Village Mitte Housing, Vienna (AT)
New building,
Subsidised housing
Clients: Gemeinnützige Wohnungsgenossenschaften Heimbau and Altmannsdorf-Hetzendorf
Location: A-1030 Vienna, Landstraßer Gürtel / BP7
Architecture: Dietrich Untertrifaller with ARTEC
Competition: 2021 / Fixstarter
Construction: 2021 – 2025
Area: Total 13,640 m² (Dietrich Untertrifaller 4,575 m²)
Programme: 131 flats (including 66 SMART flats), offices, commercial space
Visualisation: Zoom VP, ARE Austrian Real Estate
Team
Harald Eder (Team management), Alejandro Gálvez, Kristin Heußer, Olivia König, Andreas Laimer, Maria Megina, Benjamin Michels (Project management), Katharina Reiner, Dominik Tschabrun, Dominic Wenkel, Melania Zeni
Text: Gerlinde Jüttner
Partners
Landscape: Atelier Auböck & Karasz, Vienna
Social sustainability: realitylab, Vienna
Courtyard, roof gardens and ground floor with a view
Site 7 of the new Village in Vienna's third district, built jointly by us and Artec, is located opposite the passageway to the Landstraßer Gürtel. The project owes its name "Village Mitte" to its prominent location in the middle of the neighbourhood street, which is emphasised by a high point. The residential complex forms an open U-shape towards the park.
The extra-high ground floor is open in the centre and extends the central residential courtyard to the neighbourhood street. This allows views of the park and a kind of covered forecourt. The 131 subsidised flats offer a diverse and affordable range of housing for families, couples and singles.
The compact and energy-efficient buildings show an optimised ratio of usable space to the building envelope. Small spans of the supporting structure, uniform standardised storeys and economical wall and ceiling dimensions save costs. The bracing via the staircases and cores ensures an economically sensible symbiosis of access zone and supporting structure. With serial construction and prefabrication, we are able to further close the cost gap in residential construction.
Village in the third (district)
The newly developed neighbourhood is located between Landstraßer Gürtel and Otto-Preminger-Straße in the north-east, with a park for everyone in the middle. The Gürtelbogen, a two-storey commercial and retail building, shields the residential buildings located behind it from the dense traffic of the Gürtel (Vienna’s city belt). With the guiding principle of "climate-resilient neighbourhood development", the focus is on parks, green façades, roof gardens and permeable paving, but also on social sustainability.
Views, light and openness
A spacious open staircase with seating steps leads from the landscaped courtyard to the park. A lushly planted communal terrace with pergolas and sun sails above the third floor extends the courtyard design to a higher level. A circumferential band of loggias and continuous glazing create views, light and openness in the dense urban development. The 131 subsidised flats offer a diverse and affordable range of housing for families, couples and singles.
Focus on neighbourhood culture
The landscaped inner courtyard connects the park, Gürtelbögen and semi-public passageways. Designed to be varied and communicative, it offers residents a protected yet open area where they can meet, get to know each other and exchange ideas. The so-called culture room with communal kitchen and exhibition space opens up to the park and can be used for private or communal celebrations. The focus is on neighbourhood culture, the small-scale cultural activities of the residents.
