Project 08
Arndtstrasse Residential Building
A restrained aluminium envelope on a corner site, where every tolerance is visible because there is nothing else to look at.
- Location
- Vienna, Austria
- Systems
- HPL dry façade, aluminium louvre and curtain wall
Engineering
Minimal façade design
Minimalism in a façade is not the absence of detail. It is detail resolved until it stops asking for attention — flush lines, concealed fixings, a joint that reads as a shadow rather than a gap.
That standard is unforgiving. Every tolerance is visible because there is nothing else to look at, which is precisely why the discipline belongs to fabrication as much as to design.
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Restraint
A limited material palette, held consistently across every elevation.
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Line
Continuous sight lines through windows, balconies and terraces.
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Landscape
Planted terraces and courtyards treated as part of the envelope, not applied to it.