My New Home – Rethinking the tradition of municipal public housing in Vienna
The Kapellenhof project is coming to Vienna’s 22nd district: 450 new residential units around a shared urban grove. In collaboration with three residential developers, MIGRA, Neues Leben, and WOGEM, feld72 and AllesWirdGut won the developer’s competition for the construction of 450 apartments on Kapellenweg with a concept informed by the traditional Viennese public housing estate; a clear and confident ensemble laid out around a large communal courtyard – this is the Kapellenhof estate. Much emphasis is placed on the potentials of the site: wide views and greenery! Small-scale buildings on the fringes and a courtyard as large as a football field provide an open view for each apartment. The courtyard is kept open as an adventurous, topographically varied urban grove that offers private coves for retreat as well as open clearings.
Cooperation Partner: AllesWirdGut
Landscape Partner: Carla Lo Landschaftsarchitektur
Social Sustainability: Mag. Sonja Gruber
Developer’s competition
1st prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Completion
2019
Client
MIGRA / Neues Leben / WOGEM
GFA
52.270 m²
Pictures, Visualization
tschinkersten, expressiv
My New Home – Rethinking the tradition of municipal public housing in Vienna
The Kapellenhof project is coming to Vienna’s 22nd district: 450 new residential units around a shared urban grove. In collaboration with three residential developers, MIGRA, Neues Leben, and WOGEM, feld72 and AllesWirdGut won the developer’s competition for the construction of 450 apartments on Kapellenweg with a concept informed by the traditional Viennese public housing estate; a clear and confident ensemble laid out around a large communal courtyard – this is the Kapellenhof estate. Much emphasis is placed on the potentials of the site: wide views and greenery! Small-scale buildings on the fringes and a courtyard as large as a football field provide an open view for each apartment. The courtyard is kept open as an adventurous, topographically varied urban grove that offers private coves for retreat as well as open clearings.
Cooperation Partner: AllesWirdGut
Landscape Partner: Carla Lo Landschaftsarchitektur
Social Sustainability: Mag. Sonja Gruber
Developer’s competition
1st prize
Location
Vienna, AT
Completion
2019
Client
MIGRA / Neues Leben / WOGEM
GFA
52.270 m²
Pictures, Visualization
tschinkersten, expressiv
Affordable and flexible living for all stages of life
The condominium offers diverse and varied living in 165 subsidised apartments. The integration of social uses (assisted living of young people and communal living for women) supports the social variety and extends the offer to all generations and ways of life. Eight compact structures are arranged and carefully staggered with respect to the surrounding heights in the ensemble.Diverse communal offers on the ground floor and on the roof surfaces support the development of neighbourhoods across sites. The ever-changing housing needs are met with a modular method of construction which enables flexible and needs-oriented living.
Landscape Architecture: Karin Standler Landschaftsarchitektur
Affordable and flexible living for all stages of life
The condominium offers diverse and varied living in 165 subsidised apartments. The integration of social uses (assisted living of young people and communal living for women) supports the social variety and extends the offer to all generations and ways of life. Eight compact structures are arranged and carefully staggered with respect to the surrounding heights in the ensemble.Diverse communal offers on the ground floor and on the roof surfaces support the development of neighbourhoods across sites. The ever-changing housing needs are met with a modular method of construction which enables flexible and needs-oriented living.
Landscape Architecture: Karin Standler Landschaftsarchitektur
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
The urban concept is a continuation of the comb structure, defined in the urban planning model of Prohaska / Hoffmann. The project has the aim, despite the heterogeneity of the construction law requirements, to create and strengthen a sense of togetherness and a feel of commonality. The regular technical scope (utilization of the plot) is optimally utilized in favor of all the residents (and neighbors), made artistically visible and livable felt. Special attention in terms of building modeling and program is made because of the importance of the public entrance in the Kirschblütenpark.
Cooperation partner: AllesWirdGut, Landscape partner: 3:0
Place
Wien, AT
Client
Wohnfonds Wien
Competition
2. Prize
Year
2015
GFA
12.481 m²
Visualization
Zero Division
The urban concept is a continuation of the comb structure, defined in the urban planning model of Prohaska / Hoffmann. The project has the aim, despite the heterogeneity of the construction law requirements, to create and strengthen a sense of togetherness and a feel of commonality. The regular technical scope (utilization of the plot) is optimally utilized in favor of all the residents (and neighbors), made artistically visible and livable felt. Special attention in terms of building modeling and program is made because of the importance of the public entrance in the Kirschblütenpark.
Cooperation partner: AllesWirdGut, Landscape partner: 3:0
Place
Wien, AT
Client
Wohnfonds Wien
Competition
2. Prize
Year
2015
GFA
12.481 m²
Visualization
Zero Division
