Based on the urban development master plan for Linz rail freight terminal, a solution was proposed which draws its architectural quality from the reinterpretation for an urban residential floor plan. The overall ensemble consists of three hook-shaped buildings interconnected by a continuous open exterior corridor, balconies and terraces and the curtain wall. Creating a multilayered structure, balconies, terraces, exterior corridors, and the leafy roof surfaces accessed from points along the exterior corridors constitute a permeable membrane.
The inner division of the buildings follows a consistent reduction. The total of eighty-seven flats result from adding two lines of equally sized rooms that can be variably combined. The complete lack of internal circulation enables a maximum of floor plan flexibility and efficiency. The terraces can also be flexibly combined with the living areas. Thanks to the curtain wall with its brise-soleil structure, this creates a multifunctional space with many links to the inside and out. Within are classical sequences of rooms with central double doors as room dividers.
