Housing in Vienna
05.05.2010 - 10.06.2010
Christinenstr. 18-19,Aedes am Pfefferberg,D-10119 Berlin, Germany
The exhibition Housing in Vienna / innovative. social. ecological./provides a comprehensive overview of residential development in Vienna from its beginnings up to the present. Featured are altogether 28 realized projects of publicly sponsored residential building and their embedding in ongoing urban development projects with special attention to social and ecological aspects. Among these are a dormitory on Molkerei Strasse in Passive House standard by Baumschlager Eberle Architects, a group of multistory wooden residences like Dietrich/Untertrifaller, Hubert Riess and Kaufmann/Kaufmann, the conversion of the Gasometer by Ateliers Jean Nouvel, Coop Himmelblau, Prof. W?lhelm Holzbauer and Wehdorn Architects, and the residential complex on Tokio Strasse of Artec, but also largescale areas currently under development, such as the Kabelwerk by Pool Architects, the Wienerberg City by Delugan Meissl Associated Architects and the Orasteig Housing Project by Walter Stelzhammer.In the area of residential development, Vienna plays an outstanding role internationally. Nearly 60% of all Viennese households live in subsidized housing, 220,000 of them in communal rental apartments. The city invests in the construction of 5000 to 7000 subsidized apartments annually around 80 to 90% of the total volume of new construction. The goal is to make innovative and ecological architecture available to all social classes. This comprehensive model of a social, planned, and ecologically sustainable housing policy has been achieved stepbystep since the end of World War I, and is being extended further today. This exhibition which was also presented at the 2008 Art Biennale in Venice, in Milan, in Belgrade, in Ankara, and in Vienna is now updated and on view at Aedes am Pfefferberg. |
May 2010
