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OAMTC Headquarters

by Pichler & Traupmann Architekten ZT Gmbh / Vienna, Austria

 

ÖAMTC – the support point

From the service workshops to the heliport all the elements of the programme are laid out along a single vertical axis, i.e. also from the counter to the reception and the event areas to the large atrium of the offices. Logistically compact contents with high degree of efficiency, which is essentially what support points are, are here transformed and applied to the building in a translated form.

ÖAMTC –transparency

On approaching the counter you find yourself on an oversized glazed cockpit, in the middle of the workshop one level below, where the mechanics have driven the cars that have just been handed over to them down a ramp. The clients can comfortably view all of this from above – if their car is raised they see it “eye to eye”, as it were. From the counter a generously sized void opens upwards, through which a prominent stairs leads to the lobby. You also enter the building on this level if you come by foot from the U3 metro station at Erdberg, a short distance away. The building – and with it the ÖAMTC – is open to everyone in all directions.

ÖAMTC –communication

All the parts of the building communicate with each other – but communication outwards is also important. This takes place in the public/semi-public area: the events hall, conference rooms, and TV studio are on the entrance level, on the level above is the highly important call-centre, which is indeed constantly on-line and in contact with the outside world and which is emphatically and functionally made as a centralized space. All these areas are organised around a two-storey foyer. This is also the first level of the large office atrium, from which routes and visual connections lead upwards. This completes the internal flow of communication.

ÖAMTC – the sign

The building is a sign, a symbol of mobility. Its unique, circular and star-shaped form emphatically conveys the fact that here everything revolves around mobility and the means related to it and at the same time demonstrates the efficiency and speed of the organization. Therefore both in formal terms and as regards content, it is a coherent, architecturally articulated symbol of an organization headquarters  and for viewers and users evokes at all levels the feeling of having a strong and reliable partner. It is also a sign of the business’s self confident understanding of itself, with which staff and members can identify – with excellently organized, harmonized facilities offering a high level of interaction and communication, expressed in the form of clear, open and transparent  spatial connections oriented to meeting the needs of customers and staff alike.

ÖAMTC – the landmarkbuilding

Through its shape the ÖAMTC headquarters clearly and deliberately distinguishes itself from the monotonous, yet heterogeneously scattered, block and slab-type buildings in the surroundings whose form is derived exclusively from their commercial and industrial contents and optimising their functions. Here, in contrast, the focus is far more on the social components of aid and support and being integrated in a network of service and care – both as a communication factor in the macro area of the building’s overall structure and in the layout of the individual organisational units.

The icon stands in a park and garden-like landscape which develops on the one hand on the roof of the multi-storey car park and the escape staircases, on the other along the connecting clasp between the U3 and Baumgasse that is kept free of buildings.

Credits

Year: 2013

Project location: Vienna 3rd district

Function: Headquarters OEAMTC

Client: OEAMTC Headquarters, Vienna 1

Scope: Designer with responsibility for all design services

Project team:

Pichler & Traupmann Architekten ZT GmbH

Pichler & Traupmann Architekten ZT GmbH

Johanna Maria Priebe (project leader)

Barbara Aull

Christoph Degendorfer

Andrea Ehrenreich

Mohammad Ekhlasi

Peter Grandits

Alexander Grass

Clemens Hasler

Barbara Jarmaczki

Joachim Kess

Bartosz Lewandowski

Till Martin

Daniel Moral Trigueros

Competition:

Christoph Degendorfer

Clemens Hasler

Bartosz Lewandowski

Milan Suchánek

Start of planning: 2013

Start of construction: 2015

Completion: 2016

Site area: 14,913 m²

Usable floor area: 20,027 m²

Built area: 9,325 m²

Gross floor area: 29,447 m²

Building volume: 161,133 m³

Renderings: Visualisierung © Tomaselli . VISUAL SENSATIONS, Vienna

Photos: Roland Halbe, Stuttgart - Toni Rappersberger

Model: Harald Schmidt, Vienna

Award: Competition 1st prize

Structural design / project coordination:

FCP – Fritsch, Chiari & Partner ZT GmbH, Vienna

Structural fire protection:

Norbert Rabl ZT GmbH, Graz

Building services / electrical planning:

DIE HAUSTECHNIKER Technisches Büro GmbH, Jennersdorf

Building physics / facade:

Dr. Pfeiler GmbH, Graz

Lighting design:

pokorny Lichtarchitektur, Vienna

Heliport planning:

Ing. Günther Jakubec GmbH, Vienna

Surveying:

Dipl.-Ing. Johanna Fuchs-Stolitzka Ingenieurkonsule, Vienna

Landscape architecture:

DnD Landschaftsplanung ZT KG, Vienna

Wind comfort:

Weatherpark GmbH, Vienna

Hydro engineering:

Dipl. Ing. Michael Gollob ZT GmbH, Vienna

Traffic engineering:

Traffix Verkehrsplanung GmbH, Vienna

Gastronomy:

IB Ronge Stria GmbH, Baden

General contractor:

Bauunternehmung Granit GmbH, Feldkirchen bei Graz

 

 

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