Austrian Modern House | Jewel Of Salzburg | Austria | Hariri & Hariri

Inspired by the defining natural elements of the City of Salzburg, this project takes form. The master plan of this development abstractly mimics the city and becomes the microcosm of the city of Salzburg itself, with the defining mountains and Salzach River flowing through.

To create a dialogue and a personal, meditative experience, we have cut a narrow creek at the edge of the rock wall, which guides and invites the public through the site. Just like the Salzach River, it creates a new boundary, provides movement, and extends the nature into the site. The old path is incorporated in this sequence where the water travels from the highest elevation on the site through a small waterfall and becomes the collector of melting snow water, icicles, and rocks. This pedestrian path is carefully designed to allow the public to enjoy the natural beauty of the forest and the rock face without disturbing the privacy of the residents. This water canal also provides a place for exhibition of outdoor water sculptures......more

Modern Residential Development | Kaspar Weyrer Strasse | Innsbruck | Austria | Snohetta & Werner Burtscher

The residential project in Kaspar Weyrer Strasse was created in collaboration with Werner Burtscher.

The architectural arrangement of the housing complex facilitates social contact within shared areas such as the underground garage or the private apartments.

Visibly anchored in plain sight, the staircases enable their residents to customize their individual entrance areas. This concept transfers people into the public space and does not conceal them within an introvert staircase. The spaces in-between the houses invite to pause, play or pursue horticultural activities. Each unit is accessible from the exterior through its own front door.

The draft follows the layout of the original housing development area between Schneeburggasse and the terrain edge above Höttinger Au and reinterprets it corresponding to contemporary aspects – not as one massive “super-block”, but as several single units with surrounding green spaces.

All apartment windows face east or west. The two-story solutions on the upper levels of the structure offer additional spatial qualities. Each apartment has at least one individual outdoor area such as west-facing gardens on ground level and west- or east-facing terraces on the upper floors. The measurements of the ground floor apartments are 4 x 13.85 meters......more

Modern Austrian House Design | L-House | Burgenland | Austria | Architects Collective,

The two-story house is located on a southwestern slope overlooking the hilly countryside. As is typical for the region, the L-shaped structure forms a protected courtyard to the north. The end of the L-shape cantilevers up to eight meters and forms a covered carport area that allows direct access into the courtyard located behind. The 300m2 indoor area is characterized by an open staircase which connects the two floors. At the pivot point of the L-shape, there is an open area that is intended as a children's play area and library. This is also where all circulation areas and stairwells come together. From this point, the courtyard as well as the living and sleeping areas are all within view. Due to a careful building arrangement, all rooms have access to natural light and can be cross ventilated. Heating of the house is done through a biomass wood chip plant, which is operated jointly with several neighbors. The L-shaped building form is completed by a mirror-like protected square courtyard......more

Modern Austrian House Design | House in Rodaun | Vienna | Austria | Caramel

A family with one child and maybe more to come dreams of moving from their apartment in the middle of the city to a house at the periphery with plenty of green. they envision children playing in the grass, the parents and their friends sitting amongst them, and all around nothing but green, trees, pure nature. the purchased property is a 500-square-meter plot, a grassy meadow with trees.

Four levels, three above ground and one below, are to yield a total of 300 m² of living space.

In order to retain the character of the original meadow, the ground-floor living and dining area are tied to the garden in a generous sweeping gesture. This gives the feeling of a 500-square-meter living room composed of outdoor and indoor spaces. The tail end of the swoosh tapers to human scale forming smooth shallow depressions for sitting, curvilinear furniture, a pool and terrace with rounded corners.

The sweeping gesture on the ground floor is made of semitransparent polycarbonate elements. The ephemeral character of the material is also employed in the façade of the top floor, giving it the appearance of an airy, hovering swoosh.

On the rooftop, the patch of meadow removed from below is woven into the undulating green office landscape.

