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Azita Praschl-Goodarzi

  • Site : www.pgood.at
  • Adresse : Auerspergstraße 5/Top 17 1080 Vienne
Architect DI Azita Praschl-Goodarzi studied architecture in Tehran and Vienna. Since 2002, the architect has been managing the Vienna office with 15 employees together with architect Martin Praschl. A member of the Chamber of Architects, she is involved in various committees and participates in theoretical discourses. She is repeatedly invited to work on juries and supervises students at the TU – the Vienna University of Technology –at the Institute of Urban Design. P.GOOD Praschl-Goodarzi Architekten ZT-GmbH realize new buildings with a special strength in the area of timber housing. Continuously experimenting with the building material of wood, the team received the WIENWOOD 2015 prize. They have likewise taken part in numerous competitions in Austria and abroad. In addition to her work at the architecture office, Arch. DI Azita Praschl-Goodarzi managed an interdisciplinary team of spatial planners, landscape designers and sociologists as the working group of the District Service Center for Urban Renewal in Vienna-Brigittenau. The office has repeatedly been commissioned with urban planning studies, provides analyses in the field of partial densification, and carries out block redevelopments on behalf of the City of Vienna. Since 2011, under the leadership of P.GOOD Architekten, the Vienna Werkbundsiedlung (48 houses) has been renovated in several stages in close cooperation with the Austrian Federal Monuments Office, accompanied by an interdisciplinary team of restorers. Listed building stock, in general, from Gründerzeit houses to numerous attic extensions, belongs to the implemented works. For the renewal project completed in December 2018 with courtyard gutting and partial compaction on the Vienna Gürtel Belt Road, P.GOOD was awarded 1st Place in the Vienna Urban Renewal Prize 2019.

Neubaugürtel - Goldschlagstrasse

A Block Comes Alive

Block and base renovation are two classical instruments of “soft urban renewal” in Vienna, with which Gründerzeit building fabric can be partially densified and gutted across property boundaries. A Gründerzeit block dating from the construction period around 1900 at the junction of Neubaugürtel in the east and the sunny, quiet Goldschlagstraße in the south was exemplarily refurbished and renewed by the architects P.GOOD (Martin Praschl and Azita Goodarzi). Their special challenge lay in achieving a consistently high quality of living for all residents through targeted measures in this rough, noisy, traffic-intensive piece of city. P. GOOD gutted the courtyard crammed with parasitic structures temporarily used as a brothel, replaced a desolate old building with a new “implant,” and doubled up an existing firewall with a narrow old wing by building a new structure. This component impresses residents in each apartment with the fascinating duality of the room height of the old building and the brightness and private open space of the new building. All of the other Gründerzeit houses were renovated and some apartments were merged, while the attic was topped with two stories. Commercial use with shops and offices could be maintained on the ground floor. The existing Gründerzeit stock was extended on the courtyard side with partly deep, well-usable loggias and tenants’ gardens. A cladding made of translucent metal increases the brightness in the courtyard, making for a calm appearance. Sound-insulating windows in the existing building and a clear, spacious access to the loft in the new component on Neubaugürtel protect the apartments from noise. Floor-to-ceiling glazing, terraces and loggias in the converted attic create a high degree of living comfort. Here, from the terraces, the generosity of the Gürtel as an additional, open urban space can be well experienced. The charming, extremely narrow, long, central inner courtyard has been preserved. An underground parking garage with 26 spaces could be created under the first courtyard. The expressively shaped, shimmering shed roof consolidates the block in the roof zone, while the shops on the ground floor do the same. Overall, the quality of the apartments, as well as the surrounding area, was significantly improved with this intervention.

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