Georg W. Reinberg

Georg Wolfgang Reinberg (* 1950 in Vienna , Austria ) is an Austrian architect . The focus of his work is on a combination of the use of renewable energies , the participation of users and the use of ecological building materials , which has become known under the term of solar architecture . Georg W. Reinberg studied at the Technical University of Vienna and at Syracuse University in New York .

He has been working as a freelance architect since 1985. He has been running the office together with his wife Martha Enriquez Reinberg since 1990. In 2010 Georg W. Reinberg received the Golden Merit of the City of Vienna for his advisory board .

Reinberg has taught at the Vienna University of Technology , Graz University of Technology , the Solar Building School Vorarlberg , the Danube University Krems , the University of Florence , the Università degli Study della Basilicata (Italy), Isthmus ( Panama ) and the Universidad da los Andes in Colombia .

Works (selection)

Residential buildings

• Wintergasse 53 - Purkersdorf I, 1983-84
• Solar settlement Gneis-Moos , Salzburg, 63 residential units, planning 1993, construction 1998–2000
• Sagedergasse, Vienna XII, 9 WE, 1997–98
• Jois, Burgenland , holiday settlement on Lake Neusiedl , 71 holiday apartments, 2000–01
• Wollzeile, Vienna I, 2001
• Thürnlhofstraße (together with Peter Thalbauer ), residential complex with 80 units, 2003-06
• Estonia - Pölva, EFH, 2013

Redevelopment

• Palfau near Admont, Styria , conversion of a barn into a holiday home, 2006-08
• Purkersdorf, Wintergasse 49 / Hiessbergerggasse, residential project , new building and renovation, 14 units, 2006–09
• Reeperbahn , Hamburg, passive house renovation of a residential high-rise, construction start in 2012
• Kierling, model renovation of a residential building from the 1970s, BUWOG , Lower Austria , 2013

Public buildings

• Obergrafendorf , Lower Austria, day care center for disabled people , 2002–03
• Schukowitzgasse, Vienna, kindergarten , 2003-06
• Eggenburg Sports Center, 2006
• Deutsch-Wagram, Lower Austria, 4-group kindergarten as klima: aktivhaus, 2007–09
• St. Pölten - LPPH - renovation, retirement home and hospice, 2009
• Amstetten, Kindergarten , 2013

Company building

• St. Veit an der Glan , Carinthia , office building of the company 'Sonnenkraft', together with the architect Douschan, 2001–02
• Tattendorf , straw-wood- earth building in passive house standard for the company 'Natur und Lehm', 2004
• Weidling (municipality of Klosterneuburg) , Lower Austria, company building of the company 'B! Otop', 2005
• [Ernstbrunn (Windkraft Simonsfeld AG)], 2014

Awards

• 1985 Honorary Award Das goldene Haus 85, building in the group
• 1991 Austrian Eco Prize for Architecture
• 1993 Culture Prize of the Province of Upper Austria for the Taubenmarktarkaden in Linz
• 2002 House of the Future, award for the Gleisdorf office building
• 2002 Architecture Prize of the Province of Burgenland for the Inselwelt Jois
• 2002 Lower Austrian Timber Construction Award
• 2006 Austrian Construction Prize
• 2008 Fassa Bartolo Prize for Sustainable Architecture (Premio Internazionale Architettura Sostenibilie)
• 2008 House of the Future Award for the project: Subsidized housing with 14 units, Purkersdorf, Hiessbergergasse / Wintergasse 49
• 2000 Gold Medal of Merit of the State of Vienna
• 2012 Culture Prize of the State of Lower Austria for Architecture (together with Martha Enriquez-Reinberg)

Reading list

• Architecture by Georg W. Reinberg , Alinea international publishing house, Florence 1998, ISBN 88-8125-249-X
• Georg W. Reinberg: Solar Architecture , by Adriana Labella (ed.), Librìa Verlag, Melfi (Italia) 2005 ISBN 88-87202-48-6
• Ökologische Architektur / Ecological Architecture - Draft, Planning, Execution / Design, Planning, Realization by Georg W. Reinberg and Matthias Boeckl (eds.), Vienna 2008, Springer Verlag, ISBN 978-3-211-32770-8

Web links

• Official website of the architectural office