Greener Living
Residential building Blattgasse
Vienna
Project: Adaptive reuse of the former federal sports center into a residential building including loft conversion
Location: Vienna, Blattgasse
Status: completed
Year: 2016
Client: Immobilienrendite AG
jointly with Dominik Hennecke / Platzhalter
In the past, the athletes that made the Austrian soul proud, lived and trained here (among others Hans Krankl, Herbert Pohaska) ... or a bit less proud (Peter Seisenbacher).
The task was far from easy - the existing building was winding, almost half of each floor was occupied by two mighty staircases, and the ground floor was 100% occupied by huge workout and gym facilities.
When the athletes moved out in 2009 after almost 40 years it was getting terribly lonely in the building. The company Immobilienrendite took pity and purchased the building in order to build apartments and extend the roof.
The task was far from easy - the existing building was winding, almost half of each floor was occupied by two mighty staircases, and the ground floor was 100% occupied by huge workout and gym facilities.
In order to minimize circulation areas, we planned a completely new central staircase and borrowed from Grandmaster Le Corbusier. The duplex apartments can be accessed via a central aisle only on every third floor. On ground floor level we cut out cake like pieces out of the gym facilities in order to achieve natural illumination of the living areas.
With this solution we were able to prevail in a competition like procedure and secure the great planning contract.
Completion
Nevertheless, the path to completion was anything but easy.
Even a corrupt civil servant, whose name I cannot mention here, made our lives difficult.
In the end I almost moved in
myself (... today I regret it a little).
Photographs: Miroslava Andric
Construction site
Existing
Visualization
Concept
The maisonette apartments can be accessed via a central aisle only on every third floor. On ground floor level we cut out cake like piecs out of the gym facilities in order to achieve natural illumination of the living areas.
