Loft Panzerhalle

Project: Loft Panzerhalle

Client: Panzerhalle

Location: Salzburg, Austria

Design by: www.smartvoll.com

Completed in 2015

awards: iF DESIGN AWARD 2017, ID Best of Year Award & IIDA Global Exelence Awards

2013, architects of smartvoll came out as winners at the internationally advertised contest for the loft in the Panzerhalle. Their design captivates through specific, spatial dramaturgy. On 350 square meters and two storeys, the classic idea of a “loft” is noticeable, yet is being reinterpreted in many regards. „I never play with the façade, I do not live there“, said Adolf Loos. As Loos has concerned himself with definitions of space, smartvoll does the same, more than 100 years later. A special focus lies on the exhaustion of materials and of what is technologically possible. Architecture unfolds on the inside. The room- and material-concept develops the encountered and retains the established. Smoothed and waxed concrete is one of the decisive materials for shaping the interior.