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.
Kooperationspartner: 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.
Kooperationspartner: ITB, Energytech, gbd GFE und Lichtraum2
Michael Obrist is giving a short lecture on „Book Design – Books for archtiects“ at the Festivalzentrale on October 8th
1st prize for construction site 2 (subculture) and construction site 5 (co-housing), 2nd prize for construction site 1 (hotel) at the competition “Neuentwicklung des Quartiers am Spielbudenplatz” in Hamburg
Lecture and public round table discussion at the INDIGO Festival in Ljubljana
»… 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
Smart environment for young and young-at-heart home living on the outskirts of the city in a post-industrial complex. Strategies for creating community: this starts with identification through the design and continues with the quarter’s connecting ring structure and the belt formed by the wall surrounding the property, with special communication areas reflecting the layering principle of the building. A residential building as smart module of social life: tiered and networked communal zones and communication areas create the village in the buildings, and special extra spaces for whatever self-development is to be defined in the surrounding homes connect the private with the (semi-) public sphere. A building as a very flexible structure able to inspire the imagination and joie de vivre.
Landscape Partner: KSLA – Katja Simma Landschaftsarchitektur
Cooperation Partner: Prof. Dr. Jens Dangschat (Sociologist), IBO, KH13, raum & kommunikation
Category
2-phase property developer competition,
1st prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Year
2015
Client
SCHWARZATAL
GFA
5.400 m²
Visualization
RIVIERA | MORETTI
Smart environment for young and young-at-heart home living on the outskirts of the city in a post-industrial complex. Strategies for creating community: this starts with identification through the design and continues with the quarter’s connecting ring structure and the belt formed by the wall surrounding the property, with special communication areas reflecting the layering principle of the building. A residential building as smart module of social life: tiered and networked communal zones and communication areas create the village in the buildings, and special extra spaces for whatever self-development is to be defined in the surrounding homes connect the private with the (semi-) public sphere. A building as a very flexible structure able to inspire the imagination and joie de vivre.
Landscape Partner: KSLA – Katja Simma Landschaftsarchitektur
Cooperation Partner: Prof. Dr. Jens Dangschat (Sociologist), IBO, KH13, raum & kommunikation
Category
2-phase property developer competition,
1st prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Year
2015
Client
SCHWARZATAL
GFA
5.400 m²
Visualization
RIVIERA | MORETTI
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)
Das Gesamtprojekt für das Palais Campofranco im Zentrum von Bozen basiert auf verschiedenen Strategien im Umstand mit dem denkmalgeschützten Bestand, um das Areal noch stärker in das städtebauliche Gewebe einzubinden und um starke inhaltliche Akzente setzen zu können.
Der Pavillon des Restaurants mit Zugang zur bestehenden Terrasse ist eine Reflexion des Themas der Orangerie und tritt in der Formensprache in Dialog mit dem bestehenden kleinen Pavillon. Das Ghost-House ist eine Antwort auf die Frage von Erinnerung und Erneuerung und arbeitet in der Fassade des neu zu errichtenden Betonmonolithen mit dem Abdruck des vormaligen Lusthauses an derselben Stelle. Das Wallhouse als Eingangstor zum Areal wird zur Reflexion des Themas der Mauer.
Category
Invited competition,
3rd prize
Location
Bolzano, IT
Year
2016
Client
Ca.Do.Ma. Srl
Visualization
expressiv
Das Gesamtprojekt für das Palais Campofranco im Zentrum von Bozen basiert auf verschiedenen Strategien im Umstand mit dem denkmalgeschützten Bestand, um das Areal noch stärker in das städtebauliche Gewebe einzubinden und um starke inhaltliche Akzente setzen zu können.
Der Pavillon des Restaurants mit Zugang zur bestehenden Terrasse ist eine Reflexion des Themas der Orangerie und tritt in der Formensprache in Dialog mit dem bestehenden kleinen Pavillon. Das Ghost-House ist eine Antwort auf die Frage von Erinnerung und Erneuerung und arbeitet in der Fassade des neu zu errichtenden Betonmonolithen mit dem Abdruck des vormaligen Lusthauses an derselben Stelle. Das Wallhouse als Eingangstor zum Areal wird zur Reflexion des Themas der Mauer.
