Wohnbau Breitenfurter Straße 310

built: 2004

High-density housing with a differentiated range of housing types

sound buffer to the street

"entrance park"

The design connects to the row of buildings to the west, but the structures fan out to the east to break up the spatial confinement of the neighbouring buildings and ensure a uniform layout of the open spaces. The street- side development is divided into three structures, interspersed with two "entrance parks" with mature trees.

The buildings on Breitenfurter Strasse contain apartments that are accessed via a vertical pathway system. This forms a sound buffer to the traffic area, while a facade of transparent and translucent surfaces shields the apartments and at the same time maintains visual contact with the public space. The apartments are divided into east-facing service areas and west-facing living areas, which open onto green spaces via spacious loggias.

Two city villas mark the access areas to the site. They connect to the entrance parks and open up to the green space on all sides within the neighbourhood. With only two flats per floor, a high degree of privacy is ensured here. The living areas face west or south-west and offer expansive views.

The flats in the south-facing blocks are organised as stacked single-family houses: access is via vertically layered "plot paths", front gardens with a semi-public character border public paths, and open spaces assigned to the individual "houses" offer residents a variety of possibilities that they would otherwise only find in a terraced house with a garden. The apartment floor plans are divided between the loggia (garden) and the parcel path into areas with varying degrees of privacy and public character – ideal conditions for a balanced relationship between undisturbed privacy and communication/interaction with the living environment.

location

1230, Vienna

phase

built 2004

units

180 living units

building contractor

Mischek Bauträger, migra

photography

WUP architektur

project team

Andreas Gabriel, Bernhard Weinberger