PROFILE

Graduates from the architecture schools of Innsbruck and Vienna, Matthias Hein and Juri Troy established their separate practices in Bregenz in 2002 and Vienna in 2003 respectively. Although they keep their own offices, in 2006 they went on to merge, and have worked together ever since. Stimulated by art, film and photography, they are also influenced by their travels, applying their inspiration on their numerous residential, commercial and educational projects. 'We always try to work with basic materials and find new ways of using them and playing with their own particular characteristics. The same approach is applied to each project’s site - location helps us react to the maximum parameters that a site offers’, say the architects.

STAGGERED HOUSE

‘We wanted to create a house with both closed areas and some open space in between’, explain Hein and Troy. Creating a dialogue between the private and the social functions of a house, the architects treated their proposal for a house in the country as a solid structure, conceived though as a combination of open and closed spaces, featuring a completely open-air part as well. Covered by climbing plants, the open part acts as a skylight in the winter - allowing the light to come in - and shade in the summer - protecting the interior from the hot sun, transforming the house into a living green sculpture. Democratically sited in a cornfield in Anif, the conceptual design is placed exactly in the same distance from their two offices in Vienna and Bregenz.


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