Kulturzentrum Mattersburg
The building ensemble of the Culture Center includes the state archive, state library, literature house, adult education center, eventhall, multipurpose foyer and hospitality plots. Sensitive positioned in the park-like landscape, the overall composition surges into the steep Wulkalände opposite a sweepingly inclining railway embankment. The introduction of a generous new public space, integrating the derelict area between the cultural and research ensemble and the education facilities, as well as, the preservation of the existing sculptural elements of the exposed-concrete event hall and the remaining northern building, prove themselves as elevating for vivid activities on the restructured site.
The urban and architectural concept includes the preservation of this sculptural identity and the introduction of a new public square for multitude of users, a spatial layout orientating its accessibility on its positioning to the new middle school, what is more, a direct link to the renewed train station, as well as the reintegration of the preserved structures in the overall vivid, spatial arrangement. The listed sculptural, concrete structure lies opposite the flexible and partible event hall and state archive, a in the landscape precisely embedded contemporarily interpretated and exposed-concrete kubus.
The two structural bodies, evolved from two distinctive architectural times - the Brutalism period and Contemporary period - are interlinked with a foyer, a spatial and functional joint made of steel and glass.
Existing Building Parts: Architect H. Graf - Brutalism Period (protected by preservation orders - preservation, restructuring and reconstruction ), New Structures, Public Square and Outdoor Facilities.
Fotos Wolfgang Thaler, eventhall HOLODECK archive
2016-2021, 7210 Mattersburg.
1.Prize.
EU-wide, 2-stage general planning competition.
public plaza. cultural center. state archive. state library. literature house. new middle school. hospitality plots.
General planning. GFA 5.400 sqm.

Program:
cultural center, event hall, state archives, state library, literature house, primary school, gastronomy, public space
Client:
LIB Landes Immobilien Burgenland
Architecture:
Design - HOLODECK architects
Project team - Marlies Breuss, Michael Ogertschnig, Marc Werner, Lars Oberländer, Iva Olujic, Marc Busquets, Johannes Müller, Alexander Garber, Richard Szilvassy, Mija Mikuz
Consultants:
TWPL, BPH, BS – kppk, Vienna
Renderings – isochrom, Vienna
TGA – kwi, Vienna
Akustik – dr.pfeiler, Graz
Fotos: Wolfgang Thaler
Scope of work:
HOA/A, §3 (1)-(8)
Dimensions:
5.400 m2

















