Model Estate Urban Villas Hadersdorf (Mustersiedlung Hadersdorf)

This project is neither a single family house or a multi-storey apartment block. The project envisages erecting a model housing development on the urban periphery of Vienna. Similar to the aim of the Werkbundsiedlung of 1932 in the 13th district, it is planned to build houses that offer the populace of Vienna excellent examples of ways of living on the edge of the city. Excellent in the sense of an urban concept which, while not a terrace housing development, has a density that lies between that of a single-family housing estate and a multi-storey housing development. This description itself indicates a continuous structural linking of town planning and architecture. The particular grain of the development plan results from the constraint of fixed areas to be built upon (zoned lots) that can be developed using one or more buildings. These building sites lie beside each other and, according to the wishes of the individual planners, allow differently shaped buildings. These buildings, while permitting a maximum of design freedom, should also offer a high degree of homogeneity and urban consistency. The lot is here intended as an area that generates space but is not necessarily to be understood in the sense of a private property; it can also be only an abstract zoning boundary i.e. a grammatical dimension. The largely consistent size of the sites that adjoin each other ultimately evokes, through the different architects working here, a potential of variation and differentiation within the development, which aims at achieving generative consistency within the variety. beteiligte Architekten: Hermann Czech, Roger Diener, Max Dudler, Hans Kollhoff, Peter Märkli, Meili & Peter, Otto Steidle, Heinz Tesar Landschaftsplanung: Anna Detzlhofer