brief description: social housing / private public partnership // space sharing aspects: new typology / hybrid multifunctional spaces / switchable floor plan / multiincident shell
location: Bad Waltersdorf, Styria, Austria
client: Franz and Gertrude Brugner
architecture: SPLITTERWERK
project-team: Mark Blaschitz, Hannes Freiszmuth, Johann Grabner, Edith Hemmrich, Bernhard Kargl, Antje Neitsch, Gernot Ritter, Josef Roschitz, Andreas Stampfer
structural consultant: Wilhelm Lerch
energy consultant: Peter Kautsch
photos: Paul Ott, Nikolaos Zachariadis
video & video-stills: Markus Max Nagler, Mirac Caglar Yazici, Nikolaos Zachariadis
site area: 1.214 sqm
built-up area: 620 sqm
costs: 650.000 €
start of planning: 1998
start of construction: 2003
completion: 2004
construction: Bau-Pilz, Cserni Wohnen, Bscheider, Schlosserei Heco, Holz Bau Weiz
exhibition: in-aus-nach Salzburg, Austria and Sculptural Architecture in Austria, China
award: Geramb Dankzeichen für gutes Bauen 2004
Multiincident Shells are switchable structures that are enriched with events
The Blue Shell in the Black Treefrog is a Multiincident Shell which is informed by the functions and programs of dwelling. The program of daily life – kitchen niche, sleeping cove, bathing niche, etc. – is then integrated into the space in between. The new interior envelope is conceived as a continuously active media surface – Projections, enlarged picture screens or TV – that makes the spatial divisions into virtual phenomena.
VerfasserIn: Ina Westheiden // Bilder & Text: SPLITTERWERK
