Sumit Singhal Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.
St. Joseph House in Lower Austria by Wolfgang Tschapeller ZT GmbH
December 1st, 2012 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Wolfgang Tschapeller ZT GmbH
St. Joseph is a concrete form to be made habitable independent of the building site. 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. Its distance from the ground ranges from 120 cm to 210 cm.
Photographer: Lukas Schaller, Roland Krauss, Werner Feiersinger, Sebastian Holzinger, Wolfgang Tschapeller
Image Courtesy Lukas Schaller
A second form, soft, white and independent of the outer shell, is set within the concrete shell. 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.
Image Courtesy Lukas Schaller
Wolfgang Tschapeller ZT GmbH
Wolfgang Tschapellers practice is based in Vienna. He was born in the town of Dölsach in East Tyrol, concluded an apprenticeship as a carpenter, and studied architecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. Wolfgang Tschapeller has been a visiting professor at Cornell University, N.Y., at the University of Arts in Linz and the State University of New York in Buffalo, as well as other academic institutions. In 2004/2005, he was the McHale Fellow at the State University of New York in Buffalo, and since 2005, he has been professor of architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
Image Courtesy Wolfgang Tschapeller ZT GmbH
His major projects include the BVA1, 2 and 3 series for the building of the Austrian Insurance Fund for Public Employees, the hotel in the park of the Schwarzenberg Palais in Vienna, and the European Cultural Centre situated between the Palatine Chapel and the city hall in Aachen, as well as his projects for the Music Theatre in Linz. The administrative building of the municipal authority in Murau, (2002), and the house St. Joseph (2007) integrates and embodies his essential considerations and ideas.
Image Courtesy Lukas Schaller
Wolfgang Tschapeller’s projects have been shown, for instance, 2010 in Istanbul, 2008 in Tokyo, 2010., 2006 and 2004 at the Architecture Biennial in Venice, 2006 in China within „Sculptural Architecture in Austria“, at the Aedes West gallery in 2004 and at the Architecture Biennial in Sao Paolo in 2003.
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