Site
Satzingerweg 64, 1210 Wien

Start of Planning
03/2013

Start of Construction
10/2015

Completion
08/2017

Site Area
13.143 m²

Building Footprint
3.644 m²

Gross Floor Area
15.855 m²

FAR
1.21

Net Rentable Space
11.006 m²

Units
146

Mean Appartment Size
75,38 m²

Budget
€14.900.000,–
€1.350,–/m² 

Partners in Charge
Mark Gilbert, Christian Aulinger

Project Team
Christian Aulinger, Mark Gilbert
Entwurf: Joao Carolino, Elena Stoycheva, Agnese Trinchera;
Realisation: Katharina Tanzberger (ProjectLeader), Joao Carolino,
Alexandra Lamperti, Manuel Pawelka, Matthias Brandmaier

Client
Neue Heimat Gemeinnützige Wohnungsbau Ges.m.b.H., Vienna

            Consultants
Landscape: Carla Lo Landschaftsarchitektur
Civil Engineering: Dorr-Schober & Partner
HVAC: PHI KlimaTechnik
Fire Protection: DI Erich Röhrer

General Contractor
Strabag

Fotos
© 2017 Daniel Hawelka

SAT is part of the Schichtgründe, a historically prominent industrial area that was reprogrammed in 2013 into a multi-functional urban quarter, with housing for 2.000 new residents. TC collaborated with s&s plus Architects and zwo PK Landscape Planning on the development of the master plan for the urban complex.

SAT consists of two U-shaped housing tracts, which are rotated 180° in respect to each other. This two-part figure is fitted into a geometrically quite challenging parcel that faces out onto a heavily wooded parkland and forms the quarter’s northern edge.

The interplay of two-part figure and urban plot generates a network of green courtyards that are varied in size and shape. This web of grassy and leafy spaces imparts unto each building a singular sense of place, and creates a set of finely graded connections with the surrounding quarter.

The form of the buildings is tightly related to their programmatic content. The estate contains two types of housing: 1/3 of all units are SMART apartments, which are Vienna’s program for small and exceptionally affordable flats; the remaining 2/3 are standard types of subsidized social housing. Each tract consists of two compact, atrium-like blocks of standard apartments, which are connected at right-angles to a bent, single-loaded wing of SMART units. The dialog between the skylighted atriums and the open galleries of the SMART wings is a central theme in the project.

The buildings’ masses are rendered in light grey stucco; incisions cut into these forms are rendered in white. The sculptural effect of the stucco masses is amplified by the positioning of the dense volumes of the precast, white-concrete balconies. The lacy structure of the lightly sandblasted, white-concrete gallery sidings delivers a delicate counterpoint to the insistent, ostinato rhythms of stucco masses and concrete volumes.