Where the remains of the former ‘Euroshopping centre’ once stood at the western entrance to Graz, there is now a ‘green residential courtyard’ with around 600 flats and corresponding infrastructure.
The central idea of the project was to create a closed block with a soundproofed and traffic-free inner courtyard, where a generous, coherent and easily usable open space is created.
With its clearly directed outer edge and basic configuration, the building reacts as a closed block to the large scale of the neighbouring high-rise buildings and contrasts the vertical expression of these high-rises with a horizontal counterpart. The silhouette, which develops at different heights, responds to the existing dimensions of the neighbouring buildings – low towards Grillweg and higher in the area of the high-rise residential buildings on Kärntner Strasse.
The central, contiguous open space forms a ‘green centre’ and is framed by a circumferential, paved pathway, to which the semi-public life of the apartment block is attached.
Competition 2015
Award 1st prize
Planning 2017-2019
Realization 2020-2021
Landscape architect 3zu0 Landschaftsarchitektur
Photos Pierer.net