Grassy green fields on several levels interspersed with ephemeral swooshes of space.......more

Modern Austrian House Design | Floating House | Siegenfeld | Austria | Holodeck Architects

Designed in a rural setting as a refuge for city dwellers, the urban part of the house is represented by the garage and office space. however, the design of the house`s residential areas are based on a concept developed from the surrounding landscape, creating a complex and continuous multi layered space that floats above the ground and doubles up as a rear projection surface for the landscape..........more

Austrian Modern House Design | Embedded house | Heiligengeist | Austria | Holodeck Architects

Parameters for the design include the existing village structures, the topography, the views into the landscape, planning and building laws as well as the development of the client`s family. Based on these parameters the house is defined along the site`s slope in reference to the landscape.........more

Contemporary House Design | House H | Linz |Austria | Caramel

The house is situated on a slope on a hill, overlooking the city of Linz. entering the building on the west side through the middle floor, a staircase leads down to the lower floor, embedded in the slope and opening to the garden, with the master bedroom, 2 bathrooms and 3 further bedrooms for the family’s children. a fitness area, a room with a workbench, and a wine cellar top off the use of this storey.........more

House Extension | Lina House | Linz | Austria | Caramel

This unit, officially an extension but basically autonomous, serves as a house for a mother and child and is situated in a partly wooded area of the grandparents’ property, on the southwestern slope of Pöstlingberg in Linz.

Though infrastructurally “docked” onto the extant building, the unit itself includes all the necessary primary facilities such as bath, kitchen, heating, and hot water.......more

Contemporaray Austrian House Design | House P | Klosterneuburg | Austria | Caramel

Like a curious animal that might have been formed from tetris blocks, House P seems to gaze down at the valley from its perch on this sloping property in Klosterneuburg.
The seamless impression of the homogeneous sculptural form is strengthened by the use of prefabricated concrete elements in the façade. the access way on the street side follows the structure’s longitudinal axis, passing the garage and terrace and entering the house, where it pushes past the dining room/kitchen area, cloak room, and stairway landing, and finally disappears out the glazed front of the living room and into a breathtaking view of the danubian plains.........more

Modern Austrian House Design | House M | Linz | Austria | Caramel

The house opens itself toward the south and west with two all-glass façades. the west side of the building offers a magnificent view of the danube valley and receives sunlight until late in the evening; an externally mounted textile curtain guards against excessive sunlight and overheating. the south façade pulls away from the edge of the cube in free-form retreat, producing a covered terrace area. extending directly from the terrace is a large swimming pond........more

Single Storey Austrian Modern House Design | House H | Syntax Architektur

The single storey house is built perpendicular of the old country inn.
Privacy and visual relationships are the key design factors. The low height of the building leads to a streamlined structure that consists of two surfaces: the white-plastered walls with transparent openings and clad with copper sheet metal roof. The main design element is the roof that grows out of the undulating terrain. On the side facing the slope, the shaft is carried down to the ground, so a private terrace with built-in green space is created. The reduction of the surface leads to an abstract, yet integrated into the landscape building volume.........more

CO2 Neutral House | Velux Sunlighthouse | Pressbaum | Austria | Hein-Troy

Austria's first CO2-neutral house with fewer daylight factor

This house is the winner of the competition called Model Home 2020th.

The design responds in a specific way to the difficult circumstances of the property and its potential uses to the maximum. The living area is an incised atrium connected to the garden. The open roof space of the bedroom floor is marked by a series of skylights, the daylight from all sides lead into the interior.

With only 6 months of construction from groundbreaking to opening in October of 2010, the timber house is implemented in record time.

Heart of the home automation concept is the so-called energy roof. Two oriented south-west roof areas, with 48 m² of photovoltaic panels and sin 8 m² solar panels ........more

House Renovation | Hunters Hill | Australia | Stanic Harding Architecture + Interiors

This project involved the total remodeling of a dilapidated, unremarkable 1950's house on a waterfront property adjacent to Tarben Creek.

The challenge was to create a light and airy home on this steep south facing site while maintaining connections to the garden, water and city views.

A series of three distinct pavilions were formed linked by two open courtyards allowing the house to gradually step down the site. The courtyards let sunlight enter the house via the extensive glazing on the northern facades. The transparency and deep modulation of these facades offers protection from summer sunlight while permitting winter light to reach deeply into the house. The courtyards provide access to level gardens and external living spaces so important on such a sloping site..........more

Modern Small House | Graz | Austria | Hans Gangoly & Irene Kristiner Architekten

Essentially, the small house for two people built on a slope, consists of one living floor between fair-faced concrete slabs cantilevering far towards the west. Its immediate environment is characterised by agriculture; the view over orchards, pastures and copses up to the Plabutsch range of hills west of Graz scarcely indicates the proximity of a large town. The cantilevering volume sits on the last third of a cellar floor dug into the hill. The ceiling of this storey is both entrance and parking area, above which projects a porch roof planted with greenery.
The screening of wind and unwanted view on the terrace can be seen from afar, whilst the stairs inside, offering vertical access to the whole house and arranged counter to the slope, can be seen only inside the house or from the hill. Glazed throughout and positioned slightly off centre, on the one hand it sets the structure of the living area and on the other, it creates a very special relation with nature by making it possible to experience weather and light conditions in the middle of the house.....more

