Aerial view of a modern building complex with green rooftops and white angular walkways.
Townhouse Wimbergergasse
Austria
  • Residential
  • Built

The Wimbergergasse Townhouse occupies a building gap that arose in the dense urban grid of Gründerzeit buildings. Despite its compactness as a part of a classical block development, the complex has an open, permeable character and is communicative, both in respect to the dialogue between the two wings, and the relation between old and new. The design displays two dominant design motifs – the accentuation of topography and the space-containing feature of the façade – that are merged fluidly both formally and functionally:

in the horizontal plane to the rear of the complex, office zones are arranged on two to three levels, flat, like ice floes stacked on top of one other, while vertically it is not the street facing façade of the residential wing that forms the outermost boundary, but a modular system of loggias and open spaces which extends beyond it, accentuated into a strong visual impulse.

Address
Wimbergergasse 14-16, 1070 Vienna, Austria

Start of planning
1998

Start of construction
12/1999

Completion
12/2001

Floor area [total]
5.700 m²

Floor area [apartments]
3.100 m²

Floor area [offices]
2.500 m²

Gross floor area
12.800 m²

Gross volume
41.700 m³

Site area
2.900 m²

Built-up area
2.600 m²

Number of apartments
43

Number of offices
11

Budget
€ 7,12 Million

Costs/m²
€ 1.271,8 /m²

Projek Manager
Anke Goll

Project Team
Anke Gol, Peer Döllmann, Christine Hax

ARTWORK
Loggia glazing
Herwing Kempinger, Vienna

Basement garage
Susanne Korab, Vienna

Foyer
Leo Zogmaer, Krems

Outside facilities
Susanne Dworak-Kallinger, Vienna

CONSULTANTS
Structural engineering
DI Anon Schweiger, Baden, Austria

Electrical planning
Michael Künzl - Elektroplanung GmbH, Perchtoldsdorf, Austria

Air Conditioing
Peter Schütz
Vienna, Austria

Construction physics
DI Hans j. Dworak
Vienna, Austria

Façade systems
Grainer
Rohrbach, Austria

Surface water drainage
DI Johann Wöss
Vienna, Austria

Client
Kallco Bauträger GmbH

Photographer
Margherita Spiluttini, Wien
Delugan Meissl Associated Architects

Awards
Bauherrenpreis 2002
Building Contractor Award 2002

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