RESIDENTIAL AREA ZAUNERGASSE
DWELLING HOUSE
DECEMBER 1996
6.000,00 M² SQM
6.000,00 M² SQM
For passengers on a train coming from Vienna a new perspective opens:
Besides the usual live-spectacle consisting of the idyll of allotments a new version of Salzburg sightseeing is offered to the passengers: most up-to-date residential buildings! Immediately past the railway underpass a “Stiegenturm" (stair-tower) rises from the embankment and forms, as it were, the “point of connection" towards the city.
A real “residential machine" has been created. Behind the tower a residential site consisting of 72 residential units exists, something the passenger in the train cannot guess. A block of six storeys protects the rest of the site from the railway. All living rooms look to the south, secondary rooms to the cold and noisy north.
Towards Zaunergasse stands a white block in the style of classical modernism, somewhat smaller in its proportions than the big brother in the background.
From the terraces of the uppermost storeys a breathtaking view can be had. Beneath balconies with frosted glass in various lengths rhythmisize the outward outlay of the building, together with a sophisticated colour concept.
Stair towers are a further example for how industrial glass can be put to good use, as had been shown before by the example of the power-station “north", reconstructed by Marie-Claude Beatrice and Eraldo Consolasci.
Gerd Zehetner
Besides the usual live-spectacle consisting of the idyll of allotments a new version of Salzburg sightseeing is offered to the passengers: most up-to-date residential buildings! Immediately past the railway underpass a “Stiegenturm" (stair-tower) rises from the embankment and forms, as it were, the “point of connection" towards the city.
A real “residential machine" has been created. Behind the tower a residential site consisting of 72 residential units exists, something the passenger in the train cannot guess. A block of six storeys protects the rest of the site from the railway. All living rooms look to the south, secondary rooms to the cold and noisy north.
Towards Zaunergasse stands a white block in the style of classical modernism, somewhat smaller in its proportions than the big brother in the background.
From the terraces of the uppermost storeys a breathtaking view can be had. Beneath balconies with frosted glass in various lengths rhythmisize the outward outlay of the building, together with a sophisticated colour concept.
Stair towers are a further example for how industrial glass can be put to good use, as had been shown before by the example of the power-station “north", reconstructed by Marie-Claude Beatrice and Eraldo Consolasci.
Gerd Zehetner
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