Modern Austrian House Design | Andreas Hofer Strasse House | Klosterneuburg | Syntax Architektur

The house is located on a northern slope that lies between two roads, a relatively narrow corner lot.. The house is an annex to the existing house is positioned creating two independent units with optimal natural light and good access to the garden ..........more

Single Family House | House In The Field | Sulz | Austria | Architekt DI Bernardo Bader

The house  is in a tight corner of the site parceled for the future settlement on the outskirts of Sulz in the transition area of cultivation for agricultural greenbelt. It is surrounded by heavily trafficked paths that lead to the recovery area on the Frutz river. The central idea of the design is the high value of the home by a closed and non-accessible open space on a relatively small plot of land. The idea rises of ​​a pleasant alternative to the "classic" House of the Vorarlberg Rhine Valley with three yards'residual distance green "and the regular testing of DIY gardening.........more

Schmuck House | Plabutsch | Graz | Austria | Gangoly & Kristiner Architekten

Essentially, the small house for two people built on a slope, consists of one living floor between fair-faced concrete slabs cantilevering far towards the west. Its immediate environment is characterised by agriculture; the view over orchards, pastures and copses up to the Plabutsch range of hills west of Graz scarcely indicates the proximity of a large town. The cantilevering volume sits on the last third of a cellar floor dug into the hill. The ceiling of this storey is both entrance and parking area, above which projects a porch roof planted with greenery.
The screening of wind and unwanted view on the terrace can be seen from afar, whilst the stairs inside, offering vertical access to the whole house and arranged counter to the slope, can be seen only inside the house or from the hill. Glazed throughout and positioned slightly off centre, on the one hand it sets the structure of the living area and on the other, it creates a very special relation with nature by making it possible to experience weather and light conditions in the middle of the house.......more

SPS private residence | Wien | Austria | Querkraft Architekten

task
the house should use the view over the city a main theme in a special manner
response

the life with a garden is to become a very valuable quality of daily life. respect is shown for the surroundings, through the desire not to block out the neighbours view. both of these arguements lead to a flat-wide building with selected higher points..............more

Thurm House | Lochau | Austria | Architekturburo Ernst Giselbrech

Location:Lochau, Vorarlberg
Client: Mag Stephan and Patricia tower
Architect: DI Giselbrecht Ernst, John Kaufmann
Client:DI Peter Fürnschuss (Giselbrecht)
Leonhard Huet, DI Paul Steurer (businessman)
Planning: June 2003 - August 2005
Start of construction: May 2005
Completion: December 2005
Constructional data: Net floor area: 260 m² (+ terraces: 90 m²)
Gross floor area: 320 m²
Volume: 1,500 m³
Specification:
Hillside garden with 3-storey house;
Shell: steel, concrete, some with masonry;
Facades: EIFS, west side and ceiling-height fixed glazing parallel slide and tilt sash;
Sun protection: thermal protection glazing, external Venetian blinds....more

Villa H | Single Family House Design In Graz | Austria | Designed By Atelier Thomas Pucher

Net area: 375 m²,
construction: February 2004
completed: April 2005
Team: Thomas Pucher, Gerald Brencic, Wilhelm Eder, Erich Ranegger *
Construction Management: Jörg Viertl / Rudolf and 4 Partners Project Management
Building services: Bernhard Goggin
Statics: Hartmuth Petschnigg / engineering firm Petschnigg

The frame contains the main living areas and in the form of furniture and walls skilfully setting of various rhythm of the beautiful views. Hence, when passing through the house not only the direction of sunlight changes, but also the view from the urban to direct view of Graz in the living room into a romantic, natural look to the green hills around St. Veit from the bathroom.

The house requires three materials for implementation:

1. The leveled completely smooth and shiny white frame painted concrete
2. the floor and the rear wall of coarse sandstone.
3. 80% of the exterior walls are made of pure glass

The house offers almost a prototype of a response to the buildability of scenic outstanding properties: the properties of the land are not destroyed with the building (the villa in prestige and nobility but without any reference to the environment) intensified, but by the way of building the first and made fully alive.

The base of the building provides space for children and guest rooms as well as features such as wine cellar, sauna and conservatory. On the roof of the building, directly above the entrance hangs an additional room that is solely dedicated to the meditative and to enjoy the view........more