Wohnpark Alterlaa - Vienna, Austria
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Wohnpark Alterlaa - Vienna, Austria
Alt-Erlaa, Vienna
AFFORDABLE QUALITY HOUSING IN VIENNA (2016)
Vienna’s commitment to cheap urban housing is widely known, with around 60% of the city’s residents living in Affordable dwellings. This video looks in detail at the system, and some of the recent high-density projects it has enabled. The genesis of each new estate sounds like a dream to any architect who has ever had to fight for every scrap of design quality in an Affordable scheme: “Every single big new housing estate has to go through a competition process. A team of architect, non-profit developer, landscape architect, and other experts present a complete product to the city, and then it is judged by an independent jury based on architecture, ecology, economy, and social sustainability.” (Image via spfaust.wordpress)
In June, I was part of a panel discussion on the topic of large housing estates. Following the presentation of the film “27 Storeys - Alterlaa Forever”, I joined Prof Natalie Heger and Heike Bütler, former district manager and head of the Hattersheim district office, in the foyer of the Naxos cinema in Frankfurt to discuss the topicality of serial construction and solution strategies for the housing crisis.
Public housing is the accommodation of last resort in the U.S. Not so in Austria's capital city.
[Update] Gefährliche Kreuzung beim Wohnpark Alt-Erlaa
Bei der Kreuzung vor dem Wohnpark kommt es leider immer wieder zu Zwischenfällen am Zebrastreifen unter der U-Bahntrasse. Vor allem FußgängerInnen, die von der Wohnparkseite die Anton Baumgartner-Straße überqueren wollen, werden immer wieder durch heran rasende Autos gefährdet.
Harry Glück: Housing Alt-Erlaa, Vienna, Austria; 1973-1985
The development of Alt-Erlaa is one of the largest housing estates in Austria and is a city within a city with complete infrastructure representing a showcase of the functioning satellite town of the 70s.
The Alt-Erlaa complex in Vienna, Austria — a social housing complex built between 1973 and 1985 for low-income residents — provides 3,172 mostly family-friendly apartments (65% of homes with at least 3 bedrooms) and 3,400 underground parking spaces to approximately 10,000 occupants.
The arrangement of the apartments follows the concept of “stacked single-family home” in the form of terraced apartments. To complement this approach, up to the 12th floor planters also serve as a privacy screen. Every home has at least one balcony as private open space.
Beyond the basics, Alt-Erlaa also includes 2 clinics, 3 schools, 2 day care centers, 1 athletic facility, a church, an administrative building and a shopping mall. Alt-Erlaa also has its own rail station for traveling on Vienna’s public rail transport
On top of each of the 27-storey cascading blocks, there is an outdoor swimming pool used regularly by 70% of the residents. When too cold outside, they can use one of the several indoor swimming pools. There’s also a sauna, a solarium, and tennis and soccer courts. Of course, there is ample green space lush enough that one might forget they are in a city let alone a housing project block.
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Harry Glück, Housing Alt-Erlaa, 1973-1985, Vienna, Austria