Wooden Housing Seestadt Aspern Vienna Building, Austrian Project Photos
Wooden Housing Seestadt Aspern Vienna
8 Oct 2020
Holzwohnbau Seestadt Aspern Wien
Design: Berger+Parkkinen with querkraft architects
New Viennese Housing by Austrian-Finnish architects
Photos by Herta Hurnaus
A sequence of parallel, scaled different structures uses the large area of the building site in the southeastern part of the Seestadt Aspern. The complex with a total of 213 apartments and eight shops appears to consist of a group of clearly recognizable individual wooden houses, which are recognizable as slim and compact individual bodies. The staggered arrangement results in different courtyard-like rooms with varied visual relationships.

The components are connected by north-south arcades in three rows. Three access lines offer a varied spatial experience, which is created by the sequence of light-flooded staircases, interior corridors and open arcades. The serial, linear basic structure offers great flexibility in the arrangement of the most varied of apartment types and thus enables a good mix of the residents’ structure. The floor plans of the apartments are designed to be flexible. These can also be changed afterwards in a variety of ways. Despite their excellent energy balance, the houses open up generously to the outside world. In conjunction with the building material wood, this gives the entire building lightness and depth.

Structure
The residential complex is divided into seven...