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Hot Flat (1978) : A City Apartment Building For Five To Ten Families

The Hot Flat apartment building was designed to maximize living space for minimal cost by taking inspiration from converted factory halls. It focuses on clearly delineating private apartment spaces from public areas like common rooms and courtyards. The apartments themselves are unfinished 164 square meter spaces that can be customized and expanded by owners, with only connections to utilities being permanent fixtures. A glass-roofed courtyard and freight elevator allow balconies to function as gardens or parking even on upper floors.

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Hot Flat (1978) : A City Apartment Building For Five To Ten Families

The Hot Flat apartment building was designed to maximize living space for minimal cost by taking inspiration from converted factory halls. It focuses on clearly delineating private apartment spaces from public areas like common rooms and courtyards. The apartments themselves are unfinished 164 square meter spaces that can be customized and expanded by owners, with only connections to utilities being permanent fixtures. A glass-roofed courtyard and freight elevator allow balconies to function as gardens or parking even on upper floors.

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Hot Flat (1978)

A city apartment building for five to ten families

One of the principal concerns of the design was to make each apartment as large
as possible for as little money as possible. Factory halls throughout the world that
have been turned into living spaces provided a role model for this.
Another fundamental concern was shaping and directing attention to the
connections and transitions between the private sphere (the apartment) and the
public sphere (the city). The common rooms and the roofed-over courtyard are
clearly sculpted and identifiable. The supply connections to the city are clearly
visible.

Inside the building, however, the apartments comprise only the four walls. They
have a floor space of 164 square meters and a height of five meters, remain
without form, and are unfinished spaces that can be designed by the owners and
expanded to include a second floor, creating a living space of 282 square meters.

The only permanent fixtures in the flats are the connections to the city’s media:
telephone, TV, video and stereo equipment. The building is made of steel, with
concrete and other prefabricated parts.

A balcony runs throughout the building as a common space. The flame-shaped


glass roof is the fixed form of the “opening fire.” It extends as a cover over the
courtyard and cuts through the apartments on the upper floors. The hoist used for
construction will remain as a freight hoist, which means that the balconies can be
used as either gardens or parking spaces - even on the fifteenth floor.

HOT FLAT PROJECT TEAM

Planning: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU


Design Principals: Wolf D. Prix, Helmut Swiczinsky

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