Housing over Spittelau Viaduct - Zaha Hadid.

[vOid]

Housing over Spittelau viaduct in Vienna by Zaha Hadid.
Link to youtube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqPP4kqdvs4)

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Location map

[SWANK-E]

I think the map is a bit too zoomed out and hard to see... got the kmz and address??

i can see the Vienna (Wien) "ring" is south of this project

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Address: Spittelauer Lände, 1090 Wien, Österreich
Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects (Zaha M. Hadid)
Start of Planning: 1994
Construction: 2004 - 2005

Map close up

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Google earth file
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And some more photos...
here (http://tatosian.livejournal.com/25722.html)

[imasayer]

Any pictures of the inside? Anyone?

[trogers]

I don't think those pics were taken with a wide enough lens...

:D

I'd like to second the motion for inside shots.

[vOid]

I don't have any interior pictures, sorry...
However, here's how you can get there if someone wishes to go there and take some :D
U-Bahn (underground) lines U4 and U6, exit at Spittelau station.

[vOid]

Project description and model image from Zaha Hadid's website (http://www.zaha-hadid.com/)

[dhaa]

I went to see this during my last short stay (5 hours) in Vienna. Surprisingly:] I had some camera with me so I have a few (rather informative if anything) shots... sorry to disappoint you, I neither have any interior shots. It was not finished yet last winter and the access to the houses was fenced.

the first shot is taken from the opposite side of the Donaukanal

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approaching from the south

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the hero shot

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the result of the separation of the 2 pedestrian ways: this is the "transit" one wheras up on the terrace there's one that gives access to some of the houses. This lower part is strange... it feels as if you were undercrossing some highway or something. quite unnecessary, isn't it?

[dhaa]

the columns supporting the floating part. just note that they're not randomly inclined, but they lie in 3 different leaning planes.

[dhaa]

i don't have anything more. sorry. just in case you were interested in the other weird building with the strange chimney behind the zaha's buildings in my 2nd shot, it's Hundertwasser's Fernwärmewerk Spittelau/Spittelau Heating plant.

[dhaa]

Well, I do have something more in fact. I just found these drawings on my disk:
Floorplans

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and sections

[heavyweather]

The sections dont show the posts that had to be driven very deep into the ground. The structure below is Otto Wagners Stadtbahn and not to be touched.
The building was intented for flats but they could not sell any so it is housing students now. Due to the weired angles the furniture is already there.

The next wild thing is another building above old Wagner structure. Porr is building a big office building right over the Bögen joining the U6 after the Station Spitelau, south side going to the city.

Heres the link, a picture on the website.

http://www.porr.lt/projekt/projekt.htm?projektid=1334

[Kristov Krusjev]

Hope no one minds me adding a few pictures of the Spittelau project, their burning a hole in my hard drive...

first up a "wide angle" shot.

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second, one of those fantastic Hadid sketches (paintings)

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a model of the complex

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and next up the slit in the top most part of the building (refering to the picture of the model) now is that good architecture to let light into the volume by placeing walls 50 cm appart?

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the first "element"

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the rest of the house

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detail of windows

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detail of corner

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the other angle of the street view

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angular forms

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I mean REALLY angular and bended and shtuff.. she's not the contractors dream I am guessing....
working our way down below to the riverside

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meeting of the viaduct and the housing

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more of the relation between the two

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still more of the contrasting objects

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on the other side of the viaduct, coming down to the river

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down by the river

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the river side

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thats.. :wondering

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detail of window - now that's fantastic craftmanship

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connection between the bridge and the viaduct

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river side and riverside in context

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passage for pedestrians

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detail of connection between housing and viaduct

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on top of things (e.g. the viaduct)

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closing in on the house

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the space in between. and the tunnel/passage thingamabob

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the other side

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detail of the groove

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main entrance

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interior (sorry guys, I huffed and I puffed but the house was made of bricks and I couldn't get in)

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detail at window - astonishing work with the details.

[franjayo]

Thanks so much for the pictures, they give a very good idea of the project.

Dry and crooked. I would not buy one of these, furniture beware.

One good thing for the contractor is that if he built a wall more slanted than he
was supposed to, nobody will know.

[Kristov Krusjev]

river side of the house