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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. FUX – Supervised Group Housing in Vienna, Austria by trans_city ZT GmbHFebruary 19th, 2019 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: trans_city ZT GmbH A house for collective living, built at the intersection of old and new Vienna. The eight units for supervised housing for adolescents and young men are integrated in to a structure that bridges between the street and the courtyard of a new-built housing estate. The scale, massing and materiality allows the building to harmonize with its village-like neighbors in the Fuchsröhrenstraße, yet FUX is able to hold its own against the large housing estates sprouting up on all sides.  Image Courtesy © Hertha Hurnaus
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 Image Courtesy © Hertha Hurnaus  Image Courtesy © Hertha Hurnaus Although this project for group housing may be small in size, its objectives are gen-erous and substantial. FUX provides young men and women who have recently arrived in Vienna with a place to call home. The supervised housing collective with opportunities for shared activities as well as places for private retreat helps these young people adapt to their new city in a supportive environment.  Image Courtesy © Hertha Hurnaus  Image Courtesy © Hertha Hurnaus FUX’s layout supports its unusual program, and it connects it with its heteroge-neous surroundings. The house’s eight individual rooms are located on the upper-most 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 resi-dents. 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.  Image Courtesy © Hertha Hurnaus  Image Courtesy © Hertha Hurnaus 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 harmo-niously into the existing, sympathetically ramshackle buildings of the Fuchsenröhrenstraße. 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 es-tate’s outbuildings to create a single, integrated composition.  Image Courtesy © Daniel Hawelka  Image Courtesy © Hertha Hurnaus The structure is clad in iridescently-stained, larch-wood siding; the undersides of the passage are rendered in stucco. The cladding’s tactile edges and shimmer-ing surfaces stand in agreeable dialog with the surrounding milieu.  Image Courtesy © trans_city ZT GmbH  Image Courtesy © trans_city ZT GmbH  Image Courtesy © trans_city ZT GmbH  Image Courtesy © trans_city ZT GmbH  Image Courtesy © trans_city ZT GmbH  Image Courtesy © trans_city ZT GmbH  Image Courtesy © trans_city ZT GmbH
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