KUKU 23 | Dietrich Untertrifaller

A new residential district was created along Gastgebgasse in Liesing, in the immediate vicinity of the Sargfabrik cultural centre and the Atzgersdorf educational campus. Four blocks of apartments and the studio building offer space for 430 subsidised flats, workshops, studios and a dance and music school.

We developed the concept for the Kuku 23 residential quarter with the aim of providing low-threshold cultural activities, especially for children and young people. After all, Vienna's southernmost district needs more art and culture.

The buildings are divided into individual "houses", visually separated by naturally lit joints. This allows for varied roofscapes, better lighting conditions and a human scale. 

The special feature of the studio building is the open supporting structure, which is broken down into individual column slabs and enables a variety of room programmes. In order to facilitate new living structures and synergies, the building dissolves the typical boundaries between working and living. A continuous room height of 2.80 metres and open floor plans allow flexible, open-use planning of the units. In this way, the studio building can react to the processes in the neighbourhood in the long term and grow with them.