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POD | “Model Anger” – Affordable Housing in Podhag-skygasse
POD | “Model Anger” – Affordable Housing in Podhag-skygasse
Vienna, Austria
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Other Projects by trans_city architecture / Christian Aulinger, Mark Gilbert
POD | “Model Anger” – Affordable Housing in Podhag-skygasse
Vienna, Austria
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2014
SIZE
25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft
BUDGET
$5M - 10M
Podhagskygasse is an innovative typological concept for 60 exceptionally af-fordable housing units, built within the Viennese program for subsidized so-cial housing.
The ambition of the project was to design and build attractive housing with an innovative urban design concept that could be rented at surprisingly low prices: total rental costs of €6,01/m2, including all operating costs, fees and taxes. To achieve these goals, trans_city pursued a radically pragmatic design strate-gy, and the housing estate was designed without basements or elevators. In this way, building costs were reduced by 18% in comparison to similar projects. Yet the architectural result is powerful and distinctive, with innovative use of tactilely appealing materials such as metallic-varnished Norway Spruce posts and wall panels, as well as metal-glazed concrete columns.
Instead of the usual underground car park, the residents’ automobiles are situated in open, street-level car ports. These are located under the houses and grouped around a multi-purpose, open-air space, which functions as a village square – an “Anger”, in good Viennese dialect. By eliminating centrally placed lifts (each apartment can be retro-fitted for handicapped access upon demand) the vertical circulation can be dispersed and distributed across the site. This produces an appealingly atmospheric sequence of socially active spac-es, and generates the fine-grained, sculptural massing of the buildings, which harmonizes well with the scale of the adjacent, single-family houses.
The ambition of the project was to design and build attractive housing with an innovative urban design concept that could be rented at surprisingly low prices: total rental costs of €6,01/m2, including all operating costs, fees and taxes. To achieve these goals, trans_city pursued a radically pragmatic design strate-gy, and the housing estate was designed without basements or elevators. In this way, building costs were reduced by 18% in comparison to similar projects. Yet the architectural result is powerful and distinctive, with innovative use of tactilely appealing materials such as metallic-varnished Norway Spruce posts and wall panels, as well as metal-glazed concrete columns.
Instead of the usual underground car park, the residents’ automobiles are situated in open, street-level car ports. These are located under the houses and grouped around a multi-purpose, open-air space, which functions as a village square – an “Anger”, in good Viennese dialect. By eliminating centrally placed lifts (each apartment can be retro-fitted for handicapped access upon demand) the vertical circulation can be dispersed and distributed across the site. This produces an appealingly atmospheric sequence of socially active spac-es, and generates the fine-grained, sculptural massing of the buildings, which harmonizes well with the scale of the adjacent, single-family houses.
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