Housing for Single Mother and father / Clemens Kirsch Architektur

Housing for Single Mother and father / Clemens Kirsch Architektur

Textual content description supplied by the architects. The realm of the previous Siemensgründe within the west of Vienna is being developed as a brand new residential quarter (approx. 530 items) on a number of constructing websites. Amongst them is the „Orchidea“ element, which is meant for subsidised housing for single dad and mom. 124 compact flats on 8 flooring are grouped round an inside courtyard open to the south.

Good neighbourliness and alternatives for social change are notably necessary for single dad and mom. Subsequently, the specified compactness of the flats is complemented by a beneficiant supply of communally used rooms.

For single dad and mom, readability is necessary. vvThe flats are lower in a manner that lets you hold your kids in view whereas cooking, homeworking or enjoyable.

 A deep-cut, totally glazed winter backyard ensures that there’s at all times a visible connection, and the room can be utilized as an extra front room / „joker room“ / local weather buffer (winter backyard, workplace, visitor room, and many others.) all 12 months spherical. Fastened curtains can be utilized to visually separate particular person rooms and room areas to make sure the required privateness.

120 years after Otto Wagner & Max Fabiani, the Viennese theme of the tile façade is revisited: The outer shell consists primarily of vertical, gentle inexperienced tiles (cut up tiles) together with a plaster façade of the identical color. As a recent distinction, the balcony balustrades had been executed in salmon colors to provide the constructing a Mediterranean lightness.