architek[tour] tirol – guide to architecture in tyrol

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new building in tyrol 2018 - a tour to the award-winning projects

Since 1996, the regional government’s culture department, cooperating with the architects’ branch of the Chamber of Architects and Civil Engineers of Tyrol and Vorarlberg, the Tyrolean branch of the Zentralverband, a voluntary association of Austrian architects, and aut. architektur und tirol , every other year awards prizes for distinguished new buildings in Tyrol that are outstanding examples of meeting contemporary architectural challenges both esthetically and functionally, with special regard for innovation.

The tour leads to the 2018 prize-winning project – the Campus Technik Lienz by fasch&fuchs.architekten, – to the four acknowledgement prizes, which were awarded to a bridge, a food market, a residential housing development and an open air classroom, as well as to the six buildings that received an honorable mention.

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a tour to 11 buildings
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Campus Technik Lienz

Linker Iselweg 21, 9900 Lienz, A
Architecture: fasch&fuchs.architekten (2016-2018) Builder-owner: Land Tirol The school campus was awarded the 2018 Tyrolean State Prize for New Building.

On a very cramped site directly on the Isel River, space was to be created for the expansion of four schools. The architects designed a narrow, floating structure directly above the river front, which connects the existing buildings and provides plenty of new space. Amply visible classrooms, structured by the steel framework, are arranged along an open corridor.

© Paul Ott
02

Dolomitenbad Lienz

Rechter Drauweg 1b, 9900 Lienz, A
Architecture: Machné & Glanzl Architekten (2015-2016) Builder-owner: Stadt Lienz Open to the public: during opening hours The renovation and extension received an honorable mention at the 2018 Tyrolean State Prize for New Building Awards

The Dolomitenbad was built in the 1970s by Manfred Machné as a simple, no-frills sports facility in the spirit of that era. Forty years later, his son Hans Peter Machné renovated and expanded the indoor and outdoor pool, resulting in the emergence of a coherent, new whole. The centerpiece of the extension is the sauna area with a curved wooden lamella ceiling, whose shape makes reference to the surrounding Dolomite Mountains.

© Paul Ott
03

HBLA für Tourismus (Extension, Conversion and Functional Rehabilitation of the Higher Vocational School for Tourism)

Neubauweg 9, 6380 St. Johann in Tirol, A
Architecture: Johannes Wiesflecker (2016-2017) Builder-owner: BIG Open to the public: partially The school extension received an honorable mention at the 2018 Tyrolean State Prize for New Building Awards.

The extension of the tourism school constructed in the 1980s consists of a statically independent addition to the second floor, which further develops the existing L-shaped building into a type of courtyard and simultaneously simplifies the structure into a new, large shape. At the same time, the statically developed truss structure forms the spatial pattern and, as an important design element, characterizes the atmosphere of the new "theory floor.”

© David Schreyer
04

MPREIS Weer

Nusspuite 2, 6114 Weer, A
Architecture: LAAC (2017) Builder-owner: MPREIS Open to the public: during opening hours The food market received an acknowledgement at the 2018 Tyrolean State Prize for New Building Awards.

On the outskirts of Weer; the new MPREIS food market with a café has created a place featuring a high quality of stay. The monolithic building opens onto the street with a transparent main façade and a terrace situated in front of the structure; the remaining façades are clad with polished stainless steel panels that reflect the surrounding fields. Artificial tree supports made of reinforced concrete and specifically set vistas shape the interior atmosphere.

© Marc Lins
05

Collections and Research Center of the Tyrolean State Museums

Krajnc-Straße 1, 6060 Hall in Tirol, A
Architecture: Franz&Sue (2016-2017) Builder-owner: Land Tirol Open to the public: no The new competence center received an honorable mention at the 2018 Tyrolean State Prize for New Building Awards.

With the SFZ, a new building featuring restoration workshops, laboratories and workplaces was constructed in Hall for the collection holdings of the Tyrolean State Museums, which were previously stored in eleven individual depots. Based on the image of a treasure chest, Franz & Sue conceptualized a monolith largely closed to the outside which refers to the building’s function through the façade design. The interior is organized according to the onion principle: the outer ring accommodates the depots, a middle ring provides circulation, while the work rooms and studios are grouped around a large, green atrium in the core.

