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House B near Vienna
Residential Development in Austria: Sixities Villa Renewal – design by Najjar&Najjar architects
3 Mar 2017
House B near Vienna
Architects: Najjar&Najjar
Location: Vienna, Austria
House B near Vienna
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New appearance ? with a view

Redesign of a villa dating from the 1960s

Conversions or redesigns always involve balancing the extent to which the old building fabric can be preserved against the creation of a form in which the qualities of a contemporary way of living can be implemented. Najjar & Najjar Architekten layered the House B anew both inside and outside ? in the truest sense of the term ? and, using a tripartite construction of columns, placed a new roof level on top of it. With views on all sides.
Since the 18th century villas have been erected on the hills of the Vienna Basin, the eastern foothills of the Northern Alps, directly on Vienna?s municipal border. The existing house, which dated from the 1960s, was located amidst these heterogeneous residential surroundings.

In redesigning this house on a slope the view played the principal role. The original building had little of the character of a villa; having been adapted and extended several times it hardly possessed any real architectural or spatial quality. In particular, due to the condition of the building fabric and the somewhat oversized volume,...