Category
Invited competition,
3rd prize
Location
Bolzano, IT
Year
2016
Client
Ca.Do.Ma. Srl
Visualization
expressiv
Architektur
Urbane Strategien
Schottenfeldgasse 72
1070 Wien
T +43 1 9240499
F +43 1 9240499–99
office@feld72.at
www.feld72.at
Branch Feldkirch
Liechtensteiner Straße 74/10
6800 Feldkirch
Architektur
Urbane Strategien
Paterbichl 2
39052 Kaltern (Bz)
T +39 3403479855
F +43 1 9240499–99
Im Stadtarchipel der Leopoldstadt versteht sich das Viertel 2 + als identitätsstiftende Einheit – es bildet Synergien mit angrenzenden Programmen und generiert einen Mehrwert weit über das Quartier hinaus. Die offene Erdgeschosszone definiert Eingangssituationen und bietet Räume für verschiedenste Nutzungen wie den Prater Maker Space, eine Markthalle oder ein Stay Up Business Center. Das Wohnen findet in den Obergeschossen in kompakten Solitären statt. Durch die Geometrie der Gebäude sind große Durch- und Weitblicke für alle Wohnungen möglich – niemand ist in der zweiten Reihe und es gibt keine Nord Wohnungen. Die umlaufenden Balkone mit ihrem zarten Schleier schaffen passiven Sonnenschutz und auch Privatsphäre.
Category
Invited competition
Location
Vienna, AT
Year
2016
Client
VIERTEL ZWEI
GFA
43.527 m²
Visualization
Janusch
Im Stadtarchipel der Leopoldstadt versteht sich das Viertel 2 + als identitätsstiftende Einheit – es bildet Synergien mit angrenzenden Programmen und generiert einen Mehrwert weit über das Quartier hinaus. Die offene Erdgeschosszone definiert Eingangssituationen und bietet Räume für verschiedenste Nutzungen wie den Prater Maker Space, eine Markthalle oder ein Stay Up Business Center. Das Wohnen findet in den Obergeschossen in kompakten Solitären statt. Durch die Geometrie der Gebäude sind große Durch- und Weitblicke für alle Wohnungen möglich – niemand ist in der zweiten Reihe und es gibt keine Nord Wohnungen. Die umlaufenden Balkone mit ihrem zarten Schleier schaffen passiven Sonnenschutz und auch Privatsphäre.
Category
Invited competition
Location
Vienna, AT
Year
2016
Client
VIERTEL ZWEI
GFA
43.527 m²
Visualization
Janusch
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
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
Living along Helmut-Zilk-Park
The building’s form harmonises with the corner situation at Helmut-Zilk Park near the Central Station, a prominent urban development site. The staggered structure adds extra significance to the building’s appearance and simultaneously optimises the incidence of light onto the neighbouring buildings and its own atrium. Its usage versatility is clearly visible: the emphatically public ground floor and the office storeys above it form a common socle; the residential floors above this are interconnected through the proscenium above the storeys, which from the outside is clearly perceptible as a space; multi-functional spaces act as meeting place for the building’s community and visitors, forming an interaction zone between inside and outside. The surroundings and the life within the building provide a basis for reciprocally inviting relationships.
Landscape partner: YEWO Landscapes, Susanne Kallinger
Category
2-phase property developer competition, 1st prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Planning start
2015
Client
Kallco
GFA
4.500 m²
Visualization
zero division
Living along Helmut-Zilk-Park
The building’s form harmonises with the corner situation at Helmut-Zilk Park near the Central Station, a prominent urban development site. The staggered structure adds extra significance to the building’s appearance and simultaneously optimises the incidence of light onto the neighbouring buildings and its own atrium. Its usage versatility is clearly visible: the emphatically public ground floor and the office storeys above it form a common socle; the residential floors above this are interconnected through the proscenium above the storeys, which from the outside is clearly perceptible as a space; multi-functional spaces act as meeting place for the building’s community and visitors, forming an interaction zone between inside and outside. The surroundings and the life within the building provide a basis for reciprocally inviting relationships.
