Museumsquartier
Year
2004
Cooperation Partner
Charlotte Spitzer (sociologist)
Sign and Guidance System fort he 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.
Place
Wien, AT
Client
MQ, Museumsquartier
Year
2004
Cooperation Partner
Charlotte Spitzer (sociologist)
Perception Tools for the Public Space
How can people make the transformations of the public space visible and leave comments and ideas about this in a concrete form in specific locations? The sticker is becoming a medium for visualising some of the invisible parameters that have defined and strongly changed the public environment during recent decades and moreover can come to terms with these parameters in a playful and subversive way. 20,000 stickers with 15 different statements could be picked up freely in each exhibition facility and were distributed by visitors to the appropriate locations in town. A network of significations became visible.
Prize: Staatpreis für Experimentelle Tendenzen in der Architektur
Place
Vienna, AT
Client
Künstlerhaus Wien
Cooperation Partner
Lorenz Potocnik
Year
2002
Perception Tools for the Public Space
How can people make the transformations of the public space visible and leave comments and ideas about this in a concrete form in specific locations? The sticker is becoming a medium for visualising some of the invisible parameters that have defined and strongly changed the public environment during recent decades and moreover can come to terms with these parameters in a playful and subversive way. 20,000 stickers with 15 different statements could be picked up freely in each exhibition facility and were distributed by visitors to the appropriate locations in town. A network of significations became visible.
Prize: Staatpreis für Experimentelle Tendenzen in der Architektur
Place
Vienna, AT
Client
Künstlerhaus Wien
Cooperation Partner
Lorenz Potocnik
Year
2002
Settlement of the Forecourt in front of the Vienna Museumsquartier
The MQ forecourt is a superlatively situated free space in the heart of Vienna, spacious and underrated. A suburban parcelling out of plots harbours great potential as an architectural feature: feld72 cultivated the hitherto unused forecourt temporarily as a private allotment settlement. Without events, the provision of appropriate tools evoked the use of this undeveloped area. Passers-by and occupants were motivated to become actors in the urban space. The short-term “privatisation” gave rise to the paradox of a previously non-existent public space.
Prize: National Prize for Experimental Tendencies in Architecture
Place
Vienna, AT
Year
2002
Cooperation Partner
Lorenz Potocnik, nan architects & landscapes
Pictures
Julia Lorber
Settlement of the Forecourt in front of the Vienna Museumsquartier
The MQ forecourt is a superlatively situated free space in the heart of Vienna, spacious and underrated. A suburban parcelling out of plots harbours great potential as an architectural feature: feld72 cultivated the hitherto unused forecourt temporarily as a private allotment settlement. Without events, the provision of appropriate tools evoked the use of this undeveloped area. Passers-by and occupants were motivated to become actors in the urban space. The short-term “privatisation” gave rise to the paradox of a previously non-existent public space.
Prize: National Prize for Experimental Tendencies in Architecture
Place
Vienna, AT
Year
2002
Cooperation Partner
Lorenz Potocnik, nan architects & landscapes
Pictures
Julia Lorber
