In the dense package of different apartment types stacked atop one another along Tokiostraße, certain spots were left open: facing the street, an arcade space was created at the sidewalk (bus stop) and as a continuation of the atrium that extends the height of the building. The arcade is kept free as a covered space for pedestrians and, longer term, as reserve floor area for future uses (shops, restaurants, club rooms, etc.). Situated parallel to Tokiostraße, between the building lining the street and the courtyard-shaped building, is a space which, though its edges are defined, offers a publically accessible path through it.
Borrowing from the Brothers Grimm story The Town Musicians of Bremen in which a rooster, a cat, a dog, and a donkey are stacked atop one another to create an impressive silhouette made up of banal elements, stacking up different apartment types is the concept guiding the design of this modified terraced housing. Different apartment types, each with a private outdoor space, are stacked up, producing a dense suburban package: below, an arcade space faces the street, and walled gardens face the courtyard. On the next level are maisonettes oriented toward an atrium, then rowhouses with terraces, and at the very top, allotment houses separated by courtyards. Single-story units with two-story loggias on Tokiostraße (Casablanca typology) add to the variety of apartment types. This yielded sculpted building massing and fronting out-door spaces. All units have cross-ventilation, and the kitchens and bathrooms receive daylight and can be ventilated naturally. It is this spatial weave of different apartment types, with omissions at mid-height to make room for playgrounds and an all-purpose space for the residents, that gives rise not only to a social mix, but also to that very structural quality that is an essential component of urbanity.
developers' competition,
invited proceeding,
1st prize
client:
Neues Leben
Team ARTEC Architekten:
Bettina Götz and Richard Manahl
project management: Michael Ivancsics
Heinrich Büchel, Helmut Lackner, Ronald Mikolics, Michael Murauer, Burkhard Schelischansky, Irene Yerro
visuals: Ivan Zdenkovic
models: Wolf Deucker, Katharina Kothmiller, Martins Pilens
awards:
Nomination, European Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award, 2010
Clients’ Prize awarded by the Zentralvereinigung der Architekten to Neues Leben, 2010
photography:
Margherita Spiluttini
ARTEC Architekten
photographies by Marc Räder:
http://marcraeder.de/commissioned/artec-architekten-wien/
Project Data
landscape planning, open space design: DI Jakob Fina, Vienna
structural Engineering: DI Anton Harrer, Krems
building services planning: Ing. Johann Ernst, Olbendorf
electricity planning: DI Michael Künzl, Vienna
building physics: Ing. Rainer Stepan, Vienna
start of planning: 2006
start of construction: 2008
completion: 2009
plot area: 3.549 m²
build-up area: 2.485 m² (above-ground)
gross floor area: 11.603 m² (above-ground)
gross floor area: 14.859 (total)
effective floor area: 9.413 m²
density of buildings: 3,27
enclosed space (above-ground.): 39.933 m³
enclosed space (total): 48.881 m³
Publications
Architektur & Bauforum, Vienna, 18 / Okt. 09. Wojciech Czaja: “Die Tokioter Stadtmusikanten“
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Der Standard, Vienna, 27. 10. 2009. Maik Novotny: „Ein Haus spielt Stadt“
www.derstandard.at
Die Presse, Spektrum, Vienna, 20. 2. 2010. Christian Kühn: "Bauen nach Gebrüdern Grimm"
*pdf*
www.diepresse.com
Architektur Aktuell, Vienna, 6.2010. Isabella Marboe: " Casablanca in der Donaustadt“
*pdf*
www.architektur-aktuell.at
Oris Nr. 65, Zagreb, 2010. Vera Grimmer: “A Threshold Does Not Have To Be a Boundary”
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Die Presse, Vienna, 18. 9. 2010. Anna Neubauer: "Im Höhenrausch, täglich"
www.diepresse.com
Die Presse, Spektrum, Vienna, 6. 7. 2013. Christian Kühn: "Drei Jahre danach"
*pdf*
www.diepresse.com
ORIS 88, 2014. ORIS d.o.o., Zagreb. “New programs make new architecture possible”
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Mein Eigenheim. „Wien, Tokiostrasse: Haustypen unter einem Dach“. Fink Verlag, Hochfildern, 2015
Bauen und Wohnen in Gemeinschaft. Deutsches Architekturmuseum Frankfurt am Main, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, 2015
speech: affordable housing 12 / 2014, Moscow. Nina Frolova: “the house as a natrurally evolved piece of the city“
a+u, nr. 525, Juni 2014
Archithese 5. 2013, Zurich. Florian Dreher: “Big and Cool. Wohnmaschine oder Groundscraper”
QUER, Nr. 2/2013, QUER-Verlag, Vienna. Doris Lippitsch und Wolf D. Prix: Wien wo und wohin?
