Tiroler Wasserkraft AG KWB Control Center Silz Building Austria, Upper Inn Valley Architecture, Architect, Images
Tiwag KWB Control Center Silz
Upper Inn Valley Power Plant Development in Austria – design by Bechter Zaffignani Architekten
9 Jan 2017
Tiwag KWB Leitstelle Silz
Tiwag KWB Control Center Silz Building
Design: Bechter Zaffignani Architekten
The Tiroler Wasserkraft AG (Tiwag) operates most of the power plants in Tirol. The Sellrain-Silz Group at the upper Inn Valley is one of the largest one. In search for a new building for the control center to meet the latest safety standards the Tiwag has launched a european-wide competition 2011, which was won by Bechter Zaffignani Architekten.
Photos © Rasmus Norlander
The new building for the power station control centre in Silz is a massive, tower-like, free-standing building. The dominant building on the site was and still remains the old turbine building. Various additions reduced the impact made by this building, with the result that the high-energy processes on the power station site were no longer externally legible. Through the formal idiom it employs the new building attempts to depict these processes.

In terms of height, width and axial orientation the new building relates to the turbine building. Its shape takes up and continues the existing spatial direction of the turbine building. A new, clear and expressive volume is made that conveys a sense of the energy processes on the power station site. The con...