Gleis 21 – We bring the village to the city

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Gleis 21 – We bring the village to the city

Urban Design

Main objectives of the project

Date

  • 2021: Construcción

Stakeholders

  • Arquitecto: einszueins architektur
  • Arquitecto:  YEWO LANDSCAPES GmbH
  • Constructor: Weissenseer Holz-System-Bau GmbH 

Location

City: Vienna
Country/Region: Austria, Vienna

Description

Under the motto “Setting the course together”, the co-housing project Gleis 21 was planned in a participatory manner with the future residents, from urban development to the socket outlet. The property is located in the center of the new urban development area “Leben am Helmut Zilk Park” near the Vienna Central Station („Hauptbahnhof Wien“). The project and the cultural association of the same name want to contribute to the development of the district. Communication within and outward, is key at Gleis 21. The co-housing project Gleis 21 builds on three major principles: “living in solidarity”, “indulging cleverly”, and “creating with media”. Solidarity is lived in a variety of ways, be it simple neighborhood services or a Solidarityfund for personal emergencies. Lived solidarity also includes certain appartements, that were planned in cooperation with Diakonie Flüchtlingsdienst (a refugee aid organization), that can be given to refugees. To help shape the cultural, social and media life in the newly developed quarter, a cooperation with Radio Orange, Okto TV and Stadkino Wien (cinema) was formed. The cultural Organization Gleis 21 is going to ensure a steady cultural program adapted to and in unison with its surroundings. A music-school on the lower floor rounds out the cultural scope of opportunity. Extensive communal areas represent the focus of the communal aspect and offer space for common and individual use: from the communal kitchen to the library and sauna on the top floor to the workshop, studio and fitness room in the basement. The selection and details of community-spaces were made by the residents and form the center of communal aspects of the project. The project was designed as a compact, zero-energy house („Niedrigstenergiehaus“) in a wood-hybrid construction and was built in a resources saving way. The individually planned housing-units on the upper four floors are accessed via an open north-west-facing arcade and are all equipped with private balconies. The neutral and flexible structure of the building enabled each unit to be planned individually in collaboration with its residents

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CARABANCHEL 34

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CARABANCHEL 34

Main objectives of the project

Visitamos un edificio residencial multifamiliar de 25 viviendas de 1, 2 y 3 dormitorios y zonas comunes construidas bajo los estándares de Passivhaus y proyectada conforme al CTE.

Date

Stakeholders

  • Arquitecto: Ruiz-Larrea & Asociados
  • Constructor: MARCO OBRA PÚBLICA, S.A.

Location

Continent: Europe
City: Madrid
Country/Region: Madrid

Description

La visita que se propone a este edificio promovido íntegramente por la EMVS, es posiblemente una visita al futuro. Carabanchel 34 es una apuesta absolutamente innovadora, un tipo de construcción de vanguardia que agrupa las viviendas ordenadamente en una pastilla edificatoria con doble orientación. La vivienda de 1 dormitorio dispone de zona de día formada por cocina, tendedero y estar comedor, y la zona de noche que la integran un baño y un dormitorio. La vivienda de 2 dormitorios dispone de zona de día formada por cocina, tendedero y estar-comedor y la zona de noche que la integran un baño y dos dormitorios. La vivienda de 3 dormitorios dispone de zona de día formada por cocina, tendedero y estar-comedor y la zona de noche que la integran un dormitorio principal con baño incorporado y dos dormitorios y un baño. En nuestra visita al edificio, recorreremos tanto las zonas comunes, como una vivienda de las diferentes tipologías. Las características del edificio proyectado son: Alto grado de confort térmico interior, tanto en la estación fría como en la cálida. Rango de confort de 20-25˚C. Aire de calidad excepcional garantizado durante 24 horas al día. Calidad en la construcción para evitar o minimizar los puentes térmicos, infiltraciones no deseadas, condensaciones superficiales etc. Precios asequibles de construcción. Reducción de las facturas de consumo energético. Durabilidad en el tiempo de las soluciones constructivas. Garantía de un buen funcionamiento durante muchos años con medidas mínimas de mantenimiento. No requiere comportamientos específicos del usuario para lograr un correcto funcionamiento. Niveles elevados de satisfacción por parte del usuario / propietario.

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Apartment Building D, Giudecca

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Apartment Building D, Giudecca

Urban Design

Main objectives of the project

This building is part of a large urban renewal plan on the former Junghans industrial plant site. The plan involves constructing a new urban fabric and converting existing industrial buildings into residential spaces. The D building replaces a utilitarian structure on a corner between two canals. The building utilizes traditional materials and technical solutions, with three types of window openings that align with varying floor plans. The design aims to capture glimpses of the surrounding area while transforming traditional elements into graphic motifs. The project seeks a contemporary approach that values the innovations of the Modern Movement without being limited by its rigid principles. It prompts us to consider the challenges of contemporary architecture in avoiding commercial pastiches and questioning the balance between modernity, permanence, individuality, and the collective nature of cities.

