Black tree frog

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The southeast side with advertising on the balconies
The rear, higher part
The roll shadow with budding Veitschi and a door handle on the northeast side

The Black Tree Frog (also: Black Treefrog ) is a residential building in Bad Waltersdorf in the Austrian state of Styria with an unconventional interior and exterior design, whose current form was created in 2004 as part of a renovation according to plans by the architectural group SPLITTERWERK .

Emergence

The original building was built in 1902 as a town house, which has been expanded several times over the years. Later a part of the market town was adapted as a fire station for the volunteer fire brigade . After the volunteer fire brigade moved to another location and the rest of the building was vacant, it was sold by the community. In 2004, the new owners arranged for the building to be converted into the current form of a residential building with ten small, subsidized apartments . The planning is carried out by the architecture group SPLITTERWERK from Graz.

layout

The building is located on a flat slope in the center of Bad Waltersdorf. The shape - two rectangular houses with a gable roof and a low connecting part with a flat roof - was left unchanged during the redesign, in which a central theme was the shell , i.e. the surface and materiality of the building.

The outer shell forms the so-called roll shadow : the entire building, including the roof areas, is encased in a homogeneous, dark gray shimmering coat made of thin wooden slats, which also serves as a trellis for wild wine (Veitschi) and provides air conditioning for cooling. The covering, which is somewhat transparent due to the narrow gaps between the light wooden slats, alienates the appearance of the building "in a neat, actually beautiful village" and creates a buffer zone between inside and outside. Several balconies in the form of circumferential steel mesh corridors compensate for the different entrance levels.

The inner shell is characterized by an ornamental opulence that was realized with coated wooden materials. For example, all surfaces in the main staircase - walls, ceiling, steps and doors - are covered with a light pattern of vine leaves that overlays the room boundaries, so that the boundaries between the components seem to be blurred. The color design of the rooms depends on their location in the building and the respective cardinal point and ranges from cool gray and pure white in the south-facing apartments to red-blue and sunny orange-yellow combinations to warm ivory tones in the north-facing apartments. Five apartments have a conventional floor plan, the remaining five are designed to be changeable. There is also a spatial inner shell in these: around an elongated, neutral room in the middle, the functional areas such as kitchen, bedroom, bathroom or office space are arranged behind folding doors. There are no longer any lined up rooms; rather, the various functions can be switched on to the central room by opening or folding it out. The architects see this as an enlargement of the real 22 m 2 of the neutral space to 220 m 2 of usable area and speak of a “multi-incident shell”. In practice, this concept was broken by some residents and the difference between the central space and the shell was eliminated.

The black tree frog has been rated several times as a sign of urbanity in the middle of rural areas.

Surname

In addition to the black tree frog , other buildings by SPLITTERWERK also have a frog-related name: the green tree frog in St. Josef and the red tree frog in Bürmoos . According to its own information, SPLITTERWERK uses the frog as a trademark because frogs are changeable, both in nature, where they transform from tadpoles into frogs, live on land and in water and some can even change their color, as well as in fairy tales, where one Frog is transformed by a kiss. SPLITTERWERK also wants to appeal to a broader public outside of those interested in architecture with such memorable names.

Awards

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The residential building received the Geramb sign of thanks for good building ( Geramb Rose ) in 2004.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marktgemeinde Bad Waltersdorf (ed.): Bad Waltersdorf in past and present. New edition of the history of the market community and the parish of Waltersdorf by Dr. Fritz Posch, supplemented by the history of the community since 1938 by Albert Pichler . 1989, p. 90
  2. ↑ a b c d e Margit Ulama: Design concepts and architecture communication within the framework of the 3rd architecture festival "Turn On" with special consideration of subsidized housing (PDF; 265 kB), April 2005, p. 7ff
  3. ↑ a b c nextroom architecture database: Schwarzer Laubfrosch , December 4, 2004
  4. ↑ SPLITTERWERK: Housing "Black Tree Frog" . Description for the architecture festival Turn On 2005
  5. ↑ Anne Isopp: The Metamorphoses of the Frog . In: Salzburger Nachrichten , April 5, 2005
  6. ↑ Fabian Wallmüller: Wohnen im Experiment , published in Falter Steiermark No. 29/06, July 19, 2006
  7. ↑ A10. new European architecture # 2 (March / April 2005)
  8. ↑ oris. magazine for architecture and culture Vol VIII, Number 37, 2006 ( Memento of the original dated August 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oris.hr
  9. ↑ a b Nina Schedlmayer: The Frog is Multifunctional . Interview with SPLITTERWERK as part of the 6th Architecture Biennale in São Paulo
  10. ↑ Entries on SPLITTERWERK in the nextroom architecture database

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Coordinates: 47 ° 10 '4.52 "  N , 16 ° 0' 25.64"  O