Modern waterfront residential complex with stacked towers, a tree-lined promenade, and people by a calm lake with sailboats.
Pier 05
Seestadt Aspern
Pier 05
Austria
  • High-Rise
  • Mixed Use
  • Residential
  • Competition

Three compact building types characterised by different volumes serve as a geometric leitmotif, which develop over a 15-metre-high green common base. The visual rhythm and the precise, rail-like positioning of the three buildings in the area form a harmonious trialogue. The buildings define an open, ambiguously permeable and changeable urban space on their different storey levels. They enable an open development process and the emergence of a vital urbanity, not least in terms of a high range of leisure activities. The structural-spatial requirements of such a concept are created on both the urban planning and building typological scale levels. The buildings are integrated in a flexible way into the constantly developing urban space and thus allow for real estate economic leeway. In addition, the concept ensures a fundamental elasticity with regard to the rapid change of supply and demand.

With its generous ground floor and the open-plan ensemble of rooms above it, the plinth offers a high degree of adaptability for future developments. The plateau on the plinth as a green refuge provides a panoramic terrace and an island that can be used in a variety of ways. The clear form and precise positioning of the houses as well as the two squares define a flowing outdoor space that offers the residents an inviting semi-public open space. The spatial framework is enriched by an extensive range of communal facilities that can be used in a variety of ways and which find their place in the underlying house structure in an unpretentious manner. The eaves line of the three houses oriented towards the lake staggered in height counterpointically underlines the horizontal expansion of the open space and strengthens the height accentuation of the three points with the high-rise building of the quarter. This results in an atmospheric bracket that inscribes itself in the urban configuration formed by the semi-public squares and the residential buildings.

Address
Seestadt, Wien

Competition
02/ 2023

Floor area
20.151,71 m²

Gross surface area
30.660 m²

Construction volume
99.995 m³

Site area
4.090 m²

Height
79 m

Number of levels
Tower: 24
Point House 1: 8
Point House 2: 13

Number of basements
1

Project manager
Julian Heinen

Project team
Tom Peter-Hindelang
Charlotte Beaudon Römer
Patrick Walter

IN COOPERATION WITH
Ganahl+Ifsits Architekten
ZT-KEG

Landscape Architects
YEWO Landscapes GmbH

Visualization
ZOOM VP GmbH

Modell
SCALA MATTA
Modellbau Studio Vienna

Awarding Body
STC Development GmbH

Modern waterfront mixed-use complex with a tall residential tower with solar panels on the roof, linked to low-rise buildings beside a river.
Stylized city map with dense block buildings, a central lake, and a curved road; turquoise-highlighted site along the road.

Seestadt Aspern
Vienna, 22

Blank white canvas with no objects or discernible action
Aerial view of a riverside urban district with trees, plazas, and modern buildings along a waterway; a bridge crosses the water.

Site Plan

Composite architectural floor plans of a multi-building complex; labeled areas include LR Gastro and LR Foyer along corridors.

Floor plan level 01

Floor plan of a multi-wing commercial office building with workstations, corridors, stairs, and elevators.

Floor plan level 03

Depicts an architectural site plan of a connected building complex with central garden, playground, sandbox zone, and a rail line along the right.

Floor plan level 04

Vertical architectural floor plan of a slender building: top apartment block with terraces, middle pool deck, bottom apartment block.

Floor plan level 09

Elevation of a mixed-use complex: glass podium with storefronts, two brick mid-rise blocks, and a tall glass residential tower connected by a skybridge, with trees.

Elevation west

Cross-section view of a modern high-rise building complex: two tall towers connected by an elevated garden sky bridge, with trees and pedestrians on the walkway.

Section A-A

High-rise glass-clad residential tower on a lower podium with trees along the street in an urban setting.

Elevation south

Schematic mixed-use building with stacked blue blocks labeled Wohnen and Gewerbe, connected by a walkway; ground-floor Restaurant and Café.

Program

Cross-sectional diagram of a multi-story residential complex with sun terrace, pool, bridges, lounges, panoramic terrace, and fitness area.

Common areas

3D architectural model showing glass-clad building, latticed high-rise, and rooftop gardens in a white urban backdrop.

PV Elements

White architectural scale model of a modern urban complex: a tall stacked-tower, a shorter block tower, and a connecting bridge on a white base.

SCALA MATTA
Modellbau Studio Vienna

White architectural scale model of a modern building complex with a tall stacked high-rise and a mid-rise block connected by bridges.