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

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