Austrian architect Wolfgang Tschapeller has won a competition to overhaul the University of Applied Arts Vienna with proposals that include facade-climbing staircases and giant balloons.

The architect plans to demolish an existing link building, allowing room for all staircases and elevators of the main university block to be relocated onto its exterior beneath an undulating blanket of glass.

This will create larger floorplates within the building for studios, as well as extended areas for lecture halls, workshops and storage spaces.

An internal plaza will also be enclosed behind the extruded facade, while gardens will bridge the spaces between this block and its neighbour.

Two large pneumatic balloons are to be positioned on the roof and will be inflated to signify special events or occasions.

This isn't the first unusual building proposal from Wolfgang Tschapeller that we've featured - click here to see plans for a science centre on stilts.

Here's some more explanation from the architect:

6 Points for a NEUE ANGEWANDTE

Between 1st and 3rd district in Vienna on the Ringstrasse a few buildings of different authors and times are collected on a block.

Heinrich von Ferstel, Schwanzer-Wörle and Noever-Müller are the architects of the group of fine buildings.

Some of them serve the purposes of the Museum for Applied Arts and some of them serve the University of Applied Arts.

The original urban intent for this group of buildings follows a very fine, subtle and precise idea.

Although being part of a block, or standing on a block, they were always meant to keep their independency and autonomy by simultaneously allowing for a visibility of the space in between them.

In late 2011 an international 2 stage competition was announced.

Wolfgang Tschapeller ZT GmbH proposed 6 POINTS FOR A “NEUE ANGEWANDTE”

ERASE ⇒ RESTORE

The LINK BUILDING by Schwanzer/Wörle was an unfortunate move.

It does not only work strongly against the original urban intent of a loose and open grouping of buildings on a block. It works also against the character of Schwanzer/Wörle´s own design.

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Ferstel Bau as well as the Schwanzer/Wörle Bau are in their essence autonomous objects standing in critical and productive distance to each other. Such a reading is re-proposed in our project. Consequently the following steps are proposed: Demolition link building, Reconstruction of those parts of the Ferstel Bau and the Schwanzer-Wörle Bau which were destroyed by the insertion of the LINK BUILDING, Activation of the now very well lit areas of the Schwanzer/Wörle Bau.

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DISLOCATE

We are fascinated by seriality of the Schwanzer/Wörle Bau. The building consists in essence of a series of columns and slabs.By taking out stairs and elevator cores and by repositioning them in front of the serial structure of the Schwanzer/Wörle Bau two essential targets are achieved: full flexibility on the entire floor slab, remarkable gain of usable floor area, improvement of circulation (in economic and spatial terms).

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PURE STRUCTURE – AN ENTIRELY EMTPY SHELF

The removal of stair and elevator cores displays a pure serial structure. What remains are solely columns and slabs, ready for multiple functional readings. The shelf like structure will house the Studios.

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COMMON BASE

Ferstel Bau and Schwanzer/Wörle Bau are connected by a common functional base, containing lecture halls, workshops, storage spaces, technical installations as well as supply lines and waste management.

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CAMPUS - WHERE 17 DIFFERENT STUDIOS MEET

In essence we propose 3 main connecting elements to “make” the new Campus of the Angewandte. The INTERIOR SQUARE connects Ferstel Bau with Schwanzer/Wörle Bau, the GARDEN connects the buildings of the University with those of the Museum, the BROADWAY, a large stair which runs diagonally across the elevation of the Schwanzer/Wörle Bau. The BROADWAY is not only a means of circulation; it is the platform where members and knowledge of the 17 different studios meet. It is the informal marketplace for cross disciplinary projects.

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TEMPORARY STRUCTURES

On the roof of the University two optional, temporary structures are proposed. Two pneumatic balloons indicate and signal special occasions at the Angewandte to the surrounding City. Raised transparent balloons means a special day, like flags on a building.

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Project: University for Applied Arts, Vienna, international Competition, 1st Prize
Author: Wolfgang Tschapeller ZT GmbH
Project team: Jesper Bork, Simon Oberhammer, Mark Balzar, Franz Kropatschek, Gonzalo Vaillo Martinez, Daniel Erl

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Experts: Werkraum Wien, Tragwerk
Planungsgruppe Grünpichler GmbH, TGA
Dr. Jochen Käferhaus, Energie + Klimadesign
Brandrat, Brandschutz
Klaus Pokorny, Lichtplanung
ISOCHROM, Armin Hess, Renderings

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This concrete house on stilts is a family home in Austria by Vienna studio Wolfgang Tschapeller Architekt.

Called Single Family House St Joseph, the exposed concrete structure features irregular-shaped windows and sits on four supporting legs.

A shallow pit has been dug underneath the hovering building and can be utilised as a car port or storage space.

Despite the flat planes of the exterior shell, the interior space features a series of faceted walls, forming oddly-shaped rooms and windows.