Date

  • 2001: Construcción

Stakeholders

  • Constructor: Fratelli Carnieletto snc
  • Arquitecto: Cino Zucchi Architetti

Location

Continent: Europe
City: Venice
Country/Region: Italy

Description

This building is part of a large urban renewal plan on the site of the former Junghans industrial plant on the island of the Giudecca. The general urban scheme, implemented on the basis of the results of a closed competition won by the author, acts as a sort of microsurgery within the delicate body of the city with the construction of a new urban fabric and the renovation of existing industrial buildings converted to residential use. The D building is a new construction which substitutes an utilitarian building on the corner between two canals. The materials and the technical solutions of the building are very traditional and the details of their use reveal the impossibility of an historicist replica. The façades have only three kinds of window openings and their irregular disposition follows the varying floor plans of the apartments in a search for glimpses of the Redentore apse, the canals and the Laguna. The traditional plain white stone window corniche of the minor historical Venetian architecture is changed in proportion and transfigured into a graphic motif and the crowning of the perimeter walls hides the gable roof required by the local regulations, reconducting the volume to an abstract image which is doubled by the reflection in the canal waters. Beside its specific attributes generated by the very constrained technical and economical reality of subsidised housing, the project is trying to establish a contemporary attitude toward our urban landscape, which treasures the spatial and formal innovations of the Modern Movement without being trapped into its Sachlichkeit moralisms. If Walter Benjamin prophetically understood the complex relationships between high-brow and popular culture in the age of technical reproduction, one wonders about the possibilities of contemporary architecture to employ the resonances of the well-known and the banal without falling into the pastiches of commercial architecture which is transforming the whole world into a commodified skin-deep image. The resistance to urban kitsch, at least in Venice, cannot take the simple forms of structural honesty or adopt fashionable avant-garde attitudes, but forces us to question again the problems of modernity versus permanence and individuality versus the collective artifact of the city.

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Urban Spaces 2 / Mumuleanu 14 Apartment Building

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Urban Spaces 2 / Mumuleanu 14 Apartment Building

Urban Design

Main objectives of the project

Date

  • 2020: Construcción

Stakeholders

  • Constructor: ADN Birou de Arhitectura

Location

Continent: Europe
City: Bucharest
Country/Region: Bucharest, Romania

Description

The project densifies and preserves the character of Bucharest's central neighborhood. It consists of 7 house-like volumes arranged along the site, creating a community of 20 unique apartments. The building's shape opens towards the core of the city, with an access courtyard and private gardens. The design takes inspiration from the wagon-type dwellings, with duplex apartments on the ground floor and an elevated gallery for access to the upper floors. The project balances density with the neighborhood's atmosphere, respecting its character. The structure uses concrete frames and plaster as a façade material, preserving traditional craftsmanship. The project densifies a fragmented neighborhood in central Bucharest. It works with local dwelling typologies, in an attempt to preserve the flavour of small corners, courtyards, gardens, long narrow houses which all used to fill the old center of Bucharest, and which are quickly disappearing under a fast and mostly uncontrolled development process. The apartments building is located within a very heterogeneous urban fabric. It consists of 7 house-like volumes, successively placed along the site, creating a community of 20 different apartments. The building’s imprecise outline opens less towards the street, and more towards the deep and diffuse core which is often hidden between Bucharest’s old streets. The elongated volume stretches from the street to the (deep) back of the site and stays connected to the street through an access courtyard that runs along the site’s western boundary. On the plot’s eastern side, the long and irregular strip of land is split into a sequence of private gardens. The entrances’ careful customization and the units’ double orientation are borrowed from the characteristics of the wagon-type dwelling, a typical housing pattern in Bucharest’s old central neighborhoods. Thus, on the ground floor duplex apartments are entered directly from the common garden, like a series of “maisonettes”. On the second floor, an external gallery runs along the whole building, as an elevated “alley” or garden, through which all apartments from the 2nd and 3rd+4th floor are accessed. Bucharest’s central areas face nowadays a fast and rather chaotic densification. While we believe that density can, and many times is form of sustainability, we also admit that the relationship between habitation within an old urban fabric and the increase of its density is often a fragile one, as such areas and places of our city might lose their atmosphere and character. Our project tries to mediate between different sizes and densities, in a central neighborhood with small streets, long, narrow plots, and a puzzle of old and new buildings, of all types and scales, which is also not far from the socialist intervention of a large boulevard and its “curtain” of tall apartment blocks. The project thus tries to work with a local typological criterion (the long “wagon-house”) and aims to respect and complete the neighborhood’s character, by attaching and overlapping within one long and fragmented building several dwellings with distinct, private entrances, porches, gardens, loggias or roof terraces. All units benefit from cross ventilation and open towards the more public West side (front) garden and towards the more intimate East side (back) garden. The structure is made of concrete frames which carefully follow the shape of the 7 volumes. Beams are used only on transversal direction, within the walls between the apartments, allowing for higher openings on the long facades. The slabs are cantilevered towards the Western side, creating the intermediate spaces of the verandahs and open gallery. The slabs are tied together with thin steel columns, working as cross-ties and allowing for a deep façade, with a “portico” appearance. At the same time, the project has searched to reclaim the plaster as a simple, yet beautiful façade material and technique. A very common and rich technique in Bucharest’s older architecture, it has recently almost disappeared, in a period when the whole city is being arbitrarily clad in polystyrene, with standard mechanized finishing. The plaster was applied and finished manually all around the building – all small errors were left visible, precisely because they enhance the beauty of the material. We believe that such “syncopes” complete the whole design’s expressiveness and may recover some of the “handcraft” techniques’ lost qualities.

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