The coexistence of two interleaved forms, each with a different hardness and materiality.

© Lukas Schaller, Gumpendorfer Straße 94/1/7, A – 1060 Wien, (email)

This alien to its surroundings concrete structure pops out its feet and lands on the ground. When walking around the structure all is revealed in stages. One can get small peaks from the skewed corner windows on one side only to discover that soon everything is to be revealed: The outer shell is impregnated with another white soft independent form waiting to be inhabited.

© Lukas Schaller, Gumpendorfer Straße 94/1/7, A – 1060 Wien, (email)

© Lukas Schaller, Gumpendorfer Straße 94/1/7, A – 1060 Wien, (email)

© Lukas Schaller, Gumpendorfer Straße 94/1/7, A – 1060 Wien, (email)

© Lukas Schaller, Gumpendorfer Straße 94/1/7, A – 1060 Wien, (email)

© Lukas Schaller, Gumpendorfer Straße 94/1/7, A – 1060 Wien, (email)

© Werner Feiersinger, Kollergasse 20, A – 1030 Wien, (email)

© Lukas Schaller, Gumpendorfer Straße 94/1/7, A – 1060 Wien, (email)

© Lukas Schaller, Gumpendorfer Straße 94/1/7, A – 1060 Wien, (email)

© Lukas Schaller, Gumpendorfer Straße 94/1/7, A – 1060 Wien, (email)

© Lukas Schaller, Gumpendorfer Straße 94/1/7, A – 1060 Wien, (email)

© Lukas Schaller, Gumpendorfer Straße 94/1/7, A – 1060 Wien, (email)

© Lukas Schaller, Gumpendorfer Straße 94/1/7, A – 1060 Wien, (email)

© Roland Krauss, Schottenfeldgasse 78/3/4, A – 1070 Vienna, (email)

© Lukas Schaller, Gumpendorfer Straße 94/1/7, A – 1060 Wien, (email)

© Lukas Schaller, Gumpendorfer Straße 94/1/7, A – 1060 Wien, (email)

© Wolfgang Tschapeller, Schottenfeldgasse 72/2/6, A – 1070 Wien, (email)

Model. Photo © Wolfgang Tschapeller, Schottenfeldgasse 72/2/6, A – 1070 Wien, (email)

Construction. Photo © Wolfgang Tschapeller, Schottenfeldgasse 72/2/6, A – 1070 Wien, (email)

Plans

St. Joseph is a habitable concrete form independent to the rest of the building site. The concrete shell is placed on the edge of the remainder plain along with the Danube floodplains. Its basic measurements are 615 cm by 620 cm by 2230 cm. 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. The white form opens up and programs – becomes habitable, if you wish – the concrete shell’s inner area, which is 2165 cm long and approx. 515 cm high. These are two interleaved forms, each with a different hardness and materiality.

ARCHITECT: Wolfgang Tschapeller, Vienna, Austria. LOCATION: Lower Austria, Austria. PROJECT TEAM: Wolfgang Tschapeller ZT GmbH with Wolfram Mehlem and Jesper Bork. DATE: 2010. No part of this web site may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of Morfae and the copyright owner.