The interior spaces are finished completely in white, with the exception of wooden flooring in some rooms and the treads of the staircase, which cantilever out of the wall.

Photographs are by Lukas Schaller unless otherwise stated.

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The following information is from the architects:

Single Family House St Joseph by Wolfgang Tschapeller ArchitektSt. Joseph

St. Joseph is a concrete form to be made habitable independent of the building site.

The concrete shell is placed at the edge of the remainder of a plain along the Danube floodplains.

Its basic measurements are 615 cm by 620 cm by 2230 cm.

Above photograph is by Roland Krauss

The concrete form is set on 4 supports – one one-legged element, two two-legged elements and one three-legged element.

Its distance from the ground ranges from 120 cm to 210 cm.

A second form, soft, white and independent of the outer shell, is set within the concrete shell.

Above photograph is by Wolfgang Tschapeller

The white form opens up and programs – makes habitable, if you wish – the concrete shell’s inner area, which is 2165 cm long and approx. 515 cm high.

Above photograph is by Roland Krauss

These are two interleaved forms, each with a different hardness and materiality.

Official name of project: St. Joseph

Location: Lower Austria, Austria

Project Team: Wolfgang Tschapeller ZT GmbH with Wolfram Mehlem and Jesper Bork

Above photograph is by Werner Feiersinger

Above photograph is by Sebastian Holzinger

Above photograph is by Sebastian Holzinger

Above photograph is by Wolfgang Tschapeller

Above photograph is by Werner Feiersinger

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Science Centre by Wolfgang Tschapeller	Office Building VDAB by BOB361	Casa Doble by María Langarita & Víctor Navarro

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Vienna architect Wolfgang Tschapeller has won a competition to design the new Centre for Promotion of Science in Belgrade, Serbia, with this design supported on a network of diagonal stilts.

Only supporting pillars and circulation points will touch the ground, making way for a public park sheltered by the building above.

The underside of the building will be covered in mirrors to reflect the movement of visitors and local residents across the plaza below.

The information below is from Wolfgang Tschapeller:

The Ministry of Science and Technological development of the Republic of Serbia initiated an international competition for a Centre for Promotion of Science and the urban development of Blok 39 in New Belgrade in Serbia. An international jury unanimously selected Austrian architect Wolfgang Tschapeller´s project as the winning entry.

From the Competition Brief:

“The Centre for Promotion of Science will be an institution of service and a national bank of knowledge in the field of science for general public. It will organise innovative and educative exhibitions, and bring science closer to general public. The main goal of the Centre for Promotion of Science will be to facilitate scientific education, a continuous training as well as social and economic growth, both with direct action, and in partnership with other actors – primarily the Ministry of Science and Technological Development and the Ministry of Education.

The Centre will be positioned in New Belgrade’s Blok 39, a prime “innovation” part of the city, a scientific park with research institutes, universities and research based business. Purpose of the competition was to develop an architectural design for the Centre for Promotion of Science as well as proposals for the urban development of the entire Blok 39.

Here is some information from the architect:

The Centre for Promotion of Sciences in Belgrade will be floating high above the ground. It operates on 3 levels. Firstly, on the level of the City of Belgrade it will be an optimistic sign positioned on one of the main routes of the city. Secondly for Blok 39 it will be sign, canopy and portico. Thirdly, as a building being programmed to promote sciences it (dis)plays on visions of technology and construction. The architectural language of the centre will strongly be one of technology and the display of structural principles. A special role is given to the underside of the centre; it will have mirroring qualities, able to reflect all the movement on the ground as well as the visitor who by entering the centre is penetrating the reflections of the earth’s surface.

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Urban proposal:

New Belgrade is a city of our times, a city which was invented and planned in the course of the 20th century with a decisive modernist perspective. Soleil (sun), Verdure (greenery), Espace (space) and functional segregation together with the rules of CIAM where main arguments of New Belgrade. Now, 60 years later, how do we read New Belgrade and how do we want to continue its construction? We decided for a few very simple spatial tools, all of them being in close discourse with the principles of modernism.

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Firstly, we are opting for an elevated city detached from the ground. Only pillars and elements of circulation shall touch on the ground. We are proposing a floating city, buildings on pilotis giving the entire ground free.

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Secondly, the entire site is usable and accessible to everybody. Buildings do not block vision and movement. The terrain will be occupied by a multitude of different vegetations, exotic and local plants, waterlines, bike routes and jogging paths. The functional segregation of the modernist movement is replaced by the complexity of simultaneities.

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Below ground a slab of parking and serving functions. The ground level is covered by a variety of vegetations and allows for a city of pedestrians. 65% of the site is green and almost all of the ground level allows for free vision.

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House on stilts by Andrés Jaque	Research studio on stilts by Cheungvogl	Office on stilts by BOB361

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