TIWAG Hydroelectric Power Station Control Center with Visitors’ Center
Dr. Meinrad Praxmarer Straße 3, 6424 Silz, A
Architecture: Bechter Zaffignani (2012-2014) Builder-owner: TIWAG Open to the public: Visitors’ Center with an exhibition on the topic of hydropower The building won the ZV-Building-Owner-Award in 2015.
Architecture: Bechter Zaffignani (2012-2014) Builder-owner: TIWAG Open to the public: Visitors’ Center with an exhibition on the topic of hydropower The building won the ZV-Building-Owner-Award in 2015.
TIWAG’s new hydroelectric power station control center is located on the premises of the Silz hydroelectric power station. The definitive building of the area is the distinctive turbine house realized by Ekkehard Hörmann in 1978, which the new building designed by Bechter Zaffignani Architekten ZT makes reference to in its height, width and alignment. The core of the monolithic building erected in brown-dyed exposed concrete is the control room of the control center, which outwardly appears as a horizontal element. In contrast, the visitors’ center is executed as an elongated, single-story structure.
