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Vienna Technical Museum [entrance]

Querkraft (Austrian architectural firm, founded 1998)
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Alternative Title
Technisches Museum Wien [entrance]
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/167905
Date
2014-12-17
Description
Interior, illuminated "sitting trees" looking out towards street entrance; The original building opened in 1918. The main, south entrance facing Mariahilferstrasse was fully glazed, but this created poor acoustics and overheating in summer, heat loss in winter. The new entrance was redesigned with "sitting trees": the plastic seating elements (benches at the base) envelop all the existing steel supports and at the same time they provide treelike shade at the glazed roof. The elements are backlit and can cycle with different color accents. Founded in 1998 the three partners at Querkraft were named Young Architects of the Year in 2004 by architectural magazine BD. "Querkraft" literally translated means the art of lateral thinking. Source: Querkraft [firm website]; http://www.querkraft.at/ (accessed 4/25/2014)
Type of Work
entrance; entrance hall
Subject
architecture, contemporary (1960 to present), lighting, Twenty-first century
Rights
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only
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