Housing Development Pauernfeindstrasse
(Salzburg, Austria), Competition, 2005
Honorable Mention

Program:	47 Housing Units
Client:	Salzburg Wohnbau Bruno-Oberläuter-Platz 1, 5033 Salzburg
Partner:	Sigrid Kobierski
With:	Romana Suitner, Claire Donnelly, Kellie Finnegan
Physics:	Rosenfelder & Höfler Consulting Engineers GmbH & Co KEG, Graz
Size/Area:	4.200 m²

5 + 1 City Villas
In the past years, the multi-family city villa typology has found its way again and again onto the housing market. From the postmodern interpretation at the IBA in Berlin in the mid-1980s to the local Salzburg level, there has been numorous attempts to breathe new life into this Vila type. However, seldom has a well-marketed or well-designed multifamily house in expensive areas such as Aigen or Anif been achieved.
This project takes the city villa typology and juxtaposes the required density of smaller units with the generousity and spatial qualities of the villa. It is unrealistic to compare 45m2 flats with 150m2 villa floors next to the Salzach, however it is possible to achieve generous spatial qualities of different scales from the interior to the landscape.
Five well-proportioned villas (plus space for the privately planned sixth which can be treated in the same fashion) grant a feeling of lightness despite the density, and easily insert themselves into the historical context of the surroundings, where numerous older and larger single and multi-family homes can be found.