7 Hirten
Residential complex Siebenhirten
Vienna
Project: Construction of terraced houses with 37 residences
Location: Vienna 23., Basler Gasse/ Leo Mathauser-Gasse
Status: completed
Year: 2011
Client: Basler Wohnbau GmbH
Doubt is a constant companion of
the architect who stirs himself for the first time in the designing chest with
the earliest pencil stroke on the still virgin sketch paper, and it remains
with him long after a house has been completed.
Lo and behold, I found a delightfully lively terraced house complex with 37 houses, containing almost exactly the spirit I intended to capture with my pencil from the very start.
Have I found the appropriate design response to the building task? What does the client think, what do the colleagues think, what do I think myself? Will the users feel comfortable or will they curse the planner eternally because of some decisions? How would have Le Corbusier or Zaha Hadid solved this task?
Ten years of doubts were enough,
and so I set off to far away Liesing to find some answers.
Completion
Photographs: Miroslava Andric
Lo and behold, I found a delightfully lively terraced house complex with 37 houses, containing almost exactly the spirit I intended to capture with my pencil from the very start.
37 different residents /
families / friends of 37 outwardly almost identical terraced houses have given
each building an individual "user scent". A nicely planted front
garden with forsythia, a small swing, a "sweet home" sign and even a
stork (made of cardboard) took my doubts and showed me that the users obviously
like to live there.
Construction site
Visualisation
Site plan
