The Kapellenhof Estate in Vienna, Austria by ARGE KAP_AllesWirdGut/feld72

Article source: feld72

Rethinking the tradition of municipal public housing in Vienna

The Kapellenhof project is coming to Vienna’s 22nd district: 450 new residential units around a shared urban grove.

In collaboration with three residential developers, Migra, Neues Leben, and Wogem, AllesWirdGut and feld72 won the developer’s competition for the construction of 450 apartments on Kapellenweg with a concept informed by the tradition-honored Viennese municipal public housing estate, a clear and confident ensemble laid out around a large communal courtyard: this is the Kapellenhof estate.

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• Architects: ARGE KAP_AllesWirdGut/feld72
• Project: The Kapellenhof Estate
• Location: Wien 22. Bezirk, Kapellenweg 35, Austria
• Visualitzation: expressiv
• Illustrations: Handskizzen: Marino Fei
• Model: mattweiss
• Client: MIGRA / Neues Leben / wogem
• AllesWirdGut Competition Team: Jan Schröder, Anna Auwermann, Carla Schwaderer, Jessica Wannhoff
• Feld 72 Competition Team: Wilhelm Scherübl, Ralph Reisinger, Elian Trinca, Marino Fei
• Statics: Dorr – Schober & Partner ZT GmbH
• Structural engineering: Kern+Ingenieure ZT GmbH
• Building services: IDK Engineering
• Open space areas: carla lo Landschaftsarchitektur

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• Social sustainability: Mag. Sonja Gruber
• Total GFA: 52.270 m²
• Costs: 38.000.000 E
• Date of Competition: 08.2016
• Start of Construction: 09.2017
• Completion: 05.2019
• Competition: Aug. 2016 – 1st Prize

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Much emphasis is placed on the potentials of the site: wide views and greenery! Small-scale buildings on the fringes and a courtyard as large as a football field provide for an open view from each apartment. The courtyard is kept open as an adventurous, topographically varied urban grove that offers private coves for retreat as well as open clearings.

The courtyard is lined by four buildings, each of which has an assigned community space in the entrance area with a courtyard-facing terrace as an offering to foster house communities.

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The urban grove and a large multi-purpose room open for use by everybody encourage good-neighborly relations within the estate for more than 1,000 residents. Situated in the transition area between the Kapellenhof estate and the public square of Kapellenlatz on the north side, the large multi-purpose space provides, together with a bar and restaurant operated jointly by residents and other locals from nearby, a place for meeting and neighborly interaction in the quarter.

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Image Courtesy © ARGE KAP_AllesWirdGut/feld72

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Tags: Austria, Wien

Categories: Apartments, Building, Housing Development

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