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Flexibility of design, structure and function are key factors in ensuring the longevity of a building.

The developed modular timber construction system responds to the challenges of the climate crisis. It requires less material input in the life cycle (sufficiency), combines material-friendly construction methods with an innovative energy system and sensible floor plans (efficiency), and creates durable, flexible room structures and components (consistency).
The flexibility of the construction is ensured by an open load-bearing system and removable superstructures. The design principle of “screwing instead of gluing” creates scope for adaptations over the course of the building's life cycle and avoids waste that would otherwise arise in the course of future adaptations. Balconies, terraces and external accesses are self-supporting and are therefore structurally independent, which creates efficient construction sequences and consistent designs.

The modularity of the supporting structure creates structural flexibility and simultaneously enables space-efficient and flexible floor plans. This offers the option of adapting the building to future usage requirements with comparatively little effort. This neutrality of use is reinforced by the reduction of load-bearing interior walls, clear shaft positioning, which bundles sanitary and kitchen pipes, and efficient wet room layouts.

The modular system designed can be applied to the various plot configurations of a heterogeneous city like Vienna. In this competition, the plots in the 22nd district Naufahrtweg and Aspernstraße and in the 21st district Orasteig II were used with the modular system. This shows how the different building sizes XS, S, M, L and XL function.