Wolfgang Tschapeller Architekt

St. Joseph House

St. Joseph House
© Lukas Schaller

ST. JOSEPH HOUSE

Wolfgang Tschapeller ZT GmbH

ARCHITECTS
Wolfgang Tschapeller ZT GmbH

DESIGN TEAM
Wolfram Mehlem, Jesper Bork

PHOTOGRAPHS
Lukas Schaller, Roland Krauss

LOCATION
Austria

CATEGORY
Houses

St. Joseph House
© Lukas Schaller
St. Joseph House
© Lukas Schaller

Text description provided by architect.

St. Joseph is a concrete form to be made habitable independent of the building site.

St. Joseph House
© Lukas Schaller
St. Joseph House
© Lukas Schaller

The concrete shell is placed at the edge of the remainder of a plain along the Danube floodplains. Its basic measurements are 615 cm by 620 cm by 2230 cm.

The concrete form is set on 4 supports – one one-legged element, two two-legged elements and one three-legged element.

St. Joseph House
© Lukas Schaller
St. Joseph House
© Roland Krauss

Its distance from the ground ranges from 120 cm to 210 cm.

A second form, soft, white and independent of the outer shell, is set within the concrete shell.

St. Joseph House
© Lukas Schaller
St. Joseph House
© Lukas Schaller

The white form opens up and programs – makes habitable, if you wish – the concrete shell’s inner area, which is 2165 cm long and approx. 515 cm high.

These are two interleaved forms, each with a different hardness and materiality.

St. Joseph House
© Lukas Schaller


St. Joseph House
Courtesy of Wolfgang Tschapeller
St. Joseph House
Courtesy of Wolfgang Tschapeller
St. Joseph House
© Lukas Schaller
St. Joseph House
Courtesy of Wolfgang Tschapeller
St. Joseph House
© Lukas Schaller
St. Joseph House
© Lukas Schaller
St. Joseph House
© Lukas Schaller
St. Joseph House
© Lukas Schaller


St. Joseph House
© Lukas Schaller
St. Joseph House
© Lukas Schaller


St. Joseph House
Ground Floor Plan
St. Joseph House
First Floor Plan
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Model
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