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Hainburg Church, Austria Building, Project, News, Design, Property
Hainburg Church Austria : Architecture Information
Development by COOP HIMMELB(L)AU in IAustria, EuropeCOOP HIMMELB(L)AU reveals design for a church in Hainburg, Austria (Vienna, March 26, 2009) Wolf D. Prix, design principal of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU donates a design for the new Dr. Martin Luther Church in Hainburg, Austria to the protestant church. The completion of the project is planned for 2011. On the site of a previously existing church in the center of Hainburg, Lower Austria, a protestant church with prayer hall, community hall and other spaces will be built. On the level of form, the project is influenced on the one hand by immediately surrounding buildings. Its complex roof landscape variegates the architectural language of the saddleback roofs, which are common in the region, and of the roof of the romanesque ossuary close by. On the other hand, its individual geometry also expresses a certain spiritual symbolism, like with the prayer hall in the shape of a very large table. Three skylights resting on the four legs of this table are inserted in the roof construction. On the side of the main road the church has the most transparent and open appeal; its folded, zigzagging glass façade invites the visitor into the high prayer room. Yet its intimacy is conserved by a symbolic wooden wall, standing free just behind the glass façade. An illuminated cross-shaped opening in this wall projects the simple message of the church into the urban space. From the prayer hall the visitor reaches the daylit, glass-roofed children zone and the baptistry. Behind, the community hall is situated. Large folding doors between the two large halls allow to open and join the whole spatial sequence to one continuous space. A third building component at a smaller alley is situated next to the two main halls and houses the sacristy, the pastor’s office, a small kitchen and other service spaces. A handicapped-friendly ramp leads between the buildings to the community garden. The fourth element of the ensemble is the delicate sculpture of the bell tower on the forecourt. Wolf D. Prix describes the project as follows: “The roof of the church is a further development of the roof of the charnel house. While designing the church roof we dedicated special attention the atmospheric illumination of the interior space through its special orchestration of light. On one hand the open wall is an inviting gesture; on the other hand a special atmosphere will be generated by closing the wall with a curtain so that the light just penetrates from above. I am very pleased that my hometown Hainburg will have a modern building.” Dr. Martin Luther Church Hainburg, Austria 2008-2011 On the site of a previously existing church in the center of Hainburg, Lower Austria, a protestant church with prayer hall, community hall and other spaces will be built. On the level of form, the project is influenced on the one hand by immediately surrounding buildings. Its complex roof landscape variegates the architectural language of the saddleback roofs, which are common in the region, and of the roof of the romanesque ossuary close by. On the other hand, its individual geometry also expresses a certain spiritual symbolism, like with the prayer hall in the shape of a very large table. Three skylights resting on the four legs of this table are inserted in the roof construction. On the side of the main road the church has the most transparent and open appeal; its folded, zigzagging glass façade invites the visitor into the high prayer room. Yet its intimacy is conserved by a symbolic wooden wall, standing free just behind the glass façade. An illuminated cross-shaped opening in this wall projects the simple message of the church into the urban space. From the prayer hall the visitor reaches the daylit, glass-roofed children zone and the baptistry. Behind, the community hall is situated. Large folding doors between the two large halls allow to open and join the whole spatial sequence to one continuous space. A third building component at a smaller alley is situated next to the two main halls and houses the sacristy, the pastor’s office, a small kitchen and other service spaces. A handicapped-friendly ramp leads between the buildings to the community garden. The fourth element of the ensemble is the delicate sculpture of the bell tower on the forecourt. Hainburg Church Austria information from COOP HIMMELB(L)AU 260309 |
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Another recent design by COOP HIMMELB(L)AU:
Art Museum Strongoli, Calabria
Design architect: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU
Wolf D. Prix / W. Dreibholz & Partner ZT GmbH
Design Principal: Wolf D. Prix
Design architect/Project Architect: Sophie Grell
Project team: Steven Baites, Victoria Coaloa, Martin Neumann
Construction Documents: Franz Sam
Sam Ottreinisch, Vienna, Austria
Client: Protestant Church Lower Austria, Austria
User: Protestant Parish Bruck an der Leitha, Austria
Site area ca. 420 m²
Gross floor area 289 m²
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