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Photo © Paul Kranzler
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Photo © Paul Kranzler
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Photo © Paul Kranzler
Photo © Paul Kranzler
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Architects
Caramel Architekten
Location
Pfeiffergasse, Vienna
Year
2016
Client
Caritas
Objekt
Leeres Bürogebäude aus den 90er Jahren, Wien 1150
Fläche
3700 m²
Nutzung zu Projektbeginn
Notquartier für 280 Asylwerber_innen, v.a. Familien
Zahlenstärkste Herkunftsländer
Syrien, Afghanistan, Iran
Projektzeitraum
Nov15- Jan16

For the Architecture Biennale in Venice, Caramel’s task was to design the ‘refugee camp’, using a vacant office building in Vienna.
Safeguarding privacy, as in marking a place where someone can rest undisturbed
by external influences was, for Caramel, the first and most important subject of their “intervention”. Rather than posing a limitation, the time limit became a constructive part of their thought process. Starting with a minimal design repertoire, Caramel first developed elements for dividing up the space and then creating some privacy in the former open-plan offices. This simple formal language was extended to the design of the communal areas. A central criterion of Caramel architects’ design is that all elements can be rapidly dismounted and easily reassembled in a different location.

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