The driving force behind this radically low-cost multi-level research project happened to be an extremely low budget and a special client. The rooms of this 100 m² sized apartment house are located on different levels from which the orchard can be experienced from various perspectives. Ceiling heights of 2.20 m to 4.35 m convey a feeling of [...]
Rebuilding as a chance: Schattendorf Primary School   The annex of the Primary School in Schattendorf, a municipality in Burgenland, Austria, is a fine example of successful collaboration between committed architects and educators. Besides its existing eight classrooms, the neo-classical two-winged and two-story building possessed hardly any useable areas. The building lacked an appropriate entrance [...]
Photo: Lisi Gradnitzer Photo: Alex Koller Photo: Lisi Gradnitzer They appeared in the MuseumQuartier (MQ) in Vienna for the first time in the winter of 2002: The Enzis made their debut stacked up to create nearly baroque-style punch stands. It got warmer, the punch had all been drunk, but the Enzis remained. The vast emptiness [...]
A pair of Twins consists of two identical elements that are vertically or horizontally joined together by means of simple cable connectors. Many Twins pairs are then almost endlessly combinable, in surface area as well as on edge, upside down or stacked into each other. Like ENZIs, they have various performative effects on users. By dividing them [...]