Landscape partner: YEWO Landscapes, Susanne Kallinger
Category
2-phase property developer competition, 1st prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Planning start
2015
Client
Kallco
GFA
4.500 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 Dangschat (sociologist)
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 Dangschat (sociologist)
Invited competition
3rd prize
Location
Hamburg, DE
Year
2015
Client
Bayerische Hausbau
GFA
28.000 m²
Visualization
Zero Division
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
Cooperative housing development with 23 homes
The houses are grouped around a green inner courtyard common to all in the manner of the village green or the “Common”, as it was once called. The houses are plain and simple in design, reticent in form and expression. Diversity is achieved by varying the openings: room-high windows and structured ceiling strips articulate the façades. Prefabricated sandwich elements made of fair-faced concrete in a warm, earth tone add a sculptural character to the complex.
Landscape Partner: PlanSinn
Invited Competition
1st Prize
Location
Eppan, IT
Completion
2015
Client
Arche KVW, Bozen
GFA
5.163 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
Cooperative housing development with 23 homes
The houses are grouped around a green inner courtyard common to all in the manner of the village green or the “Common”, as it was once called. The houses are plain and simple in design, reticent in form and expression. Diversity is achieved by varying the openings: room-high windows and structured ceiling strips articulate the façades. Prefabricated sandwich elements made of fair-faced concrete in a warm, earth tone add a sculptural character to the complex.
Landscape Partner: PlanSinn
Invited Competition
1st Prize
Location
Eppan, IT
Completion
2015
Client
Arche KVW, Bozen
GFA
5.163 m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
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
Housing and tertiary utilization
Kurtatsch in South Tyrol has a significant architectural quality as a village. In the older part of the village centre houses are not individual objects but part of a larger whole, which brings together diverse building types and defines the streets. The “court” is not only named after Kurtatsch (see lat. cors/cortis: the court), it is also an ever-present typology in the form of the surrounding walls of the courtyard. But there are also the unassuming, quiet places. This is where the project comes in – in an attempt to create atmospheric densification: a residential development that is natural and dignified in location, dynamically charged in dealing with heights, types and materials of the planning context.
Category
Invited competition
Location
Kurtatsch, IT
Year
2015
Client
Gemeinde Kurtatsch
GFA
2.300 m²
Visualization
Moretti
Housing and tertiary utilization
Kurtatsch in South Tyrol has a significant architectural quality as a village. In the older part of the village centre houses are not individual objects but part of a larger whole, which brings together diverse building types and defines the streets. The “court” is not only named after Kurtatsch (see lat. cors/cortis: the court), it is also an ever-present typology in the form of the surrounding walls of the courtyard. But there are also the unassuming, quiet places. This is where the project comes in – in an attempt to create atmospheric densification: a residential development that is natural and dignified in location, dynamically charged in dealing with heights, types and materials of the planning context.
Category
Invited competition
Location
Kurtatsch, IT
Year
2015
Client
Gemeinde Kurtatsch
GFA
2.300 m²
Visualization
Moretti
Kindergarten and schools belong to our first deep encounters with space. By creating child friendly learning spaces these environments transform into the third teacher – opening up possibilities and enriching our perceptions. They support and stimulate the personal development and growth and become a positive alternative space concept to those generated by the children’s homes.
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
David Schreyer
Kindergarten and schools belong to our first deep encounters with space. By creating child friendly learning spaces these environments transform into the third teacher – opening up possibilities and enriching our perceptions. They support and stimulate the personal development and growth and become a positive alternative space concept to those generated by the children’s homes.
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
David Schreyer
The building establishes an interface between the linear infrastructures and the agglomerated village structure. It is located in a slope, congenial and familiar. Closed towards the Passer, open towards the village. Each side responds to different viewpoints: when passing by at speed, it takes effect as a linear building, meanwhile the view towards the village takes account of the viewpoint and scale of both child and pedestrian, so the building takes shape with clearly identifiable areas. Diversity in unity. As a longhouse it is a memorable, elemental building, contextually variegated by using and subtly alienating typical local elements This gives a new meaning to the village: identity is created without reliance on strong contrasts.
