FUX – Collective Housing in Vienna
FUX – COLLECTIVE HOUSING IN VIENNA
Trans_City
LOCATION
Fuchsröhrenstraße 17, 1110 Wien, Austria
ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Mark Gilbert, Christian Aulinger
PHOTOGRAPHS
Hertha Hurnaus
PARTNER IN CHARGE
Mark Gilbert
LANDSCAPE
Büro Kern + Partner
STRUCTURAL PLANNING
Buschina & Partner ZT GmbH
AREA
518.0 m2
BUILDING PHYSICS
Büro Kern + Partner
ARCHITECTS
trans_city
PROJECT YEAR
2016
MANUFACTURERS
CAPAROL
MANUFACTURERS
Caparol, IPM Schober Fenster GmbH, Synthesa
SOCIAL COORDINATION
Reality Lab, Pöllabauer-Tscherteu KG
CLIENT
Heimbau Gemeinnützige Bauträgerges. m.b.H.; MA 11 der Stadt Wien
DESIGN TEAM
Christian Aulinger, Mark Gilbert Realisation: Sonja Reisinger Brigitta Sponer, (Project Managers) Michael Pulman, Ricardo Oliveira, Michael Koenig
Text description provided by architect.
Supervised housing for adolescents and young men. This project for group housing may be small in size, but its objectives are generous and substantial.
Here, young men with special needs can find a place to call home: a supervised and supportive living environment with opportunities for shared activities as well as places for private retreat.
The layout of the building supports its unusual program, and connects it with its heterogeneous surroundings. The house’s eight individual rooms are located on the uppermost floor.
In the middle is the shared living room, the kitchen and a suite for the counselor; cantilevered in front of these rooms is a large, private terrace for the residents.
The ground floor is given over to a community room that is shared with the adjacent public housing estate, as well as a broad, open passage, which connects the courtyard of the estate to the public street.
The FUX community housing building mediates between the differing scales and building styles of Vienna's heteromorphic, rapidly developing XI District.
The house uses precise massing and haptic, inviting materials to integrate itself harmoniously into the existing, sympathetically ramshackle buildings of the Fuchsenröhrenstraße.
The structure is clad in iridescently-stained, larch-wood siding; the undersides of the passage are rendered in stucco. he cladding's tactile edges and shimmering surfaces stand tête-à-tête in dialog with the surrounding milieu.
Towards the street, the building expresses itself as a powerfully articulated and sculptural form whose various edges correspond to the fronts and heights of its neighbors. Seen from the courtyard of the adjacent housing estate, the building’s front appears as a planar surface, which is subsequently interlocked with the estate’s outbuildings to create a single, integrated composition.
