Study Rennweg, Vienna (AT)
New building,
Neighbourhood Development
Client: S+B Gruppe
Location: A-1110 Vienna, Rennweg
Architecture: Dietrich Untertrifaller
Study: 2021
Construction: Under development
Programm: Shops, small businesses, catering, offices, residential, kindergarten, production cinema
Visualisation: Dietrich Untertrifaller
Team
Sarah Breidenbach, Maria Megina (Project management), Julian Roiser
Text: Gerlinde Jüttner
Partners
Utilisation concept: art.phalanx, Vienna
Landscape: Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl, Überlingen
The vertical city
The long building site on Vienna's Rennweg is exciting, challenging and diverse. Old structures with small businesses and housing meet the ambitious event and research centre Neu-Marx or the T-Mobile headquarters. Powerful traffic arteries such as the south-east tangent and S-Bahn give the site its insular location and at the same time ensure excellent connections to the city centre and the airport.
We want to create a new, lively, urban building block here. The hybrid project of nine buildings, including two high-rise blocks, combines living with creative work and manufacturing.
Network instead of competition
True to the motto "from competition to network", people from different areas are encouraged to share their knowledge and thus create something completely new. An intensive exchange requires numerous opportunities for encounters and meeting places. We therefore stack the elements of the city (residential buildings, offices, production spaces, public facilities) with their entrances and vestibules, streets and squares vertically, thus facilitating dialogue between users.
The public functions are distributed across all floors of the buildings, connected by the so-called Loop. These wide ramps for cyclists and pedestrians ensure short distances. The streets, squares and small parks on the individual levels are heavily greened and become places of community, meeting and exchange.
A pedestrian and cycle-friendly development spans the two traffic arteries Tangente and Rennweg. This reactivates the street space for people.
The vertical city is linked to the city centre and the distant view of the tangent with two landmarks. Their height marks the entrances to the neighbourhood. Between them, a differentiated silhouette of seven buildings of different heights is created.
The usual division of the diverse uses into ground floor for shops, small businesses, restaurants, followed by offices and residential above has been broken up and verticalised.
The addresses of the stacked houses are also aligned with the promenade network. Each one is fronted by an intensively greened shelf that users can appropriate. This gives each house a forecourt and an individual identity.