Closed Competition
2nd prize
Location
St. Leonhard in Passeier, IT
Year
2015
Client
Gemeinde St. Leonhard in Passeier
GFA
1.878 m²
Visualization
Miss3
The building establishes an interface between the linear infrastructures and the agglomerated village structure. It is located in a slope, congenial and familiar. Closed towards the Passer, open towards the village. Each side responds to different viewpoints: when passing by at speed, it takes effect as a linear building, meanwhile the view towards the village takes account of the viewpoint and scale of both child and pedestrian, so the building takes shape with clearly identifiable areas. Diversity in unity. As a longhouse it is a memorable, elemental building, contextually variegated by using and subtly alienating typical local elements This gives a new meaning to the village: identity is created without reliance on strong contrasts.
Closed Competition
2nd prize
Location
St. Leonhard in Passeier, IT
Year
2015
Client
Gemeinde St. Leonhard in Passeier
GFA
1.878 m²
Visualization
Miss3
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
Kindergarten and elementary school
The project responds to the morphology of the context, the existing terracing of the slope is picked up and continued as a design parameter. In an informal manner the staggered structure splits the property into two different open spaces, resulting in organizational conciseness and functional advantages. The multipurpose pitch and the common area for kindergarten and elementary school lie by the road, while the open spaces are on the slope side.
Landscape Partner: PlanSinn
Closed Competition
3rd prize, 2014
Location
Riffian, IT
Client
Gemeinde Riffian
GFA
1.432 m²
Model
Mattweiss
Visualization
Moretti
Kindergarten and elementary school
The project responds to the morphology of the context, the existing terracing of the slope is picked up and continued as a design parameter. In an informal manner the staggered structure splits the property into two different open spaces, resulting in organizational conciseness and functional advantages. The multipurpose pitch and the common area for kindergarten and elementary school lie by the road, while the open spaces are on the slope side.
Landscape Partner: PlanSinn
Closed Competition
3rd prize, 2014
Location
Riffian, IT
Client
Gemeinde Riffian
GFA
1.432 m²
Model
Mattweiss
Visualization
Moretti
The building extension with library and daycare centre takes shape in its context as a spatially striking edifice with a unique address generation. The school building will be preserved for the most part; sensitive refurbishment opens up dramatic interiors to the same extent as it aims at variety in juxtaposition to the new building. The uniform materiality of the strongly modelled rendering surface enhances the collective with a new core identity.
Landscape Partner: PlanSinn
Open competition
Finalist
Location
Reischach, IT
Year
2014
Client
Stadtgemeinde Bruneck
GFA
3.000 m²
Model
Mattweiss
The building extension with library and daycare centre takes shape in its context as a spatially striking edifice with a unique address generation. The school building will be preserved for the most part; sensitive refurbishment opens up dramatic interiors to the same extent as it aims at variety in juxtaposition to the new building. The uniform materiality of the strongly modelled rendering surface enhances the collective with a new core identity.
Landscape Partner: PlanSinn
Open competition
Finalist
Location
Reischach, IT
Year
2014
Client
Stadtgemeinde Bruneck
GFA
3.000 m²
Model
Mattweiss
Kindergarten, Gymnasium and Music Rehearsal Premises
Detached houses reflecting the character of the surrounding village structure combine with the existing school, the community centre, the church and the neighbouring inn to form the new centre of the municipality of Mellau. A skilful distribution of the individual buildings will reinforce and shape the identity of the public space. Sequences of variously featured squares and places for lingering and meeting people, also the transitions from the community centre to the kindergarten area are differentiated without boundaries and invite people to a diverse and communal use of the public space.
Closed competition
Finalist
Location
Mellau, AT
Year
2014
Client
Gemeinde Mellau
GFA
3.740 m²
Model
Mattweiss
Kindergarten, Gymnasium and Music Rehearsal Premises
Detached houses reflecting the character of the surrounding village structure combine with the existing school, the community centre, the church and the neighbouring inn to form the new centre of the municipality of Mellau. A skilful distribution of the individual buildings will reinforce and shape the identity of the public space. Sequences of variously featured squares and places for lingering and meeting people, also the transitions from the community centre to the kindergarten area are differentiated without boundaries and invite people to a diverse and communal use of the public space.
