Windpark Pretul / Wettbewerb 1. Platz
Competition outcome: 1st place. The object of the tender was an information centre revolving around the first wind farm operated by the Austrian Federal Forestry Office in the Mürzzuschlag area. BWM Architekten proposed a modular outdoor exhibition that would unfold along the wind farm’s footpath. Two measures from the multipart concept were selected for implementation: an exhibition module with information about the wind farm and another installation at Schwarzriegelmoos. Among other things, a new footbridge and a mountain bike trail will protect the moor and enhance the area.
Task
Invited competition for accompanying measures along a footpath through a wind farm at an altitude of approx. 1600m
Status
Competition
02/2016
Client
Windpark Pretul BetriebsGmbH
BWM Team
Gerhard Girsch (PL), Clemens Hörl, Massimiliano Marian (competition)
Image credit
BWM Architekten / Massimiliano Marian
Participants
Curator
Christian Gissing (freiland Umweltconsulting)
Technical curator
Rapp + Wimberger
Graphic designer
Perndl+Co
Related news
23 August 2018
Greetings from the Alps!
A visitors’ footbridge, a rest area, a stunning view, a nature reserve: the recently completed first construction phase of Pretul wind farm already checks all the boxes. At an altitude of 1600 metres, the new visitor footbridge leads through the Schwarzriegelmoos, the easternmost hill moor of the Central Alps in Eastern Styria. BWM project manager Gerhard Girsch is one of the first hikers to cross the fragile habitat on the recently completed visitor footbridge – without disturbing its inhabitants (such as the rare Alpine newts). The larch-wood footbridge planned by BWM Architekten offers additional information about the flora and fauna of this special place, as well as lookout points and resting spots.
More about the project.
