Karl Heinz (architect)

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Karl Heinz (2013)
Increase in the women's and head clinic, Innsbruck (A), 2008
Multipurpose building with rest house, Europabrücke (A), 1996
Railway bypass Innsbruck (A), 1994
Hoffmann residential and warehouse, Neurum (A), 1982

Karl Heinz (born November 14, 1938 in Vienna ) is an Austrian architect.

Life

Karl Heinz was born as the second of five children to a family of doctors in Gastein. Following the appointment of their father Karl Heinz to the board of directors of the Innsbruck University Eye Clinic, the family moved to the Tyrolean capital in 1947.

In 1965 Karl Heinz completed his architecture studies at the Technical University in Vienna. He gained his first practical experience from 1965 to 1973 in Düsseldorf with Professor Paul Schneider-Esleben, among other things in the Drive-In Airport Cologne-Bonn project. The enthusiasm for aircraft construction and design that arose at a young age clearly influenced Karl Heinz's designs during this project.

Heinz met his fellow student Jörg Streli again in the Innsbruck planning office Fred Achammer and got to know Dieter Mathoi . Together they founded the Heinz-Mathoi-Streli architectural office in Innsbruck in 1973. For Friedrich Achleitner , Karl Heinz and his partners “had a major influence on the public perception of the new Tyrolean architecture with the considerable presence of a variety of building tasks and solutions”.

Act

The key to Karl Heinz's concept as a partner in the Heinz-Mathoi-Streli office community for the expansion of the Innsbruck women's and head clinic in 2008 lies in the changed floor sequence. Contrary to the original idea of ​​the international tender, the architects swapped the position of the technical area and stations. Natural light from above and from two inserted light wells floods the hospital rooms and work areas, and all patient rooms offer a panoramic view of Innsbruck. The four wards are connected by a ring-shaped corridor and offer a high degree of flexibility in use. The light aluminum construction reinforces the impression that the addition is floating above the contrasting old structure of the hospital. The “UFO” of the women's and head clinic has long been a highly regarded landmark in the Innsbruck cityscape.

The Europabrücke service station on the Brenner motorway is also reminiscent of a spaceship. With the proposal to demolish the service area down to the basement and rebuild it on this base, the architects convinced the clients in 1996. The restaurant's spacious panorama window offers a panoramic view from the Nordkette to the Stubai Glacier. The tables are arranged along the curve of the window; the bar area, a free-flow system and the kitchen with an additional show kitchen were arranged in the center of the system. Thanks to the sophisticated statics, the large interior hardly needs any supports. The structural engineer in charge, Christian Aste, derived the pressure from the weight of the ceiling via high coverings in the outer walls in heavy foundations.

The bypass building for goods traffic on the high-speed railway line Vienna in Mils, which was opened in 1994, is also characterized by a visionary planning approach. A 488 meter long “trough” with a radius of 2 kilometers spans a federal road at an angle of 40 to 45 degrees, the Inn and the Inntal motorway, and ends in the Inntal tunnel. The rounded troughs rest on solid supports at their joint and finally dock on the tunnel towards the Wipptal. Despite the controversial discussion, the bridge structure designed by Karl Heinz has a number of technical advantages: The trough walls support and are noise protection at the same time, the homogeneous concrete parts could be mass-produced.

The architect sparked controversy with his first work. The Hoffmann residential and warehouse in Innsbruck, designed by Karl Heinz in 1982, appears from the outside as a one-story, unapproachable box, characterized by sober objectivity. Inside is an unusually friendly apartment, which is based on a cleverly thought-out floor plan between cuboid and circle and you can see the love of geometry. The architecture critic Otto Kapfinger immortalized the strictly formal building in his architectural guide Bauen in Tirol since 1980 .

Buildings (selection)

  • 1977 Single-family house Bernard, Gaimberg (A)
  • 1978 Fulpmes secondary school (A)
  • 1978 Tourist school, Zell am Ziller (A)
  • 1981 Innerberg Chapel, Finkenberg (A)
  • 1982 Hoffmann residential and warehouse, Neurum (A)
  • 1982 Einwaller Anna fashion store, Innsbruck (A)
  • 1983 Double house Knofler / Mikuz, Innsbruck (A)
  • 1984 Landesjugendheim Jagdberg, Schlins (A)
  • 1987 Nursing School, Feldkirch (A)
  • 1987 Hochbrixen cable car, Brixen im Thale (A)
  • 1989 elementary school, Igls (A)
  • 1990 Porsche Interauto sales center, Innsbruck (A)
  • 1993 MPreis Barwies, Mieming (A)
  • 1993 EBB office building, Innsbruck (A)
  • 1994 Railway bypass Innsbruck, Mils (A)
  • 1995 Vowa car dealership, Innsbruck (A)
  • 1996 Multi-purpose building with rest house, Europabrücke (A)
  • 1996 Housing complex and office building, Innsbruck (A)
  • 2001 Fire Brigade School Tyrol, Telfs (A)
  • 2004 HTBL and VA Mödling, Mödling (A)
  • 2004 Combined heat and power plant wastewater association Fritzens, Fritzens (A)
  • 2005 MPREIS Bramberg, Bramberg (A)
  • 2006 Underpass Olympiastraße, Innsbruck (A)
  • 2007 Émile-Béthouart-Steg flood pumping station, Innsbruck (A)
  • 2008 Increase in the women's and head clinic, Innsbruck] (A)
  • 2013 Studio Univ. Prof. Ng, Innsbruck] (A)