Closed competition
Finalist
Location
Mellau, AT
Year
2014
Client
Gemeinde Mellau
GFA
3.740 m²
Model
Mattweiss
Two-group Kindergarten
The basic condition for the design was to create a building that fits in with the surroundings but doesn’t negate its contemporary reference. The building is harmonious in integration without being subordinated to the main theme – self-evident and uncontrived. The spatial qualities of Niederolang as a village are adopted and further developed as pattern. Whether in typology or atmosphere, the new building aspires to be sensuously embedded in its location;meanwhile its architecture ensures that it actssimultaneously as an intermediary between two worlds (tradition and contemporary life) – yet also as a pointer to the future.
Invited Competition
1st prize
Location
Olang, IT
Completion
2016
Client
Gemeinde Olang
GFA
950 m²
Model
Mattweiss
Two-group Kindergarten
The basic condition for the design was to create a building that fits in with the surroundings but doesn’t negate its contemporary reference. The building is harmonious in integration without being subordinated to the main theme – self-evident and uncontrived. The spatial qualities of Niederolang as a village are adopted and further developed as pattern. Whether in typology or atmosphere, the new building aspires to be sensuously embedded in its location;meanwhile its architecture ensures that it actssimultaneously as an intermediary between two worlds (tradition and contemporary life) – yet also as a pointer to the future.
Invited Competition
1st prize
Location
Olang, IT
Completion
2016
Client
Gemeinde Olang
GFA
950 m²
Model
Mattweiss
Through its compact appearance and pergola typical of Brixen’s historic centre the three-storeyed building with basement level impresses as a striking landmark of urban development. Setting back the three-storeyed building towards the north limits of the area produces a building that fits in and yet makes its own statement. In dialogue with the indoor climbing hall the constructional component “floating” on the socle is given an undulating aluminium façade. Discreetly matte, velvety aluminium coffers reflect the light like organ pipes, and the gentle escalation /crescendo in the elevation of the façade elements culminates in each vertex of the building.
Closed competition
Finalist, 2014
Location
Brixen, IT
Client
Stadtgemeinde Brixen
GFA
3.600 m²
Model
Mattweiss
Visualization
Moretti
Through its compact appearance and pergola typical of Brixen’s historic centre the three-storeyed building with basement level impresses as a striking landmark of urban development. Setting back the three-storeyed building towards the north limits of the area produces a building that fits in and yet makes its own statement. In dialogue with the indoor climbing hall the constructional component “floating” on the socle is given an undulating aluminium façade. Discreetly matte, velvety aluminium coffers reflect the light like organ pipes, and the gentle escalation /crescendo in the elevation of the façade elements culminates in each vertex of the building.
Closed competition
Finalist, 2014
Location
Brixen, IT
Client
Stadtgemeinde Brixen
GFA
3.600 m²
Model
Mattweiss
Visualization
Moretti
The new arena situated in a sensitive spot in terms of urban development at the entry into Bruneck. It will be a landmark visible from afar: the arena, conceived in architectural culture and history of ideas as heir to the Colosseum, meets the South Tyrolean landscape. Typology and topography fuse into a new hybrid – the embedding of the building into the landscape is coupled with spatial efficiency and atmospheric densification: in the outside zone there is a clear assessment of the architectural context and sensitive embedding in the landscape situation, meanwhile inside we have a resonance body for the atmosphere of contest in the arena. A win-win situation – the rise of a unique building, in the truest sense of the word.
Closed Competition
Finalist, 2014
Location
Bruneck, IT
Client
Stadtgemeinde Bruneck
GFA
8.577 m²
Model
Mattweiss
Visualization
Moretti
The new arena situated in a sensitive spot in terms of urban development at the entry into Bruneck. It will be a landmark visible from afar: the arena, conceived in architectural culture and history of ideas as heir to the Colosseum, meets the South Tyrolean landscape. Typology and topography fuse into a new hybrid – the embedding of the building into the landscape is coupled with spatial efficiency and atmospheric densification: in the outside zone there is a clear assessment of the architectural context and sensitive embedding in the landscape situation, meanwhile inside we have a resonance body for the atmosphere of contest in the arena. A win-win situation – the rise of a unique building, in the truest sense of the word.
Closed Competition
Finalist, 2014
Location
Bruneck, IT
Client
Stadtgemeinde Bruneck
GFA
8.577 m²
Model
Mattweiss
Visualization
Moretti
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
In terms of urban architecture the new fire brigade building reacts within a loose structure of detached family houses to the status quo of the school at its rear. The architectural concept involved graduating the building in accordance with its purposes and spatial needs. Its structure is designed as a three-storey construction with compact organisation and the single-storey vehicle garage. The basic idea was to create a building equal to the functional and technical demands and procedures of a fire station, and one which also accommodates multiple uses for the community.
Place
Lustenau, AT
Client
Marktgemeinde Lustenau
Open Competition
2014
GFA
3.500 m²
Model
Mattweiss
Visualization
Moretti
In terms of urban architecture the new fire brigade building reacts within a loose structure of detached family houses to the status quo of the school at its rear. The architectural concept involved graduating the building in accordance with its purposes and spatial needs. Its structure is designed as a three-storey construction with compact organisation and the single-storey vehicle garage. The basic idea was to create a building equal to the functional and technical demands and procedures of a fire station, and one which also accommodates multiple uses for the community.
Place
Lustenau, AT
Client
Marktgemeinde Lustenau
Open Competition
2014
GFA
3.500 m²
Model
Mattweiss
Visualization
Moretti
It is envisaged as a building of timeless elegance with a strong regional association. Here, the aspiration is to interweave, with utmost sensibility, the ambitious spatial programme of a total of approx. 26,000 m³ into the context of a protected ensemble. A building perceived as three different units on the one hand continues the village dimension, on the other gives scope to the urban architectural configuration, as well as to picturesque views through houses and wider prospects so typical of the village centre. The multi-layered ensemble generates public space. The ground floor zone with bar, terraces and shops proceeds in smooth transition to the pedestrian precinct, a high-quality social situation inviting people to meet and linger.
Place
St. Ulrich, IT
Client
Fa. Ladinia GmbH
Invited Competition
2014
GFA
14.700 m²
Model
Mattweiss
Visualization
Moretti
It is envisaged as a building of timeless elegance with a strong regional association. Here, the aspiration is to interweave, with utmost sensibility, the ambitious spatial programme of a total of approx. 26,000 m³ into the context of a protected ensemble. A building perceived as three different units on the one hand continues the village dimension, on the other gives scope to the urban architectural configuration, as well as to picturesque views through houses and wider prospects so typical of the village centre. The multi-layered ensemble generates public space. The ground floor zone with bar, terraces and shops proceeds in smooth transition to the pedestrian precinct, a high-quality social situation inviting people to meet and linger.
Place
St. Ulrich, IT
Client
Fa. Ladinia GmbH
Invited Competition
2014
GFA
14.700 m²
Model
Mattweiss
Visualization
Moretti
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.
Setting up a children’s group
The adapted facilities are being extended with built-in features offering different options of use, thus opening the eyes of the littlest among us to new and diffentiated spatial perspectives. The cloakroom becomes a theatre, a hole in the wall – slide and peephole into the group, the storage room a reading den. The children’s group becomes a richly varied landscape featuring quiet and loud areas.
Place
Montal, IT
Year
2013
Client
Gemeinde St. Lorenzen
GFA
250 m²
Pictures
David Schreyer
Setting up a children’s group
The adapted facilities are being extended with built-in features offering different options of use, thus opening the eyes of the littlest among us to new and diffentiated spatial perspectives. The cloakroom becomes a theatre, a hole in the wall – slide and peephole into the group, the storage room a reading den. The children’s group becomes a richly varied landscape featuring quiet and loud areas.
Place
Montal, IT
Year
2013
Client
Gemeinde St. Lorenzen
GFA
250 m²
Pictures
David Schreyer
New Corporate Headquarters of the Austrian Post AG
The building reflects the polygonal shape of the site and develops a graduated, well-proportioned urban module out of it. The new building complements the existing stock, part of which is listed as historic monument. A compact, self-assured ensemble emerges. The level of the Rochus Market as urban square is continued as shopping mall in the building and linked as public passage to the Grete Jost Park. The spacious, light-flooded access level is the backbone between old and new building; in the office building it provides for orientation and is a connecting strip. All this materialises as an autonomous, light-flooded and communicative space.
Cooperation Partner: SSW Architekten
Open competition
1st prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Planning start
2013
Client
Austrian Post AG
GFA
49.169 m²
Visualisation
Miss3
New Corporate Headquarters of the Austrian Post AG
The building reflects the polygonal shape of the site and develops a graduated, well-proportioned urban module out of it. The new building complements the existing stock, part of which is listed as historic monument. A compact, self-assured ensemble emerges. The level of the Rochus Market as urban square is continued as shopping mall in the building and linked as public passage to the Grete Jost Park. The spacious, light-flooded access level is the backbone between old and new building; in the office building it provides for orientation and is a connecting strip. All this materialises as an autonomous, light-flooded and communicative space.
Cooperation Partner: SSW Architekten
Open competition
1st prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Planning start
2013
Client
Austrian Post AG
GFA
49.169 m²
Visualisation
Miss3
3 houses for the children
Building in the Alps was always influenced by the quest for the elemental, the simple, and an intelligent treatment of its specific topography. The three-group kindergarten was embedded in the hillside; on the one hand a building, but on the other an already integrated part of the surrounding landscape. The building combines memorability of form with the surprise and complexity of the interior and exterior room sequences. The concept evolved equally out of a consideration for the scale of the location as a village as well as being based on the children’s perspective.
Distinction: South Tyrol Architecture Award
Place
Terenten, IT
Client
Community of Terenten
Completion
2010
GFA
1.310m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
3 houses for the children
Building in the Alps was always influenced by the quest for the elemental, the simple, and an intelligent treatment of its specific topography. The three-group kindergarten was embedded in the hillside; on the one hand a building, but on the other an already integrated part of the surrounding landscape. The building combines memorability of form with the surprise and complexity of the interior and exterior room sequences. The concept evolved equally out of a consideration for the scale of the location as a village as well as being based on the children’s perspective.
Distinction: South Tyrol Architecture Award
Place
Terenten, IT
Client
Community of Terenten
Completion
2010
GFA
1.310m²
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
The new “Grimm World” is an integral part of the Park am Weinberg. Embedded in the routing system through the park, it respects the historical reference to the former villa buildings in the garden landscape. The museum consists of two structures, a “closed” and mysterious one, and an “open” one. The “closed” building, not accessible from the outside, harbours the actual “Grimm World”, the creations and discoveries, its spiritual cosmos. It is a building of mystery, concealing a costly treasure that waits to be discovered. The “open” building acts as mediator in both architecture and concept and is the entrance to this world. The architecture is simultaneously contemporary and archaic, an architectural gesture playing on the primal theme guiding studies on the Brothers Grimm.
Place
Kassel, DE
Year
2012
Client
Stadt Kassel
GFA
4030 m²
Landscape Partner
Plansinn
Visualization
expressiv
Model
Mattweiss
The new “Grimm World” is an integral part of the Park am Weinberg. Embedded in the routing system through the park, it respects the historical reference to the former villa buildings in the garden landscape. The museum consists of two structures, a “closed” and mysterious one, and an “open” one. The “closed” building, not accessible from the outside, harbours the actual “Grimm World”, the creations and discoveries, its spiritual cosmos. It is a building of mystery, concealing a costly treasure that waits to be discovered. The “open” building acts as mediator in both architecture and concept and is the entrance to this world. The architecture is simultaneously contemporary and archaic, an architectural gesture playing on the primal theme guiding studies on the Brothers Grimm.
Place
Kassel, DE
Year
2012
Client
Stadt Kassel
GFA
4030 m²
Landscape Partner
Plansinn
Visualization
expressiv
Model
Mattweiss
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
The building volumes are modelled as linear development with breaks and sections to form an urban margin. Each apartment extends from front to back and is thus given an unobstructable view of the sun. The open development acts as a dynamic neighbourhood zone elongated into the vertical. A line of colour connects the two houses subtly from a distance and simultaneously enhances their autonomy. Many differently designed and variably combinable apartment are connectedwith open spaces and communal uses through the communicative pergola development, ensuring contemporary and permanently flexible housing.
