Detail of the project ed. 2016

kirche-und-gemein­dezen­trum-rif-church-and-munic­i­­pal-cen­ter-rif / Klaszkleeberger

Design­er	Wal­ter Klasz
Loca­tion	Rifer Haupt­straße 37, 5400 Hallein-Rif, Austria
Design Team	Archi­tect D.I. Wal­ter Klasz D.I. Georg Kleeberger Lin­da Schwab Clemens Gudenus Jen­nifer Karl
Year	2014
Pho­to credits	01,10: klaszk­lee­berg­er 02,03,04,05,06,07,08,09: Andrew Phelps

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Project descrip­tion

A sus­tain­able church woven into the exist­ing sub­urb of Salzburg
The wood­en church in the south of Salzburg pro­vides a self-suf­­fi­­cient sacred space for the active reli­gious life of the local pop­u­la­tion con­sist­ing of main­ly young fam­i­lies hav­ing moved to this liv­ing area. The respon­si­ble polit­i­cal rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the region has asked to col­lab­o­rate with the church. After a pos­i­tive fea­si­bil­i­ty study of Archi­tect Klasz both par­ties have agreed to real­ize one build­ing togeth­er tak­ing prof­it of social and finan­cial syn­er­gies sav­ing ground resources at the same time.
From the begin­ning the inter­ac­tive form-find­­ing process was led by the archi­tect togeth­er with the ener­gy con­sul­tant. The solu­tion is an urban sculp­ture with huge inclined sur­faces ori­en­tat­ed to the sun to enable a strong effi­cien­cy of the hid­den solar col­lec­tors. The ener­gy is stored in the con­crete floor of the church and the munic­i­pal cen­tre below. The main form of the wood­en fold­ed stripe with the upper enclo­sure of a hyper­bol­ic parab­o­loid pro­vides the rit­u­al space. The pub­lic munic­i­pal cen­tre is locat­ed in the spa­tial gap between this form and the inclined topog­ra­phy. This solu­tion pro­vides two clear­ly sep­a­rat­ed spaces with out­door puffer zones for com­mu­ni­ca­tion. All lev­els are acces­si­ble for peo­ple with disabilities.
The design is the phys­i­cal expres­sion of a deep dia­log between all part­ners over three years reflect­ing val­ues like sus­tain­abil­i­ty, sim­plic­i­ty by reduc­ing the design to the core issues and inte­gra­tion of con­tem­po­rary art in the archi­tec­ture. All rel­e­vant play­ers and users tried to find the appro­pri­ate solu­tion not by defend­ing their ideas nor in con­vinc­ing the oth­ers but by inten­sive lis­ten­ing to each oth­er. Every par­tic­i­pant has con­tributed to an emerg­ing not known solu­tion. As a result there is a high iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of dif­fer­ent peo­ple with the church, which is also shown in the pub­li­ca­tion writ­ten by 26 authors involved in the design process.

Illus­tra­tive project report
Down­load report

Pho­to internal

Tech­ni­cal drawings

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