gaupenraub .austria
ulrike schartner
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On the edge_ projects for fringe groups
It´s not easy to be homeless.
It´s not easy to get a roof over your head at a reasonable cost.
It´s not easy to build with scarce resources in a responsible way.
Built prototypes from gaupenraub+/- for people on the edge of our society in cooperation with private associations, students, volunteers, sponsors, and the future inhabitants.
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The lecture was made possible thanks to the generous support of the Austrian Cultural Forum in Tel Aviv and the cooperation of EUNIC – Tel Aviv.
The architecture office gaupenraub +/- was founded in 1999 by Alexander Hagner and Ulrike Schartner in Vienna. Their first projects included numerous minor conversions and extensions. In 2006 their work received a larger public response for the first time with the selection of gaupenraub in the first season of Young Viennese Architects (YoVA1).
While the office has been in operation for over 20 years, gaupenraub +/- by now works in different areas and scales, its broad field of work ranges from construction in existing contexts to urban planning to furniture and product design.
Their most important projects include the egg museum for the sculptor Wander Bertoni in Winden am See, the renovation and expansion of the company building of the MCM Klosterfrau Healthcare Group, as well as numerous works on building within existing structures such as the conversion of the former Würzlmühle in the Waldviertel.
Gaupenraub +/- became known through its involvement in projects for disadvantaged people such as the VinziDorf Wien, a residential project for men with severe alcoholism, the realization of the Memobil, a furniture for dementia patients, the VinziRast-mittendrin, a multi-award-winning building for the cohabitation of formerly homeless people and students and currently VinziRast am Land, where formerly homeless people should get their feet back on the ground, thanks to a broad employment field in agriculture.
2015 member of the Zentralvereinigung der ArchitektInnen
2006 selection for the first season of Young Viennese Architects (Yo.V.A. 1)
2002 founding member of ig-Architektur
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Ulrike Schartner (* A / 1966)
School education: 1985 - 1987 HTL-Mödling, College for Furniture and Interior Design, A University education:
1984 - 1985 Political Science, Art History, University of Vienna, A
Studied architecture at the University of Applied Arts / Vienna, A
1987 - 1990 Master class for architecture Prof. Johannes Spalt
1990 - 1991 semester abroad KTH, Prof. Jan Henriksson / Stockholm, S
1991 - 1995 Master class for architecture Prof. Wolf Dieter Prix / Vienna, A diploma
Professional practice: 1995 - 2000 freelance and employed work in the Atelier Johannes Spalt / Vienna, A
1999 civil engineer examination / Vienna, A
2000 - 2002 employment of apoerto arkitekterbyggkonsulter AB / Stockholm, S
1999-now founding of gaupenraub +/- / Vienna, A, together with Alexander Hagner
2002-2005 Foundation of schartner & schartner HB, Architecture / Stockholm, S, together with Staffan Schartner
2005- Founding of omniplan AB, architecture, project management, general planning services / Stockholm, S, together with Staffan Schartner, Pelle Norberg (-2014) since then works in the field of architecture, urban planning & design (see project list); parallel teaching assignements at TU Vienna, KTHStockholm,
TU Graz, NDU St. Pölten, among others.
2004 joined Svergies Arkitekter (professional representation for architects in Sweden)
2018 joined the Austrian ZT-Chamber
2018 Board member Vinzenzgemeinschaft St. Lazarus, VinziDorf Wien
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