Council housing for Vienna

The project proposes a model for new council housing in Vienna. The proposal offers high quality living spaces – through generous flats and public facilities as well as public transport connections – at low rents and is thus decommodified.

A scenario featuring implementation on several sites aims to maintain the current 60% share of social (council and subsidised) housing in Vienna.

Urban gardens framed by housing provide public facilities for communal activities. Neighbourhoods are highly permeable to promote public use, create airy spaces in densely built-up Vienna and point out the contrast with the commodified city.

Buildings are characterised by load-bearing cores with installations, making them highly adaptable and more likely to become long-lived. South orientation and winter gardens ensure passive house standard. As buildings "without façade", they strengthen the connection to outdoor space, are reminiscent of infrastructure and thus undermine the commodity character of housing.

Thesis, 2016–17