Vienna, Austria
heri&salli, landscape architecture Paisagista Liz Zimmermann in collaboration with art:phalanx-agency for culture and urbanity, a company that builds family homes, won a competition for the “Townhouse open to different usages” in Aspern-Seestadt and design a structure where living, working, and imparting culture form a fruitful symbiotic relationship.
The building complex emerges on the 800 m2 building site H7A in the quarter “Am Seebogen” in the new Vienna district “Seestadt.”
With a special focus on the potential of modular system design, a contemporary prototype was created.
The objective is to build in a short construction time and with a relatively low-cost high-quality living space.
The permeable podium zone is designed as a forum open to different usage that fulfills a very central location general functions of the building site and possesses to a great extent a public character.
As a central regulator to revive the district, the ground floor is procedurally programmed.
It’s a temporary platform for artists and cultural workers that in the long run can become an established cultural institution as well as a temporary hotspot for IBA_Wien 2022; by means of an innovative exposition area and an outdoor city model the development of “Seestadt” can be experienced in a playful way.
Along with the attractive outdoor facilities, the forum creates a functional entity that in a transition towards the lakeside promenade invites a visit, a longer stay, and a dialogue.
On the upper floors, various combinations of prefabricated basic modules of different housing typologies are created.
Output modules, extensions, spaces that can be connected if required and terraces offer a variety of possibilities.
Small entities can be used as mini-labs, micro-working units, or shared infrastructure, they are integrated into the structure in the same way as a big area for activity-based-working on the top floor.
Project: Forum am Seebogen
Architects: heri&salli
Design Team: Rumena Trendafilova, David Florez, and Chaido Kaproulia
Collaborators: art:phalanx – Agentur für Kultur & Urbanität
Landscape Architects:Paisagista Liz Zimmermann
Client: Familienwohnbau
Photographers: paul ott fotografiert
