Text description provided by the architects. The revitalisation and conversion of the listed laboratory faculty building into a Biomedical Engineering Centre is a very interesting challenge. Issues of energy efficiency, protection of historic buildings, functionality, economy in construction and operation have to be combined into an overall concept.

Ground floor plan

The focus thereby is the exposure and the optimal utilisation of the building’s existing structural potential designed by the architect Karl Raimund Lorenz in the mid 1950ies. The facade remains mainly untouched – as required by the authority for protection and conservation of historical monuments. But within the building everything except the main supporting structure and the staircases has been torn down.

Every new non-structural component is selected based on its potential for an optimal atmospheric environment (regarding the design, haptic and climatic features). The material selection combined with the preserved building structure turn into an integral design concept.

Section

• Architects

  Gangoly & Kristiner Architekten

• Location

  Stremayrgasse 16, 8010 Graz, Austria

• Category

  Renovation

• Lead Architects

  Kerstin Wissounig

• Area

  11942.0 m2

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  David Schreyer