architek[tour] tirol – guide to architecture in tyrol

The rarely used garden of a single-family house was utilized for a high-quality densification consisting of a new working space along the boundary of the property and a small tower apartment. The new building components, which are equipped with imaginative and precisely executed details, were arranged in such a way that a small ensemble of old and new surrounds the atrium-like, lowered courtyard.

In 1973, Viktor Hufnagl, an architect from Vienna, constructed a hall-school, which at the time was a revolutionary concept, hence, an experimental building for the prefabrication of schools. Due to problems with the building’s structural design it was necessary to redevelop the school complex. The redevelopment carried out by Peter Märkli and Gody Kühnis preserves the old building’s room and material qualities, reinterprets its character and modifies it with use of contemporary means.

At the east border of Wörgl in an almost American "strip-situation” is one of Tyrol’s largest MPREIS supermarkets. In the heterogeneous (still growing) development area, Pöschl placed a bridge type building on five cylinders at right angles to the road. On the west side of the building a concave screen shade reaches out from the protruding roof across almost the complete height of the building. The space in between provides room for the fitness centre on the top floor.