Masterplan / Preliminary Design Biotope City
BiotopCity is a pilot project for the conversion of a former industrial area, the CocaCola site in the south of Vienna, initiated by the urban planner Helga Fassbinder. The planning process was organized as a cooperative procedure among architects, social scientists and landscape architects. The result was a comlex masterplan including the future building structure […]
Iles Flottantes
The design offers a common public space to the inhabitants of a large new housing complex, subsidised by the municipality of Vienna, This landscape – financed by six different developers and non-profit cooperatives – serves as outdoor meeting place, recreation area and playground for kids and adults. A preliminary stage included also a neighbourhood park […]
WagnisArt
WagnisART is exceptional for its consultation processes within housing projects that consider architecture and landscape as one. The commitment to the community was already forged during the consultation process that began with wasteland and included open space as an immanent part of the overall project. The planners managed the consultation process by several stages in […]
Saalachstraße / Rottweg
A new spacious residential development emerges on the outskirts of Salzburg, closed to commercial buildings, among predominantly detached housing developments as well as hitherto still agricultural areas. What contribution can landscape architecture provide in such a place? The open space of this housing complex is designed as a striking landscape statement: a dense irregular arrangement […]
Smart Housing
This housing unit includes two atmospherically contrasting sites: on the one hand an urban square, accessible from the street with four green intarsia planted with herbaceous perennials and ornamental grasses, inviting to rest. On the other hand an open space shaped as grove of maples, ash trees, Ginkgos and lime trees. The lawn of this […]
so.vie.so
Part of a new urban development of former railway grounds the project was developed in participation with the future residents. The housing unit is a prominent testimony for the Viennese concept of a so called social sustainability. It was distinguished with the Wohnbaupreis 2015 of the city of Vienna. The sunken garden close to a […]
Nursing home Döbling
Located in a residential area close to the Vienna woods the outdoor spaces of the nursing home mirror different types of Austrian regions: like a filmstrip of landscapes from flat lake areas, forest plateaus and hilly vineyards to alpine gardens. This panorama evolves in an unobtrusive way – a kind of storyboard of memories familiar […]
Lavaterstraße
This project integrates in the concept hybrid forms of landscape designs- walks, playgrounds, rain gardens, even a shopfront for plants. The complex planting concept offers orientation by rows of trees and identity in the smaller areas by choice of leave structures and flower colour.
ro*sa
A unique gender housing project was conceived by a feminist group. The site offers a lawn garden with groups of bamboo and pink hibiscus, playground and rose patio. The roof offers a splendid view and circular plant beds for herbs and vegetables.
Absberggasse
The housing project is the first part of a development in the area of a former children’s hospital in Vienna. The quartier is characterized by a growing migrant population with an increasing need for open space, playgrounds in particular. As the site includes a remarkable difference in height levels two terraces were created integrating them […]