2G-36: BKK-3

Présentation de l'éditeur :

BKK-3 are the third formation of a collective that began in the 1980s under the name of BKK (literally Baukunst Kollektiv, the Art of Building Collective, which went on to call itself BKK-2), residing in Vienna and led by Johny Winter and Franz Sumnitsch. From a position of political activism, almost, the collective posits an architecture of participation with the user and with institutions. Heirs of the long Viennese tradition of housing co-operatives that goes back to the well-known Höffe of the 1920s, their work makes a special point of new forms of collective living by endowing housing groups with a set of services that reinforce the inhabitants’ sense of community.

Along with the Viennese housing and services co-operative Sargfabrik and Miss Sargfabrik, which brought fame to BKK-2 and BKK-3 on the Austrian and later the international scene, the present issue of 2G also includes other works in the field of commercial space like the office buildings IP.ONE, IP.TWO and ICUB, and new projects touching upon the same issues of social housing and commercial space.

Introductions
Architecture for the Creative Class by Bart Lootsma
Architecture as Urban Machine: BKK-3’s Sargfabrik and Other Lively Places by Ilka and Andreas Ruby

Works and Projects
Sargfabrik housing and services cooperative, Vienna
Miss Sargfabrik housing and services cooperative, Vienna
IP-ONE office building, Vienna
IP-TWO office building, Vienna
ICUB office building, Lustenau
Taxxido boutique, Vienna
Installation in the Virgilkapelle, Vienna
Friedrich Kiesler 1890-1965 exhibition, Vienna
Um die Wurst exhibition, Vienna
Dryer House, Baden
Volksbank headquarters, Salzburg
Porsche Museum, Stuttgart
Elbe housing complex, Hamburg
Housing Club Gehl, Ghelengasse, Vienna
Musie urban project, Munich
Zenmuc urban project, Munich
Grüazi residential complex, Zurich
Events

Biography
nexus
The Making of Sargfabrik and Miss Sargfabrik As told by their inhabitants and compiled by Ilka & Andreas Ruby