Europa Campus, Salzburg (AT)
New building,
Neighbourhood Development
Client: SES Spar European Shopping Centers GmbH
Location: A-5015 Salzburg, Europastraße
Architecture: Dietrich Untertrifaller
Competition: 2024, 2. prize
Programme: Offices, retail, services, gastronomy, health centre, bank, police station
Visualisation: Dietrich Untertrifaller
Team: Sarah Breidenbach, Luisa Dennig, Vinzenz Dreher, Julian Imbery, Barbora Köver Tothova, Aline Mory, Claire Oswald, Michael Porath, Sofia Ramos Marin, Anna Katharina Salz, Martin Thüring, Fabio Verber
Text: Gerlinde Jüttner
Partners
Statics: gbd, Vienna
Building services: e7 energy innovation & engineering, Vienna
Landscape: Henning Larsen, Überlingen
A multifunctional district centre for Taxham
Together with the Europark shopping centre, the three circular interwoven buildings form the future district centre of Salzburg-Taxham. The base houses restaurants, a health centre, sports and fitness areas as well as a bank branch and police station. At the same time, it serves as a base and access point for the newly designed SPAR centre.
Together with the differentiated offerings of the base, the neighbourhood square forms a lively, communicative space that invites people to linger. The open pathways on and through the square, together with retreat areas and niches, create ‘favourite places’ for a variety of interests. A free-standing pavilion with shops and a café also provides covered waiting areas for the bus station.
Two-storey open spaces with a view
The façade opens transparently onto the square and creates a flowing transition between the existing building, the new neighbourhood square and the base zones of the new building. The cantilevered upper storeys extend the usable areas behind them into the outdoor space. In the northern section with the access to the square, a set of seating steps leads around the building to the recessed main entrance. The upper storeys are clad with prefabricated, interlocking façade modules with integrated solar shading.
Office floors with courtyards, atriums and bridges
Connecting bridges complement the routing in the office storeys. They are extended through to the inner courtyards and atriums, allowing natural, two-sided lighting and direct access to the outside space. With its green inner courtyards and bridges as well as recessed break areas on each floor, the new Spar headquarters building offers numerous opportunities to relax in the fresh air.
Demountable, recyclable, sustainable
The components of the building layers are largely natural materials such as natural fibre insulation or wood-based materials. Recycled materials can be decomposed as organic materials and integrated into the natural cycle or are designed in such a way that they can be transferred to a technical cycle. The building can be dismantled into its individual parts and recycled for the most part and can therefore be returned to the circular economy.
The modular construction method and the repetitive, identically sized components utilise the full potential of serial prefabrication. The choice of materials and timber hybrid construction minimise the consumption of resources and optimise the eco-balance of the entire building. The chosen construction reduces CO² consumption by more than two thirds compared to conventional solid construction with mineral building materials.
With around 130 shops and 2,000 employees, Europark is the largest shopping centre in western Austria. Its location in the middle of the surrounding residential areas and educational institutions forms an important local meeting point for Taxham. The new district centre at the intersection of daily routes and needs attracts residents, visitors and employees to the centre and provides space for existing and future development potential.
