0181 Aspern housing block, Vienna, AT
The project Green Mountain Housing starts from the very rich Viennese architectural history with its complex cultural, social, economic, and urban agenda.
The project proposes an extremely flexible and open structure that can adapt over time to different needs, demands, and functions. In so doing, the building can house a mix of very different urban programmes in one structure. A building with such qualities can be far more sustainable than any functionalist design, because it could be easily used for a period of 200 years or more.
This typology permits the production of an inspiring and vital mix of different programmes based on the demands of the economy. Also, qualities of nineteenth-century urbanism are integrated into this project in Aspern-Seestadt, Vienna. The intention is to find a form for a project that offers an intense and playful dialogue between the interior of the apartments and commercial spaces on the one hand, and the natural environment and public space on the other. Hence, the building will not have a ‘classical facade’ that separates public and private, but will instead be functioning more as a layered interface between inside and outside.
0181 Aspern housing block
Project
mixed type housing, boarding house, swimming pool, commercial spaces and parking garage
Status
invited competition, selected
Client
Wien 3420 Aspern Development AG