public/ urban

POET

third place - competition for a civic center

Facts

Client | Gemeinde Pöttelsdorf

Typology | public 

Location | Pöttelsdorf

Stage |  competition

Area | 890m2

POET

A ribbon-built village with its typical stretched courtyards in the north of Burgenland - the task was to create a new civic center embedding a multi-purpose hall, a rural store for local products and the citizens`service.

Our concept is changing the rural structure by defining the new centre. The form arises from the landscape of the surrounding, excisting roofs with showing its maximum hight the new created main square. A wellspaced outdoor stair and sitting area acts as link between the new plaza and the green outside zone of the upper city hall.  

With sustainable considerations the buildings volume was kept compact to achieve a low-energy consumption house type A. The main elements both for facade and interior are vertical wooden slats. The different roof pitches and gables enable special vivacious interior spaces. Particular openings are conceived to directed views to church etc.