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Conversion Gösserhalle, Vienna, Austria by AllesWirdGut Architektur

Project name:
Conversion Gösserhalle
Architecture firm:
AllesWirdGut
Location:
Vienna, Austria
Photography:
Tschinkersten Fotografie
Principal architect:
Herwig Spiegl
Design team:
Competition team: Aline Schmidt, Johannes Windbichler, Karolina Pettikova, Teresa Aćimović. Project team: Alexis Brune, Arwen Weber, Florian Gottler, Martino Matteo, Till Martin
Collaborators:
Illustrations: AllesWirdGut; Collage: socks-studio.com/ Michael Kirkham (CC BY-SA 3.0), amended by AllesWirdGut
Built area:
5,170 m²
Site area:
2,813 m²
Design year:
2020 (competition – 1st prize)
Completion year:
2023
Interior design:
BURGHARDT ZT GESMBH
Landscape:
ARGE SimZim Grimm
Civil engineer:
SWIETELSKY AG
Structural engineer:
Structural planning: KS Ingenieure ZT GmbH, Building services planning: Ingenieurbüro Schulterer
Environmental & MEP:
BCE Beyond Carbon Energy Holding GmbH
Lighting:
XAL
Construction:
steel construction
Supervision:
KS Ingenieure ZT GmbH
Visualization:
Expressiv
Tools used:
ArchiCAD, Twinmotion, Revit, Solibri, Madaster
Material:
brick, steel, glass, wood
Budget:
Undisclosed
Client:
Gösserhalle GmbH
Status:
Completed
Typology:
Commercial › Office Building

AllesWirdGut: The Gift

Of brewing and building, from yesterday into tomorrow—the history of the so-called Gösserhalle in Favoriten, Vienna’s 10th district, is a checkered one. Ever since its construction the industrial building, originally built as a workshop premises by the ÖBB before 1900, then converted into a beer warehouse for the famous Gösser company in the middle of the last century and most recently repurposed as an event venue, has, with its distinctive façade with clinker-clad wide arches, defined the character of its urban quarter. This identity-forming brickwork structure was now taken into the future.

Utilizing the existing structure in a very mindful way, the project strikes a balance between urban design stipulations and the needs of future use—and embarks on a radical intervention in the process: While the exterior walls of the old Gösserhalle were preserved, the existing roof was pulled down to create optimal conditions for a new three-storey building that accommodates office spaces and a restaurant and is enclosed by the historical walling.

The differential between the former building depth and the new skin creates a surprising, luxurious tension-loaded three-meter interval, which, through the correlations it facilitates, seeks to evoke magical moments like just right before a kiss. That in-between space is a gift and will be developed with regard to design, ecological, economic and pragmatic aspects. The concept relies on prefabricated modular elements and a mix of materials consisting of wood, clinker and metal.


By Liliana Alvarez

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