Place
Vienna, AT
Client
KALLCO Bauträger GmbH
developer competition
2012
GFA
11.633 m²
Landscape Partner
Paul Kandl
Illustrations
feld72, expressiv
The building volumes are modelled as linear development with breaks and sections to form an urban margin. Each apartment extends from front to back and is thus given an unobstructable view of the sun. The open development acts as a dynamic neighbourhood zone elongated into the vertical. A line of colour connects the two houses subtly from a distance and simultaneously enhances their autonomy. Many differently designed and variably combinable apartment are connectedwith open spaces and communal uses through the communicative pergola development, ensuring contemporary and permanently flexible housing.
Place
Vienna, AT
Client
KALLCO Bauträger GmbH
developer competition
2012
GFA
11.633 m²
Landscape Partner
Paul Kandl
Illustrations
feld72, expressiv
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
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
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
Place
Krems, AT
Client
LIG NÖ
Completion
2011
GFA
18.294 m²
Cooperation Partner
AllesWirdGut, FCP
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
Place
Krems, AT
Client
LIG NÖ
Completion
2011
GFA
18.294 m²
Cooperation Partner
AllesWirdGut, FCP
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.
Prize: Nomination Bauherrenpreis 2011
Place
St. Pölten, AT
Client
Markas Service GmbH
Completion
2011
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.
Prize: Nomination Bauherrenpreis 2011
Place
St. Pölten, AT
Client
Markas Service GmbH
Completion
2011
GFA
1.560 m2
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
“Green Living”, 121 flats
Working from concepts of urban development and architecture, hERZberg has created a structure combining a great number of different living options for singles, for (patchwork) families and also for supervised flat-sharing for young people – a neighbourhood catering for the most diverse ways of life. In terms of urban development it acts as intermediary between the different criteria affecting the neighbourhood and offers multifaceted sequences for freedom of scope. The colour scheme ensures that this diversity is nevertheless conflated into a unified 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
“Green Living”, 121 flats
Working from concepts of urban development and architecture, hERZberg has created a structure combining a great number of different living options for singles, for (patchwork) families and also for supervised flat-sharing for young people – a neighbourhood catering for the most diverse ways of life. In terms of urban development it acts as intermediary between the different criteria affecting the neighbourhood and offers multifaceted sequences for freedom of scope. The colour scheme ensures that this diversity is nevertheless conflated into a unified 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
Living in a rural context
The residential context with 25 units evokes various patterns of previous agglomerations in Kaltern. The architecture strikes the eye as familiar, simple and straightforward. Yet, when used and moved through as a space, it manifests its own complexity and surprises. Nature and architecture merge seamlessly in specific spots, orderly arrangement becomes an organically grown structure, and vice versa. A residential and play street is at the heart of the complex and will be the determining element of the social environment. The complex is surrounded by little pathways, combining with the residential street and green corridor to form a convoluted pathway network, opening up the very diverse, semi-public spaces for communication and interaction as well as for retreat.
Award: South Tyrol Architecture Award in the category housing
Landscape Partner: PlanSinn
Living in a rural context
The residential context with 25 units evokes various patterns of previous agglomerations in Kaltern. The architecture strikes the eye as familiar, simple and straightforward. Yet, when used and moved through as a space, it manifests its own complexity and surprises. Nature and architecture merge seamlessly in specific spots, orderly arrangement becomes an organically grown structure, and vice versa. A residential and play street is at the heart of the complex and will be the determining element of the social environment. The complex is surrounded by little pathways, combining with the residential street and green corridor to form a convoluted pathway network, opening up the very diverse, semi-public spaces for communication and interaction as well as for retreat.
Award: South Tyrol Architecture Award in the category housing
Landscape Partner: PlanSinn
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
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
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
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
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.
Currently to be seen at the MAXXI MUSEUM, Rome, IT.
Place
Kaltern, IT
Client
Kellerei Kaltern
Completion
2006
GFA
1.300 m²
Prize
Invited Competition, 1. Prize
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.
Currently to be seen at the MAXXI MUSEUM, Rome, IT.
Place
Kaltern, IT
Client
Kellerei Kaltern
Completion
2006
GFA
1.300 m²
Prize
Invited Competition, 1. Prize
Pictures
Hertha Hurnaus
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
