24_ERZ – Green Living | AllesWirdGut Architektur ZT GmbH

NAME

Project title: ERZ – Green Living

Recommending party
The project has been submitted by: Andreas Marth, AllesWirdGut Architektur ZT GmbH

LOCATION
Country: Austria

City: Wien

Address: Aspernstraße 62-66, Lavaterstrasse 9-11,

AUTHOR

Designer or design team architects: AllesWirdGut Architektur ZT GmbH

DETAILS  

Plot Area: 9.270 sq.m.

Gross Area: 20.212 sq.m.

Of which residential:  75%
Public/communal areas:  5%
Facilities for the public: 5%
Business/trade: 7,5%
Offices: 7,5%

Number of residential units: 120
Typology of users: families
Total building costs Euros: 14.400.000,00 €
Building Cost = Total Bulding Cost / Gross Area: 712, 44 €/ sq.m.
Floor area ratio = Gross Area / Plot Area: 2,18
Work started on date: Sunday, 1st July 2007
Work completion date: Sunday, 1st May 2011

OWNERSHIP 

Promoter: EGW Heimstätte + ÖVW Österreichisches Wohnungswerk
Allotment rule:  assigned to people with lower-income
Reduction cost percentage compared to the market value:
– assignment:  55 %
– rent: 60-70%

Description of the project: 

since summer 2011, the new residents of the Herzberg public housing project developed by AllesWirdGut and feld72 have been settling into their new homes and urban environment.

The idea behind the Herzberg development is to create a built structure which combines a variety of residential offerings into one neighborhood that facilitates different ways of living.

This objective was pursued on both an urban-planning and on an architectural level.

For one thing, the estate comprises several widely different urban-design typologies:

There is the lawn with several point block buildings scattered on it; the residential courtyard building with access balconies, or the street and plaza with a multi-family townhouse.

This collage structure makes the estate mediate in the urban fabric between the colony of small-scale single-family houses on the West side and a shopping mall to the East.

For another thing, the buildings are terraced on the upper storeys, which creates different living and outdoor situations from floor to floor.

The range of apartment types thus created spans from the single-person rooftop apartment with a large terrace to flexible (blended) family apartments with living rooms from which one or two temporary bedrooms may easily be partitioned off if needed, and to assisted-living homes for children without families.

The color design re-unifies the resultant diversity into one coherent neighborhood and provides it with an urban identity of its own.