SCHUBERTH AND SCHUBERTH

How can exist­ing town cen­ters be den­si­fied with­out chang­ing the scale — and what role do con­struc­tion meth­ods and den­si­ty of detail play in this? An exam­ple from Wei­dling near Klosterneuburg, in the shad­ow of the baroque parish church.

The project adapts to the plot and allows the del­i­cate struc­ture to fol­low the slop­ing ter­rain pro­file. Open and closed spaces, old and new, vol­umes and details com­ple­ment each oth­er — just like in tra­di­tion­al vil­lage cen­ters. This diver­si­ty places high demands on plan­ning and exe­cu­tion: there are twelve dif­fer­ent floor lev­els on the first floor alone.
The con­struc­tion method is adapt­ed: Brick walls, tim­ber frame, con­crete skele­ton, sol­id tim­ber ceil­ings, green roofs, clay plas­ter. The mix of mate­ri­als and the col­ors respond to the his­toric town­scape.

An orig­i­nal design by archi­tect Sil­via Frac­aro was revised and imple­ment­ed. The res­i­den­tial com­plex com­pris­es 11 res­i­den­tial units, includ­ing ter­raced hous­es, apart­ments and detached prop­er­ties, as well as an under­ground garage with its own bridge.

Wei­dling near Vien­na, com­ple­tion 2025
Team: Bea­ta Pam­mer (project man­age­ment), Sofi­ia Hra­ban, Batu Dün­dar
Struc­tur­al engi­neer­ing: Helt Zivil­tech­niker GmbH
Visu­al­iza­tions Iev­genii Kali­novych, pho­tos Christoph Panz­er