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Kunsthaus Weiz
Kunsthaus Weiz
Weiz, Austria
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Other Projects by Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes
Kunsthaus Weiz
Weiz, Austria
The community lacked an adequately meeting hall. Through the erection of
a new fire station at the edge of Weiz a site at the heart of the town became
available, directly opposite the headquarters of the local industrial giant. The
location is marked by small, two-storey baroque and 19th century
buildings, the street grid and the squares of the immediately adjoining old
town are essentially mediaeval. The response to this situation is subtle and
intelligent. The core of the public hall is situated at the centre. Even seen from a distance it emerges at
roof level as a "hard" cubic volume. Around this functional and
semantic centre are positioned the buffer zones of the foyer, the exhibition
spaces and the open spaces, while at an appropriate distance (the width of a
lane) is placed an additional office building. The dimensions of the new
building are integrated and translated into this historic urban mesh by
modelling from this mass of "soft" elements. This is most strikingly
shown at the side elevation of the building. Here the building lines a newly
created small side street on the opposite side of which Feichtinger has erected
an attractive office building that in turn absorbs the impetus of the impinging
small town microstructure at its rear and channels this energy into the new
side street through an opening in an otherwise hermetic façade. On the other
side of the street, on the facade of the Kunsthaus, the dominant motif is that
of a "wave" that formulates the change in height from the two-storey
neighbouring buildings at the rear to the imposing three-storey ELIN building
opposite the front of the Kunsthaus and makes it an aesthetic theme at cornice
level. All these mediating elements of the building are made of glass, while
the "massive" parts on the west side of the building are clad in
copper.
The interior of this building with its continuous full-height glazing,
its generously broad foyer, its glowing bar at first floor level running around
the central events hall (capacity 645), and with its attached exhibition areas
speaks a nonchalant language that employs precision. The entire ground floor is
reserved for a supermarket that is intended to attract numbers of visitors who
will also animate the old town centre. For this reason the large hall is
positioned above the supermarket and is directly reached from the side street
by a staircase (plus lift). On the basement levels there are car parking
spaces.
The hall itself, equipped with a stage, a gallery and a high-tech booth,
offers above all an aesthetic experience. The black walls are additionally
covered with a metal mesh that can be illuminated in different colours by light
diodes.
a new fire station at the edge of Weiz a site at the heart of the town became
available, directly opposite the headquarters of the local industrial giant. The
location is marked by small, two-storey baroque and 19th century
buildings, the street grid and the squares of the immediately adjoining old
town are essentially mediaeval. The response to this situation is subtle and
intelligent. The core of the public hall is situated at the centre. Even seen from a distance it emerges at
roof level as a "hard" cubic volume. Around this functional and
semantic centre are positioned the buffer zones of the foyer, the exhibition
spaces and the open spaces, while at an appropriate distance (the width of a
lane) is placed an additional office building. The dimensions of the new
building are integrated and translated into this historic urban mesh by
modelling from this mass of "soft" elements. This is most strikingly
shown at the side elevation of the building. Here the building lines a newly
created small side street on the opposite side of which Feichtinger has erected
an attractive office building that in turn absorbs the impetus of the impinging
small town microstructure at its rear and channels this energy into the new
side street through an opening in an otherwise hermetic façade. On the other
side of the street, on the facade of the Kunsthaus, the dominant motif is that
of a "wave" that formulates the change in height from the two-storey
neighbouring buildings at the rear to the imposing three-storey ELIN building
opposite the front of the Kunsthaus and makes it an aesthetic theme at cornice
level. All these mediating elements of the building are made of glass, while
the "massive" parts on the west side of the building are clad in
copper.
The interior of this building with its continuous full-height glazing,
its generously broad foyer, its glowing bar at first floor level running around
the central events hall (capacity 645), and with its attached exhibition areas
speaks a nonchalant language that employs precision. The entire ground floor is
reserved for a supermarket that is intended to attract numbers of visitors who
will also animate the old town centre. For this reason the large hall is
positioned above the supermarket and is directly reached from the side street
by a staircase (plus lift). On the basement levels there are car parking
spaces.
The hall itself, equipped with a stage, a gallery and a high-tech booth,
offers above all an aesthetic experience. The black walls are additionally
covered with a metal mesh that can be illuminated in different colours by light
diodes.
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