Die Presse, Spektrum, Vienna, 6. 7. 2013. Christian Kühn: "Drei Jahre danach"
ECOLA, AIT Edition 9, Verlagsanstalt Alexander Koch, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, 2012
Best of Austria_Architektur 2010_11. Herausgeber AzW, Vienna, und Park Books, Zurich
Architectural Design, Juli/August 2012, No 218, A. Rumpfhuber, M. Klein, G. Kolmayr: “almost all right"
H.O.M.E, September 2012, Vienna. Isabella Marboe: „Die Boxen-Strategien“
ark, 2 / 2012, Sto AG
CONCEPT, Vol 157. CA Press, Korea, 2012. “The Town Musicians of Bremen as Terrace House”
C3, No. 329, C3 Publishing Co., Seoul, 2012
db, deutsche bauzeitschrift, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, 01.2012
Wohnen+Plus, Heft 4 / 2011, Vienna. “Baukunst, Innovation und Brauchbarkeit”
Archithese 5. 2011, Zurich. Hannes Stiefel: “Die andere Möglichkeit”
Arch-Manual. AADCU-Publication, Beijing, 2011
Architekturkarte Wien. 30 aktuelle Bauwerke. Springer, Wien/New York, 2011
ECOLA, AIT Edition 8, Verlagsanstalt Alexander Koch, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, 2011
Wohnen. Schweizerischer Verband für Wohnungswesen, Zurich, 11/2010. Patricia Grzonka: “Casablanca an der Donau”
The architecture design of apartment in the world. ThinkArchit Group, Ideabook, Beijing, 2010
Zement + Beton, 6_10, Vienna, 2010, “Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten als Terrassenhaus”
A10 Yearbook 10I11. www.sunarchitecture.nl, 2010
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 5. Juli 2010, Nr. 152. Patricia Grzonka: „Ein fragmentarisches Elysium“
A 10, no 33, may/jun 2010, Amsterdam. Anne Isopp: “Housing, Vienna”
ARCH 05/10, Bratislava. Zuzana Borovickova: "Priestorove Puzzle"
Deutsche Bauzeitschrift, Gütersloh, Nr. 5, 2010. Isabella Marboe: „Bremen, Casablanca, Tokio“
ST/A/R, Zeitung für Hochkultur, Mittelmass und Schund. Nr. 24, Frühling 2010, Vienna
A 10, no 32, 3 / 2010. Anne Isop: „Non-stop building“
Wirtschaftsblatt, 19. 3. 2010. Alexandra Rotter
Kurier, 7. 3. 2010. Wohnkurier: „Markante Architektur mit Freiraum“
Wiener Zeitung, 5. 3. 2010. Hans Haider: „Tierisches Vorbild für Solidarität“
Turn On. Beilage zum Standard vom 18. 2. 2010, Festivalleitung Margit Ulama
UmBau 24, Strategien der Transparenz. Christian Kühn: "Unruhe im Wohnbauland". ÖGFA und Abteilung für Architekturtheorie TU Wien, Verlag Anton Pustet, 2008
bauträgerwettbewerbe 2006. wohnfonds_wien, Vienna, 2007
ARTEC Architekten. Catalogue for the internet project of www.gaaleriie.net, Alena Hanzlova (editor), Prague, 2006
SKIN 02 Nov 06, Architektur&Bauforum, Vienna. Wojciech Czaja: „Häuser lassen Hüllen fallen“