Urban Reflections
URBAN REFLECTIONS
Holodeck Architects
ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Arch. Marlies Breuss, Arch. Michael Ogertschnig
MANUFACTURERS
Silent Gliss, Alucobond, Dana
ARCHITECTS
Holodeck Architects
LOCATION
1010 Vienna, Austria
CATEGORY
Extension
AREA
1400.0 m2
PROJECT YEAR
2012
PHOTOGRAPHS
Pasteiner
DESIGN TEAM
Marlies Breuss, Michael Ogertschnig, Sven Klöcker, Jan Chladil, Stephan Goos, Sebastian Uhl, Stefan Förg, Alexej Kolyschkow
Text description provided by architect.
The rooftop extension containing multi-level apartments is divided into private and public areas based on the concept of green filter areas, roof folding an views.
Starting out from the gridlines of the existing windows the roof shape shifts according to the inner functions and the urban context.
The urban strategy to integrate the building into the surrounding urban context leads to the concept of roof folding.
The large scaled roof tiles evolve according to inner functions and urban context, with views into the city the landscape and within the multileveled apartments.
The levels are divided into private on the lowest level, and common areas, on the upper levels, with vertical sliding walls and slanted panoramic sliding windows.
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
The Skin of the roofs was done with big alucobond elements in fire protection category A2. Its directly shaped and fixed on / next to the roof. Perfect process without any tolerance according to the size of the elements and without logistic problems in the historical city of Vienna.
