427 DMAA Metropolitan 36 Pichlkastner
The Metropolitan
Austria
  • High-Rise
  • Mixed Use
  • Residential
  • Built

The residential tower “The Metropolitan” is located immediately to the south of Vienna’s new Central Station. Due to its position on the station forecourt it also acts as the entrance building to the new “Sonnwendviertel” district, which is due for completion in 2021, and to Helmut Zilk Park.

The standalone building is positioned on a triangular plot bordered by the railway tracks to the northeast and Karl-Popper Straße to the west. The space between the tower and the next building to the south – a hotel – forms a plaza that offers residents and the public improved options for moving around the area while creating a pedestrian zone in front of the commercial spaces at ground-floor level.

The building reacts to its orientation and varying surroundings with two types of façade: The apartments that face the railway tracks to the northeast “swing out” from and animate the façade by creating bays with staggered triangular balconies that optimise the light coming from the south and reduce the frontal exposure of the windows to the railway. The richly sculpted, three-dimensional effect of this façade represents a reaction to this highly-specific trackside context.

The irregular arrangement of the vertical side panels and horizontal balcony slabs of the façade facing Karl-Popper-Straße and the plaza to the southwest form a flat, advancing balcony layer with a differentiated façade pattern that merges into the surrounding cityscape.

The 19 above-ground storeys are home to 370 apartments of between 30 and 80m² and the ground floor contains two commercial units. The first three storeys overlooking the tracks incorporate communal facilities such as a fitness room that opens onto the covered first-floor terrace, which means that users can also train in the open air. The open, 70m²-terrace on the 19th floor also offers residents a sheltered view of the centre of Vienna.

The apartments are accessed from a central circulation space. Most of the units facing the railway tracks have an open, partition-free plan with a central sanitary and kitchen block whose position defines the spatial organisation of the apartment. This open layout of an apartment that would otherwise be divided into two spaces improves the illumination of the living areas while enhancing the sense of spatial generosity. The apartments to the street and the plaza are largely two-room units, which combine two physically separated living spaces with large, full-height windows that optimise daylight levels.

The Metropolitan

Address
Karl Popper Straße 5
1100 Vienna

Start of planning
04/2018

Start of construction
10/2019

Completion
11/2021

Floor area
25,615 m²

Gross surface area
35,433 m²

Construction volume
106,433 m³

Site area
3,096 m²

Height
61 m

Number of levels
20

Number of basements
2

Cost
€ 42 million

Project manager
Sebastian Michalski

Project team
Jakub Tyc, Bernd Heger, Marinke Boehm Kneidinger, Katarina Mackova, Toni Nachev, Thomas Peter-Hindelang

Client/ Awarding Body
STC Swiss Town Consult Development GmbH

IN COOPERATION WITH
Architektur Consult ZT GmbH


CONSULTANTS
Executive planning
Architektur Consult ZT GmbH

General contractor
Strabag

Project management
STC Swiss Town Consult Development GmbH

Structural engineering
KS Ingenieure ZT GmbH

Project controlling
STC Swiss Town Consult Development GmbH

Landscape design
YEWO

Fire protection engineering
Brandrat ZT GmbH

Building services engineering
Lechner u. Partner Ingenieure GmbH

Building physics
Pilz und Partner ZT-GmbH

Photography
Christian Pichlkastner

site plan

427 dmaa The Metropolitan 02 Ground Floor

ground floor plan

427 dmaa The Metropolitan 03 First Floor

floor plan level 1

427 dmaa The Metropolitan 04 6th Floor

floor plan level 6

The irregular arrangement of the vertical side panels and horizontal balcony slabs of the façade facing Karl-Popper-Straße and the plaza to the southwest form a flat, advancing balcony layer with a differentiated façade pattern that merges into the surrounding cityscape.

427 Karl Popper Straße dm vis 004 interior

visualization interior

427 Karl Popper Straße dm vis 005 interior
427 CAM06 2

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