08_Lorenzateliers | Nussbaumallee

Category

Austria

NAME

Project title: Nussbaumallee

Recommending party
The project has been submitted by:

LORENZATELIERS

LOCATION

Country: Austria

City: Vienna

Address: Nussbaumallee 24
1110 Wien

AUTHOR

Designer or design team architects:

LORENZATELIERS

D – DETAILS – DATI

Plot area – Superficie lotto: 15500mq

Gross Area – Superficie lorda totale: 25800mq

Of which
residential – Di cui Residenziale: % 50

Public/communal areas – Spazi collettivi/comuni: % 3

Facilities for the public – Attrezzature pubbliche: % 0

Business/trade – Commerciale: % 1,5

Offices – Uffici: % 0

Number of residential units – Numero di alloggi: 175

Typology of users – Tipologia di utenti:

Families – Famiglie
Old-aged people – Anziani
Students – Studenti
Foreigners/immigrants – Stranieri o immigrati

Total building costs Euros – Costo di costruzione totale in Euro:19500000€

Building Cost = Total Bulding Cost / Gross Area – Costo di costruzione = Costo di costruzione totale /Superficie lorda totale: 755€/qm

Floor area ratio = Gross Area / Plot Area – Densità = Superficie lorda totale /Superficie lotto: 1,6

Work started on date – Data inizio lavori: Sunday, 1st June 2014

Work completion date – Data ultimazione lavori: Thursday, 1st December 2016

E – OWNERSHIP – PROPRIETA’

Sozialbau AG

Allotment rule – Regola di assegnazione:

Viennese law for housing subsidy and housing refurbisment

Reduction cost percentege compared to the market value – Percentuale di riduzione di costo rispetto al valore di mercato

assignement %: not sure

rent %: depends on subsidization

G – CANDIDATURE REPORT – RELAZIONE DI CANDIDATURA
ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY | SOSTENIBILITÀ ECONOMICA

_permissible density is exploited
_cost reduction by multi-storey car park compared to an underground garage
_simple static construction grid
_economical facade: waiver of loggias, user-friendly balconies
_limitation of living area / person without loss of quality
_efficient circulation: only 5 staircases with natural lighting and ventilation for 175 residential units
_ compact staircases 2 and 5: circulation in form of an atrium benefits the energy indicators
_preservation of existing nature reduces costs of landscape design
_thermal solar system on the roof reduces water costs

Rental/sale cost compared to market price
Costo di affitto/ vendita rispetto al mercato
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SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY – SOSTENIBILITÀ SOCIALE

Rules of allocation – Regole di assegnazione
Viennese law for housing subsidy and housing refurbisment

Protection of fragile categories
Tutela categorie fragili

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Involvement of inhabitants in the building process – Coinvolgimento degli abitanti nel processo
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Community accompaniment in the life of the building – Accompagnamento della comunità nella vita dell’edificio:
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ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
SOSTENIBILITÀ AMBIENTALE

Functional mixitè – Mix funzionale:
_variety of apartments: diverse, differentiated housing typology

Common spaces and shared living-Spazi comuni e abitare condiviso:
_circulation area = encounter zones: collectively used areas for encounters and communication, interlinked entrances

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY-SOSTENIBILITÀ AMBIENTALE

_high density: sustainable handling of building ground
_thermal solar system on the roof: energy source for heating water

Description of the project:

A city apartment building in the best tradition of “Socialist Vienna” at the industrial end point of city limits. In addition to that, on a property lot which did not really exist, since it was divided by streets and train tracks into residual fragments. Only through the driving spirit of Lorenzateliers was the street displaced to the long forgotten tree-lined alley to the north. The required park deck (due to the contaminated ground) functions as a protective barrier against the industrial zone and national road to the north. The apartment building itself meanders and loops between this base and the train tracks, generating modestly proportioned green spaces which even go so far as to reflect the copses of trees. From these overlapping buildings, numerous halfopen zones are created, generating a feeling of living protection: terraces, passageways, views outwards and throughwards. Green rooftop surfaces with common access, including sauna and fitness studio, along with urban gardening, are available to all residents. Rooms reminiscent of the very best of times back in the epoch of community building, when the city also gave serious consideration to common access. Thus, a communication-rich dialogue arises with another zone on the far side of the tracks in the Anton Schrammel Hof. Architectural design of the facade in residences is a dead subject for Lorenzateliers, due to energy norms and ordinances. Requirements of daylight, fire-protection strictures and limits on cost are the determinants of the ultimate design. What remains for the architect to determine is the form of the city. At the northwestern corner, the block along the Nussbaumallee becomes a bridge framing the view of the Gasometer from the inside. Thereby, orientation and awareness of place are generated. In the other direction, a passage from the public to the private zone, with a dramatic suctional effect. The identification and high degree of residential satisfaction of the inhabitants is the fruit of the diversity of apartments as well as of the wide-ranging offerings of spaces in front of and in between the buildings for purposes of relaxation, of encounter, of recreation.