Urban development VIERTEL ZWEI Plus

Vienna, Austria

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Photo © Bruno Klomfar

Visualization © Office Le Nomad

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Visualization © Monokrom

Photo © Bruno Klomfar

Site plan

Landscape Architects: WES LandscapeArchitecture

Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2017
Client: IC DEVELOPMENT GmbH, Vienna
Project period: 2014 - 2017
Size: 21.400 m²
Awards: DGNB-certificate in platin as Blue Building 2015, breeam-certificate Green Building 2014 for Hotel Zwei, DIVA-Award 2009 for Rund Vier, ÖGNI-certificate 2009 in silber for Rund Vier, DIVA-Award 2008 for Plus Zwei, DIVA-Award 2008 for Hoch Zwei
Realisation: WES LandscapeArchitecture with H.H. Krafft, Berlin
Partners: Atelier d‘architecture Chaix & Morel et associés, Paris | Christian Anton Pichler, Vienna | KS Ingenieure, Vienna | Atelier Thomas Pucher, Graz | KS Ingenieure, Vienna

Since its completion in 2009/2010, VIERTEL ZWEI Plus has been one of the most successful housing projects in Vienna and an example of perfect living and working conditions. Today more than 4.500 people live and work there, enjoying the 5.000 m² lake and more than 13.500 m² of green areas and open spaces.

The area of the green district situated by the harness-racing track in Vienna will now be extended with the VIERTEL ZWEI Plus. Two new office areas and innovative housing projects are being constructed in close proximity to the “Grüne Prater” district.

WES is developing a modelled landscape, “Grüne Inseln” (green islands), around a central square that accentuates the heart of the quarter. With an almost playful lightness, the flowing undulations of hills and valleys combine to form appealing green and open spaces for encounters, leisure activities, relaxation and infrastructure, creating an atmospheric picture of a contemporary architecture and landscape concept. In the central square, this picture is expressed uniquely with an interchanging appearance and dis- appearance of an organically formed water surface with a fountain intermittently in use, allowing the centre of the square to be used as desired.