© Christian Flatscher
06

Tyrolean Vocational School for Landscaping, Spatial Design and Fashion – Annex Workshop Building

Kaiser-Max-Straße 3, 6060 Hall in Tirol, A
Architecture: Veronika C. König, Werner Kleon, Rudolf Palme (2016-2017) Builder-owner: Land Tirol Open to the public: no The workshop building received an honorable mention at the 2018 Tyrolean State Prize for New Building Awards.

A low structure, which is partially sunk into the ground and fluently blends into the landscape, arose as an extension to the "Tyrolean Vocational School for Landscaping, Spatial Design and Fashion” housed in parts of the Salesian women’s convent Thurnfeld in Hall. Three courtyards divide the building into the various areas of use, which are connected by an open access zone with adjoining rooms arranged like islands.

© Lukas Schaller
07

Absam Dorf Primary School

Dörferstraße 56, 6067 Absam, A
Architecture: Schenker Salvi Weber (2015-2016) Builder-owner: Gemeinde Absam Open to the public: no Accessibility: Directly in the village center The school extension received an honorable mention at the 2018 Tyrolean State Prize for New Building Awards.

Schenker Salvi Weber erected a new, two-story building for a kindergarten and nursery as an extension to the listed Absam Primary School, which fits into the historic villagescape in its volume and with its scrape-finished plaster façade. The triple gymnasium was placed under ground; a spacious plaza, which functions both as a protected schoolyard and as type of village square, developed above it.

© Bengt Stiller
08

Grenobler Brücke

Langer Weg - Haller Straße, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Hans Peter Gruber (2016-2017) Builder-owner: Innsbrucker Verkehrsbetriebe und Stubaitalbahn GmbH The bridge received an acknowledgement at the 2018 Tyrolean State Prize for New Building Awards.

Directly connected to the existing "Grenobler Brücke” road bridge, the new tram bridge over the Inn is an integral part of the planned regional railway between Völs and Rum. The project by Hans Peter Gruber (architecture) and Thomas Sigl (structural engineering), which won an architectural competition, consists of a girder bridge in composite construction on which a foot and bike path is integrated below the tram line.

© Johannes Felsch
09

Social Pastoral Center St. Paul

Reichenauerstraße 68/72/74, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Marte.Marte Architekten (2014-2017) Builder-owner: Neue Heimat Tirol Open to the public: partially The ensemble received an honorable mention at the 2018 Tyrolean State Prize for New Building Awards.

Instead of two existing buildings south and east of St. Paul’s Church, the NEW HEIMAT TIROL constructed a social pastoral center for the parish of St. Paul, as well as a residential building with approx. 70 rental apartments. Marte.Marte Architekten place the comprehensive space allocation program in three loosely arranged structures around the church, which, in their entirety, also act as the new neighborhood center for Innsbruck-Reichenau.

© Faruk Pinjo
10

Residential Housing Development f49

Fürstenweg 49, 49 a-c, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Johannes Wiesflecker, Michael Kritzinger (2015-2016) Builder-owner: Weinberg Bauträger & Projektentwicklungs GmbH, Riederbau Open to the public: partially Accessibility: in Höttinger-Au, between Fürstenweg and Ampfererstraße The residential building received an acknowledgement at the 2018 Tyrolean State Prize for New Building Awards.

A housing development with approximately 100 apartments was erected in the densely built-up residential area where a gas station once stood. It exemplarily shows how postwar modernism can be densified in urban structures without perpetuating its monotony and uniformity. Several elongated components of various heights were placed on the narrow plot, creating an exciting ensemble with a clear center.

© David Schreyer
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FREIRAUM! (Open Air Classroom for the Fließ Nature Park School)

Dorf 181, 6521 Fließ, A
Architecture: he und du (2016-2017) Builder-owner: Gemeinde Fließ The open air classroom built by pupils received a special prize at the 2018 Tyrolean State Prize for New Building Awards.

From the original notion of building a tree house with pupils, a whole open air classroom — a simple wooden structure docked with a footbridge and a terrace onto the slope above the school — evolved in a complex process. From the project idea, to the design, up to the 1: 1 implementation, the project was accompanied in numerous subject areas, enabling a specific topic to be covered in an interdisciplinary manner.

© David Schreyer