The Hundertwasser Houseis a residential building in Vienna, built after the idea of Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser by architects Univ.-Prof. Joseph Krawina and Peter Pelikan. This expressionist landmark of the city is built under the mayors of Leopold Gratz and Helmut Zilk in the years 1983–1985 and is located in the Landstraße, 3rd district, on the corner of Kegelgasse and Löwengasse. As a simple description of this house we can define it as “a house in harmony with nature”.
70,000 people visited the house on the opening day. Since its construction, the house has been reviewed by the international press and visited by millions of people. The house consists of a brick construction. The flats have various ground plans. There are one-storey and two-storey flats. Many apartments have protruding balconies or pergolas and loggias.
Within the house there are 52 apartments, 4 offices, 16 private terraces and 3 communal terraces. 900 tons of soil was used for the planting of totally 250 trees and bushes. A number of the terraces are publicly accessible, others are designated to the flats, and some are reserved for spontaneous vegetation. What was taken away from nature by the construction of the building was restored on the roofs.
The mosaics on the walls, in the stairways and in the corridors were created by the workers along with the tiles in the kitchens and in the bathrooms, which were laid irregularly to avoid the grid system.
With this house F.Hundertwasser proved that a more human architecture in harmony with nature is possible within the regular construction time, within the financial budget of a public project, and within the current building laws without any special permits.