Teaching and volunteering

From 1973 to 1977 Heinz worked as an assistant at the Institute for Building Construction at the University of Innsbruck . He then taught at the University of Innsbruck Design at the Institute for Interior Design (Prof. Barth, 1982–1985), School Construction at the Institute for Building Science (Prof. Gerstel, 1987), at the Institute for Building Construction (Prof. Giencke, 1993) and at the Institute for Interior design (Prof. Schulze, 1994).

From 1980 to 1995 Karl Heinz held the honorary office of President of the Central Association of Architects in Austria, Regional Association of Tyrol. He was involved in the proponents' committee for an Austrian architecture foundation, was a judge in competitions and was a major co-founder of the Architekturforum Tirol (now architektur und Tirol).

Awards

  • 1982: Client award from the Central Association of Architects in Austria (Feldkirch Vocational School)
  • 1991: Vorarlberg client award (Bregenz residential complex)
  • 1992, 1994: Recognition prizes from the state of Tyrol for new building for elementary school lgls (1992) and Innsbruck office building (1994)
  • 1996: State Prize for Tourism and Architecture (multi-purpose building with rest house Europabrücke)
  • 2004: Biennale, Venice (MPreis Thaur)
  • 2007: Salzburg Timber Construction Award (MPreis Bramberg)
  • 2008: Nomination for the Mies van der Rohe Award (increase in the Innsbruck Women's Head Clinic)
  • 2008: Aluminum Prize (increase in the Innsbruck women's head clinic)

Exhibitions

  • 1982: Architecture in Tyrol, Innsbruck
  • 1987: Social housing in Tyrol: historical overview and present, Innsbruck
  • 1992: Autochthonous Architecture in Tyrol, New York, Innsbruck

literature

  • 1000x european architecture , Braun Publishing, Salenstein 2011.
  • 1000x european hotels , Braun Publishing, Salenstein 2007.
  • Otto Kapfinger , Liesbeth Waechter-Böhm from Birkhäuser: Austria West: Tirol Vorarlberg. New Architecture , Berlin, 2003.
  • Architecture and cable cars. From tradition to modernity. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name , Tyrol Chamber of Commerce, Innsbruck 2000.
  • Zehra Kuz, Ernst Bliem, Walter M. Chramosta: Autochthonous architecture in Tyrol. Architecture in Tyrol , Hall in Tirol 1992.
  • Walter M. Chramosta, Bettina Schlorhaufer : Building for Guests: Examples of Alpine Leisure Architecture in Tyrol , Tirol Werbung, 1997.
  • Otto Kapfinger: Building in Tyrol since 1980. A guide to 260 buildings worth seeing , Anton Pustet Verlag, Salzburg 2002.
  • Against the current. Catalog 9th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia 2004, Austria , Venice 2004.
  • Dietmar Steiner: Houses in the Alpine Region , Innsbruck 1982.
  • Christian Holl, Klaus Siegele: Wood - Large Structures. Construction, architecture, detail , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2006.
  • Christine Nickl-Weller, Hans Nickl: Hospital Architecture , Verlag Braun Publishing, Salenstein 2012.
  • Walter Zschokke , Marcus Nitschke: ORTE Architecture in Lower Austria 1997–2007 , Springer Architecture, Vienna New York, 2007.
  • Liesbeth Waechter-Böhm: New Architecture from Tirol / New Tyrolean Architecture , Springer Vienna New York, Edition architektur.aktuell, 1998.
  • Friedrich Achleitner: Austrian Architecture in the 20th Century, Volume I: Upper Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg , Residenz Verlag, Salzburg, 1980.
  • Friedrich Achleitner: Austrian Architecture in the 20th Century, Volume III / 2: Vienna, 13. – 18. District , Residenz Verlag, Salzburg, 1995.

Web links

Commons : Karl Heinz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Achleitner: Architecture you can touch. On the early works of Heinz, Mathoi and Streli, 2008.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Together with Dieter Mathoi and Jörg Streli.
  3. ↑ a b Together with Dieter Mathoi, Jörg Streli and Norbert Schweitzer.
  4. ^ Aluminum Architecture Prize 2008 , www.alufenster.at, 2008 accessed on November 11, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Heinz, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna