Musiktheater Linz 1998

Austria
Competition
1998

For the Opera House project in 1998, the City of Linz had selected a “plot without a base area”. An area was designated between the Danube, the expressway and the steeply rising Schlossberg mountain, which made extensive construction underground, within the mountain and in the existing tunnel system necessary. We proposed a project located slightly off the designated building plot. As specified, the main volumes are located within the mountain. However, the essential interest in the project was to open up the ground volume and to technically reconstruct the surface thus destroyed. The project was an attempt to remodel the lost configuration of the surface. Paths and trails were turned into steel frameworks spanning more than 60 meters; the rock surface was traced using technical grids and transparent membranes.

Collaborators

Bettina Bauer

Mitarbeiter | Collaborator

Michael Wallraff

Mitarbeiter | Collaborator

Xandi Ott

Constanze Weiser

Mitarbeiter | Collaborator

Dari Parvanow

Mitarbeiter | Collaborator

Markus Lentsch

Mitarbeiter | Collaborator

Christoph Schlegl

Mitarbeiter | Collaborator

Consultants

Fröhlich & Locher Zivilingenieure

Helmuth Locher

Tragwerksplanung | Structural Engineering

IC Konsulenten

Josef Daller

Berg- und Tunnelbau | tunneling and mining engineering

Ökoplan, Ökologie und Energietechnik

Ökologie und Energietechnik | Ecology and energy technology

SGLW Architekten

Werner Silbermayr

Kostenberechung | Cost calculation

Quiring Consultants, Akustik, Bauphysik

Karl Bernd Quiring

Akustik | Acoustics

Georg Hauger, Michael Klamer, Dipl.Ingre

Verkehrsplanung | Traffic planning

Nils Hojer

Theater- und Veranstaltungstechnik | Theater and event engineering

Project Info

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The site is underground, located in the Schlossberg mountain in Linz directly next to and beneath the castle. The opera house was planned as an underground building. Existing tunnel systems were part of the project.

Das Bauareal ist unterirdisch und liegt im Linzer Schlossberg direkt neben und unter dem Schloss. Das Musiktheater war als unterirdisches Gebäude geplant. Bestehende Tunnelsysteme waren Teil des Projekts.

Material is excavated from the volume of the Schlossberg mountain. The project - in other words, the functional assessment - is carried out as a reconstruction of volume and surface.

Aus dem Volumen des Schlossberg wird Material entnommen. Das Projekt - die funktionale Bewertung also - wird als Rekonstruktion von Volumen und Oberfläche durchgeführt.