AO& - Outdoor kitchen and lecture space, Raggal 2008. Photos (C) Marc Lins.
SUBTILITAS
fineness of texture, logic, detail; slenderness, exactness, acuteness; sharpness : precision
Querkraft - The passivhaus rated, community oriented, non-profit U31 housing cooperative, Vienna 2010. Photos (C) Lisa Rastl.
marte.marte - Maiden tower, Dafins 2013. Located adjacent to the architect’s own house, the new structure provides living spaces for the family’s daughters, who quickly outgrew the house of the expanding family. Closed on three sides, the corten steel tower has floor to ceiling windows on the facade facing the existing home, creating a material and formal dialog between the two buildings. Via, 2, photos (C) Marc Lins, Anne Garbriel-Jürgens.
Meck Architekten - 2 Family house, Aufhausen 2012. Located next to the firm’s Aufberg 1113 project, the new home was meant to relate to the adjacent home while maintaining its own unique identity. Photos (C) Michael Heinrich.
Rainer Köberl & Giner Wucherer - Town hall renovation, Kufstein 2011. Via, photos (C) Lukas Schaller.
Hermann Kaufman - LCT One office building, Dornbirn 2011. The structure, which is a pioneering system of prefabricated glue-lam wooden members laced with ribbed concrete, allowed the architect to build an eight story wooden tower (the highest legally allowed by the city) while maintaining proper fire separation between floors. The middle image further illustrates how ridiculous this system is; there are no screws or mechanical fasteners between materials; precast concrete pins are used to secure the wood members, whose grain is cut at the most dense point and oriented to combat the sheer forces created by the vertical columns (section). An amazingly delicate balance of fire protection, structural stability, and material strength.
Oskar Leo Kaufmann & Albert Rüf - The prefabricated Ammerwald Alpenhotel, Tyrol 2011. Via, 2, photos (C) Adolf Bereuter
