Pietra Rossa
mentor Antonietta Putzu | housing design studio | 2019
mentor Antonietta Putzu | housing design studio | 2019
Milan – color, material, light, shape, and a romance of city-life expresses the way of living in this unbelievably vivid city. Its urban landscape, which was redesigned especially in the 1950s and 1960s under the influence of extraordinary architects and shaped by the emergence of the middle class, became an icon of Italy. Today, Milan stands for a modern, ambitious, and metropolitan life in picturesque sceneries as well as the romance and beauty of everyday life. This special and very pictorial urban Flair can hardly be experienced in any other region of the continent. Atmospheres and impressions of this urban landscape are captured in a gallery of photographs. Those captured and remembered feelings and moments are the profound base of the interpretation that leads to the concept of a townhouse in Vienna.
The building site of the townhouse is located at the 'Nordbahnhofviertel' in the second district of Vienna. It is situated between the new buildings of the urban development area and the historical buildings on the opposite side. Former heating stations nearby the building site, which were used to start up the steam locomotives, puts the surrounding into a historical context. This creates an analogy through the materiality of the brick. A red-colored stone transforms the unique building site into a concluding part of the ensemble.
Pietra Rossa ('red stone') - made of red concrete and reduced ornamentation - unites a group of unique apartments behind the facade, each of which expresses each of them in a kind of picture collage. This interweaving from the inside out creates the connection between life and city life. Based on the same grid, each apartment differs either in small details or in its structural basis. Large room-dividing furniture and floor-to-ceiling sliding elements offer the possibility of an individual lifestyle and reflect the diversity of its residents which identify themselves in this process with their individual apartments.
The building site of the townhouse is located at the 'Nordbahnhofviertel' in the second district of Vienna. It is situated between the new buildings of the urban development area and the historical buildings on the opposite side. Former heating stations nearby the building site, which were used to start up the steam locomotives, puts the surrounding into a historical context. This creates an analogy through the materiality of the brick. A red-colored stone transforms the unique building site into a concluding part of the ensemble.
(c) Felix Redmann 2022