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Chameleons are small lizards living in trees. They are most commonly known for their ability to
change their outward appearance. The versatile reptiles have in more than one way been an
inspiration for the project in Eichenstraße in Vienna’s 12th district, realized cooperatively with
feld72. For example, with respect to its formal aesthetic: fit in between a parish church, a tram
depot, and the railway tracks, six townhouses assemble into an organically meandering complex
that defines an urban quarter with a point-block head building (used as a hotel). Or as a public
park: the treetop-level garden spreads between and below the houses, providing the green lung of
a, metaphorically speaking, colorful habitat. And, finally, in reference to the much-quoted
adaptability of the color-changing animals: with varied urban plinths, the concaved built volumes
are able to equalize the site’s massive grade differential (no less than nine meters) in a, literally,
light-footed manner. The positioning of the townhouses responds to the givens of the site with, as it
were, both sensitivity (in the transition zone to the surrounding area) and confidence (as a
landmark in the grown urban silhouette). The plinth floors provide supply and service facilities,
accommodating, for example, an event center, the hotel lobby and commercial areas. Entrances and
accessways to hotel, residential, and services areas are located at the elevated-park level. The first
three floors of the townhouses are conceived as multiuse areas. All residential units have private
outdoor areas, ideal daylighting, and maximized views. The facades, folded and with multiple
different light reflexes depending on the incident angle, create an impression of variegated
urbanity. Gently positioned to one another, the coved buildings present themselves as an intriguing
array of multiply and collectively usable interstitial spaces. In the spirit of a Musilean sense of
possibility (The Man without Qualities), AllesWirdGut and feld72 have created an open and
transparent development in Vienna’s Eichenstraße which mainly holds one promise: new
perspectives. Of an emergent new neighborhood. In an urban quarter that is about to take root.
change their outward appearance. The versatile reptiles have in more than one way been an
inspiration for the project in Eichenstraße in Vienna’s 12th district, realized cooperatively with
feld72. For example, with respect to its formal aesthetic: fit in between a parish church, a tram
depot, and the railway tracks, six townhouses assemble into an organically meandering complex
that defines an urban quarter with a point-block head building (used as a hotel). Or as a public
park: the treetop-level garden spreads between and below the houses, providing the green lung of
a, metaphorically speaking, colorful habitat. And, finally, in reference to the much-quoted
adaptability of the color-changing animals: with varied urban plinths, the concaved built volumes
are able to equalize the site’s massive grade differential (no less than nine meters) in a, literally,
light-footed manner. The positioning of the townhouses responds to the givens of the site with, as it
were, both sensitivity (in the transition zone to the surrounding area) and confidence (as a
landmark in the grown urban silhouette). The plinth floors provide supply and service facilities,
accommodating, for example, an event center, the hotel lobby and commercial areas. Entrances and
accessways to hotel, residential, and services areas are located at the elevated-park level. The first
three floors of the townhouses are conceived as multiuse areas. All residential units have private
outdoor areas, ideal daylighting, and maximized views. The facades, folded and with multiple
different light reflexes depending on the incident angle, create an impression of variegated
urbanity. Gently positioned to one another, the coved buildings present themselves as an intriguing
array of multiply and collectively usable interstitial spaces. In the spirit of a Musilean sense of
possibility (The Man without Qualities), AllesWirdGut and feld72 have created an open and
transparent development in Vienna’s Eichenstraße which mainly holds one promise: new
perspectives. Of an emergent new neighborhood. In an urban quarter that is about to take root.
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