Wilder Mann — Graz (A)

After World War Two, the former inn developed into one of the city’s most important event centers. Balls were held here, large family parties were celebrated, weddings and concerts were held – even boxing matches took place here. After its heyday, the building was taken over by the Graz University of Music and Performing Arts. Students and eventgoers found a vital, student-oriented environment here consisting of rehearsal stages, concert and ballet halls, as well as numerous seminar and workshop rooms.

The concept is simple and straightforward:
The very special building wing with its extraordinary halls and its distinctive atmosphere was to be preserved to the greatest possible extent. Therefore, the existing, valuable building fabric was preserved as far as possible and only carefully renovated. Offices and a doctor’s practice have set up here –¬ along with our company too. The spatially less interesting parts of the building were adapted with public funding into affordable living space.

The building was extended with a penthouse in ecological timber construction. Here you will find medium- and high-priced flats and penthouses, some with spectacular views over the city.

As mentioned, what we have here is a colorful house for a wide variety of people with many different ways of living in the heart of the city – and we really like that. What we also like is that after reconstruction of this building, the rather nondescript area around the building has been significantly upgraded. What we are also very pleased about is that the Wilder Mann can be described as highly sustainable thanks to its construction, its concept based on city-center redensification, its high proportion of renovated and converted areas, its neighborly effect, and the idea of it being a building for a wide range of different people.