Chybik + Kristof Associated Architects, in collaboration with Viennese office BKK-3, shared with us their third place winning proposal for the ‘Green City’ housing complex which will include 700 apartments in Graz, Austria. The whole concept of their project is to create a clear hierarchy of public and semi-public spaces by means of simple volumes of apartment buildings. Their design is based on repeating the same three objects and interlinking them through a common yard ranked among three best projects. More images and architects’ description after the break.
The main topic of the architectural competition for housing development, which touches the Styrian bio-corridor in the west, was to “live in the green”. The project is grounded on the logical continuity of various types of green spaces: whether it is the above-mentioned bio-corridor, the central park, smaller green square or the yard – a social terrace shared by several households. In this project, the architects tried to apply sustainable aspects of creating the environment.
