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Children’s Art Laboratory . St. Pölten

Schenker Salvi Weber Architekten . photos: © Patrick Johannsen

The Children’s Art Laboratory demonstrates a significant symbolic character, being a landmark on the path from the historic centre to the cultural district. The interconnected space and wooden structural framework offer maximum flexibility for an innovative promotion of art and culture. The generous, communicative stairway, a multi-purpose space, serves as a forum for events and thus becomes a place to meet, as well as being the heart of the Children’s Art Laboratory. Continue reading Schenker Salvi Weber

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Apartment Building Eckpergasse . Vienna

Schenker Salvi Weber Architekten . photos: © David Schreyer

On a 520 m² garden plot in the ‘Währinger Cottageviertel’, a 1930s apartment building is further developed in a contemporary style. Sophisticated & comfortable. The six variations, from maisonette to four-room apartment, with bright, spacious living-dining areas and balconies, are all daylit from two or three sides. Continue reading Schenker Salvi Weber

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Stiftung Aarhus Gümligen . Muri bei Bern

Schenker Salvi Weber Architekten . photos: © Patrik Gläßner

Continuing the history of a home! The hostel and school for disabled children and young people was analysed together with the carers and the young residents and needs and wishes were defined as a collective. Old house with a new look! The qualities of the 70s residential special school with its sports hall, occupational- and residential quarters was preserved, refurbished where necessary and extensions were carefully constructed using solid wood. Continue reading Schenker Salvi Weber

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Retirement Home of the Franciscan Sisters . Vienna

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Schenker Salvi Weber . photos: © David Schreyer

Located near the Lainzer Tiergarten in Vienna’s 13th district, the San Damiano house, run by the religious community “Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity,” is privately operated and publicly funded. The challenge was to best utilize the complex hillside property with a beautiful view over Vienna and create diverse spatial atmospheres and exciting visual axes. Continue reading Schenker Salvi Weber

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Bütze Wolfurt Primary School . WOLFURT

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Schenker Salvi Weber . photos: © David Schreyer

The rural market town Bütze-Wolfurt in the Bregenz district of Vorarlberg wanted to enlarge their primary school and integrate the neighboring kindergarten and daycare center. The decision was made to completely refurbish the old three-story building from the 1960s and demolish the part from the 1990s due to structural reasons. The gymnasium in the basement was preserved and built over with two new floors. The new 60-meter-long and 27-meter-high timber-frame volume with a smooth wood-clad façade and a plastered plinth – details which were also taken over on the existing building – now forms a harmonious extension of the school complex. The new structure with a pergola at each end integrates calmly into the scenic beauty of lush fields and trees and the rural character of the town. Continue reading Schenker Salvi Weber