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Green Urban Housing in Vienna
Building Facade and Landscape Development, Wien, Austria – design by GERNER GERNER PLUS
6 Nov 2017
Green Urban Housing
Design: GERNER GERNER PLUS
Location: Weyringergasse, Vienna, Austria
Green Urban Housing

As the outcome of an invited competition GERNER GERNER PLUS recently completed a residential building with the Wolfshof in the twelfth urban district of Vienna that offers residents not only top-quality living space but also a spacious communal courtyard with ?Naschgarten? ? ?snack garden?.

While loft-type residential units with the charm of industrial architecture are set up in remodelled existing building stock, new buildings situated between them offer diverse types of flats sized 45 to 77 square metres which cover the whole spectrum from rented and freehold flats to pension schemes.
The existing buildings were partly gutted during construction work, but their spacious room height was retained, which lends a loft-type character to the residential units within. The rooms, arranged as integrated boxes, open up to a free view of the vaulted ceilings, thus enhancing the industrial-age charm.

A total of around sixty residential units were devised, some in the existing building and some in the new building. They have in common a generous room plan, top quality fixtures and fittings and copious daylight.

The wooden windows were made to reac...