Eggenberger Gürtel 71, Graz

The urban mix in Gries should connect as a multifunctional building a residential building and a dormitory with a fully equipped living environment infrastructure. The building gives the urban development area Belt – Don Bosco a major boost.
Three principles are significant for the design:
Starting with the zoning of the space in layers from Eggenberger Gürtel: Despite the heavy traffic load an effective shielding to reduce the noise is created, which offers also a spatial added value to the residents.
The flow of the green space inside: This generates a generous spatial aperture, which guarantees a high-quality plots overlapping identity.
The structuring of the free areas by the meandering shape of the building: The converging courtyard is opened, the green axis on the east side of the property is divided into more manageable areas.
The multifunctional building contains living features and a café, a bicycle repair shop and a launderette. Two medical surgeries and a kindergarten are also available for the residents. The complex consists mostly of small apartments with optimized space consumption, to enable affordable housing offside the housing subsidy. All apartments have a private balcony, or on belt side a glazed loggia. The dormitory for students consists of 300 single rooms, which are housed in 108 duplex and 28 3-units. On each floor there is a common room with a kitchen. Other common facilities like a multi-functional hall, a gym and a sauna are also located in the house.