Community Centre in Tyrol by Machné Architekten
The faceted buildings of this community centre look like meteorites that have landed in a rural village in southern Austria (+ slideshow).
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Designed by Austrian firm Machné Architekten, the building comprises timber and fibre cement-clad volumes that are angled to frame views of surrounding buildings.
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A glazed foyer connects the three main blocks at their centre and provides entrances to the departments contained inside, which include a town hall, a music centre and offices for the fire department.
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Walls inside the building also feature faceted surfaces and there are no rectangular windows anywhere.
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We've featured a few projects in Austria this month, including a house for skateboarding inside and a chapel with skeletons in its basement.
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Here are a few more words from Machné Architekten:
Community Center in Abfaltersbach, Tyrol, Austria
The field and the stones
The new community center consists of three main parts (auditorium, music rehearsal room, town hall) and the fire department.
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The individual functions are as large "boulders" scattered on the site.
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These species were aligned along important edges (neighboring houses) and sightlines.
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Those stones are connected by the foyer. The fire department serves as the basis of the "stones".
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Through these seperation of the building in the various areas the urban scale of the building fits very well into the existing structure.
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The spaces between the "stones" provide glimpses such as the view to the church.
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The use of the site and the positioning of the town hall on the street and the foyer to the north is creating two new squares.
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The northern area of the building (foyer) goes over into the existing event space and in the south, a new place, which is flanked by the town hall and the fire department.
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Internal Organization
By dividing the building into separate areas, it is possible to give each part its optimal form.
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For example, both the auditorium and music rehearsal rooms are polygonal, for acoustic requirements.
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At the same time, the shaping of the building as "stones" generates exciting architectural spaces.
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