Grafenwörth Lake Quarter

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The important quality criterium for theSeequartier (Lake Quarter) is the location at the lake, the theme ofliving beside the water. Here the decisive aspect is to ensure thatas many houses as possible have a direct connection to the lake.

Year

2019

Venue

Grafenwörth

State

Competition

Category

Living

Size

31.097 m²

Year

Venue

State

Category

Size

2019

Grafenwörth

Competition

Living

31.097 m²

Year

2019

Venue

Grafenwörth

State

Competition

Category

Living

Size

31.097 m²

Seequartier

Therefore, our first strategy was to clearlyincrease the length of the shoreline while maintaining the size ofthe area of water: the peninsula becomes an island, bays and spits ofland are formed out of the semi-circular shoreline! Most of thehouses have the garden at the front, in the direction of thelakeshore, with a small private strand. However, a few of them, whoseshoreline runs north-east, sit directly on a paved shore with aterrace that hovers above the water line. Their garden is in thesouthwest. Care was taken that residents of those houses withoutdirect access to the lake need take only a very short route to reacha swimming jetty or beach. The eastern section is on the canal –with a view extending into the distance.

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Whether row house, paired house, single-family house or bungalow: from a single GENOTYPE we developed a variety of very different PHENOTYPES.

The genotype has two characteristics: a linear andright-angled row of ancillary spaces and bedrooms, and a living,cooking and dining zone that opens in a trapezoidal shape. Byadjusting the length and width of the row and the angle at which thetrapezoidal zone opens, any floor plan required to meet thedifferentiated situations can be generated!

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The phenotypes developed can therefore reflect thebasic typologies mentioned, but in very different forms, according totheir orientation and position with regard to the lake. In this wayeach house can respond to its specific location and its relationshipto its neighbour.

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Through this range of options alone, the housescan be highly individualised. This aspect can even be furtherheightened as the houses’ “end facades” can be designed aswished by choosing from a number of different timber and glasselements.

However,it is envisaged that what are called the “building envelopefigures” should all share the same materiality – whether whiterender or light-coloured facade panels.

Theresult is an interplay of individuality and communality – like whatwe can observe in those historic villages or town centres that wetoday regard as particularly attractive examples of a culture ofbuilding that has developed gradually over the course of time.

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Architecture

Pichler & Traupmann Architecture

Project team

Bartosz Lewandowski
Patrik Drechsler
Peter Grandits
Anna Gulinska
Jakub Jan Kaczmarek
Jan Niklas Schöpf
Milan Suchanek

Client

VI-Engineers Projektgesellschaft GRA GmbH

Hard facts

Start of planning: 2019

Usable floor area: 24.440 m² (Living space and business)

Gross floor area: 31.097 m² (Living space and business)

Gross floor area: 7.462 m² (Hotel)

Location: Grafenwörth (Lower Austria)

Use: Lakeside residences (hotel, restaurant)

Scope: Consultation procedure

Renderings outside

Patricia Bagienski, Vienna

Renderings inside

Pichler & Traupmann Architects

Award

1st prize