Gleis 21: Zero-energy Co-housing Project

Contributors, Densities, einszueins architektur, Energy and sustainability, Formats, Middle Density, Politics and economics, Project, Technology and fabrication, Topics, Urban Paradigms.

Affordable Housing, Alternative Domesticity, Austria, Co-living, Collective housing, Community, Cultural identity, Flexibility, Functional unit, Interaction, Leisure, Neighborhood, Participation, Project, Urban space, Vienna, Wood construction, Zero Energy.

Gleis 21 was planned in a participatory manner with the future residents, including everything from the urban development to the power outlets. The property is located in the Sonnwendviertel, in the center of the new “Leben am Helmut Zilk Park” development near Vienna Central Station (“Hauptbahnhof Wien”). The co-housing project was designed as a compact, zero-energy house (“Niedrigstenergiehaus”) in a wood-hybrid construction and was built in a way that minimized the use of resources.