Social Housing Kapaunplatz
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Location number: 1200010
Municipal Housing
Courtyard
Elevator
Housing Complex
1950s
Indoors & Outdoors
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Around 1900, regularly flooded floodplain landscapes stretched between Nordbrücke and Floridsdorfer Brücke, becoming more usable only after the Danube regulation of 1875. After the Second World War, a housing complex was built on the northern side of Kapaunplatz as an extension of the Wohnstadt am Friedrich-Engels-Platz, constructed between 1930 and 1933 by Rudolf Perco. Originally planned to comprise 2,300 apartments, the project had to be reduced for financial reasons. Due to the acute housing shortage after 1945, it was finally expanded between 1950 and 1953 north and east of Kapaunplatz with the buildings at Kapaunplatz 4–6 and 7. The housing complex was built in three phases on a previously undeveloped site between Aignerstraße, Griegstraße, Robert-Blum-Gasse, and Wehlistraße. Perimeter block buildings line the streets around a landscaped inner courtyard, while five slab blocks with a flood-protection embankment face Wehlistraße. The five-story buildings with simple rendered façades contain over 700 apartments. Balconies, reliefs, a pergola, and stairways further articulate the complex. Kapaunplatz is named after Ing. Dr. Franz Kapaun (1851–1929), construction manager and director of the Vienna Gasworks.
