Swobodas go Neustadlau
Author(s)
studio uek
Theresa Krenn (AT)
Katharina Urbanek (AT)
Benni Eder (AT)
Julia Wieger (AT)
Stefanie Nolz (AT)
Client(s)
Wien Holding
GESIBA Gemeinnützige Siedlungs und Bauaktiengesellschaft
Competition team
Benni Eder (AT)
Theresa Krenn (AT)
Katharina Urbanek (AT)
architects
Europan 9 Wien
winner
2011-2013
Two Austrian teams were selected to build the two other parts of the area. The first one (ARGE Köb&Pollak / Alexander Schmoeger) on the North side worked on experimental housing providing apartments from a very small size like 30m2 up to big shared apartments. The second team (goya ZT GmbH), in the South part, focussed on young and urban housing with a lot of sports and leisure facilities inside the housing project. Studio uek built 171 housing (of which 30 are sheltered housing) + a geriatric day centre. The three built parts have some common spaces dedicated, for some of them, to support the small community of the building and for some other, to offer possibilities to inhabitants of the whole project (like the “play and celebration space” in the studio uek part). A roof-top-route links the three built parts offering also collective spaces (like tenants flowerbeds, glass house, summer kitchen…).
The participative activation process allowed inhabitants to define the programs for smaller common spaces and they were also involved in the management of the flowerbeds/ garden on the roof.
The project was finished and handed over to the inhabitants in Spring 2013.












This project is connected to the following themes
Mobility - Social Fields
The concept reflects the full city scale by introducing different potential residents and their varying scales of mobility, so that the existing fabric is reinterpreted through the newly proposed constructions, which also offer a rooftop promenade.
Shared spaces - Link - promenade
In order to introduce a real neighbourhood in which the community can meet, the project uses different strategies, including that of multiple routes both between but also on the roofs of the buildings around the district.
Housing - Community
The plan developed in this project emphasises shared spaces, both indoors and outdoors. And to further support the growth of a sense of community between the new residents, a participatory scheme is introduced alongside the planning and construction arrangements.