Together not everyone for themselves! A shared house, a creative cluster, a place for working, thinking, and networking – and all this right in the middle of the city. A pioneering project: We designed, developed, financed, and built our office building in the Sonnwendviertel ourselves under the umbrella of a limited liability company (GmbH).
Details
Photography
Andreas Buchberger,
Franz&Sue/Louai Abdul Fattah
Client
Bloch-Bauer-Promenade 23 Real GmbH
State
Completed
Net Usable Floor Area
3.150 m²
Building Costs
4,7 Mio. €
Awards
Bauherrenpreis 2019, AIT-Award für Mixed Use 2020, best architects 21
We love to explore new and unusual paths. Working together as equals and maintaining an intensive exchange of knowledge with others is – we are sure of that – beneficial to all. We live this philosophy at Franz&Sue, in the ‘fight club’ and in our voluntary work in various architectural institutions. Several of our projects are developed in cross-practice working groups even today. Thus, we realised a project that’s very close to our hearts together with friends and colleagues: Stadtelefant (city elephant) near Helmut Zilk Park. A creative cluster in one of the most exciting development areas with a public cafeteria and a shared meeting and event room. For discussions, networking and cross-practice projects. Our house is a pioneering project – it is the only building in this primarily residential area where working spaces are on all storeys.
Under one roof
»We believe that together we are stronger and life is easier.« Therefore, we developed, designed and built our office building right next to Vienna’s Central Station as a limited liability company (GmbH). It includes our architect friends from SOLID and PLOV as well as companies from related sectors such as A-NULL Bausoftware (construction software) and Hoyer Brandschutz (fire safety).
A perfect opportunity
Communication is crucial for us – good work and, most importantly, a good life are not possible without it. Franz&Sue have always had fresh meals cooked for the team every day: a perfect opportunity to get together, to talk and to celebrate.
There is much room for all that in our new building, too: 100m2 on the ground floor. The public cafeteria is run by Mimi im Stadtelefant, we use it as our in-house canteen. This communal place is used as a space for discussions, informal events and meetings. Furthermore people living and working in the neighbourhood as well as members of Vienna’s architectural scene are invited to drop in and be ‘our’ guests. From architects with love, may community life flourish!
Click here for our collective website: stadtelefant.at.
Floor plan Ground floor - Cafeteria
Floor plan Upper floor 1 - Office
Floor plan Upper floor 6 - Living
Type Of Commission
EU-weit offener, zweistufiger Wettbewerb
Client
Bloch-Bauer-Promenade 23 Real GmbH
Construction
2017–2018
Gross Floor Area
3.750 m²
Scope Of Commission
Generalplanung
Location
Wien
State
Completed
Building Costs
4,7 Mio. €
Design
2016–2017
Net Usable Floor Area
3.150 m²
Team
Joseph Suntinger (PL), Norbert Peller, Jonathan Hering, Karin Hackl, Philipp Stromer, Wolfgang Fischer, Carla Kuhn, Simon Frey, Caro Berger, Ajdin Vukovic
Awards
Bauherrenpreis 2019, AIT-Award für Mixed Use 2020, best architects 21
Structural Engineer
Petz
Building Physics
Schöberl & Pöll
Building Services
BPS Engineering
Lighting Design
Regent, Prolicht
Fire Safety Planning
Hoyer Brandschutz
Site Supervision
A Quadrat Ziviltechniker
Photography
Andreas Buchberger,
Franz&Sue/Louai Abdul Fattah
Building Contractor
Alfred Trepka
