Wien Kanal Headquarters

Vienna, Austria
Wien Kanal Headquarters
Photo © pxt | Toni Rappersberger
Wien Kanal Headquarters
Photo © pxt | Toni Rappersberger
Wien Kanal Headquarters
Photo © pxt | Toni Rappersberger
Wien Kanal Headquarters
Photo © pxt | Toni Rappersberger
Wien Kanal Headquarters
Photo © pxt | Toni Rappersberger
Wien Kanal Headquarters
Photo © pxt | Toni Rappersberger
Wien Kanal Headquarters
Photo © pxt | Toni Rappersberger
Wien Kanal Headquarters
Photo © pxt | Toni Rappersberger
Wien Kanal Headquarters
Photo © pxt | Toni Rappersberger
Wien Kanal Headquarters
Photo © pxt | Toni Rappersberger
Wien Kanal Headquarters
Drawing © pxt
Wien Kanal Headquarters
Drawing © pxt
Architects
Pichler & Traupmann Architekten
Location
Großmarktstraße 5, 1230 Vienna, Austria
Year
2021
Client
Wien Kanal (WKN)
Team
Projektteam: Klemens Gabriel (Projektleiter) Patrik Drechsler Peter Grandits Barbara Jarmaczki David Guisado T. Joachim Kess Tibor Koczian Marvin Seifner Julian Straub Severin Tuerk Wolfgang Windt Josef Zapletal Wettbewerb: Bartosz Lewandowski
Structural design and building physics
RWT Plus ZT Gmbh, Vienna
Electrical planning
Kubik Project GesmbH, Gießhübl
Building services
Woschitz Engineering ZT GmbH, Vienna
Structural fire protection
Norbert Rabl ZT GmbH, Graz
Landscape architecture
Lindle+Bukor – atelier für landschaft, Vienna

The site for the construction of the headquarters for the Vienna Canal is embedded in the technoid-dominated context and is surrounded by classic commercial typologies.
The positioning results in an orientation towards less attractive sections of the immediate and wider surroundings. The development was designed to address the following aspects: the creation of pleasant visual relationships and the efficient organisation of the building.
The rectangular plot is squeezed along its long edges and turns the line of sight away from a frontal view of a counterpart towards a nuanced interiority. In addition, semi-open courtyards are cut into the broad sides of the building site as open spaces. This provides space for massive planting in the open zones of the property. These zones are designed as a park-like landscape or green space.
Through the constriction and the incisions the building volume becomes a symbolic figure, an "X", which turns out to be an ideal shape in all respects.

The X in the Park can therefore be seen as a high-quality working environment in the truest sense of the word.

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